Wednesday, February 18, 2009

cute kids in bus

Today when I was sitting in the bus on my way to work a young mommy came in with two sweet little boys. One of them, the older one, maybe 4 years old, sat down right across from my seat (we sat face to face). The younger one didn't want to sit down and just mumbled something like "nooo, I don't wanna" when his mother asked him again to sit down. Without further ado she grabbed him and placed him next to his brother. Immediately he fold down his lower lip, screwed up his eyes and started to raise his voice but his mother kind of yelled at him:"Elias, if you start screaming now, we will get off the bus NOW and walk the whole way down to Kindergarden!" He gasped for breath for two or three seconds and during this time he glanced at me.
I looked at him with my "hey-lil-boy-you-are-actually-not-very-nice" face, what irritated him and he frowned. At that time I changed my facial expression into a very big grin (kids usually can't resist) what irritated him even more.
At this moment I looked to his brother who really couldn't resist and tried hard to refrain from laughing. When I smiled at him, he gave up and smiled back.
Elias, who was observing his older brother and me smiling, suddenly burst out laughing "HAHAHAHAH", very loud (and I mean VERY loud!) so that I couldn't help but laughing, too! (All the people in the bus probably thought I was one sandwich short of a picnic...)

After that happy ending of a not-screaming-toddler-in-the-bus, that little guy didn't stop grinning at me! He showed all his teeth - and that was SO funny I decided to grab my cellphone (comes with a camera) and take a picture.

You should have seen Elias' eyes... They turned big and round and he asked me totally amazed: "did you take my picture??????"
I said: "Yes, I did!"
"Ooohh! Can I see it?"
"Of course!"

The older one: "Take one of me, too!!!" what I did. "Let me see. Oh that's me and him. Can I have one that shows only me?" And the friendly, totally unknown auntie [me] went on taking pictures of totally unknown kids...
Finally I got a really good shot of both, just before we all had to get off the bus.

That experience was so delighting I couldn't stop smiling almost the whole day...


2 comments:

Allison said...

awwww! and I love your expression, "one sandwich short of a picnic"...hahahahaha

Jim said...

Hi Tina, those kids are a mess. Most kids are. I have standing orders that if my grandchildren cry in public places to give them(when very little) ice cream. That will get them back in a good mood.

I like your snow and the snow pictures. That is a good idea to make a video of it falling. I have a YouTube (I am Jim1Jim1) of heavy rain and wind during our Hurricane Ike.
Neither video is very exciting.
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