Eavesdropping.
I'm working in the bedroom. Chris is getting ready to brush the kids' teeth.
(SOUND OF REESE RUNNING DOWN HALLWAY): Owww. Owweee!!!!!!
CHRIS: What's wrong?
(NO ANSWER)
CHRIS: OK, I'm looking for a girl who went to a birthday party today...
REESE: Me! Wait! I need to pee really bad...
CHRIS (SINGING WITH VIGOR, CLAPPING): Here we go lubby loo, here we go lubby loo all on a Saturday..
REESE: Finn turn that water off!
CHRIS (SINGING): ...all on a Saturday night!
MORE CLAPPING AND WATER RUNNING FOLLOWED BY HORRIBLE DROPPING SOUND.
REESE SCREAMING LIKE SHE'S LOST A LIMB.
REESE: FINNNNNNNNNNNNN!!!! You made me all wet because of you!!
CHRIS (CALMLY) Reese, you're not that wet.
REESE: Yes I am! Just because of you FINNNNNNNNNNNNNNN!
UNDER HER BREATH BUT NOT REALLY: Finn is so mean!
CHRIS: Finn, what do say to your sister?
FINN (REMORSEFULLY): Sorree. THEN SPRIGHTLY: It happens!
EXPLOSION OF LAUGHTER FROM ALL THREE OF THEM.
FINN (SENSING A WINNER): It happens! It happens. Sorry Reese it happens!! (NOW DELIVERS THE LINE IN LOW TONES, HIGH TONES AND SINGING TONES, LOOKING FOR THE BIGGEST LAUGH)
LAUGHTER.
REESE: Finn, you're hilarious.
I have to write this down so on the days Finn says to Reese, "no look at Finn" and Reese says "mom, finn says I can't look at him" and I want to poke my own eye out with a ball point pen from the frustration of it all, from raising two "spirited" children, I will read this and thank heaven for them and the chaos they have transformed my life into, for the laughter, for the love of it all.
(SOUND OF REESE RUNNING DOWN HALLWAY): Owww. Owweee!!!!!!
CHRIS: What's wrong?
(NO ANSWER)
CHRIS: OK, I'm looking for a girl who went to a birthday party today...
REESE: Me! Wait! I need to pee really bad...
CHRIS (SINGING WITH VIGOR, CLAPPING): Here we go lubby loo, here we go lubby loo all on a Saturday..
REESE: Finn turn that water off!
CHRIS (SINGING): ...all on a Saturday night!
MORE CLAPPING AND WATER RUNNING FOLLOWED BY HORRIBLE DROPPING SOUND.
REESE SCREAMING LIKE SHE'S LOST A LIMB.
REESE: FINNNNNNNNNNNNN!!!! You made me all wet because of you!!
CHRIS (CALMLY) Reese, you're not that wet.
REESE: Yes I am! Just because of you FINNNNNNNNNNNNNNN!
UNDER HER BREATH BUT NOT REALLY: Finn is so mean!
CHRIS: Finn, what do say to your sister?
FINN (REMORSEFULLY): Sorree. THEN SPRIGHTLY: It happens!
EXPLOSION OF LAUGHTER FROM ALL THREE OF THEM.
FINN (SENSING A WINNER): It happens! It happens. Sorry Reese it happens!! (NOW DELIVERS THE LINE IN LOW TONES, HIGH TONES AND SINGING TONES, LOOKING FOR THE BIGGEST LAUGH)
LAUGHTER.
REESE: Finn, you're hilarious.
I have to write this down so on the days Finn says to Reese, "no look at Finn" and Reese says "mom, finn says I can't look at him" and I want to poke my own eye out with a ball point pen from the frustration of it all, from raising two "spirited" children, I will read this and thank heaven for them and the chaos they have transformed my life into, for the laughter, for the love of it all.
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