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I lowered my voice to a conspiratorial level. “Not even them. Just us!”
They both got excited about that. Kids loved secrets, even if they were innocent ones.
The comment aboutdads, plural, made me think of something. “You have three dads. But what about your moms?”
I kind of wished I had asked Rogan about this last night. I was too busy letting him lick chocolate off my ass cheek to think about it. He didn’t have a ring on his finger, but that didn’t mean there wasn’t a mom in the picture.
Micah shook his head. “We don’t have moms. We don’t need them!”
“We have Aunt Patty,” Dustin explained. “But she’s anaunt, not amom.”
Interesting. No moms. Something to ask the men later.
“Do your dads have girlfriends?” I asked.
Both boys looked at each other, then grimaced. “Ew! Gross!” Dustin shouted.
“Girls are icky!” Micah said.
“Cora’s a girl,” I pointed out.
Dustin shook his head. “Cora isn’t a girl. She’s oursister.”
“I’m a girl, too.”
Micah scrunched his face in thought. For a few seconds, the gears in his little brain cranked away.
“You don’t count,” he finally decided. “You’re our nanny, not a girl.”
“Oh, okay,” I said. “Let’s get to work on the plan. This is serious business, so we need to sit down at the table.”
I was trying to establish basic behaviors to go along with their activities. When we played with colored pencils and paper, we sat at the table. It was a small thing, but if you put together enough small things, you ended up with well-behaved young children.
I drew a grid on the paper. “Did you have breakfast right before I got here?”
“Yes! Dustin shouted. “Purple toast!”
“That’s right.” I wrote8:00in the left column, andbreakfastin the right column.
“What do you like to do after that?” I asked.
Micah shrugged. “Whatever we feel like.”
“We need to come up with aplan,” I reminded him. “What activity do you want to do next?”
“Trollhunters?” Dustin asked.
I nodded. “We can do TV time next.”
“I don’t want to watch TV,” Dustin complained. “I want to watchTrollhunters.”
“Okay. That’s fine.” I filled in the grid: from 9:00 to 11:00 they would watch cartoons. I had no idea how much TV they normally watched, but based on their behavior, it was a lot. I would need to discuss this with the men, but for now this would be a good starting point to build off.
“What about games?” Dustin asked. “We have tablets withso many games. Want to see?”
“You can show me later. How about we play tablet games in the afternoon?”
“Okay!”
