"I wonder what Mother does all day while the rest of us languish at our desks...  I'm gonna sneak back inside for a quick peek before the bus gets here..."

                                                   "I knew it."

"I will not eat this stupid oatmeal...  Hmm--babies eat oatmeal.  Hey, maybe I can feed it to them!"

                                   "I'll just sneak quietly up the back stairs..."

"There's a baby beauty contest in the paper today!  Maybe we should enter one of ours!"

                                                       "But which one?"

                      "Is it just me, or do all babies look exactly alike???"

"The tooth fairy came to my room last night but I didn't have anything for her.  She said she was just checking because she hadn't made her quota..."

 "Then I got a great idea!  If the tooth fairy came back again and found a GIANT tooth, maybe she'd leave me a whole LOT of money!"

"I went to the big playroom for some play clay, and I made a great big huge giant tooth!"

                          "But all she left me was a giant toothbrush.  No fair..."


 

"Well here I am, home again.  And now somebody's gonna ask me 'how was school.'  What a stupid question!  Really, parents need to find out what it's like being asked a stupid question like that..."

                                      "Hello, Mother.  How was the ironing?"

"I'm sorry, Father-- I should have told you it was only mud with hot water..."
 

"Ah, the cute little girl from next door is down there!  I'm gonna impress her by throwing this giant beach ball off the roof to see how high it bounces--"

                             "I suppose it would help to let go of it first..."

        "Mother likes a clean house! She's very proud of her housekeeping..."

                   "I keep telling her about all the spider webs in the attic..."

                 "But for some reason she never wants to come up here."

 

           "This must be why they don't want me roller-skating in the house..."

  

"Oh, no... A bunch of my toys just fell over the edge.  I was supposed to have cleaned my room yesterday..."

                                                    "Stupid toys." 

                                      

                                       "I will not eat this stupid oatmeal..."

                          "I'm sorry, Mother--  I dropped it by mistake."

                                          "She didn't believe me!"

        "Oops! I fell out of bed! Now my parents will rush in to comfort me..."

                   "Oka-a-y...  Hmmph!  No breakfast in bed for you guys!"

           "And I was going to serve Sugar Pops with marshmallow fluff!"

          "Clean my room?  AGAIN???  But that could take the rest of my life!"

               "Great.  She says I can have a potty break when I turn 25."

         "No, Father-- I don't know what happened to the assembly instructions."

                            "Oh, I found them, Father!  I found them!"

                                             "They were in my room..."

                                        "I thought he'd be happy..."

                 "My teacher says to do page 6 of my phonics workbook."

                                    "She just doesn't say what to do..."

"Mother's Day is coming up, so I'm being especially helpful this week.  Today I'm gonna clean the bathroom!"

                                                     "Uh-oh..."

                                                    "YIKES!!!"

                             "Next year, I'm just gonna buy flowers..."