Some of you know how Calista acts around guys. She is usually scared of them, and for most of the time growing up she wouldn't even look at one when they came to our house...even if it was an uncle! She would either cover her eyes or hide in my chest the whole time. Well she's been doing better lately, which is great because we have been using a lot of "men" doctors. The doctor we have right now, she likes. Its her friend's dad and he's in our ward. She even said he could sit by her at our ward picnic yesterday and she talked with him.
But the reason for the post. Our home teachers came this afternoon, and Aaron got to teasing Calista that he was going to send her home with them. He said that she'd be really good at doing the dishes, sorting socks, pulling weeds and waxing the car. It was all fun because she was sitting right between daddy's legs. The conversation changed to other things, then the lesson, and then we had our closing prayer. After the prayer, the home teachers came around and shook everyone's hands and said good-bye. As one of the men went to leave, he came up to Calista and picked her up, carrying her like a sack of potatoes over his shoulder and said, "Good-bye!" For the first two seconds, Calista smiled and looked like she was going to laugh. Then I think she remembered the previous conversation, and all of a sudden she was stuck on some guy's shoulder and they were leaving. She looked at me with a panicked expression and yelled, "NO!! Mommy!!" and started crying. The guy felt really bad...he didn't mean to scare her like that, but it was nice to see what would happen if someone did try to steal her away. She wasn't going to go quietly! We decided we'd keep her!!
2 comments:
How funny! I don't think I ever realized this phobia of hers. But how funny!! Reminds me of the story of Grandma Hill who was given to the indians!
I never realized she had that problem! Thats great that you have home teachers that actually show! We haven't had teachers for soooo long!
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