I know my children are listening to me when....

I know my children are listening to me when I overhear them repeating something I have said. Today my husband was lying on the couch and one of my older children forgot to shut the baby gate at the top of the stairs. My husband yelled out to them to "shut the gate."

"Sam, can get the gate," my seven year old yelled.

My oldest yelled, "Tessa was the last one to go down the stairs."

Then I heard Tessa yelling, "Sam, you shut the gate, its your turn!"

Then Sam replied, "Tessa, you worry about Tessa and I'll worry about Sam."

My husband laughed, "Kids are so funny. They come up with the funniest phrases." If only that were true. As I was standing in the kitchen, I thought to myself, hmmmm, I wonder where he heard that phrase?