Daughter (5): Can I be excused?
Me, to daughter: Eat a bite of your omelette first.
Daughter: Well, I'm making it into shapes.
Me: Yeah, well eat a shape.
Daughter: Okay. But I'll only eat the trapezoid.
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Son (8) swinging a Christmas ornament in front of his sister: You are getting sleepy. When I click my fingers, you will do whatever I tell you to, for the rest of the day. Got it? [click] Okay, hang this ornament.
Daughter, ignores him.
Son: I said you have to hang this ornament.
Daughter, ignores him.
Son: You are getting sleepy. When I click my fingers, you will do whatever I tell you to, for the next HOUR. Got it?
Daughter, ignores him.
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Left Coast Crime
2 years ago
The trapezoid! Tee hee! And that's very funny, too, about the attempted hypnotizing...your kids are so great.
ReplyDeleteSo clever. And don't you just love (in strange way) the way kids can ignore each other? Instead of having to respond politely? Even though I tell them they should respond politely, I secretly envy the way they roll.
ReplyDeleteAnd the trapezoid thing make me thing of the way my Boy has figured out that using "zero" can sometimes make very quick work of a math homework problem.