Sunday breakfast with Ruthanna and Sarah

Characters: 


Ruthanna: age 10, talkative, vivacious, brown hair/brown eyes/freckles


Me: you know by now


Sarah: age 6, quiet, dreamy, blonde hair/blue eyes/freckles


Setting:


Kitchen table, Eckert house, Sunday morning






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08:44 a.m.


Me: *come downstairs, check the granola on the stovetop* 

Ruthanna: *sitting alone at table eating granola with something on it* "Hey Tabi, you should have some of that. Guess what? I have a secret. Dad put vanilla ice cream on my granola. He said not to tell anyone, especially not Mom."

Me: *smile* "Well shhhh she's downstairs, and besides, now it's not a secret since you told me."

Ruthanna: "It's my secret, I can tell it."

Me: *get granola without anything, heat up a plate of meatballs* (because I wanted meat) "How'd you sleep?"

Sarah: *comes downstairs wearing orange/yellow/white dress with bangs tied up in a pigtail on top of her head* "Morning!"

Me: "Hey Antenna-Head. Want some granola?"

Ruthanna: "Hahahaha she's growing out her bangs!"

Sarah: *gets granola, sits down*

Ruthanna: "Hey Sarah, guess what? I have a secret. Dad put vanilla ice cream on my granola and said not to tell anyone, especially - "

Me: "Hey! Dad said not to tell anyone!" 

Ruthanna: "Oh yeah. Sarah, you can't tell anyone. Man, I shouldn't have told you, Sarah. You are terrible at keeping secrets."

Me: "Hey, you're the one who Dad told not to tell anyone."

Ruthanna: "No, it was my secret and I could tell it if I wanted to! Now if SARAH goes around telling everyone it won't be a secret anymore..."

Me: "Oh great. Just stop."

*crickets*

Sarah: "I keep secrets."

Ruthanna: "Noooooo remember that time when - "

Me: "Stop."

*more crickets*


Sarah: *humming to herself*

Ruthanna: "I wish I had pretty eyes."

Me: "You have beautiful eyes. I always wanted brown eyes."

Ruthanna: "Yeah but mine are slanty."

Me: "I love how your eyes slant! They're perfect almonds. I wanted eyes like that. Once I had a dream my eyes were like that, and it made me so happy it woke me up."

Ruthanna: "But I don't want almond eyes! I want coconut eyes! You and Sarah have big wide round eyes like coconuts, and I don't want almond eyes, I want coconut eyes."

Sarah: *makes confused puppy eyes at Ruthanna and I* "Coconut eyes?"

Me: "Well, I guess you always want what you don't have."

Ruthanna: "Yeah, like coconut eyes."

Me: "I wish I had almond eyes."

Sarah: "I want vanilla ice cream..."

Ruthanna: "Shhhhhhh!!!!!!!! SaRAH!!!! it's a SECRET!!!!! and everyone is going to hear you!!!!!"