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I used to think I understood that saying "like taking candy from a baby."

But seriously, have you ever tried to take candy from a baby? Especially a baby, or in my case, a toddler, who doesn't eat candy frequently so when she gets something like a swedish goldfish or a tootsie pop, there is no way in heaven or hell that she is letting go without screaming so loudly that your neighbors come up to see if we're torturing a cat. And I wouldn't take the candy from her but the sugar gets her so crazy that she spins around the room (literally, I have videos of this) until she says "dizzy, dizzy, Mamie funny," and then laughs and then cries because man, sugar crashing when you're not that coordinated can hurt.

2 Comments:

Douglas: This is true.
Terry Immamoto: You probably could get the candy away from her easilly if you created a diversion, even if it was a really obvious one. Maybe that's what the saying means. But then they wouldn't have really had to say "candy," they could have said "It's as easy as stealing [a rattle/board-books/anything] from a baby." Unless they said "candy" because while the baby may like candy, it still does not have the cunning to protect him/herself from basic robbery schemes.

My six-year-old never cared for the sweet stuff, but the two-year-old has a lot in common with your Mamie!

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