"Mother has a new hat!  We think it looks very nice."

                                         "Hee hee!  GM wants to try it on!"

                                       "Oh no!  He won't give it back!"

"Poor Mother...  She had to spend hours baking giant pastries before she could get her hat back."

                  "But isn't it nice when problems can be so easily solved?"

           "Wow, look at all this stuff Mother made for the school bake sale!"

                      "She'll never notice if I have just one tiny piece..."

                                                "She did notice."

                                          "Dinner smells so good..."

                                              "Now if I could just get to it..."

   "My parents are letting me sleep in the back yard tonight.    I'm not scared. I just have to resist peeking outside every few minutes..."

                           "After all, what could possibly be out there?"

           "I'm sorry, Mother-- I really didn't mean for the ketchup to do that."

 

                 "The school always sends our artwork home with us..."

                                       "...so we can thrill our mothers."

            "I get awfully bored on social calls. So I usually check out the fridge."

                         "Hmm...  They must have known I was coming."

                                "I get along pretty well with my sister."

                                      "We share a similar lifestyle."

                         "The cute little girl from next door is here to play with my sister.  I am sooooo in love..."

                  "I wish she'd look at me.  I wish she'd say something to me."

 "Deena sure does have a lot of toys.  You can hardly move in here. I wonder if the cute little girl from next door would like to play in my room?"

                                     "Well, really, what was I thinking?"

"I'm having a paper plane party with my friends! Know what's so good about this kind of party...?"

                                        "No dishes to wash later!"

                      "Yes, I am learning to juggle...  How could you tell?"

                        "My teacher gave me this neat homework guide!"

                           "It says: 'Work in a distraction-free environment'."

                                                 "Hey, no problem!"

                                           "Mother says it's time to turn
                                   off the tv and go to bed."

                             "I know I have a bed in here somewhere..."

                                                        "Oh yuk-- mushy stuff!"

                                 "Oh, no!  Look at all this broccoli!"

                                 "No dinner for me tonight, thanks."

                              "There.  I've locked myself in my room."

                          "They can't make me come to dinner now!"

           "Look at all this food!  Mother must be expecting company..."

                                     "Uh-oh...  GM was hungry."

                         "Don't worry, Mother--  I can get the plates back."

               "She didn't want them back!  You know, I think she's sulking."

                 "I'm only allowed to have one glass of orange soda a day."

                                "Mother says it makes me hyper..."

                                   "I wonder why she thinks that!"

"The hands were here and they left a big mess. Maybe I should check to see if my room is okay."

                                      "Oh good.  Exactly the way I left it."

"Mother wants Father to mow the back lawn.  Father says it's silly because the grass is really just a huge green bed sheet from the world of the hands. Mother wants it mowed anyway."

"But when she isn't looking, Father uses the iron."
 

                           "Mother says I'm a very spoiled little boy!"

                                    "I think that's a bit harsh, don't you?"