When you have kids . . .

weird things happen sometimes.

Picture this: you're alone in the house at night. Everyone else is fast asleep. You are dilligently doing whatever it is you're doing. It is calm and relaxed. Then, out of nowhere, you hear something like this:

"Tickle Elmo again!"

The funny thing is that it's not coming from your kid's rooms or from the baby monitor, it is coming from the toybox. For no apparent reason your child's toys have decided to start speaking to you. Elmo wants to be tickled!

Of course you can rationalize it away: the toys were just settling or there's a storm outside or the butterfly effect from a quantum state change bubbled up a level like a meal at White Castle.

But you are never really sure. Usually they don't keep talking . .. usually!

MWAHAHAHA!