The Twinkies

An actual conversation:

Brian (calling down from upstairs): I think you should rinse your toothbrush out tonight.

Me: Um… why?

Brian: Because James had to wash out his underwear and while he was doing that your toothbrush fell in the sink.

James got into a conflict with another child at school over “bagel work”. As far as I can glean from my child, there were no more bagels so James attempted to take one from another child; the child objected and now James is claiming that child is mean. Fiona is VERY annoyed someone was mean to her brother, so much so she marched up to the offender on the playground and yelled at him. Then, the following day in the car she asked if the, err, miscreant had been nice to James that day. “Yes, sister. He’s a nice boy now.” was the response.

Then, today, James asked her to go yell at the kid again.

Don’t mess with James. He’ll have Fiona beat you up.

James just threw a fit because he wanted juice. Why was this an issue? Because he had already received a smoothie. AND, while I was making the smoothie he asked for a glass of milk. I informed him that he had to drink at least one of the drinks he already had before he could have another. So after much wailing and complaining he drank the milk, handed me the cup and asked for juice. Which I gave to him.

At which point he said, “I’m not thirsty any more.”

James may have strep. He was exposed at school and now he has a low fever and won’t eat. I’m taking him in for a swab tomorrow. Maybe I can sneak in a flu vax while I’m there.

Why is there pee in the bathtub?