House Rules

The girls have been doing this funny thing for the last couple of months that I will probably forget when I'm old and senile, so I had better write it down for posterity. They like to recite the "rules" of what we're not supposed to do (partly so they can do them).

Example: Dinner Time Rules
Girls: We don't make pig noises (proceed to make pig noises)
Me: Thank you, that's right
Girls: We don't eat like dogs (they proceed to pick up their plates and lick them to show me what they're not supposed to do).
Girls: No lions at the table (loud roaring by both).

Note: We do have other rules, such as chewing with your mouth closed, no talking with your mouth full of food, and no drawing on the table with sauce or food, but I think it's more fun for them to act like animals.

We also have forbidden words that they love to recite over and over...

Lady: We don't say "poop." No, we never say "poop." We don't say "boogers," and we don't say "killing." We never say "killing" or "boogers" or "poop."
Me: Okay, Lady, that's enough. We don't say those words. Why don't we talk about words we can say.
Lady: We can say "chocolate" and "cookies" and "kisses" and "love." (these are the replacement words that I gave them to talk about a while back)
Bell: We can say "eggs" and "pasta" and "toast." (Bell came up with those on her own... too cute).