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Ok…so you have kids…now what do you do for entertainment. Well we just take them outside and let nature run it’s course. Tonight Meg brought the kids to Club and they like playing outside before club so, they went outside to play and were met with a deadly awe-ful dead animal smell. Something like a baking rotten deer carcus, so you get the picture of the smell we endured. When they got outside our daughter, the monkey, noted and stated. “Oh, mommy, I know I know, it’s a frog.” laughing, Meg said “No, honey it is probably a bigger animal than that.” Not seeing any evidence of the smell emminating from the woods the kids continued to try and play enjoyably outside.
Out of the blue, Monkey shouted “Ohh momma I know, es una ‘jirafe’ (giraffe)” This time Meg busted with laughter and said “Honey, we don’t have giraffe’s running wild in Kentucky.”
On the drive home from Club and the park, sitting in her little car seat Monkey’s wheels were turning trying to figure out what the smell must have been, when she blurted out “Momma, I know!” Mommy says, “What do you know?” “I know what smell it is momma. It is a hippopotamus.” “Well, honey we don’t have hippopotamus’ running wild in Kentucky.”
Now that she has tried 3 times to figure it out, Meg begins to open dialogue with Monkey about what it could be that smelled so bad. “I know mommy, it is a ‘dog’!” “That is sad Monkey, it could be a dog but that is sad.” “NO, NO, NO mommy, not a dog, a Duck!” (her new word for today was duck) “I guess it could be a duck.” Mommy says.
“I know, it’s a cat.”
“Oh Monkey that’s so sad.”
“Oh so sad we have cats and dogs walking around Kentucky, so sorry mommy, “