To make the kids laugh I sometimes talk in the voice of the
cat and make stuff up that I think someone/something in her position might
say. About a week ago I joked in my cat
voice, “I really would like to go outside.
Can one of you boys open the screen door for me? I would do it myself, but I don’t have
opposable thumbs.” Yes, I go for the
cheap laughs since I am usually the “not fun” parent of the two. Once I explained to the boys what opposable
thumbs were, they thought this was hilarious and followed the cat around
throughout the day saying how sorry they felt for her because of her
thumbs.
The day we got back from Spring
Break the darn cat opened the screen door herself. I have no idea how or when she mastered this
skill, but I know my opposable thumbs thing isn’t funny to them anymore. Instead, when Lukie got scared tonight asking
what would happen if a fox got in our house, Samson just said “that is not
possible because a fox does not have opposable thumbs”. This regressed into a further discussion
about how Mommy was wrong because the darn cat can open the door. So now not only am I not funny and don’t know
anything about biology and physics, but we are all going to get eaten in the
night by the neighborhood fox who will open the door with his non-opposable
thumbs. I give up.
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