I was faceplanted onto the couch this afternoon. I don’t often do that, but I was contemplating jaw issues stemming from a scream last week that has resulted in the awful necessity of a liquid-only diet.

Specifically, I was wondering if I was ready to go back to the chiropractor and risk explaining that particular scream and its affect on my jaw. Sure, I could just go in and NOT say anything. But I’m the sort of person who can THINK that she’ll do that and then when or if the question comes up, I totally overshare. I’m just like that. I go through life all, “don’t talk to me for ANY reason,” but if someone does for some reason, then watch out because there will be serious oversharing.

I think it’ll go away and I can chew again one day soon. I think.

So I was faceplanted on the couch when the two littlest boys forgot my existence and had a conversation I was SO glad to overhear.

Caden-6yr says that he saw Seth-5yr on the playground at school earlier. (Caden-6yr is a sweeeeet big brother. He’s generous and lovely, and he makes us all better people.)

Seth-5yr says, “Yep. I was chasin’ some guhls.”

(This is how the boys say ‘girls.’ I do not know why.)

Caden-6yr chuckles and says, “Yeah. I do that, too.”

Seth-5yr: “Pretty fun. I yike to chase guhls.”

Caden-6yr: “It’s so much more fun to chase guhls than to chase boys. Don’t you think, Seth?”

Seth-5yr is silent. He seems to be thinking this over. And then he says, “Yeah. I yike it when they {insert: high pitched girly shriek that almost made me fall off couch}  That’s SO funny when they do that. Why do they do that?”

Caden-6yr: “I guess because you’re chasin’ them, that’s why. Yeah…. I just love chasing guhls.”

Seth-5yr: “Boys are not any fun to chase. Just guhls.”

At this point I’m beginning to wonder how many different ways they can re-state this shared interest. Because it seems like a LOT of ‘just love this girl chasing sport’ and oh yeah, me too, ditto, blah blah blah, and there’s NO END to it. On and on. I’m getting worried. They only talk about Legos like this. Not girls. Not yet! They’re in 1st grade and preschool!

Ethan-10yr walks through and hears the conversation and sends it in a different direction. “Personally, I like to hide with my friend Zach and jump out and SCARE the girls. That’s fun, too.”

Thanks, Ethan-10yr. We’ve progressed from chasing to terrorizing.

Caden-6yr and Seth-5yr seem to like this idea. “Yeah,” says Seth-5yr. “I bet that would make them scream yike I yike, too!”

If my own jaw weren’t hurting from screaming (like a guhl), I would have discussed right then and there why not making guhls scream is a good thing. I might have told them to stop chasing guhls, too.

But that’s probably fairly pointless anyway.

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