Family Time

Favorite conversations from yesterday:

Darrin: Why must we talk about STD's at the dinner table?

Me: It's the only time we actually talk.

Darring: Good point.

Tabitha: Now that you two have cleared that up, can we get back to the STD's?

Later, while in the family room, watching a DVD:

Adam: Ahhh--there's something in the light.

Darrin: It's a wasp.

Me: It's not a wasp. Those aren't out yet.

Darrin: It's a wasp. It sounds like a wasp.

Adam: Kill it!

Me It's not a wasp. It's a bumblebee.

Adam: It's gonna sting me!

Me: I doubt it. It's too big to get out of the fixture. I wonder how it got in here. We've had no doors or windows open.

DJ: It's big.

Darrin: That's because it's a wasp.

Me: It's not a wasp.

Adam: Can I go up to my room?

Me: If you want to. But even if it got out of the light, I doubt it would sting you. Bumblebees aren't aggressive. 

Adam: It's scary.

Me: It's not. It's fuzzy. I think it's dying.

Darrin: Wasps don't die in light fixtures. They wait till night, then they get out.

Adam: DAD! It's not a wasp.

Darrin: I think it is.

Adam: DAD! I can see it! It's not a wasp. Mom, I think it is dying. Can we help it?

Me: If we try to help it now, I guarantee it will sting one of us. 

Adam: Ohhhh... I don't want it to die.

Me: I think it's a bit late.

Adam: If it wouldn't sting me, I would hug it.

DJ: Dude--then it would die! You don't hug bees!

Adam: But it's all fuzzy and sad.

Me: And dead.

Darrin: I still think it's a wasp. 

Adam: Mom, can you make Dad go to his room.

Me: No. But I think if we ignore him he'll stop saying that.

Adam: Poor bee.