To Lyman: "The umbrella's effectiveness significantly lessons when you do not hold it right side up and over your head."
Context: It is pouring rain outside and he is holding the umbrella either to the side of him and spinning it or upside down over his head creating a bowl to collect the water while waiting for the bus.
To Ruby: "No! Do not pour your cereal out all over the floor!"
Context: She decided the cereal she chose and was eating was no longer what she wanted - she wanted a different kind.
Additional Context: Corilynn told her to.
To Coriynn: "You do not tell your sister to pour out her cereal. Now, you get to help her clean it up."
Context: See above.
To Ruby: "Yucky, you have lots of boogers. Can you get Mommy a tissue?"
Context: Kids hate wiping their noses but if you trick them into feeling big by helping you get the tissue, you can sometimes trap them.
To Ruby (2 minutes later): "Oh, that isn't a tissue. That is a towel."
Context: She brought me a kitchen towel. Fantastic.
To me, from Corilynn: "Mom, when am I going to get breakfast?"
Context: I have no idea, she is in her own little world. She just finished her breakfast of milk and oatmeal.
To Corilynn: "You just finished eating breakfast."
To me, from Corilynn: "Oh, yeah! ha ha ha."
To Me, from Me: "Is it only 8 in the morning? I want to go back to bed."
15 years ago

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