COMPILED BY TIFFANY GRAVETT
Two years ago, September 9, Wisconsin Children’s Hospital put Little Doug on-end-of-life care due to complications from his heart condition. God intervened through a doctor who was willing to take a chance, and he recently celebrated his 10th birthday! Little Doug not only faces every challenge with big faith, but also with an amazing sense of humor! Today’s kid quotes are from a book published by his mother as a way of documenting his “resilient, fun-loving, exuberant” perspective on life. “The Wisdom of Little Doug” can be purchased on Amazon, and all proceeds go into Little Doug’s savings fund!
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Little Doug was begging me for Cheetos (we buy the organic ones) for breakfast, and would not give up. So I gave in and gave him some. He ran to the kitchen and grabbed a fork, then he dumped them all on the floor and proceeded to pick up each one with his fork as he ate them. –age 1
At dinner Little Doug kept asking us for something and we could not figure out what he was asking for. He just kept saying, “It’s not ranch.” Then he said, and I quote: “It’s not ranch, it’s applesauce…no, it’s apple…it’s apple-Q-sauce…no! It’s Carb-E-Q-sauce!” –age 2
I was doing work on the computer this morning and I heard Little Doug waking up. He walks out of his bedroom with a very sleepy, “I’m not happy with life” look on his face and says to me: “Where’s my other one?” Me: “Your other what?” Little Doug: “Mom, I want my other one.” Me: “Your other what?” Little Doug: (a little louder) “I want my other one!!” Me: “Buddy, I don’t know what you mean.” Little Doug: “I want my other PARENT!” Me: “You mean, you want Daddy?” Little Doug: “Yest, I want Daddy…he makes me popcorn.” –age 3
There is the sweetest little old lady in our church. She always carries a Ziploc bag of assorted candies in her purse, and she gives them out to all the little kids after church for being good during service. It is always Little Doug’s top priority, the second the last “Amen” is said, to run and find her. He lovingly refers to her as “the candy girl.” One day we were in the grocery store and the song “Sugar Sugar” by the Archies, came on over the loudspeaker. When it got to the line: “You are my candy girl, and you got me wanting you” Little Doug’s eyes lit up and he excitedly said to me: “Mom! We know that girl–the one they are singing about! She goes to our church!” –age 4
Little Doug was proudly telling me about something he learned how to do on his own. Me: “That’s really good Buddy, how did you learn how to do that?” Little Doug: “I just thinked of it! To learn things, Mom, you can think, OR you can go to school…but you can’t do both!” –age 5
I think I’m giving up on trying to teach Little Doug “bike trail etiquette.” Tonight we were biking on the De Pere trail, and he came zooming up behind me and yelled: “Passing on your middle!” Me: “Buddy, you’re supposed to say: ‘passing on your left.’” Little Doug: “No, the people going the other way are left; I’m in the middle!” –age 6
Quotes used with permission from “The Wisdom of Little Doug” by Cami Behl, Little Doug’s mother.
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