Odd things happen in my household when there’s a two-hour school delay. Like yesterday:
Mark (coming back in after playing in the snow): “Ow! Ow! Oowwwww!”
Me: “What’s wrong?”
Mark: “I hurt my heel.”
Me: “What did you do?”
Mark: “I jumped off the climber.”
Me: “Why did you jump off the climber?”
Mark: “Because I wanted to see if jumping from so high up would hurt me.”
Me (trying to hold in the laughter): “Pfft!”
Kate (scornfully): “Scientists don’t experiment on THEMSELVES, doofus. Don’t you remember Mythbusters? I think we should build a crash-test dummy.”
Which is how they came to spend the next half-hour brainstorming HOW they could build a crash-test dummy (“Could we use turkey drumsticks for the bones?”) over muffins and hot chocolate.
