For some reason, I can't get Sam to understand that, if you pick a flower out of the ground, YOU CANNOT REPLANT IT AND HAVE IT GROW MORE!
I've been explaining this to her since she was 3, and it just doesn't make any sense to her.
On Monday morning, as we were getting ready to head out the door, she handed me a daffodil she had picked from our yard the day before.
"O, Mom," she whined. "I picked you this flower, but now it's dead. How 'bout if you just go put it back in the ground when we go outside so it can grow some more?"
"Honey, it doesn't work that way," I said as patiently as I could. "Remember? Once you pick a flower, you can't put it back. You've pulled it away from its roots, which give it the food to grow."
"No, Mom," she said (continuing her trend of arguing with everything I say, which is another blog post for another day). "Look, see? It's not really even dead. Look. If I hold it like this" -- here she turned it on its back, which made the petals flop backward -- "it doesn't look dead anymore. So it will really grow if you put it back in the ground."
*sigh*
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