yeah, no kidding

Scene: Lots of crying.

ALEPH: Pick me up!

BET: Pick me up!

ALEPH: Pick me up!

BET: Pick me up!

EEMA: I can't pick both of you up.

ALEPH: Well I think you should pick ONE of me up!

snapshot: this time last year

Visiting cousins, and the boys are blessedly both occupied at the same time by something other than me. I announce to the adults, sotto voce, "I'm going to just... walk down the hall or something, and be without babies for a few minutes."

Leaving the room, I hear chuckles behind me. I turn to see both boys have risen, like ducklings on a string, from whatever they were doing and are trailing me out of the room.

criblog (tales from the monitor)

Let's start with my favorite. Overheard one morning:

ALEPH [singing]: -we all live in a green submarine-
-a green submarine-

BET: how 'bout cows?

ALEPH: no! i am singing green submarine.

BET: how 'bout yellow?

ALEPH: no! i am singing green submarine.

BET: how 'bout yellow?

ALEPH: i am singing green submarine first, and THEN i will sing yellow submarine.
-we all live in a green submarine-

BET: i'm gonna sing cows.
-cows-

ALEPH: -a green submarine-

BET: -we're remarkable cows-

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