I found him like this
August 16, 2007
And before I could say anything he said, very seriously, “I NOT do it.”
“No?” I had asked.
And then he ratted out one of his siblings who was still in bed asleep.
“Really? He knocked over the sugar bowl? And then put the sugar all over your hands and face? And made you lick the table?” I asked.
Very seriously he answered, “Yessss, mommy.”
“But he is still in bed asleep. How can that be?” I questioned. There was a long pause while he licked the sugar off of his hands. “Huh, Miles?… Miles?”
“I not know what you talkin’ bout.”
Of course not.
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Mmmm sugar-coated Miles. Delicious.
August 16th, 2007 at 10:00 amHilarious!!!
August 16th, 2007 at 10:02 amHi Chris, I’ve been reading your blog for a little while now and it never fails to make me laugh. This just cracks me up. It’s so funny how they can lie with such conviction and a straight face. Thanks for the laugh.
August 16th, 2007 at 10:08 amWhen our son would tell a whopper, we found that we could ask him if that was a “truth” or a “lie,” and he would always own up to lying! However if we asked him things like “Are you sure?” he would continue to maintain his story!
August 16th, 2007 at 10:32 amHow does that expression go? “When in doubt…deny, deny, deny!”
He looks so cute in the photo. I best it’s hard to stay mad at that face
August 16th, 2007 at 10:39 amAck! Nothing like a morning sugar high to get you going.
August 16th, 2007 at 10:40 amOh, I’d say you’ve got your work cut out for you with that one…
August 16th, 2007 at 10:48 amClassic. Loved this!
August 16th, 2007 at 10:53 amI did it. I’m sorry. It’s my fault. I set him up to take the fall for me. I won’t let it happen again.
August 16th, 2007 at 11:09 amSo sweet! LOL!
May I borrow him to help me make some more sweet tea? Just a quick dunk to get all that toddler sweetness and you can have him right back. Promise.
August 16th, 2007 at 11:09 amOh. My. Word.
I just burst out laughing. Good work, Miles.
August 16th, 2007 at 11:14 amIt’s just one continuous party at your house! Hope you have a “sweet” day!
August 16th, 2007 at 11:26 amAdorable! Your Miles reminds me of my Stevie - they are about the same age (Miles 3 mos older I believe) and seem to behave much the same way. I turned around recently when Stevie was asking for “Juice!! Mommy, juice!” - I had heard the fridge open and see him sucking back on the syrup bottle!! LOL! I can so relate….
August 16th, 2007 at 11:29 amOne of mine did something like this with jam, once. It’s hard to hide the evidence when you can’t stop licking your hands…
August 16th, 2007 at 11:32 amthat picture is great! what a sweetie. get it?
August 16th, 2007 at 11:32 amMmmmm, crispy sugar-coated devil child!
August 16th, 2007 at 11:33 amAnd in that moment - there’s a choice:
“DAMMIT!! WHAT WERE YOU THINKING!?!?” or grab the camera and laugh it off.
Good for you for choosing the latter.
August 16th, 2007 at 11:40 amWe were so lucky in my family. Our baby sister was so eager to be a part of everything she actually would take the blame for anything and everything that happened in our house, even when she was not anywhere near it. Miles toally needs a baby sister like that!
August 16th, 2007 at 12:03 pmHe is so cute!
August 16th, 2007 at 12:06 pmIf you’d just SHUT UP, Chris, he could enjoy the sugar a little more.
August 16th, 2007 at 12:12 pmThere is only one thing to say about that photo. SWEET!!!
August 16th, 2007 at 12:19 pmI found my oldest like that about a year ago. I asked her the same questions and got a lot of “I don’t know! Really! I don’t know!”
My littlest tried to latch onto the syrup bottle when she was about 11 months old.
August 16th, 2007 at 12:49 pmOMG - that is too funny! He’s a smart one!
August 16th, 2007 at 12:53 pmOMG thanks for the great laugh this morning
August 16th, 2007 at 1:09 pmI don’t know what was funnier, that story or Susan’s reference to earlier this week. Thank you for two laughs today!
August 16th, 2007 at 1:15 pmI blame the Bush Administration for his lying ways.
