Hello everyone✨
We can all agree that kids are very adorable. Beneath their headstrongness is a tender, pure and a loving soul. I highlighted the pure because they rely on their elders to know the difference between right and wrong;good and bad.
As I'm the last child of my parents, I didn't have the opportunity to take care of any younger siblings until the day my cousin announced that he was a father and the juicy part was that his kid was about two years old. This news brought so much joy to me as I had just found a new play buddy/little sibling.
On one of the days when my cousin came visiting, we(my sister and I) asked to borrow his child(Mimi) for a play session. He warned us to be careful as he released the girl.
Merrily, we were walking down the stairs when we saw Mimi at the bottom of the stair. My sister and I exchanged glances with our mouths wide open.
"Oh no, we've killed our cousin's child" were my thoughts.
I don't know what my sister was thinking about but she seemed too frightened to even say a word. And to top it all up, Mimi didn't move for about 30seconds. After some time, Mimi stood up from where she had landed and started wiping the dust off her clothes.
Didn't this girl just roll down fourteen stairs? yes, I counted afterwards 😅
As Mimi stood up, my sister scurried down the stairs to check if the little girl had sustained any form of injuries or maybe broken a bone. After inspecting little Mimi, my sister heaved a sigh of relief and it was at this point that the little girl thought it fit to start crying.
Three minutes had passed and she didn't cry but immediately after she felt the tension release, she decided to cry and she cried like her life depended on it
"Mimi, why are you crying? Is anywhere paining you?"
"No"
"Then why are you crying?" And she increased the intensity of her tears.
We were trying to stop this girl from crying to prevent drawing attention and as such, we promised her heaven and earth. My sister was saying things like
"Don't cry na, I'd buy you new clothes, and plenty biscuits and sweets and toys" hehehe, little children promising a fellow child heaven and earth 😂Good thing she didn't remember all these promises.
Eventually, the tears stopped. This scene wasn't funny that day but now that I think of it, why would a child slip and roll down a series of stairs, stand up, wipe the dust off her clothes and three minutes later, start crying? Hilarious. Maybe , if my sister hadn't shown too much emotions, Mimi wouldn't have cried. Who knows?.
With love, wongi ✨