Mug Shots and Soup
CRASH!
The sound of glass shattering filled the quiet home.
Nathan stood up from the couch and dropped the Xbox controller on the couch before walking into the kitchen where the sound came from. He saw his son standing around the broken cookie jar that layed shattered on the floor.
"James!" Nathan moved towards his three year old son and lifted him away from broken glass. He moved James over to the kitchen table and sat him down.
"What happened?" Nathan asked, surveying the young boy in front of him for cuts or bruises.
"I was getting a cookie and-." He began before being cut off by his father.
"You know Mom doesn't like you eating sweets before dinner, you get too hyper."
Ignoring his father he continued his story, "I had the jar but I my tooth hurted so I forgotted to put the jar back before I holded my tooth and it fell."
"Your tooth hurts?" Nathan asked and James nodded.
Nathan grabbed James' chin softly and told him to "open up" so he could have a look.
James obeyed and opened his mouth, revealing tiny, white teeth. Nathan immediatly took notice that James' front tooth was missing.
Nathan smiled. "It looks like you lost your first tooth."
James' face lit up and Nathan couldn't help but laugh at his toothless smile.
"Really? That means the tooth fairy is coming tonight, right?" James' asked, his voice full with hope.
"Yeah, once we find the tooth."
Nathan walked over towards the counter and stepped over the broken glass and searched around the counter looking for the tooth.
"Daddy."
Nathan turned to look at his son.
"Yeah, bud?"
"I'm sorry I brokeded the jar."
Nathan smiled. "Yeah, yeah.. Just don't smile for your mug shot, 'kay?"
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"Mommy! I losted my first tooth today!" James shouted to (or at) his mother from the kitchen table where he was coloring.
"Really?" Haley asked, setting the bags of groceries on the kitchen table. "Let me see."
James climbed over the chairs to his mother and rested on his knees before her and smiled.
"Ahh! Look at that."
"It's pretty awesome, huh?" James gloated.
"You bet."
Haley got to work putting the groceries away as James continued to color pictures of Spiderman in his coloring book.
"Mama?"
"Hmm."
"Can we have chicken noodle soup for dinner?"
"Sure." Haley told him. "Why?"
"I want to see if I can suck noodles through the hole in my teeth."
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My baby (or toddler) speak sucks.
Random, lame, and utterly unintresting drabble about mug shots and chicken noodle soup that came to me earlier today.