overheard at our house

I haven't felt well all day. Not really sick, but headachy and yucky all day. And likely because of this I was particularly perturbed by Luke's habit of not returning Wii games to their cases. I declared there would be no further Wii play AT ALL until all games were returned to their appropriate cases. We had one box we could not find the disk for and I was insisting Luke actually look for it, rather than just stand there and pretend he's looking and declaring he can't find it.

I said, "You need to find ________." (I'm not being secretive about the games we own. I just cannot remember which one was missing.)

He said, "Oh Mom, do you think what happened?"

Me--"What?"

Him--"I think someone took it."

Me--"Really?!" (We'd had cousins at our house last night. He could have loaned it to them. And it wouldn't surprise me if he loaned it sans box.)

Him--"Yes, Mom the police came to our house and they TOOK it!"

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So remember I'm not feeling well so I let Luke watch a few game shows this afternoon. Deal or No Deal had a green theme or something. I was drowsily watching with him and Luke said, "Hey Mom, is Paris coming on?"

"Who?" I said.

"Paris, that green frog."

Yeah, he meant Kermit, whom we saw in the previews. I corrected him and he thought his mistake was so funny. Laughing at yourself is a pretty important skill.