I got upstairs to check on the toothbrushing progress prior to bed and the lass is screaming at her brother. When she settles down, she explains that her brother “got soap on her toothbrush.”
Flummoxed by the oddity of the statement, I asked her to explain. She said the boy had put soap in her toothpaste tube. She pointed to the soap squirt bottle behind the sink.
And it was all I could do not to laugh right then and there.
I quickly walked out the door and went to his room where the boy was laughing with glee and nervousness. Part of him clearly wasn’t sure about the price he would have to pay.
But I really only had one question for him: Where did he come up with the idea?
The first time I asked him, I got an “I don’t know” answer. Then he noticed the smirk on my face and he exclaimed “You’re laughing!!” I asked him again and he gave up the goods. He saw it in the “Home Alone 2” movie.
When I finally got downstairs, I told the Wife. I wasn’t the only one laughing anymore.