First Sucker

Rebecca almost never gets to enjoy the taste of food. She has a g-tube and lives on an all liquid diet that is fed to her through that tube. While we were assisting at the Heart of Harvest & Missions Conference at New Heights Community Church, Rebecca saw other children enjoying lots of free candy. She gave me that look that communicates to me that she wants to understand that activity. You know, the activity of having something very sweet hit your tongue and the smile it brings to your face.

Being the sucker that I am for my little girl...I helped her to play a game so that she too could win some candy. Then I took the wrapper off the sucker and placed it at her mouth. First she laughed...then she chomped down on the sucker. The first few tastes were somewhat overwhelming for her. By the third or fourth time, she was biting down on the stick so that I couldn't remove the sucker from her mouth. It was her very first sucker and, by all indications, she truly loved it.

P.S. Don't tell her dentist.