Stuff my Kids say #3

Litkia: (In a very excited voice with a big smile) That was SO COOL!

I told them to wait. I told them not to fool with it. I told them over and over to just give me a second and we'd go outside, but they just would NOT leave it alone. I'm talking about the 2 liter diet coke, 7 piece Mentos debacle of January 2010.

Pateriko got a special little apparatus for launching the festivities in his stocking for Christmas. I blame myself. It was just a plastic tube to load the Mentos and a string to pull when you were ready to release the candy into the coke and watch the explosion. They couldn't stay away from it. Litkia pulled the string totally by accident while we were still in the kitchen. The spewing began. She grabbed the coke and ran. Why? I have no idea. But, she ran to the den with it, spewing the carpet and the clean clothes on the couch and the piano and the wall and then, in some more panic, she decided that was the wrong move and ran BACK into the kitchen and did a few more circles with it, spewing everything in THERE until it finally died down. We all just stood there dumbstruck, wiping the dripping diet coke off of our faces. The kids were silent. Litkia looked tortured. I stayed VERY quiet because I knew whatever came out of my mouth next would be so memorable to these kids. For some reason I had enough sense about me to want it to be positive. When I finally gained control of myself, I asked Litkia, in a concerned and quiet voice, "Are you freaked out?" Her response? "That was SO COOL!!" And please don't tell anybody I said this, but..... it was.