I didn't know!

Karsten has had strep and a virus that has caused a cough.  He actually ended up at Urgent Care last week because he was having what sounded to us like croupy sounds while he was coughing.  Since he was doing this at dinnertime, we knew it was going to be a rough night since croup gets worse at night.

With all this coughing, we've been having him take his inhalers every four hours.  Right before dinner I told him to run upstairs and take his inhaler.  He went upstairs then came back down after a few minutes.  I was picking up school papers on the island and discovered Karsten's inhaler (busted!)

Me: Hey Karsten, did you take your inhaler upstairs?
Karsten: Yep
Me: Really? The red ones? Are you sure?
Karsten: Yep!
Me: Come here
Karsten: Whhhhy, I'm playing. (Karsten sulks over to island)
Me: Look what I found! {points to inhaler}
Karsten: (stares at me with wide eyes)
Me: Your inhalers are here, but you said you took them upstairs, that's confusing.  How did you take them upstairs?
Karsten: I went like this (pretends to take inhaler)
Me: {laughter} You did what?
Karsten: But I didn't know where my inhaler was!  
Me: {more laughter} And you thought taking a pretend inhaler was a good solution?
Karsten: (shakes head)
Me: {still laughing at the ridiculousness of this}.  Karsten, you lied to me, is that ok?
Karsten: (sad voice and more tears) nooo
Me: Take your inhaler and always remember that mommy and daddy WILL find out when you lie to us.

Proud parenting moment right there - Scott and I could not stop laughing.