小女在刚开春儿的时候从学校拿回来个什么Garden的名片,嵌在名片里的是各种花的种子。小女一定要把它们种上,可我们家后院草坪还没铺,实在不是什么植物能生长的环境,我只好给小女买回了花盆,土,还有浇花的大象水壶,和小女一起, 把那个名片种了下去。花盆就放在阳光明媚的小女的闺房,嘱咐小女要定时浇水。
不知多长时间过去了,一天小女兴奋地嚷嚷:花儿长出来了!我过去一看,果然是个小芽,纤纤细细地露出个头儿,虽然怀疑那没准是个杂草,但看小女的一脸成就感,我也就跟着大呼小叫地惊叹一番。
过两天,老公忽然想起这事,问是否发芽了,我便领他来看,可那盆里哪还有小芽的影子!我纳闷,心下一懔,但还是想确定一下,问小女,那个小苗呢?小女不语,我又问:是不是你给拔了?小女沮丧地说:一点儿......(小女的肯定用语)
小女一直都想要个宠物,可我们总是以各种理由给回绝了,这一阵子,学校可能是“灌输”一些宠物的知识,她就又把这事提出来了。先是拿回来了一个card,里面是女儿和妈妈关于宠物的对话(见附录),见我没什么反应,退而求其次,向我要了个鸡蛋,说要自己hatch个小鸡当宠物。我当时也搞不清楚小鸡是不是那么容易孵出来,就让她试试吧。小女把鸡蛋用小毛毯包起来,放到暖气出口处,上面还放上一个她的玩具小毛毛鸡坐在上面作孵蛋状。
从此小女每天回家的第一件事就是去看小鸡的孵化情况,几天过去,看没什么动静,暖气出口因为开春也没热气了,小女总结肯定是温度不够,就向我要heater去加热,我告诉她heater不可能总在那加热啊,刚要拒绝,见小女已经悲从心中起了,连忙改口说,我们上网看看,到底孵小鸡要什么条件吧!一看才知道,选蛋是第一个条件,然后还要有专用的孵蛋器!看来小鸡是孵不出来了,自己动手添宠物的梦想又破灭了,小女再也抑制不住几天以来的失望,痛哭失声......
我赶忙连声安慰,先问她是不是知道小鸡长大了就很难看,不是总那么cute,(因为我小时候有这个惨痛的教训,最后看那腿长毛硬的家伙,扔又不忍心,留着又不可爱,不知如何是好)小女坚定地说:I don’t care!“那以后妈妈遇到cute的小鸡给你买一个吧!”随口又许了个不知哪天能实现的诺言,总算把眼前的悲伤给止住了。
昨天白天坐到小女的桌前,忽然看见桌上的日历在五月二十四日那天画个圆圈,旁边小注:chick hatch......
周日买了几只螃蟹,在进锅之前,小女与水池里的螃蟹玩得不亦乐乎,非要留下一个当宠物,哎,看来真的是应该让孩子的梦想成真了,可什么宠物才能符合我们入室的苛刻条件呢?
附小女的关于宠物的对话 (这是小女在学校的一个作业):
Title: I wanna Fennec Fox
Dear Mom,
I know you don’t really like animals in the house because you say I am not responsible enough, but if you just let me get a Fennec Fox (they’re really cute), I’ll be responsible and pay for the fox.
Love, your responsible daughter
Dear daughter,
You don’t have enough money to buy a Fennec fox, and besides, what will you do with it anyways? You already have a brother to play with,
Love, Mom
Dear Mom,
I know I already have a brother to play with, but he’s mean, he farts a lot, he freaks me out, he’s boring to play with (which are not true), now is that enough reasons?! Anyways if I get a Fennec fox, you won’t really see me play video games anymore.
Love, your lonely daughter
Dear daughter,
If I don’t see you play video games so much anymore, it would be pretty good, but what exactly would you do with it? And did you know that animal smells spread?
Love, Mom
Dear Mom,
Well…I would feed him every day, give them enough water everyday, clean his cage, clean his poo and pee and etc. I would keep it in my room too so you wouldn’t smell it.
Love, your awesome daughter
And my mom got me the Fennec fox! Yay!!!
翛然于二零零九年五月十三日
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