August 16th, 2007 at 1:15 pmOh, I was going to say what Susan said. If you would just SHUT UP he could finish eating the sugar bowl.
August 16th, 2007 at 1:19 pmWhen you are the youngest you have to learn to think on your toes!
August 16th, 2007 at 1:25 pmHow did he get even more adorable??? I’m still laughing; thanks for grabbing the camera
August 16th, 2007 at 1:26 pmthat may be bad but it is so cute!
August 16th, 2007 at 1:32 pmMiles rocks.
August 16th, 2007 at 1:34 pmSo, so very cute. How could you be mad with that little face looking at you?
August 16th, 2007 at 1:41 pmI not do it. The best toddler line in the book.
Cute how he blames the sleeping sibling. Cute, cause I don’t have sugar all over my house.
August 16th, 2007 at 1:45 pmThat one-liner should stand him in good stead for the rest of his male life.
August 16th, 2007 at 1:51 pmI’m not sure which is cooler - the mom who loves her children so much even when her kids are naughty that she picks up the camera to document these “sweet” moments, or the child who stuck around to have his picture taken and explain it really wasn’t him!
August 16th, 2007 at 1:51 pmSoon his schemes will work seamlessly. I think this was just a dry run to gauge your reaction and see how it would shake out.
Too freaking cute.
August 16th, 2007 at 1:59 pmwhat susan said
August 16th, 2007 at 2:01 pmI love how he knows enough about lying to blame someone else, but not enough to pick someone who is actually awake!!! What a cutie!
August 16th, 2007 at 2:16 pmAs a scrapbooker, I can “see” what a SWEET layout that would make!
August 16th, 2007 at 2:48 pmA friend of mine called to her 4-year-old last spring, “Mary! Where are you?” And Mary showed up at the top of the stairs with vaguely distended cheeks and said, “I’m up here. And I am not(should be italics on “not”) eating my Easter candy.”
August 16th, 2007 at 3:04 pmI woke up one morning to find my son taking a can of vegetables and grinding an entire bag of oreos into the tile grout on the kitchen floor. Another morning he was standing on a chair at the kitchen sink, several bags of my food storage flour had been poured out on the floor. He was pouring cup after cup of water onto the floor in an effort to clean it up, only making clouds of flour puff up into the air and creating a lovely paste on the ground. He looked up at me with his little eyes peeking out of his flour covered face and said, “No holler! I no yike it when you holler!”
August 16th, 2007 at 3:11 pmAll I can say is thank God my children cannot read English!!! My boys are crazy enough, but I do not need someone turning my kitchen floor into a pizza parlour or my pantry into an ant paradise.
But c’mon, you can be honest, you *S*T*A*G*E*D* that photo, right? ;-P
August 16th, 2007 at 3:20 pmDitto to Susan. I love both of the miles related posts this week!
August 16th, 2007 at 4:05 pmWhat. Beautiful. Eyes.
Seriously. I just keep looking at those eyes.
August 16th, 2007 at 4:11 pmChris, you crack me up! Do you just carry your camera around your neck to capture all these great shots? Just wondering.
August 16th, 2007 at 4:37 pmReminds me of my younger self. It seems that someone had written my sisters name in marker on the wall. When questioned, I denied doing it. How could it be me? It wasn’t my name it was my sisters. It must have been her. It wasn’t until my mother pointed out that she was only 11 months old and couldn’t say her name let alone write it correctly that I admitted the truth. Oh, those were the days.
August 16th, 2007 at 5:16 pmCUTE!
August 16th, 2007 at 5:22 pmGod makes ‘em cute so you don’t kill them.
My father actually taught my oldest niece this little manuver. When my sister caught her, she took and framed the picture ‘for Papa’.
We have those same Thomas ‘jamas.
August 16th, 2007 at 5:25 pmPlausible deniability. Perhaps he’ll be a defense lawyer.
August 16th, 2007 at 6:58 pmMine has a new “thing.”
“Presh, did you get into the craft closet?”
“No.”
“Presh, I am going to ask you again and give you another chance to tell me the truth. Did you get into the craft closet?”
(as if she never heard me to begin with and it will magically make it all go away) “What?”
