New Baby

We were in the grocery store when a woman passed us with her newborn.

"Mommy, can we have that baby," Laney asked me.

"You want that baby?"

"Noooooooooo, not THAT baby. We can't take baby away from her. We can buy a new baby!"

Later, I heard a baby wailing loudly. We passed the same mother again as she tried to wrestle her older child's hands out of the candy dispensers, while baby screeched her protest at being left in the carrier. From the look on the frazzled mother's face, my guess is that we might have been able to buy THAT baby at that moment. Her brother would have been thrown in for free.

No, kiddo. If this mommy's going to be buying anything, it's first-class tickets to an expensive Caribbean resort, so she can lounge around in a big straw hat with a good book in one hand and a daiquiri in the other.