Our babysitter canceled at the last minute.

Our kids are so well behaved that we knew you wouldn't mind.

We know how much you love the little darlings

Ever since that incident with the priest, they freak out when left alone with strangers.

We're hoping that if we don't exclude them now, they won't exclude us when we are old and senile.

If we don't watch them every minute, they might run away.

We had to bring them, it's the only way to safeguard against kidnapping

What?! Leave them somewhere where aliens could duplicate them and put robots in their place?

Shhh, those aren't kids . . . they're very sensitive midgets.

It's one of the terms of their probation that we not leave them with unsuspecting strangers.

We didn't want to bring them, but it was the only way they'd let us have the car keys.