Markus is still our best contributor to memorable little stories. Like the two following ones, and as usual they are completely true, verbatim.
The first one is a result of Ana’s constant battles with Markus over proper behavior and treating Blake and Gisele not like toys but rather like his brother and sister. One day last week Markus had just finished Pre-K and Ana was still talking with the teacher. Markus took the opportunity to run around, hit Gisele and Blake and was behaving like a little wild devil, to put it mildly. Ana was explaining without success and reaching her pressure point and finally exploded. Markus took it pretty easy and when prompted ‘why he could not behave’ turned around smiling his charming smile with the words: ‘Mummy, I know I am giving you a hard time….. but I know you are enjoying it.’
The other story developed on the background that Markus is potty trained but still has lapses and at times just pees in his pants. Ana came to pick me up from MIT around 6:30pm and had left the kids out of the car to play because I was a little late, coming back from squash. Not to waste any time I had not taken a shower and came in my squash shorts. After I had left my bag in the lab and picking up my bike I walked back to the car carrying my pants in my hands. Meanwhile Ana had noted that Marki had made a mess of his pants and was talking to him and asking why he was still not able to keep his pants dry. Markus did not have to think long to answer that it was not bad because Papi also still wets his pants…. Much to Ana’s surprise as you might imagine. When asked how he came to that conclusion he just pointed at the obvious fact that I was carrying my ‘wet’ pants in the hand and was wearing my squash pants instead.
