Snippets

[nanila]

Humuhumu, the bloke and I are at the table, finishing off breakfast. Humuhumu slips off to the sitting room. Suspicious noises are heard.

Me: "Baby, what are you doing?"
More noises
Bloke: "Pops, on a scale of one to ten, how naughty are you being?"
Brief silence
Humuhumu: "Six!"

~*~

Phone conversation, early morning of the second of my work days in London.

Me: "Oh, you're off early!"
Bloke: "Of course. We run a tighter ship when the Mama is away."
Me: "Oh really. What did you two have for breakfast this morning?"
Bloke: "....crumpets and mince pies."

Comments

[pulchritude]

So what was Humuhumu doing in snippet #1? :p

[nanila]

Drawing on her hand with her pens instead of on the big piece of paper laid out on the table in front of her.

I reckon her evaluation of her naughtiness level was spot-on in that case!

[sfred]

That's quite impressive!

[liv]

I am really quite impressed that the manipulation that works on adults: ask them to rate their situation on a scale rather than asking a more direct question gets you more honest answers, also works on a toddler.

[cosmolinguist]

I hope having learned that she can accurately evaluate her naughtiness level, you guys keep asking her in future to rate it on a scale of one to ten. :)

[nanila]

Yes, I think it's a winning strategy.

[happydork]

Six! *utterly charmed*

[nanila]

We'll continue with the strategy, although I'm slightly worried about the part where we discover what she thinks is a ten...

[highlyeccentric]

Relevant post is relevant to your situation vis-a-vis pregnancy, teaching, research.

[nanila]

Yep, lots of that resonated, thank you! I often manage to forget I'm pregnant, particularly when wrestling with a thorny technical problem. My body always reminds me at the end of the day, especially when 9 PM is approaching and I'm not in bed.

[rmc28]

That seems like an excellent breakfast to me :-)

[nanila]

I was half-tempted to serve it today, but went with standard porridge-and-blueberries. Both of them yummed it up, so I guess it can't be that bad!

[major_clanger]

I am really impressed by her foresight in allowing herself some headroom for further increased and unspecified naughtiness.

[nanila]

I'm worried about discovering what she considers to be worth a ranking of ten. O.O

[major_clanger]

You want to be really worried when she goes all Spın̈al Tap on you and declares that her naughtiness scale goes up to 11.

[forthwritten]

Imagine if this scale is logarithmic...

[soliano]

Kid's and Blokes are marvelous creatures.

[nanila]

They are rather good. I'm glad I have a couple of them around.

[kerrypolka]

♥♥♥♥♥♥♥

[nanila]

:D :D :D <3333

[redsixwing]

*lol* The best, the very best.

[nanila]

I almost served crumpets and mince pies for breakfast today, but went for porridge and blueberries (standard) instead. Perhaps tomorrow. It is Friday.

[caulkhead]

This sounds like a winning Saturday breakfast strategy to me. Think I'll stop for crumpets on the way home.

[forthwritten]

Imagine if H and Humuhumu ever met...

[nanila]

I have the peculiar feeling they'd understand one another perfectly.

[forthwritten]

H's response was "AHAHAHA I like this person"

We should be worried.

[lurkingcat]

Oh Humuhumu,that's rather brilliant :)

*looks shifty*
Some of us may have had ginger cake for breakfast this morning so I can't really fault Bloke on his breakfast making decisions...

[nanila]

Ooh, that sounds good too. I'm going to be making pumpkin and pecan pies tonight. Perhaps we will have some of that for breakfast tomorrow.

[sunflowerinrain]

Giggled lots!

[nanila]

I'm glad. Me too (still smiling when I return to this post).

[askygoneonfire]

I actually laughed out loud at the second one.

Thank you for sharing these snapshots of your life - I so enjoy them.

[nanila]

This morning we all had crumpets for breakfast. Humuhumu complained loudly ("Don't want it!" "It's not for you!" "Don't WANT IT!") when I put speculoos (Gingerbread spread; texture is like smooth peanut butter) instead of Nutella on one of the crumpets. Then she stole it off my plate when we got to the table and ate the whole thing.

Feeling a bit hard done by now...

[lark_ascends]

*giggles madly*

[nanila]

:D She was very cute this morning, serving up muesli for all of us.

[emelbe]

SIX!

I love it.

[nanila]

I got a tearful "Four" today when she cried at having the phone taken away from her.

[emelbe]

Oh man. That got me right on my AWWWW button.