I woke up at around 3:00 p.m. yesterday after pulling an…

I woke up at around 3:00 p.m. yesterday after pulling an ‘all-nighter’ and picked both kids up from daycare. When we got home the three of us laid on the couch and watched Penguin’s of Madagascar until Erin came home. Then I went out to get dinner and pick up my tux, and a pair of shoes for Margo for our friends wedding this weekend. When I got back I saw Margo, Audrey, and the two neighbor kids standing around our front steps. Margo had just come out without a shirt on for some reason and a big smile on her face. She’s only three years old so she looked really cute with her chubby self and her huge head. The other three started laughing and pointing at her. Margo’s big face instantly started to turn into a frown, she covered up her chest with her arms and yelled back over the taunting that she forgot to put a shirt on before crying. My heart basically ripped in half seeing her tiny, happy-go-lucky self having her feelings hurt by other kids. Since I couldn’t say anything to the neighbor kids, all I could do was tell audrey to apologize to her sister and send them inside.

Margo ran into the porch and fell face down onto the couch, Audrey stormed off to her room- apparently angry that I had embarrassed her infront of her friends. I found margo and picked her up.

“They were all making fun of me.” She cried, her face deep into the side of my neck.

“I know hon.” I didn’t know what else to say. I wanted to tell her that they weren’t to save her feelings but I also wanted her to be ready for more assholes in her life.

“They were laughing at me.” She added. I rubbed her back and tried to think of a way to make things better but was at a standstill.

“You know what’s even more funny than not having a shirt on?” I said pulling her hair away from her face and tucking it over her ear. She pulled her head up and looked at me with her red, puffy cheeks. “A while ago Max (the neighbor kid who was laughing the loudest) was walking around in his yard with no pants on.”

“He was?” Margo asked.

“Yeah, it was really gross because you could see his privates.” Margo started laughing. Crisis averted.