danieljohnson

- Those monsters scare me and I don't want to see them, Daniel said and kept on talking about the x box game his dad was playing.
- They don't really exist, I tried.
- I know mom, but they still scare me. I ate an ant.

Just like that. Out of the blue. He ate an ant.

- Really? Today? I asked him and glanced out the window. Snowflakes were slowly coming down like feathers and landed on the snowcovered garden table, where there was already at least half a metre of snow. No ant in sight...
- No not today. Earlier.
- Why did you eat an ant?
- You know you're allowed to eat ants.
- No I didn't know that. But why did you eat an ant, I asked again not realizing that he had already answered my question.
- Because you're allowed to. My daycare teacher has eaten a worm.
- That doesn't sound very yummy, I said and knew that I would always see that teacher in a different light.
Daniel laughed.
- I bit the ants head off. You have to be very quick if you want to catch an ant, they're fast, he continued.
- You can't eat spiders though, Daniel continued. Because if you do, you'll get spiderweb in your tummy. And that's not good.

I couldn't keep a straight face anymore, so we started laughing.
What a wonderful kid we have!
Ants, beware!