Last night The Kid and I walked by what was obviously a dead fir tree. She asked what's wrong with it. I said the tree was sick.
"How it get sick." She said.
We talked about how she gets a cold and sometimes doesn't feel good and that the tree probaly had a cold like her. She seemed to understand. Then we were about 10 feet beyond the tree and she said, "I want to hug it." I told that would be nice. So she walked over to the dead tree and put her arms around its small trunk. As we walked away she said "It feels better now?"
"Yes, it feels better." I assured her.
I don't know if the tree really felt better but I sure did. What a great little kid.