Acting!

Hope told her soccer coach that she needed to lie down on the side of the field last night during the game because she was having "chest pains."

I begged her to brush her hair this morning. (Is it too much to expect a kid to brush her hair once a week?) She did it, but had to dramatize it for me by saying that combing her hair felt LIKE A JAGUAR IS SCRATCHING MY HEAD WITH HIS CLAWS! AND BITING MY CHEEK!!