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Education by Dad

Yesterday afternoon we took the kids to see a movie. The show started at 1:00 and the doors to the theater were locked and a crowd had gathered outside the door. There was a three year old little boy with his grandparents waiting beside our family. Katie and this little boy were talking and looking at his dinosaur shirt. Cole and David decided to walk to the front of the theater and look at the posters of the new movies coming out. Katie then decides to show this new boy her trick. She walks up to him and his grandfather with one finger sticking out. She says to the boy, "Pull my finger." The boy reaches out, and before I could react, Katie makes a noise with her mouth. The grandfather looks away as the boy laughs - I am ready for the cement to open and swallow me whole. The boy then says let me do it - and he sticks out one finger for Katie and repeats the entire process. David is never around to see his education in action. Yes - this was one of my proudest moments. I just wish David and Cole would have arrived only seconds earlier to witness it too. Thanks Dad!

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