Hide and Seek

We were playing hide and seek. D and I (with T) had already had our turns to hide; now it was K's turn.
K: I'll hide, and you count to 100.
Me: That's a long time to count.
K: OK, how about 80.
Me: Why don't you hide, and just say "Come find me!" when you're ready.
K: No, you'll hear my voice and you'll know where I am.
Me: Good point. OK, how about if we count to 40. You counted to 40 when D and I were hiding.
K: But I won't have enough time.
Me: We'll count slowly.
K: OK, but count really slowly, as slow as the slowest animal in the world.
Me: What is the slowest animal in the world?
D: A pygmy marmoset.
Me: Really? A pygmy marmoset?
D: Yes, a pygmy marmoset.
Me: OK, we'll count now, and you go and hide.
K left the den and went upstairs. D and I started counting to 40. Really slowly.
After we got to about 20, we heard K yelling something from upstairs, but we couldn't hear what he was saying, so we went into the living room.
K: I can't find a good hiding place!
D ran upstairs.
D: Should I help you? I know a good place!
K: OK- but will you find me?
D: No.
D came downstairs.
D: K isn't hiding in the bathroom, so don't look in there.

Now it's out of the bag

D wanted to make tea, so I gave him the basket of tea bags and told him to choose the kind he wanted. He picked up a box of Celestial Seasons tea and took out a bag. "What is this?" he asked.
"It's a tea bag," I answered. I realized that he probably didn't recognize it as a tea bag, because he's used to seeing me make tea with Lipton tea bags, that have a string and a tag, but the Celestial Seasons tea bags don't have them.
"It's a little bag that holds the tea," I continued. "The tea leaves are inside."
I turned my back to get the hot water, and when I turned around again, D had torn open the bag and was pouring the tea leaves into the cup.
Hey, it makes perfect sense--that's how we use everything else that comes in a bag!

Real chicken

We were eating chicken, and D announced, "One time I ate a real chicken."
"A real chicken?" I asked.
"Yes," he nodded. "It wasn't dead."
Trying not to laugh, or choke in the process, I asked him, "Where were you when you did this?"
"In Illinois," he answered.
He then went on to describe how the chicken was running around in the store, and he chased it, and caught it, and ate it!

Evil Twins

K & D were watching a Caillou DVD. Caillou has the flu and can't go to school, but he tells his mother that he wants to go anyway because he doesn't want to miss the puppet show.
Caillou's mother says, "But if you go to school when you have the flu, your friends will get sick, too. You don't want that, do you?"
Caillou says, "No." But D turned to K and said, "We do, right?"
K nodded and said, "Right!"
(Two evil little grins.)