Words worth saving

Kids do and say the darndest things. And, I want to record every utterance so I can repeat it back to the Doobies at the most inopportune moment. Because I'm approaching 40 and can't even remember why I walked from the family room to the fridge, I'm putting everything down on paper, er, in posts. That way, when the kids are older, I can share these ridiculous moments in time with them.

The fall of the dough boy
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Mike fell up the stairs last week. That's not funny. (Well, not to him.) What's funny is he was holding the kids' allowance so when he lost his balance, he lost a lot of ones. As I stood at the top of the stairs watching the George Washingtons fly, Madan ran down the steps, scooped up the money and bolted into his room.

Eight is enough
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I asked Madan if he remembered the name of his preschool teacher. I reminded him that it was the class where there were triplets. Of course he didn't remember, but Kaila then wanted to know what it meant to have triplets.

"Triplets means three kids."

"Oh. What do you call four?"

"Quadruplets."

"Five?"

"Quintuplets."

"Six?

"Sextuplets."

"Seven?"

"Septuplets."

"Eight?

"Octoplets."

"Nine"

"Gross."

"Gross?"

"Gross."

Suddenly Madan piped in. "I call that RIDICULOUS!"

So that's why you refer to them as a pair of underwear!
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"How was your day, Madan?"

"Great. But, I was late for my writing workshop because I was in the bathroom."

"Oh."

"And, the weirdest thing happened. I had on TWO pairs of UNDERWEAR!"

Me, laughing, "Didn't your pants feel, um, uncomfortable all day?"

"Well, yeah. I knew something was wrong, but I wasn't sure what. What a surprise!"

Meanwhile, Kaila is giving Madan her perfected WTF? look.

"Kaila, don't look at him like he's crazy. You went to school one day wearing no underpants. Some is better than none."


Scratch that.
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Madan and I took Kaila to the allergist last week to see if she was allergic to dogs. They gave her a scratch test and sure enough, she started getting puffy. Madan was eyeing the little red circles suspiciously. The wheels in his brain were furiously turning. Kaila started screaming that she was itchy. Madan looked at me and shrugged, "So, does this mean we get fish?"