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Today's kid report comes from Tom Wideman of Grapevine, TX...

As most parents know, kids sure like to show off their boo-boos. My 4-year-old daughter, Emily, had a torn cuticle on the middle finger of her right hand, which we had earlier put a Band-Aid on. The Band-Aid had fallen off, and of course this concerned her.

We went to a local marina to meet my friend Dan for a day of sailing. We walked down to the restaurant area where Dan was with about five or six friends, all standing around talking. Emily listened patiently for a few minutes, then decided she needed to share her boo-boo.

"Dan! DAN!!!" she yelled.

Conversation stopped, and everyone turned to her.

And she showed off her boo-boo -- by extending her finder and flying the biggest, highest "bird" I think anyone could recall seeing.

Needless to say, after a brief moment of quiet disbelief, the house came down -- gasps, laughs, comments like, "Oh me, we learned something new today, didn't we, sweetie?"

I had to do some real quick explaining about her boo-boo (somehow she'd never gotten around to mentioning following her gesture).

As for Dan? He said that he'd been having that kind of day anyway, and having a 4-year-old flip him off just fit right in.