Overheard Recently
While the Things were playing Barbies:
Well, you’ve made some bad choices, and now we have a problem…
Thing Two to Andrei in the car as we were driving to get Thing One from school:
Noooo, that’s not an angel (referring to sticker in car window). That’s Baby Paul. He was born, and he had some things wrong with his brain, and he died in the hospital.
More from Thing Two:
Mom, is Jenna my sister?
No, honey; she’s a dog!
Yeah, but you’re her mom, so that makes her my sister.
Mom, can twins be different, like one tall and one short?
Sure, honey. There are different kinds of twins. When it’s one egg that becomes two babies, that’s called identical twins, and they’re the same. When there’s two eggs, that’s called fraternal twins, and they can be different — like Baby Cousins.
You mean like how one has big ears, and one has a big head?
It really bothers me and has ever since I’ve been reading your blog, that you call your kids, things.
If they don’t want their names on your blog, how about kid 1 and kid 2.
Children are not Things.
Actually it’s the sameone who has the big ears and the big head
Poor baby Michael:)
I think calling your girls “Thing 1″ and “Thing 2″ is adorable. They are nicknames like any other (sugar, honey, ect…, these are things as well) I see nothing wrong with the names. I think that some people just have to much time on their hands!
I, too, think your girls’ nicknames are cute! It’s a reference to The Cat in the Hat’s Thing 1 and Thing 2, right?