On your mark...

So the girls have this fun game that we play sometimes after dinner. They'll stand by the bathroom door in the living room, and I'll give them an instruction as to how to race from the door to the couch and back to the door. It could be something like spinning, walking backwards, crawling, etc. (Erin, of course, has to get in the mix, but she always loses...and gets in the way :-) So last night Ellie and Lauren were racing, and every time Ellie won, we'd say, "And Lauren wins!" It took Ellie a bit to get the joke, although the looks of indignation were quite funny. Once she figured out that the 2nd place person was declared the winner, she started slowing down and letting Lauren win. Of course, then we started with "...and Ellie wins!"

True to form, Lauren immediately resorts to violence. I thought Eric and I were going to die laughing. She comes charging at Ellie, face full of rage, and starts kicking, swinging, yelling...absolutely priceless.