Torture?
Daddy wonders sometimes what the kids are saying when we aren't around. This was a conversation today.
Ben: Mommy! Anna's torturing me!
Daddy: [stifles a laugh]
Mommy: Anna, stop torturing Ben.
Anna: [loudly and emphatically] I am not torturing Ben!
Daddy: [valiant and vain attempt to keep water from spewing from nose]
Mommy: OK. Just move away.
Anna: But I have to torture somebody. And it has to be a real person!
You see, when trying to get Ben and Anna to move apart, Mommy sometimes says, "Stop torturing your brother." It just never occurred to us what that might lead to.
Ben: Mommy! Anna's torturing me!
Daddy: [stifles a laugh]
Mommy: Anna, stop torturing Ben.
Anna: [loudly and emphatically] I am not torturing Ben!
Daddy: [valiant and vain attempt to keep water from spewing from nose]
Mommy: OK. Just move away.
Anna: But I have to torture somebody. And it has to be a real person!
You see, when trying to get Ben and Anna to move apart, Mommy sometimes says, "Stop torturing your brother." It just never occurred to us what that might lead to.
# posted by Scott @ 1/31/2005 09:47:00 PM 
