The Puddles

You never know what will come up for discussion at dinner.  Tonight’s discussion was “If you could be anyone on the movie The Incredibles who would you be?”  This question was posed by Chris of course.  Ben wanted to be Dash. Madie wanted to be Vi (because she had long hair like Madie.) Ben then proceeded to tell Daddy that he had to be Mr. Incredible and then he and Dad agreed that I needed to be Elastigirl.  At this point I said that I didn’t want to be Elastigirl that I wanted to be Dash because I could get my housework done so fast if I was Dash.  That made Ben upset.  He said we all had to be just like the people in the movie.  Ainsley then starts to argue that she doesn’t want to be Jack-Jack (have you seen Jack-Jack?  I don’t blame her.). The discussion continues until Ben is bored by it all and gets up from the dinner table to run around the house like Dash.  Madie then gets up to pretend that she is suddenly invisible like Vi . . . and the whole sitting at the table for dinner as a family breaks down from there.

I don’t think we ever recovered the children from that discussion.  They all started to go around the house pretending to be one hero or another until we shuttled them up the stairs and to bed.  I can only imagine what tomorrow’s dinner time discussion will be.  Let’s hope that at least it keeps us all sitting at the table until dinner is over!