The Loophole

The boys have been "wandering" during meals lately.  As in carrying their food and walking around the kitchen while eating.  Besides the lack of manners this shows, it increases the mess on the floor, which is the ULTIMATE SIN in my world.  I am only very questionably keeping up with housework as it is ((understatement -- I hear my husband smirking at that statement right now)).  Anyways.  I told both boys that they needed to eat their food at the kitchen table, and if they even stepped foot on the kitchen floor, snack time was OVER.  Then I turned my back and commenced doing dishes. 

Not two minutes later, I turn around to find Quinn standing on the dining room table, a full room away, munching on a hard-boiled egg.

Mom: "QUINN!  WHAT did I tell you about eating your food at the table??"
Quinn: "You said don't touch the kitchen floor, and I didn't!  I went from one stool to the next, and made it up here without touching the floor!"
Mom:  "That's not what I said."
Colby: "Yes it is.  I heard you."
Quinn: "You degreed it."
Mom: "What?"
Quinn:  "You degreed, I could eat as long as I didn't touch the kitchen floor."

I'm thinking he meant that I agreed that he could eat as long as his feet didn't touch the floor.  Either way, that's not what I MEANT.  C'mon.  Really?!?!?!