No kicking the dog!

Ethan has a book at Grammy's house about things you shouldn't do. It's a great little book. For example, one page says, "No biting our friends!". The next page says, "What can you bite?" You lift the flap and it shows a bunch of apples.

Mom was reading the book to Ethan the other night and got to the page about, "No kicking the Dog!" Ethan replied, "No kikn' gog!" They continued to read. "No hitting Mommy!" He'd say "No...Mommy!" We found it quite amusing and he kept going back to the dog page.

So this morning I was getting him ready for swim lessons. He was not a happy camper and squirming all about. I tried to distract him by reciting the book. "No kicking the dog! What can you kick? A ball!" Then I said, "No hitting Mommy. What can you hit?" Ethans squealed, "DADDY!"