Oh The Things Kids Say

I phoned my brother the other day.  His 8 year old daughter answered the phone.  We chatted for 23 minutes.  I have no idea where my brother was, I never talked to him.  I do know where my sister-in-law was.  Oh the tales a talkative kid can tell.

To be fair, I did ask about her first trip to Disneyland.  Her favorite thing was Space Mountain, no Thunder Mountain was more fun.  TinkerBell has a secret home and a secret friend.  Leah also told me that getting her ears pierced didn't hurt, but Tara cried.  Nobody noticed her pretty pink earrings but Gramma.  Tara was banned from the computer because she didn't clean up her messes, but she got to use the computer today.  Only Tara didn't really clean up, she just sat in her room coloring in her color book.

I could hear Tara in the background during most of the conversation, but not her daddy.  Leah's daddy was taking them swimming, even though the water might be cold.  That was when she told me her mommy wasn't home.  And the reason she wasn't home?  Because her daddy cheated on her mommy.

I about died laughing.  If I didn't have 5 kids, who'd also been little once, I might have been shocked.  But I knew there was a logical reason for her to say this.  I knew her daddy hadn't actually "cheated" on her mommy.  I know my brother better than that. 

I probably shouldn't have, but I couldn't help but mention it to my sister-in-law when I talked to her the next day.  I'm not sure she found it as funny as I did.

I sometimes wonder what secret things Ethan would say if he could.