Another Backseat Debate!

We had another car argument this morning, you know the kind! The one where it starts with a statement by Brooklyn, followed by a snide contradiction by Payton, followed by a high volume retort to the contrary by Brookie, and so on and so forth until the backseat is a puddle of tears and people driving next to us are gawking because they can hear my sweet girls over the music in their cars with their windows rolled up! Oh if only my arms were just four inches longer.......not that that would have mattered today, given that they were in the third row and taking full advantage of their remote location. Let me share the subject they were so vehemently debating; cows.

Now before you double over in raucous laughter at my predicament, hear the whole sad story. The twins have sides of the car that they claim as their own. Claiming territory has been going on since birth, and the car windows were certainly never going to be an exception. Well, due to some unforeseen decision by two unrelated but nonetheless connected farmers, there were cows in the fields directly across the street from each other. So when Brooklyn saw "her" cows, she squealed with precious four year old delight that she had cows!!(some mornings one will have horses, one will have goats, etc.) Payton was watching for critters on her side and is seeing only the cows outside her window so naturally assumes Brooklyn is trying to claim what are rightfully(due to the rules of the car) HER cows! Can you see the storm coming?

Poor Brookie thinks she is being robbed of her coveted cows and starts to raise her voice right away. "They are MY cows Payton, not yours!!", and Payton would never back down from a challenge when her property is being threatened, so of course she screeches back, "MINE!", and there starts the one word war for the duration of the ride! "MINE!", "NO!", "MINE!", "NO!", and when I try to input reason into the scene, I get lots and lots of that funny gibberish girls talk when they are really upset and crying over something, and I get it from both of them at high volume simultaneously. Whew! I was never happier to pull into the garage and deliver the necessary comfort hugs! Needless to say I will be using my alternative driving route to reach our destination later this afternoon, and may the cows stay as forgotten as every other thing they get heated up about! True to form, they are now sitting and putting a puzzle together, thick as thieves. I wish we all could forgive and forget so easily.

Thank Heaven for spirited little girls! :)