"Mother seems really happy today..."

         "I wonder if I should tell her I'm cooking Play Doh in the crock pot..."

 

"My homework assignment is to write a brief description of the moon.  Easy!"

                                               "Very bad case of acne!" 

 

                            "Wow, I sure do have a lot of airplanes!"

 "I think I'll launch them all out the window at once... Yeah, that'll be fun!"

         "Uh-oh...  I'd better do something very very good, real real fast!"

             "Oh, hello Mother!  How about a nice big bowl of broccoli?"

 

"Oh, NO.  It's my turn to wash the dishes again.  How can one family manage to generate so many dirty dishes???"

 "Mother wants to know how one little boy can manage to play with so many toys..."

                                         "I think I lost this round."

 

                          "I was gonna try to make some extra money..."

                     "But maybe I need to re-think my marketing strategy..."

 

             "But how did she know it was me?  I wiped off all my fingerprints!"

 

"I probably shouldn't have doodled in all the squares on Father's flow chart from work. Maybe I'd better--"

                                                      "--hide."

                "They never seem to learn not to tempt me with stuff like that."

 
 

                     "He's waiting for my pancake to drop off the ceiling..."

 

"Homework assignment: Translate Cicero's oration against Catiline from the original Latin."

                     "Oh, wait!  It's a joke!  It's just a joke from my teacher!"

                                     "Not funny...  Not funny...  Not funny..."


 

                    "Oh no!  A letter from the school truant officer!"

 "Heh, I've written on the envelope: RETURN TO SENDER, NO SUCH DOLLHOUSE.  That'll show 'em!"

                       "Now I just have to sneak back inside undetected..."

 

"I wonder if I should tell Mother that the babies swallowed all the loose change they found in the sofa..."

 "Grown-ups just don't understand how much fun it is to watch something like that!"

 

"Oh no...  Mrs. Rasmussen is here with another cheesecake.  We all hate cheesecake."

 "Poor Mother.  She feels she has to choke down a slice just to be polite..."

                       "What's wrong with screaming and throwing it on the floor?"

 

                     "Well, isn't anybody gonna ask me about my day?"

 

"Mother is writing to Fisher-Price because she wants a dishwasher in her next dollhouse. I wonder what I should ask for..."

                                           "Definitely a bigger bedroom."

 

                       "It's raining, so I'm holding an umbrella over my sister."

 "And now I'm soaking wet!  I can't go to school soaking wet, can I?  Oh, this is perfect!  I'll just--"

 

"I love the attic! Mother won this award for horse-back riding when she was my age and Father won this gold-plated baseball glove!"

 "Hey, I wonder if they ever won any awards for me!  I'm gonna go downstairs and ask..."

"On the other hand, it might be better just to stumble into them someday and be wonderfully surprised..."

 

            "Wow!  Look at all this stuff Mother baked for the church bake sale!"

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

                                "I guess she's not taking any chances!" 

 

 "Math problems assignment: One bottle of ketchup is two thirds full and another bottle is three quarters full.  How much--  Hey, I'm getting an idea!"

"Well, how about that?  I just happened to spill ketchup all over my homework. What a terrible shame.  And now I'm off to spend some quality time with the TV--"

                                                    "Well, darn."