My Wonderful Wife: “Did you brush your teeth?”
Little Miss Thing, age 5: “Yes.”
WW: “Good. Let me smell your breath.”
LMT: “… No.”
WW: “Seriously. Let me smell your breath.”
LMT: “I think I forgot to rinse. I’ll go do that now.” (runs off)
WW: “I cross examine witnesses all day and never realized it was a parenting skill.”
A brief treatise on the thought processes behind morning snuggles.
The Adults: “How nice. Warm soft snuggles.”
The Teenage daughter: “How nice. Warm soft snuggles.”
The Nine Year Old Son: “How nice. Warm soft snuggles.”
The Five year old daughter: “Oh, look. Four people calmly snuggling. I will stand on them and do gymnastics.”
Little Miss Thing, age 5: “Want to hear how loud I can sing?”
My Wonderful Wife: “No. We’re in a hotel room and the people next door might be asleep.”
LMT: “You don’t know – they might be wide awake and like loud singing.”
Very Vocal Viking 