It's hard when we get caught up in life to remember to listen to children. This is one of my short-comings. The days are endlessly long and tiring and by mid-afternoon, all I hear is whiny tones and nonsensical annoying phrases that start to irritate me to no end and all I want is silence, to have the grating little voices cease. For this, I feel bad. They are children and deserve to be heard just like anyone else. They can't help it if they don't make much sense and their sense of humor is child-like, obviously, because they are, you guessed it, still children.
As annoying as some patches were today, I tried to make a point to listen.
I'm glad I did because I was heartily amused and realized that it's been some time since I've laughed hard.
My kids have become quite the masterminds of cajoling their Meme and Pepe into taking them out to lunch and today my eldest daughter got her Pepe to take us to Wendy's. The kids were eating and talking and I saw my father, their Pepe, attempt to fill his straw with diet coke and give it to the baby. So I practically spat out at him, "Daddy! Don't give her that! She can't have soda!"And immediately my older daughter pipes in quite emphatically, "Pepe! Don't feed that to our baby! If you feed babies soda, then they will blow up!"
I have no idea where she got this idea. Perhaps it's the bubbles that lead her to believe that babies will explode much like seagulls or pigeons who've consumed Alkaseltzer. I'm not sure, but I'm still laughing and I'm glad I was listening.
That is too cute....kids say the funniest things!
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