I kind of think I might have...

Okay I know some of my blogs about the girls make those of you reading laugh, but this is one of my favorites... I have a hard time repeating it w/ out laughing, in fact I'm certain I've not repeated the story w/out bursting out laughing! So here goes:-)

Grace & Eva are in the bathtub, I'm busy getting their items for Brenda's ready, when Grace says, "Eva scratched me", "Eva pinched me", "Eva bit me". I'm in between telling Eva, "No Eva, that's not nice", obviously it's not working - so by the last "attack", I'm like, "Gracie I don't know what to do, do you want to get out?" Of course not. So they go back to playing, and I to packing.

I'm washing Eva when I see some scratches on her back, and two circular marks... that look odd to me. So I ask Grace, "Did you bite Eva?" Grace says, "No, she scratched her back here - pointing to the back wall of the tub". So I'm like okay, but I can't let it go... the circle marks have little dashed lines in them... something seems off. So I ask again - same answer. I even told Grace, "Gracie, you're not in trouble, Mommy just wants to know what happened." Apparently I wasn't very convincing b/c she still stuck to her story.

Finally, following my gut - I told Grace, "You know you might be able to get by w/ lying to Mommy but Santa will know if you're lying." This must have really gotten her b/c she looked like she was really thinking, and then sweetly said, "Hmmm.... Now that I think about it.... I think I kind of maybe might have bitten her... (then she follows it up w/) only when I was being a mean dog."

Oh gosh, even writing it makes me laugh - "I kind of think I might have" - some serious commitment there. And as I told her, she didn't get in trouble - Eva if someday you are reading this - please know, you never cried, so it must not have phased you too much! Plus at the rate you pinch/bite/scratch Grace she probably owed you one;-)