The kids (sans David) & i recently went to a local Single-A baseball game (Winston-Salem Warthogs) for a family fun pack night, where you get 4 tickets, 4 hot dogs, 4 drinks, and 4 carousel rides for $20. It's a great deal.
Anyhow, as we were walking out of the stadium to go home, Caroline was finishing up some ice cream. You know, the kind that comes in a little upside-down baseball helmet. I knew that she had already had cotton candy, too, but didn't use her hot dog coupon for any real dinner. So i started on a short daddy lecture -- "so you didn't have any dinner, got cotton candy, and then got ice cream. That's not very smart."
Emily then piped in. "No, that's not smart... it's genius!"
Today, she riffed off that line, knowing that she gets laughter and mileage off it. I was telling the kids that I was instituting a new house policy, that if i told them to put something up, and they failed to do so, that i would take it and dispose of it in some manner (up to and including trashing it). Emily bantered back (not sassy, she does this to be engagingly funny) that she didn't like that rule. I explained that at least they get a chance; it wasn't like i was just going to nab anything i saw laying around. I would give them one chance to take care of it first. Emily wanted to know if they could get TWO chances. I said, "no, why would you need to be told twice? Do you have two brains?" Only a beat later, Emily told me that she does indeed have two brains -- one for the smarts stuff, and another for her funny, genius stuff.
How do you argue with that?
