i’m telling

Sam wondered into my room, looking concerned.

“Mommy, Lydia play slide,” he tells me.

“What do you mean by ‘play slide?’ ” I ask.

“Like this,” he answers, and he makes a motion with his hands like its sliding.

“I’ll go check.”

“I came to tell you. I not doing it,” Sam clarifies as we go down the hall.

It turns out Lydia was trying to reposition Sam’s train table to engineer a slide. “But it will be fun!” she laments when I tell her to put it back.