eavesdropping

A Monday Afternoon
by Chloe and Lucy Nicholson

C:  and there are all her things, right here, and here are her pictures.  here's her alphabet.  she learns the alphabet every day.  let's turn it around.
L:  why?
C:  so you can see it
L:  i want to see the lucky shoes again!
C:  the yucky shoes?  they're too dirty for you to touch
L:  why the little girl can touch it?  i wan see the little girl
C:  the little girl's inside.  what do you think?  should we move her back to the fox?
L:  uh uh!  she doesn't wan see the fox
C:  the little girl is not scared of anything, so we should probably move her back to the fox.
L:  okay
C:  her shoes fell down
L:  why her shoes fall down?
C:  out of the attic
L:  why her shoes fall down outta the addic?
C:  aTTic
L:  aDDic
C:  okay, you can call it addic

L:  i touch your lucky sheet
C:  what?
L:  your stinky sheet
C:  what?
L:  dis blue thing
C:  what?  this is not a sheet.  your stinky feet?  [whispers in lucy's ear]
L:  what??
C:  luuucy, i don't want to tell everyone else! [whispers]
L&C:  [giggle giggle giggle]
C:  not your stinky feet!
L:  your stinky face?

could i politely request that you two never grow up any more??