She's listening...a little too well.

Today in the car I was cut off and almost hit for like the third time in one day. I said out loud that people are driving crazy today. Alyssa said, "Then why don't you drive crazy too?" I told her that two wrongs don't make a right and then she asked what that means. I went on to explain what it meant. Fast forward 2 hours and the boy next door is practicing his trumpet. (We live in a half double.) I hear him often and it almost nevers bothers me. He needs to practice after all. Anyway I just learned today that Alyssa is going to have to practice playing a recorder 15 minutes a day. Can you say torture?! So the boy is practicing next door and I say jokingly to Brian, "I'll just let Alyssa practice in here because if I have to hear the trumpet they can hear the recorder."

Of course Alyssa comes in from behind me. She heard every word...of course. She then proceeds to say, "But Mommy I thought you said two wrongs don't make a right." I then tell her I was just kidding and she says, "Oh I know but that was funny."

How is it that she doesn't listen when I say clean your room or leave your brother alone but hears every not so great thing that comes out of my mouth?

The sounds from the backseat

So today in the car Alyssa and Carter were playing with a moose from Build a Bear. They were pretending the moose was a baby and they were the mom and dad. Everytime it was "daddy's" turn to hold the baby it would pee and would need a diaper change. So he would hand the baby back to "mommy" and she would change her. Eventually "mommy" got tired of letting the baby go to "daddy" because it would dirty it's diaper. So the last time I said from the front,
"I think it's the daddy's turn to change the diaper." Daddy changed very willingly. This whole conversation was beyond funny. What really got me was when Carter said he thinks the baby needs a brother and that when they got home they would get Alvin. Alvin happens to be the chipmunk he made at Build a Bear a while back. Then Carter added, "He's a good man." What? Where did he hear that one from?

These kids are so entertaining!