Tuesday, August 4, 2009

Competing With The SpongeBob

Today was an errand day, and since we had a ton of them I let the kiddos watch TV in the van. (A rare treat! But hey, a little bribery here or there never hurt anyone.) ((BTW, why do they call it Nickelodeon? It should be SpongeBobLodeon since that's all that's on. But I digress...))

One of these errands was lunch with Lance. We had picked him up, driven through a crazy-serious thunderstorm, gotten soaked running from the van into the restaurant, had a nice lunch, and then driven him back to work.

As Lance got out of the van the following occurred:

Me: Say good-bye to Daddy, boys!

*Silence*

Lance: Good-bye, boys!

*Crickets chirping*

Me: Sorry Daddy. You just can't compete with The SpongeBob.

At this point Lance left and we started to drive to Target. We had been on the road for a few minutes when I heard SpongeBob come to an end. In the rearview mirror I saw Spencer look as if coming out of a trance. He looked around, a little bewildered.

Spencer: Mommy? Where's Daddy?

Joshie: Daddy? Daddy! Where are you?!

Me: Um, we dropped Daddy off at work. He said good-bye to you.

Spencer: No! No he didn't! I want Daddy!

Joshie: No Daddy at work! I love him! Where is he?!

Me: Oh geez.

At which point another SpongeBob episode started.

*Silence*

1 comment:

Tiffany Alldredge Smith said...

I am soooooo jealous of your van right now!! I am coveting up a storm...now I need to go repent...but first I'm going to covet some more.