#367/ #48
Feeding time in the Rockstar household, I walk by to utter silence. No background tv noise, and the two kids strangely quiet. I raise my eyebrows, and sure enough:
Rockstar: I switched off the tv because every time I went “Are you eating, are you eating,” she <indicating the Miss> went “Yes Ko-ko, I am eating, I am eating,” – and – she was only licking the spoon.
Me: <Glancing over at the Miss who then obviously set her spoon down and completely stopped feeding herself, still a very bland reaction by her standards> He’s worse than me, isn’t he?
(Miss nods seriously)
Me: (To Rockstar) You’re the worst kind of tiger brother <Rockstar stares back at me with no remorse>. (More quietly) And I’m surprised she hasn’t thrown anything at you ye-
(Rockstar shushes me loudly)
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I walk by to Rockstar’s Youtube videos blaring at absolutely top volume, while the Miss is hammering on her toy piano…
Me: (To both of them) Lemme guess. Volume competition?
Rockstar: Yeah d-uh.
Miss: <reproachfully> Mummy. Be. Quiet. I’m playing the piano.
He did agree to paint the fingernails on her right hand, though…
Miss Rockstar must have been shocked by Ko Ko switching off the TV until she was speechless.
Haha possibly; cos when they suddenly get quiet is when I especially rush over to see what’s keeping them quiet… When Rockstar was a toddler it was a roll of toilet paper the helper had left too near his cot… He stopped putting stuff in his mouth quite fast, it was more there was more the trail of toilet paper everywhere…