Princess and the What?!

Last night we were putting the kids to bed and going through our routine like usual. The kids brushed their teeth and complained about how gross the toothpaste was, they played with the water in the sink for way too long, they started getting crazier and crazier jumping around and making all kinds of noise, they asked for another snack…all the usual “routine”.

One of the other things we like to do is read stories and each of them gets to pick one book out. Simon picked his olympic penguin game for the thirteenth night in a row so I told him to find something else because I couldn’t bear to look at it again. So he picked The Princess and the Pea instead. Once both the kids finally were sitting and settling down in the bed I started with the reading of the cover. I declared “The princess and the pea” but then I was quickly stopped by Miriam. “No dad, it’s Princess and the POOP”. There was a moment of quiet and then hysterical laughter erupted from the two of them. They laughed and laughed all they way through the rest of the two books. By the end of the second book I was just making mumbling noises and flipping through pages. Actually, I was disappointed I hadn’t ever thought of that myself.