My husband took the four older kids skiing yesterday, and I promised Angela a trip to an indoor playground as a consolation prize.
It really is a cool indoor playground—two stories high with three very fast slides and an assortment of long plastic tubes to crawl through.
Eventually Angela came over to ask, as she always does, if she could take off her socks for better traction.
I told her no, it was against the rules.
Disappointed but resigned, she ran off to play…but then stopped in her tracks and turned back to me with a mischievous glint in her bright blue eyes. Leaning her face closelikethis to my ear, she whispered, “You ran a red light yesterday. Why can’t I take my socks off?”
This is the kind of kid you’ll want to watch yourself around.
Your actions can—and will—be used against you.
(For the record, it was a red arrow.)
(The reason I ran it? We were late for church.)
HA! Love that girl!
Yes, you'd definitely need to watch yourself around her. So far, meither of my two have tried anything like that. Although, my boy has started asking us if we 'lied' earlier. (Say, when we told him MAYBE we would do a certain thing later and didn't)And he says it with such authority that I forget who the parent is: "Did YOU tell me a LIE when you said….", followed by "you PROMISED".
As for the red light, totally allowable since you were on your way to CHURCH, afterall! 🙂
I got stopped for speeding in the way to Mass early one Sunday morning. When he found out we were headed to church he let me off. So, yeah, OK on your way to church 🙂
The have great memories when they want to, don't they?
its funny – i pretty much ONLY speed when we're late to church, which, uh yea…. is most days.
sigh.
i have a bad feeling mine is going to be like this too! 🙂
Too funny. Were you able to keep a mom face, or did you just burst out with laughter? Oh, how boring our days would be without these little people around.
Angela always has the most interesting things to say!
One time my fiance and I were running late for church so he was speeding a bit. A cop followed us into the Church parking lot and then after he parked proceeded to turn on his lights! Even after it was apparent that we were going to Church he still wanted to give a ticket. My fiance told him to leave it in the car and lock the door after.
Needless to say I don't think that cop was Christian..
ouch!!!
Tell her that you don't get foot fungus from speeding.
And in Ohio, if a cop pulls you over and you're on the way to church, he can't ticket you. True!
My kids used to ask to play barefoot too until my oldest came up with the idea of wearing their "grippy socks." You know the kind of slipper socks or thick socks with plastic grips on the feet for traction. They work great for climbing slides and usually are colored so don't look as nasty as the white ones do after an hour of climbing around those tubes.
Now that's a smart little girl.
Too funny. LOL.
LOL!! Why do they always catch those time you run a red light?