Pathetic

I misplaced my iPhone tonight, so used our landline to call it. 

I found it in my bedroom.  Reagan followed me into the bedroom.

Mom: "Reagan, can you go hang up the kitchen phone please?"
Reagan: "Hang up?"
Mom: "Yes.  Go hang up the phone please."
Reagan: "Hang up?"
Mom: "YES!"
Reagan: "What does that mean, 'hang up'?"
Mom: "It means put the phone back on the cradle."
Reagan: "Cradle???"
Mom: "REAGAN!  Just go into the kitchen and tell Dad that Mom asked you to hang up the phone, and he will show you how to do it!"
Reagan: "I don't understand what you're asking me to do!"
Mom: "Put the phone back where it belongs."
Reagan: "Put it away, like?"
Mom: "Yes.  That."

WOW.  Has it been that long since the world has seen a phone with a cord, attached to a wall????

Her Brother's Keeper

When I got home yesterday, I was looking for Colby.

Mom: "Reagan, do you know where Colby is?"
Reagan: "He's in his natural habitat."
Mom: "?????"
Reagan: "The basement."

OOOOOOHHHH.  I should've known.

Fog On The Way to School

We were on our way to school this morning, when I happened to notice fog over the lake.  I brought it to the kids' attention.

Mom: "Look kids!  There's fog over the lake!"
Reagan: "Why?"
Mom: "Because the air is warmer than the lake."
Reagan: "Why?"
Mom: "Because the air temperature is warmer than the water temperature of the lake."
Reagan: "Why?"
As I was wracking my brain for an appropriate way to discuss the heat-absorbing tendencies of different densities of matter, and the variation of weather patterns to a 7 year old, Colby chimed in with an answer.

Colby: "UGH Reagan.  Magic.  It's all magic, ok?"
Reagan:  "Yeah!!!  Fairies did it!  And unicorns!"

It's the answer she was looking for, really.

Overheard

Quinn: "Mom, I had to pinky swear to play a game with Reagan to get her into the car.  That's like swearing on the Bible.  I can't break a pinky swear."

So this was the game I overheard them playing.

Reagan: "Truth or dare?"
Quinn: "Truth."
Reagan: "Did you watch Daniel Tiger when you were little?"
Quinn: "Daniel Tiger wasn't on when I was little."
Reagan: "Mr. Rogers then."
Quinn: "I didn't watch Mr. Rogers."
Reagan: "OK.  Truth or dare?"
Quinn: "Truth."
Reagan: "Did you like watching Disney movies when you were little?"
Quinn: "Yes."
Reagan: "Princess ones?"
Quinn: "No.  OK.  My turn.  Truth or dare?"
Reagan: "Dare."
Quinn: "Put your face in this pillow and hold it there for 10 seconds."

Mom (from the bathroom) "Quinn!  Don't dare you sister to suffocate herself!"

End of game.