Figure of Speech

The other night, after a long period of wriggling instead of going to sleep, I said, "if you kick me one more time, I am going to throw you out of bed, and you will have to sleep on the floor." Faelan stopped wriggling and lay quietly for about a minute. Then he said in a very small voice, "if you throw me, Mommy, I will be hurt." Then I had to explain that I wouldn't actually pick him up and throw him.