Baptism by Submersion
Carol Sargeant
July 1, 1995
CHARLOTTESVILLE: THE SARGEANT HOUSEHOLD-June 1995
It's like living with a petri dish full of all sorts of nefarious mutant viruses. That's life with a preschooler. And we Sargeants had a particularly tough flu season. Jadon, our Christmas Eve Baby and 1994 Tax Break, managed to make more trips to the doctor in his first three weeks of life than our two-year-old son, Alexi, had made in a lifetime. Jadon's neonatal motto: "If it's an orifice, it's infected."
Meanwhile, Alexi spent most of February sporting a nifty virus that looked alarmingly like the red measles. So it was with a collective sigh of relief that the Sargeant family witnessed the blessed arrival of spring. In fact, the kids and I knew that spring was here when we saw Kimon, my swarthy Greek PhD-candidate of a husband, reduced to tears.
Eyes watering, nose dripping, Kimon reluctantly thrusts his sinuses out into the lush frenzy of our garden. With Alexi dutifully in tow, Kimon wheezes his way to a menacing, fifty-dollar pile of mulch that stands ready in our driveway-a sentinel, poised to ambush the nasal passages of the unsuspecting.
While in many families mulching is but a foretaste of a great and glorious summer of planting, weeding, and harvesting-in our garden it's the finale. "Well son," says Kimon, between sneezes, "this here is a weed. See how easily it can be buried under this shovelful of mulch? That's your job. Go get your Tonka dump truck and make sure all these weeds are covered by the time your mom comes home." And so Alexi has been initiated into his responsibilities as a co-laborer in the Sargeant gardens. Now, on any given morning Alexi might be found loping about the yard, ambitiously collecting rocks from the undergrowth and meticulously positioning ...
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