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Hello, Watermelon.

May 14, 2013

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Oh, the carnage. The red juice-bath that snaked rivers down arms and soaked innocent little shirts.  The white shark teeth that plunged — without pity — into the tender flesh.

Welcome to Watermelon Season.

Watermelon Gang eats Watermelon in the trees

Ok, so maybe it’s still a wee bit early for the really GOOD Texas watermelons, but each time we pass the green pile of watermelons at the grocery store, all the Kidlets begin clamoring … pleading and wheedling for WA-TER-MEL-ON, WA-TER-MEL-ON, WA-TER-MEL-ON!

(their loud chants are only endearing to the chuckling customers who pass us, thankful this passel of screaming wanna-be fruitarians isn’t in their carts)

By the way, this might be my favorite Barney Kneeknuckles face ever.  EVER.

Watermelon Gang Loves Watermelon

To pacify the savages, I buy the asked for pale watermelons — full of juice but only slightly sweet.  And like a swoop of vulturistic plunderers, they descend.  Barely stopping to breathe.  Biting and biting and biting. . . only stopping when they reach the white-green rind after Daddy makes them.

Watermelon Gang

 

And, as they slurp and swallow, their little eyes are ever watchful.  Wary.  Heaven forbid another sibling get one more piece than they do.

 

Watermelon Gang eats Watermelon

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Rachel Lacy is the author of Following In My Shoes, where she blogs about Mommyhood, Family-Friendly Recipes and Bento Lunches, and Life in Texas. She is a lover of all things Coffee and Nutella.
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