Conversations

"Mom, what are you doing?"

"I'm putting stuff back in the places it belongs."

"Well, it looks like you are organizing."

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"Mom, what are those guys doing?"

"They are mowing the lawn."

"Why are they doing that?"

"They are helping the people that live there."

"Well, that is really nice of them to help their neighbors."

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"Mom, what are those guys doing?"

"They are finished mowing the lawns and are putting the mowers away."

"Why are they putting them in there?"

"Those are trailers, so they can put all the mowers in the trailer and drive them home."

"Why are they taking them?"

"So they can put them in the garage."

"What garage?"

"The garage where they put their stuff."

"What kind of stuff?"

"THE MOWERS!"

"Oh."

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"Wow, honey, my car looks just like yours."

"What, awesome?"

"No, covered in kid crap. What a mess."

after a family trip to Ohio

Acutally, Mom...

Since the dawn of time, people have been pretending to "get" the noses of their children by putting the tip of a thumb between the pointer and middle finger and waving it in front of the child with a gleeful cry of "Got Your Nose!" Hilarity ensues.

I just attempted this with MaeMae. I squealed "Got Yer Nose!" and waggled my thumb-between-two-fingers gesture at her.

She cast a disdainful look in my direction. "Actually, Mom, that is your thumb."

Oh. Ok.

Can't you see it? "So tell me, MaeMae, do you think bipartisanship is possible in this lifetime, or shall we all revert to a cluster of small, agrarian societies?"

"Actually, Mom..."