Penalty on the calvinball play

I was chasing the grandboy around the couch to get the little nerf football from him.  He had just got back from visiting with his uncle who is an American football fan, so he is in sports mode now.

As we were racing around the couch he pulls out a pretend handgun and shoots me down and then does a little dance.

I throw a red flag on the play.  Everyone knows grandstanding is unsportsmanlike.

 




Too early in the morning for behaviour analysis

The grandboy’s taken the ‘why” question out into psychology realm now.

Grandboy: “GWUMPA gwumpa i’m thirsty gwumpa I’m thirsty.  May I have some water please?”

Me: “Ok sure [I hold two cups out] which one would you like, the red cup or the blue cup?”

Grandboy: “The RED one gwumpa, red one please.”

Me [filling up the red cup]: “Ok here’s water in the red cup.”

Grandboy: “Why?”

Me [confused]: “Why what?  Why am I pouring water or why did you pick the red cup or why did you want water?”

Grandboy: “Why i can choose the RED cup, gwumpa?  Why red?”

Me: “O I don’t know.  You chose it.  Why did you choose the red one?”

Grandboy: “I’ll have to think about that.”