Hah! I knew I had read it! I just had to look it up. Awakenings by Trevise

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It's funny that things turned out the way they did, considering how the
weekend started. Usually it's Mom and me who get into trouble ("my
Earth women," Daddy calls us, "my two enterprising Earth women"), and
usually Dad who rescues us, and this weekend *did* begin that way.
Well, sort of. Dad didn't actually *rescue* us from that thing that
happened at the courthouse; he just teased us about it. And he didn't
rescue us from the Nycon building, either, which Mom was quick to point
out ... but he teased us about that, too.

Imagine.