It’s the end of the day, Glenn is washing the dishes after dinner and we are both failing miserably on our third attempt to get the four kids into bed.
Eli comes into the kitchen.
"I can talk with my mouth shut" he announces proudly, totally unaware that his presence in the kitchen after being sent of to bed so many times before may not be welcomed.
"Can you NOT talk with it shut instead" Glenn asks.
"What?" asks a confused Eli
"Can you keep it shut and not say anything"?
"um… well…. that just wouldn’t be hard at all, I can do talking and keeping my mouth shut at the same time."
"Oh alright, show me talking with your mouth shut" said Glenn caving in due to massive failure in the sarcasm department.
Eli doesn’t say a thing, Glenn continues to wipe the benches.
"Well"
"No, you have to look at me otherwise you would not see that I am talking with my mouth shut"
"Ok fine" and Glenn puts down the dish cloth.
Eli makes sure that we are both watching takes a deep breath in and " HErrrmmLLOOWW"
I stifle a laugh
"Right…great… go to bed" says Glenn with more composure at than I would have been able to muster
"AAARRRMMM AAYYEEEE" responds Eli then, after a pause "Did you hear me say ok?"
Glenn sensing things swinging in his favour responds encouragingly "Yes, Yes I did!" and gently placing a hand on each shoulder points him in the direction of his room as I double over in silent giggles.
Haha So cute! How do kids manage to find so many excuses to get out of bed!! And how did you get Glenn to do the dishes 🙂
Hehe! Oh, the stalling tactics of little ones! Levi is currently finding that I have trouble saying “no” to “I’m hungwee!” So, he’s been eating buckets full of food at bedtime just to postpone the inevitable. Then of course he gets “Thuwstee!”