Conversation with Melly

Melly: Mommy, where's daddy?

Wendi: Daddy's taking a shower.

Melly: He's sitting down washing his body?

Wendi: Yep

Melly: He can't sit down, he'll break the tub. (now with fear in her voice) He can't sit down, he'll break the tub.

Wendi: Okay Melly, he won't sit down.

Melly: He can't sit down, he'll break the tub, his bum is big.

After that Wendi was laughing too hard to continue the conversation.

Bonus - One of our family traditions is that my mom makes all kinds of gross food items for Halloween. I have a pretty strong stomach and there are always a few items I can't gag down. Not that the food is bad, but it's amazing how hard it is to stomach a meatball when it's shaped like a cat turd and served in kitty litter. This year in addition to the cat turds there were severed fingers, dirty bath water, and worms in dirt. But not the harmless gummy worms in oreo cookie crumbs. These worms looked real. I wondered for a bit if she hit the bait fridge at the sporting goods store after grocery shopping. I have no idea how she made them and she never divulges her secrets. But of everything on the table, no one even touched the worms, they were that gross.

I don't know what happened to prompt the following comment from Melly but I assume my brother Scott tried to feed a worm to Alex.

What makes this comment funny is that she didn't say it when the event happened, we were on the way home and this popped out of the blue.

"No, no, no, giving Alex worms Scott!" Repeated multiple times with "That's gross" interjected now and then.