We have our good friend's little boy, Bubba also, for the weekend. In the truck tonight, they sounded like an old married couple already while playing I Spy, which tickled Mower and I because we have always joked about an arranged marriage between our Bubbas.

Female Bubba (age 5 years 10 month, we’ll call her Bubba 1)

Male Bubba (age 5 years 4 months, we’ll call him Bubba 2)

Bubba 1: Let’s play I Spy.

Bubba 2: Okay.

Mommy: Let Bubba 2 go first, since he's our guest.

Bubba 2: I spy something orange.

Bubba 1, confirming: Something orange?

Bubba2: No! Something……green.

Bubba 1: Um, the trees?

Bubba 2: Um, yeah, they are green. Okay, yeah, I pick the trees.

Bubba 1, shrilly: That's not how you play! No, you have to know first what to spy and then the other person guesses!

Mommy: That's right. You have to decide what it is and then the other one guesses and you tell them if they are right or not.

Bubba 2 doesn’t speak.

Bubba 1: Okay, my turn. I spy something—

Bubba 2, like an old man without patience for his wife of 50 years to look at a menu: Pick something red!

Bubba 1, whining: He told me what to pick!

Mommy, snickering at how cute they are: It's okay, Bubba.

Bubba 1, resigned: Something red.

Bubba 2: Is it that round light?

Bubba 1: Nooooo.

Bubba 2, enthusiastically and so quickly Bubba 1 can’t even answer: Is it that one? That one? That? That? That?

Bubba 1, whining and sighing at the same time like a true married woman: This is too hard. How about knock-knock jokes? I'll start. Knock knock. (Pause, then nagging) Now you say who's there!

Bubba2 : Who's there?

Bubba 1: Banana.

Bubba 2: Banana who?

Bubba 1: Knock knock.

Bubba 2: Who's there?

Bubba 1: Banana.

Bubba 2: Banana who?

Bubba 1, giggling: Knock knock.

Bubba 2: Who's there?

Bubba 1: Orange.

Bubba 2 doesn’t say anything.

Bubba 1: Now you have to say orange who?

Bubba 2: Who's orange?

Bubba 1, indignant: Ugh! No!

Where can we take the kids for pre-maritial counseling? I'm thinking of checking with Elmo, who might have a recommendation for Dorothy, the all-knowing goldfish. But Spider-Man might have an opening in between saving Mary Jane and fighting the Green Goblin. Perhaps we should consult Scooby Doo and the gang--they can solve anything.