Using their noodles
“Da-da, cook macaroni,” said Liam, obviously forgetting who was in charge.
“Was that a nice ask?”
“Cook macaroni please,” he corrected.
I didn’t really feel like cooking macaroni. They’d just had it the evening before, and besides, it takes like, four minutes to make, and that’s four minutes after the microwave is lit. Plus, Nate had done something with one of the cheese packets from the previous night’s macaroni-making, and I never could find it, so I’d had to take another from the clear, crinkly bag of hard little elbow noodles that Liam was currently holding.
“Actually, you know what? We don’t have any cheese,” I lied. “Yep. Mum-mum needs to get more cheese the next time she goes to the store.” Case closed. Now eat your dinosaur chicken.
“No Da-da, look!” he said, disappearing into the pantry.
Uh-oh, I thought, knowing this day would come. Knowing that eventually, their little nervous systems and cognitive abilities would advance to the point where it was no longer so easy to trick them about things like powdered cheese.
Moments later, he emerged, holding a new, complete packet of macaroni. “Here’s cheese.” He said, as he handed it to me and walked back to his chair.
Technically, that was not a nice ask, I thought as I got the microwave-safe bowl down from the cabinet, and remembered who was in charge.
It’s really hard to come up with a good excuse when the little ones smarten up.
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I believe the proper term for what happened is pwned.
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FAIL!!!
heheheheheheehehehe
We love that “LLLL Liam.” He is a whiz kid!!! A and M loved reading about Liam’s victory over “Mr. Bill”.
I see that the universe is aligned at your house in the same fashion it is aligned at ours. Comforting.
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I was just telling Bear the other day that the worst thing we ever did was teach the kids to read and spell. The youngest now knows what were are saying when we spell things out instead of saying them. Stinkin’ children thinking for themselves!
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That’s adorable.
My four-year-old regularly outsmarts me and I think he’s been doing it since he was two.
I have recently come to a similar realization, which is that we can no longer eat junk food and expect Suzi to eat healthy food. When we pull out the cookies and milk her eyes light up and she says “KOO-KHEE?” She gets angry when we don’t give her one. I’ve considered making regular, wholesome food into cookie shapes to trick her into eating it. I wonder if she’d fall for that.
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Thanks all.
Epilogue: Jill told me later that she found the missing packet of cheese in one of the cargo pockets in my shorts. Sneaky Nate. Now I’ve found a car and Batman before, but never… cheese.
I have been schooled by my kids like that so many times. Nice try, I applaud your efforts. Keep trying.
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