Sunday Mugshot Line-up – Whodunnit?

As I was changing the twins’ nappies in the front room the silence which came from the kitchen was deafening.  Not least because I knew that three little boys were in there.

Using the parental formula of:

3 (little boys < 5 years old) + sound/silence = Mischief² + Nothing good possibly going on = 100,000 (Alarm Bells) 

I quickly finished off what I was doing and went off to investigate.

My forensic skills quickly homed in on the fingerprints and smears of damp cocoa powder, and a previously much fuller hot chocolate container.

Now to find the responsible one… or three.

“Joseph, have you been eating hot chocolate powder from the tub?”

Joseph gave a very innocent ‘no’ answer.

“Oliver, have you been eating hot chocolate powder from the tub?”

Oliver gave a very innocent ‘no’ answer.

“Paddy, have you been eating hot chocolate out of the tub?”

Paddy didn’t even bother to lie.

“Yes,” he said – very matter of factly, ‘But they did too!”