Smack-talk...

Via screen saver???

Joshua and Ruth discovered how to change the desktop screen saver to the 'text' option. About a week ago, I woke up, wandered downstairs, took my medicine, made my breakfast, sat down to read my email, and nearly spit my drink all over the monitor.

"Ruth poops her pants."

Knowing who the culprit was, I meant to say something to Joshua along the lines of being nice to his little sister, and how screen-insults were not appropriate. Unfortunately, I am so busy I could cry right now, so it just slipped my mind. Until the next morning when I read:

"Joshua wets the bed."

Shortly after that, her message was replaced with another, and yet another and still another, over the course of a week. After the third insult, I realized they weren't getting upset with each other (yet). We also discovered they thought Jeremy and I hadn't noticed their game. We had decided to allow it to continue, out of morbid curiosity, more than anything. And we've noticed a specific theme:

"Ruth squishes poop."
"Joshua eats turds."
"Ruth sits in crap."
"Joshua poops his pants."
"Ruth plays with anuses"
"Josh snorts Oz (Oswald's) turds"

While the delivery system is unique, I never did claim the insults to be creative. And I really don't get the obsession with feces...