Me, myself and I

We gather for dinner at the end of a long day.

“Whatever would we do without your multitasking mum,” he asks rhetorically. The average child isn’t the least interested in the doings of a stay at home parent. It is entirely debatable, whether anyone is, interested that is to say. Most probably, those most directly affected are also the least interested. Those people would be all of the other people also in the same home.
“I am being.”
“What are you being dear?”
“I am being 2.”
“Two what dear?”
“Fings.”
“What things are you being dear?” Somehow that still didn't come out quite right? I must be more tired than I thought?
“I am being dah multi.”
“Multi what dear?”
“Dah multitask.”
“Really. What tasks are you doing?”
“I am dah eatin…… [it's sort of eating, but not much is going down]
and I am dah sittin ……. [well, he's half on the chair, let's give the fellow the benefit of the doubt]
and ……I am dah sleeping…… [heavy eye lids]
which is being dah 3 fings…..not dah 2 fings.” His head drops like a rock to the table, mouth open, crumbs falling, fast asleep. There's not so much as a flicker of an eyelash but I suspect that his brain is still whirring.

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Posted on September 21st, 2007.
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10 Comments

  1. kristina:
    September 21st, 2007 at 11:28 pm

    Would that be 4 things, then?

  2. gettingthere:
    September 21st, 2007 at 11:38 pm

    Wow! Did he really, really fall asleep that quickly or was he only pretending? Send some of that my way, please. Long days seem to lead to even longer nights around here. Have a good week-end.

  3. Angharad:
    September 22nd, 2007 at 12:36 am

    love it! my stepmum was a psychiatrist before she retired. she had a patient who used to sit for long periods of time. when asked what she was doing she would answer, “i’m growing my hair.”

  4. Casdok:
    September 22nd, 2007 at 5:05 am

    ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!

  5. Leanne:
    September 22nd, 2007 at 6:36 am

    Precious, precious child.

  6. A Bishops Wife:
    September 22nd, 2007 at 9:03 am

    This is wonderful–as usual.
    I saw your post on “the daily green”.
    Wonderful.

  7. Mary-LUE:
    September 22nd, 2007 at 9:17 am

    Hey Ms. Maddy, I tagged you for the 8 random things meme.

  8. QofD:
    September 22nd, 2007 at 9:28 am

    That is the cutest thing I have read in quite some time.

  9. Niksmom:
    September 22nd, 2007 at 5:05 pm

    ROFL! And I thought Nik nodded off fast! At least he makes it up to his room… ;-)

  10. dgibbs:
    September 22nd, 2007 at 5:45 pm

    Wow they can go out so very fast! Sweet though he was multi tasking like his Mum.