There's a what on my where?

There are a few things in life that you never want to hear someone say to you. For example:

"That wasn't chicken."
"This won't hurt a bit."
"Don't worry, this plane can fly with one engine."
"I'm on a work release program."
"Daddy, I'm getting married."

You know, the usual uncomfortable statements. Unfortunately we have discovered a new phrase that is not very comforting to hear, especially at 4:00 a.m. Well, you see, Jerry has been having lots of bad dreams lately, and been coming in our room a lot. Well just the other night, he crawled up in bed with us, on JT's side, and was laying there to go to sleep. Just as we were all dozing off back to sleep, we hear Jerry say something semi-disturbing.

"Uh, Daddy, there's something flapping on your shoulder!"

Well if that doesn't get your attention, your attention getter is broken!

I honestly can't even write that sentence without giggling. It was the strangest thing for him to say at 4 am, even his choice of words is hilarious...flapping...what in the world could be flapping on a shoulder? Crawling, sitting, maybe, but flapping, that is weird. JT was none the less startled by this accusation, took a quick look, and when I say quick look, I literally mean a quick look, like I said, that sort of statement grabs a person's attention. As one could guess, there was nothing flapping on his shoulder.

So, the next morning, I asked Jerry what he saw on daddy's shoulder and he said it was something that pinched, kind of like a butterfly. I just smiled and said okay, but for the rest of the day I kept telling him he had something flapping on his shoulder. :-)

And just for fun, right before bed, JT was in the bathroom brushing his teeth and I said, "JT THERE'S SOMETHING FLAPPING ON YOUR SHOULDER!" Funny thing was he wasn't less alarmed than the first time he heard it. :-)