Please, sir, I want some more.

The other day the kids were a complete, utter pain in the fucking ass for the better part of the morning. By noon Mojo had just about had it as they were loading up the car to go home from downtown.At which point Missy decided she had had just about enough, too.Missy: "I wish I was an ORPHAN so you couldn't tell me what to do!"
Mojo: "Fine. You can stay here, then. Somebody should come along in a while and maybe they'll take you home with them." (Missy's eyes go wide) "So, Peep, do YOU want to be an orphan, too?"
Peep: Naw. The food sucks."For once, I was wise enough to say absolutely nothing.

Watch. And learn.

Princess Missy has begun to do a funny thing.

She will pause a moment in her play, or look up from her reading, and catch your eye.And then she will start doing something and will check to see if you're looking, and say carefully;

"Watch, and learn."I have absolutely no idea where this came from.

Your Kung Fu is not fattening.

Speaking of China, the kiddos were watching "Kung Fu Panda" again last night, and I was reminded that this:

may possibly be one of the classic bits of movie business right up there with Chaplin's Dance of the Bread Rolls, Groucho's mirror scene in "Duck Soup", and Debra Messing's delivery room scene in "The Women" remake.

Nothing serious about it. Enjoy.

(Although, having stumbled across the 2008 "The Women" I should really do a post about it and the original, which is perhaps one of the most delightfully awful Thirties movies of all time. Come to think of it, I will. But that's for later...)