August 16th, 2007 at 8:10 pmWhat a cute little trouble maker though!
August 16th, 2007 at 8:14 pmHe is too cute to get into trouble!
August 16th, 2007 at 8:32 pmThat clinches it. He’s gonna be a star!
August 16th, 2007 at 9:16 pmI have the same problem…my kids are just too dang cute to get what they deserve.
August 16th, 2007 at 11:30 pmGood luck!
He’s just so fireplacing adorable.
August 16th, 2007 at 11:35 pmLOL it hurts to laugh right now, but it was too funny not to laugh! I think its so funny when kids start to lie, even though we treat it with seriousness, it is still neat to see their thoughts hit a whole new level.
August 16th, 2007 at 11:41 pmToo funny! Poor you…he must have been really wound up after that!
August 16th, 2007 at 11:51 pm“I not know what you talkin’ bout”!!!
Isn’t this his favourite cliche? Really funny.
Sue
August 17th, 2007 at 12:22 amOh…so sweet! (Not to mention STICKY!!)
August 17th, 2007 at 12:33 amAt least it wasn’t butter…
August 17th, 2007 at 1:02 amGeez. What kind of parent are you. I should come right over there, pick up that sticky child and bring him home with me.
Because we have lots of sugar and cameras and that’s what is required. I love him. You, too.
August 17th, 2007 at 1:11 amYour stuff is really funny - in that “real life is funny” kind of way! Some of my children share some characteristics with yours. If you want to visit, check out http://dyingarts.wordpress.com/2007/01/24/sorry-mommy/
and see if we have anything in common. I know the grabbing of the camera at a time of potential disaster thinking “this will make great blog stuff” is one thing.
I enjoyed - take care and good luck in the trenches!
August 17th, 2007 at 7:35 amYou have a great sense of humor. Thanks for the laugh. He is adorable.
August 17th, 2007 at 9:19 amAdorable!!!
Fab pic.
August 17th, 2007 at 10:26 amThat is awesomely funny and I am going to show it to my husband.
I think he knows how cute he is.
August 17th, 2007 at 11:09 amChris, I have been reading your blog for quite sometime now and decided to leave a comment. I love this entry along with many others!I have a three year old who is always in constant denial. Especially now that we are potty training.
Me: Do you have to pee?
Him: No! (as it trickles down his leg)
ACK!
Any pointers? They say little boys are hard to train, I’m beginning to believe it!
August 17th, 2007 at 3:42 pmSweet! He needs to learn “I do not recall.” That’ll skate him through a lot.
August 17th, 2007 at 3:58 pmHe couldn’t have just used the spoon? Not very good as espionage is he? This way he could have closed the lid when he heard your footsteps. He could learn from my children!
August 18th, 2007 at 2:39 pmThat is too cute. Miles is such a darling.
August 18th, 2007 at 5:44 pmI love this. He is so adorable, but you already knew that.
August 18th, 2007 at 9:56 pmI don’t know if it was the thatch of bonde hair over dark eyebrows, the Hershey kiss eyes or the pouty lower lip, but I never doubted for a second that he was innocent. Darn that sleeping sib and his nefariou, sleepwalking ways!
August 18th, 2007 at 10:37 pmI have seven kids. I have one three year old boy that is EXACTLY like this one you have here. SOOO cute that they get away with all sorts of tom-foolery.
Like your blog a lot!
August 19th, 2007 at 5:07 pmThat is too funny, the salt with Brandon about a month ago, his answer ” I’m sorry Mommy, I just couldn’t help myself!”
August 19th, 2007 at 9:34 pmI know the feeling kid… I know the feeling..
LOL - they are just to cute to be mad at aren’t they?!
I have to say I love your blog, I have read for a whole but never posted before - but your kids are just adorable, and your posts SOOO FUNNY!
Anyway I came out of lurking to say TAG!
August 19th, 2007 at 11:50 pmhttp://natural-news.all-natural-mommies.com/middle-name-meme/
Ha–that last line is priceless!
August 21st, 2007 at 4:01 pmYesterday Boo told me he had learned to count to one. Then showed me. With his middle finger.
When I asked him who taught him that, he said, “Um…you?”
August 21st, 2007 at 11:36 pm