The things children say...

Evan and Reece at the dining room table

It was a typical supper setting – Andy, the eldest, was jabbering away about something as usual, Sue was cutting Evan’s food and listening to something he was saying, Kim and I were chatting about something mundane, when Andy stopped abruptly and said, “Mommy, you weren’t listening to my story!”

“Yes, I was,” she said. “I can do more than one thing at a time.”

“Yes, she’s got three ears!” responded Reece in his matter-of-fact way.

And apparently Sue, like any archetypal mom, has more of these bizarre anatomical features. She used to tell Andy when he was little, and being naughty, that she had eyes in the back of her head. One day he was playing and shouted out excitedly, “Look at me, mommy, look at me.” At the last minute she looked away. “You weren’t looking! ... or were you using your back eyes?” he asked innocently.

Apparently the boys have got into their heads that all girls wear glasses:  “Auntie Anri wears glasses, and mommy has some too...” Reece once again had his two-cents worth: “And uncle Rob ... He likes to wear women’s clothes, so he should have just been a girl...”

Well, thanks for that observation, Reece, but I'm quite happy as a man...