Conversation

This weekend we went to Chardon to attend an outdoor wedding! After the ceremony, Eddie and I were walking around the grounds on our way to the party. We came across a little girl who was standing around while her parents were changing the diaper of her smaller sibling.  Eddie approached the girl and asked "What's your name?"

"I'm Carlie," she said. "I'm four."

"This is Eddie," I told her.

Eddie scuffed the ground for a minute, then thought of the tent we'd just walked past where the band had been playing. "Those music stands have music on them," he told Carlie.

"I'm going to preschool," she replied.

"I have a little brother," Eddie offered.

"Oh," she said. "There's that…person," she said, gesturing vaguely toward the one getting a change.