It's way more than spilled milk.

Things that make Eladia cry for 30 seconds or less:

• banging her face.


• slipping off her step stool and scraping her back on the dishwasher rack. (The band-aid cured everything there.)


• tumbling down the stairs.

Things that make Eladia cry for 15 minutes (all the way home).

• Daddy saying "No, we are looking for boots" when Eladia points out the sparkly pink shoes