The Enforcer

Me: “Mason, be quiet. It’s time to go to bed.”

Isabel: “Be quiet, brother. Brother, be quiet.”

Me: “Mason! Lay. Down.”

Isabel: “Lay down brother, OK?”

Me: “Mason, if you don’t lay down right now there will be no more playing with your trains!”

Isabel: “No trains! No tracks! No bees!”

Me: “Isabel, you go to bed.”

Isabel: “Go to bed, brother!”

Me: “No, you Isabel. You go to bed.”

Isabel: “Oh ok, Mommy.”

Which she did not