Today, dropped kids at school, drove in to JP for music class, immediately head back to school for pick up, home for lunch, drove kids to dance class, home for Adam's nap, Amine home for 45 minutes then off again, left to my own devices for afternoon, dinner and bedtime. A busy day, but by dinner when Tayeb curled into a ball defeated by onions on his plate I leaped into SNL skit/playful parenting. Aya became 'very serious baby'. I donned a non-specific, slightly Russian man's accent and became a ventriloquist with Aya as the 'dummy', she commanded that each child eats three pieces of chicken between cracking deadpan jokes about eating her sweater and not actually being able to count to three. It was gold baby, gold. The kids ate seven pieces of chicken and had to explain to very serious baby that seven was better than three. The kids ate dinner and went to bed no fuss no muss and I got to make them laugh rather than blowing my top when Tayeb refused to eat. Gold, I tell you!
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