So, I promised that I’d write about a moment over fall break that had to do with my niece and nephew.
So, over fall break I went to my sisters house in southwest Kansas. While I was on my computer, editing a photo, my nephew came up and asked what a button did on my laptop.
I quickly said, “Don’t touch that!” To avoid messing up my photo.
He was confused and asked why so I replied, “It will send you into space!”
I said it with all seriousness. All week whenever I said something funny or jokingly he’d say, “You’re just kidding!” But, this time when he asked I said that I wasn’t and proceeded to tell him about other buttons on my computer.
One button sent him straight into the ground, another made him blow up, and one made his mom turn into a pig.
I asked him if we should do it and he got really scared and told me we shouldn’t turn his mom into a pig. By this point, Juliet, my niece joined in on the excitement by sitting on my lap.
The last button that I showed him was a button to turn my sister who is currently in college at the University Of The Virgin Islands into a shark. I had to convince him to do it though. I said it would be perfectly fine since she is right by the ocean. I also had to tell him how funny it would be when she turned into a shark and all of her friends would be confused.
He was unsure at first, worried that she would remain a shark forever, but I assured him that she would turn back into a human.
So, after lots of persuading, I gave him the honors of clicking the “F” button on my computer to her into a shark.
So, then, my mom, over hearing the whole conversation and being amused by the two kids total belief in the shark button, called my sister.
Let’s just say she was a tad bit confused when thee first thing my mom asked was, “Are you a shark?”
Austin and Juliet waited for a response in absolute excitement. Luckily, my sister caught on quickly and said that yes, she had indeed been a shark for the last couple minutes. After a while my mom and my sisters call ended and I started to text my sister.
One thing that is great about them, is they can’t read yet so I was able to explain the whole situation over text without them knowing. I asked her to send a picture using the underwater filter on snapchat. The kids really got a kick out of that and they were sole believers afterwards.
It was starting to get a little late and Juliet began to get a little tired on my lap. By this time, Austin and Juliet were corresponding with my sister over snapchat video. Austin asked if she was mad at him for turning her into a shark several times.
She replied with yes! She was “mad” at him. And she said, “I’m not getting you presents for Christmas or Juliet either,” and I kid you not. As soon as she said “Juliet”, Juliet started bawling her eyes out. She was so tired and the mere thought that she would be missing out on a Christmas present from her aunt was just too much for her.
I quickly showed my sister that she was super upset and my sister reassured her that Juliet would be receiving presents.
For the rest of the week Austin kept wanting to turn her into a shark, until I told him we only had “one token” left.
He asked what a token was and I explained to him that it was kind of like a coin and controlled how many times we could click the button.
I told we had to save it for the last day because if we wanted more tokens we had to go to “The Depths of Narnia” to get more. And that was very far away.
After we went home, Austin and Juliet went around calling relatives and telling everyone they would be getting a new sibling in May and when they called my sister in the USVI all they talked about was the shark button. She told me that my other sister, their mom, said that was all they had been talking about and had been telling everyone about it.
It’s such a funny memory how I totally tricked my niece and nephew into believing that I could turn my sister into a shark. I don’t think I’ll ever forget it.
