Yesterday, we flew back from Texas with two extremely tired boys. I mean, really, really tired. After a week of playing with their cousins, both were ready to spend a week sleeping.<\/p>\n
We were standing in the security line in the Houston airport with them sitting in their strollers, when J decided to try to perk them up. She moved in front of them, bent down to their level and said – in the perkiest voice you can imagine – "Simon says…touch your nose!"<\/p>\n
N didn’t move. He just looked at her with his half-closed eyes.<\/p>\n
C didn’t move either. He just kept sucking his thumb.<\/p>\n
I didn’t hear any chuckles from the people around us but I think J might have, because she tried again. "Simon says… touch your nose!"<\/p>\n
C pulled his thumb out of his mouth, looked at her carefully, and said "Simon says suck your thumb", and then put his thumb back in his mouth.<\/p>\n
And so ends another wonderful game of Simon Says.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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