Chuckle 1: I told my daughter not to worry if it didn’t work out with her 1st grade boyfriend, that there were plenty of other fish in the sea. Her response – “Mom, I’m not going to marry a fish.”
Chuckle 2: For whatever reason we are not sure, but our 3-year-old decided to tear up a piece of paper into many tiny pieces. She then proceeded to place the tiny pieces of paper into her dad’s water bottle. Her dad, not knowing what she had done, then went to drink out of the water bottle. As you guessed, he was soon spitting up paper and coughing!
Chuckle 3: Michael comes home from work and says – Why does it look like a Smurf threw up all over the bathroom? My three-year-old had eaten Cookie Monster (blue) ice cream the night before. She didn’t throw it away when she was finished but had “stored” it somewhere in our home, probably in her room. When she found an opportune time, she splattered it all over the bathroom floor.
Chuckle 4: One lovely day, our family went through the drive-thru at Wendy’s. Keep in mind, we are a family of 7 so this was a rather large order. We ordered 5 kid’s meals. We make our way home. I tell each child to bring their own kid’s meal in from the front seat of the car. Grace picks up her kid’s meal, and soon starts crying. She accused me, yes me, of eating her cheeseburger in her kid’s meal. Both she and Emma received kid’s meals where the main course was forgotten accidentally. I gently assured Grace that I did not eat her cheeseburger and that a worker had accidentally forgotten to put it in her bag. Yikes!
Chuckle 5: My 2-year-old understands the word “no,” but often times she goes ahead and does whatever she wants to do anyway. Climbing on the table and chairs is a big thing for her! Unfortunately, she stuck her hands in her sister’s potty recently (right after she had urinated) and then stuck them in your mouth. This had almost happened several times before and I had been able to stop her in previous times but couldn’t stop her in the most recent time. Since it happened the one time, her sister screams “no, no, no” really loud when she gets close to the potty now.
Chuckle 6: My children enjoy swim lessons at the YMCA quite a bit. We started them as 6-month-olds taking swim lessons. They started moving more and more each time they heard us reciting a nursery rhyme or singing a song. We sang the “Hokey Pokey” and “The Wheels on the Bus” in the water and did motions. Unfortunately, my 12-month-old wasn’t sure when we were finished swimming this evening. So when we went back to the locker room to change, she laid down on the floor (of course the floor was very wet from other people changing in the family room prior to us) and pretended to swim on the floor!
Chuckle 7: At Faith today after the service, Jan asked you what you learned in children’s church. Your response: too much! 🙂
Chuckle 8: Anna you were holding Ryan recently and noticed that he did not have any teeth! You said you would go and buy him some! I then explained that when you were born you didn’t have teeth either, you gave me a very surprised look!
Chuckle 9: We tried to go to a live nativity tonight at St. Mark’s UMC in town. Unfortunately, they canceled it because of the weather. However, our 5-year-old was really cute talking about attending the nativity on the way there. I told her we were going to see baby Jesus, Mary, Joseph, the Three Wise Men, Shepherds, and the animals. Her response was: “But I don’t know Jesus.”
Chuckle 10: Today is Easter and I think my 3-year-old expected to see Jesus. We went to Maundy Thursday Service and Good Friday service last week at Trinity Lutheran Church. I told my daughter this morning that Jesus had risen from the dead and we practiced saying — “Jesus Has Risen”, response – “He has Risen Indeed.” When we got to church, my three-year-old pretended to be on the phone and she was saying — “Jesus, where are you, Jesus where are you?” So cute!
Chuckle 11: My children were brushing their teeth unsupervised one evening. Instead of placing toothpaste on the brush, my 4-year-old attempting to help my 2-year-old brush her teeth, put Desitin on the toothbrush for her to use instead of toothpaste. Gross!
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