Beat me Daddy please!

Ever had one of those moments in public when your kid shouts something out and its completely embarrassing?
Well ours hasn't happened in public yet but I am waiting for the day when those most usual words come out of Evangeline's mouth.
"Beat me Daddy!"
Anytime she coughs or chokes on something she asks us to beat on her back. She even turns around and starts to try to pat her own back.  It's really the cutest thing.

A few days ago she took a drink and it went down the wrong hole.  She started sputtering and coughing, normally she would ask me to beat on her back but today I said. "Ask Daddy to beat you, please."
She rushed over to Adam and turned her back "Beat me Daddy please!"

It was really strange to hear a small child ask to be beaten.  Doom will fall upon us the second she starts choking in public.

Well it happened today in my Girl Scout Troop.  Oh dear, she began coughing an ran for the classroom door for Adam who was in the hall.  "I need a beating."  She said.

Several girls who are unfamiliar with my family turned wide eyes on me.  "Why is she asking to be beaten?" 

LOL my answer was as smart ass as I dare with them "Because she likes to be beaten."