December 5, 2010

• Mixed Messages

  Mommy: BOYS!!  Stop it!  Do you hear me? (in reference to the boys giving each other half-playful/half-serious martial-arts-style jabs and kicks)

  Daddy:  What are you telling them to stop doing?

  Mommy: (crabbily)  They know!! (marching off down the hall to get dressed to leave)

  Daddy:  Israel Caleb, come here.  (Israel dutifully shuffles over.)  What is Mommy telling you to stop doing?

  Israel:  (pause)  Ummm…government poop?  

  Tim:  WHAT??!  (He immediately buries his face in the crook of his arm to hide his laughter.)

  Gabe: (scornfully)  No, Israel, that’s not what Mom meant.

  Israel:  Government pee?  (Tim’s face goes back into his sleeve.)

  Gabe:  (exasperated and quite serious) No, Mom said no more fighting.

  Well then.  Glad to know all my parenting messages are getting through.    WHAT??!

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