abby, eli, charlie, olivia, and i went over to my parents' house yesterday for some fun and food. usually when i go somewhere for fun and food, i end up having more food than fun, but yesterday was an exception. :)
those kids crack me up. plus, they're very educational.
take, "what happened????" for instance......
charlie and olivia - especially olivia - like to say, "what happened????" - with a huge dose of bewilderment and wonder - whenever what happened was they dumped their food all over the floor.
they like to say it when they spill their milk.
or when they grab the pickle off your plate and shove it in their mouth.
the odd thing about "what happened????" is, they never say it when everybody else is truly wondering what happened.
say, for example, you fall down and dang near break your neck. no "what happeneds" to be heard.
not that these kids aren't kind and compassionate. they are. they're also expert at assigning external blame which, face it, is the american way. it's funny how they learned to do this because it has not been modeled for them. their parents take responsibility for their own actions and they have always instructed the twins to do likewise. well, responsibility schmonsibility. you hang around these kids long enough and you get yourself a good, old-fashioned education in how to dodge owning up.
yesterday, at dessert time, my mom and dad had an assortment of goodies from which to choose.......decadent brownies, cookies, and chocolate fudge cupcakes. olivia chose a cupcake......
they say you can't have your cake and eat it, too, and boy, oh, boy.......is that ever true: olivia discovered that if you plunge your hands into the middle of the frosting that's piled high on the cupcake, you sorta get frosting all over your hands and your face and your shirt and your pants and the table and your hair and your grammy's hair and everywhere but your mouth. the cake part of the cupcake sorta falls apart into a pile of crumbs when you smash your hands into it and all in all, what you have, instead of a lovely cupcake to eat, is one big, giant mess.
you also have a very difficult question to answer........."what happened????"
