Abner This is a true story about my second son. When he was a baby, he was a strong baby. Also, he was an active baby. He had to sleep with us in our bed. One day we had to make a decision about putting him in a cradle. It was when he was 7 months old. One night he crawled out of the cradle, and he came into my bed, but we were sleeping and didn't know. In the middle of the night my husband felt something moving in the bed. He thought it was a snake because he only saw the head and black hair. He told me not to move. He woke up fast and took a hard tube to kill the supposed snake. But when he was ready to kill the snake, I turned the lights on, and I saw that it was my son. I said, "Don't kill him because that is not a snake, it is Abner". I thank God that I thought about turning the lights on. |
Background Information  Talk about babies, how curious they are,
how they can get into just about anything. Then talk about what it's like to
wake up in the middle of the night; how confused you can be and how you can see
things that aren't really there. Finally discuss what it feels like to make a
mistake. Questions 1. What was the baby's name? 2. Do you think the parents should have put the baby into a cradle? 3. Use the word active in a sentence. 4. Who first felt something moving in the bed? 5. What does the word crawl mean? 6. How do you think the father felt when he found out that the "snake" was really Abner? 7. How old was Abner? 8. Define the word middle. 9. When did the parents feel something move in the bed? 10. If Maria hadn't turned on the lights, what do you think might have happened?
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