I read Nora this book today. After all the Cat's mess is cleaned up and he leaves, the Mom comes home and asks if they had any fun that day. The last few lines read, "Should we tell her about it? Now what should we do? Well...What would you do if your mother asked you?"
And without any pause Nora said, " I would lie."
A quick reminder talk about honesty followed.
Ike has just started to try to verbalize a few words and is still experimenting. So Branden was quizzing him on his family members. When Branden pointed to himself, Ike said "Da Da." And when he asked Ike who I was, Ike said "Da Mom." It was kind of cute and he said a few times over. Nora came at that point and heard Ike and heard us laughing at him so she started copying what she thought he was saying. She stopped herself after a few times and said, "Oh I forgot...That's not a nice thing to say." (She apparently thought Ike was saying "dumb Mom.") We hadn't known she was saying anything different! :)
