July 18, 2009
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Overheard
Yesterday:
Mom: Okay, kids, we need some french fries for dinner. Theo, sit on your bottom, please.
Isaac: Hey, look! Alphabet-shaped tater tots!
Mom: Theo, do you need help finding your bottom? Isaac, can you grab some fries?
Isaac: Can we get them?
Mom: Huh? No, Theo, don’t throw the pears!
Isaac: It’ll be good for Theo! Educational!
Mom: Yeah, sure, throw them in the cart. Get some fries, too. Theo, you can’t eat the cherries until we pay for them![Later, at home unpacking]
Mom: Wait. Did I just buy alphabet-shaped tater tots?!
Isaac: Mom, think of the pedagogical value!
Mom: I’m so embarrassed.Today:
Theo: Mommy, I just . . . I just drew H-horsey to my paper.
Mom: Oh, yeah?
Theo: An’ a . . . a Z-zebra. An’ a T-Theo.
Mom: Very nice, dear.
Isaac: See, Mom? The tater tots totally worked.
Mom: Isaac, we are going to have a lesson in resisting psychological manipulation later.
Comments (1)
Oh, my! I remember days like that. My kids are still funny, but in more complicated ways. After all, the oldest will be 24 (yes, that’s twenty-four) in September.