he broke her

[metaphortunate]

I forgot to mention that my mom was here for a week and the Junebug asked "Why?" so many times that he actually broke her. He actually did. My mom, who could be usefully visualized as some sort of unstoppable grandmother Dalek force going "APPRECIATE. APPRECIATE." about her grandkids, and everything they do is delightful, or at least completely understandable, and any problems or acting up are due to their heartless parents unreasonably demanding that they get up, go to bed, eat, use the potty, catch a train, get in their car seat, put on their shoes, etc...Even my mother finally turned to me and said "You and your brother never asked 'Why?' this much. NEVER." And then she looked kind of haunted and repeated the way the Junebug sing-songs "WhyyYYYyyy?", and shook her head.

I felt somewhat vindicated.