The Prelude,
Boy, while sitting at empty table: "I am 16 gong on 17. And you're a baby." (As sung to "I am 16" from The Sound of Music) Repeat multiple times.
Act 1, two children and a woman sitting at a dining table, eating pancakes, bacon, hashbrowns, and fruit
Mother: Don't sit on your brother's feet.
Girl: I wasn't.
Mother: You were. And Kenson, why are your feet stretched out towards your sister's chair instead of being flat on the floor?
Act 2, still at the dinner table
Boy: I have to go potty! (Yelled as if it were so important even the neighbors must hear it)
Mother: Then go.
Cue sounds of flushing toilet, running water, and some random music from an electronic toy.
Mother: Quit pusing the buttons on that toy and come finish your supper.
Boy: Why?
Act 3, subtitled A Lesson in Table Manners, featuring boy, girl and mother at table
Girl attempts to eat hashbrowns with a fork. Girl drops hashbrowns on her lap.
Mother: When you eat with a fork, you need to TURN the fork so it fits in your mouth.
Girl looks confused.
Mother: Let me show you.
Mother scoops hashbrowns onto fork, demonstrates how to turn the fork so it is no longer sideways and will fit in girl's mouth.
Girl looks confused.
Mother demonstrates again.
Mother: See you can't eat off of the fork when it is sideways. It's too big for your mouth so you need to turn the fork so the points go into your mouth.
Girl continues to look confused but the hashbrowns are now finished so mother says no more.
Mother then notices boy licking his plate.
Mother: We don't lick our plate. Even if it has syrup on it and syrup is one of our favorite foods.
Boy stops licking.
Boy places one finger onto plate and into the remaining syrup. Boy uses his finger to scrape off the last bit of syrup off of his plate.
Mother, shaking head: We don't put our fingers in our syrup either.
Boy: Okay.
Conclusion
Children push chairs away from the table and exit to place empty plates in the unseen sink. Mother runs fingers through her hair.
Mother: Why is there syrup in MY hair?
Fade to black
3 comments:
I love you! Thanks for the link, I really appreciated it.
The twins' table manners seem to be poor lately. I'm actually taking plates for things like scooping mashed potatoes up with the hand and then shoving them in the mouth or leaning over and using the mouth to eat such as what a dog would do. I tell the, "the dogs eat outside because they aet like that!" I'd say it's the age but mine are almost 6!
Aaahhh...this play certainly captures the essence of motherhood. :)
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