Setting: Riley and I are playing outside with sidewalk chalk while Bree is inside sleeping.
Me: Look Riley! It's an ant! (I point it out to her)
Riley: What is it? Oh! There it is! (waves) HI ANT!
Riley gets down on her hands and knees to get a closer look.
Riley: What you doin ant?
Me: Be gentle.
Riley: (puts her nose closer to the ant and takes a deep sniff) Peeee-yew! Ant stinky! (crazed laughter)....(she waves her hand in front of her nose) Stinky ant! Yuck!
Me: No! no! no! Don't squish it!!!! (Riley was reaching with her little toddler hand to blot out the existence of said stinky ant, but I grabbed it and pulled it back) We need to be nice to the ants. If we are nice to them, they are nice to us.
Riley: Go! go ant! GO! (Riley is jabbing her finger in the air directing the ant)
(Riley looks back at me and smiles...then looks to find her ant)
Riley: Oh no! Where ant go?(long pause while she whips her little head around wildly trying to find her ant) Okay....BYE ANT!!!! (stands and waves in general direction)
Riley: (murmuring to herself) Where he go? I don't know..... He go home...yeah. He go home to eat.
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