Consonants equal meaning

For Sarah:

A: 'ommy, 'Isha 'ick me.
Sarah: 'Lisha, don't lick your brother.
A: No, 'ommy. 'ick, 'ICK.
Sarah: 'Lisha, don't kick your brother.

Sarah later: I should have guessed kick first because alphabetically it comes first.


At Dinner:
Me: A, what do you want on your cornbread?
A: 'utter and 'rape jelly.
Me: Uh, ok.....

They're really very good kids

So, today in Advanced Band, I had an interesting little....well, I'm not sure what you'd call it. Conversation, maybe?

Anyway. It happened as follows:

They were being talkative and ignoring me and I when I finally got them quiet (by staring at the clock and counting how many seconds it took them to settle down - 45, to be precise - and then charging them an additional 45 seconds of silence for wasting my time), I tried explaining to them why it's so disruptive and annoying when they talk the minute we stop playing. I tried all the usual arguments:

- when we stop, it's my turn to talk so that we can fix things.
- if they talk, it wastes time; time we don't have.
- it's rude

And I saw that they already knew that stuff, and realized they were doing something wrong, but they were kind of tired of hearing my usual (about once a week) rant. So I decided to switch gears on them and make it a bit more personal.

I said "Guys, please! We have 5 weeks til our concert. I would really like to not get stressed out until after Thanksgiving! I don't know if you've noticed, by my acne is really starting to clear up. I'm so tired of having acne. I'm too old for it! That's your domain (they chuckle). But it's going away right now and I'm SO happy. Stress brings it back though, so please. Let me live acne free for the next four weeks?"

And then they jumped in:

"Miss, have you tried...."
"Miss why don't you use....?"
"Miss, at Walmart they have this thing.....?

And I realized that they really are very good kids. They are caring and very genuine. And I love them for that.


I just don't want them to talk.