Sorry about not posting yesterday. I was in Texas all weekend for a blogging conference and forgot to blog. Yeah, I know.
Anyway...
1. I was cleaning the kids ears with Q-tips (don't judge.) and had finished the girls and was starting on the boys when the girls came running into the boys' room. "Get into bed." I said.
"We want to see the gunk in the boys' ears!" they said.
"You can see the boys' JUNK later!" I told them. Then corrected myself, "I mean Gunk."
2. My 3 year old waved her fist at me and said, "Talk to the hand." I laughed but didn't bother to tell her that she was supposed to put her hand out flat. Later she did it to my 8 year old and from the side I could see that she was making a fist but that she was moving her thumb up and down as if the fist were speaking. I think it's much funnier that way!
3. My 6 year old son was talking to my other son in another room. I heard him say dismissively, "She's just a chick." Ever vigilant for sexism I ran into the room and asked, "What did you say?" He put his hands in his armpits, squatted down, flapped his 'wings' and said, "she's a CHICK."
I laughed sheepishly.
4. Last weekend we went apple picking. The next day I made two apple pies. They came out of the oven just as we were sitting down to dinner. After dinner I had a piece. It was delicious. My 3 year old had icecream. When she was done with her icecream she came to sit in my lap while I finished. I offered her a bite. She hesitated. "It's good." I told her. She tried it. She didn't say anything.
A minute later she got down from my lap. I didn't notice where she went but my husband heard her muttering, "That was very, very, very, VERY good." as she walked over to the silverware drawer and grabbed a spoon. She came back and proceeded to finish my apple pie.
5. Last week my husband did a bunch of laundry. He had three laundry baskets stacked high with clean clothes for my daughters. As he walked into their room, my 5 year old was in the way so he stopped. My 3 yo, walking in behind him, stopped when he did and then yelled, "HEY! Watch where you're going Steve!"
We didn't point out that he wasn't going anywhere, he was stopped. We DID, however, point out that his name isn't Steve.
6. My husband was in the army. My 7 yo wants to be in the army some day. The other day my 6 yo turned to me and said, "Mom, I don't want to go into the army."
"Ok." I said. "why?"
"I don't want to get SHOT!" he said.
It seemed reasonable.
7. My husband asked me if I would leave him if he stopped helping me with some household chores (he was kidding.) "I'm too cheap to divorce you." I said. "If I wanted to get rid of you I'd just start feeding you bacon."
Him: "Mmmm, bacon."
8. My sister had a Halloween party this weekend. My brother made his wife stop at iparty on the way so that he could buy a severed hand. He walked up to my 5 year old nephew when he got there and said, "Put her there!" and held out his hand. When my nephew shook it, my brother let go of the hand so it came out of his sleeve and he started screaming." My nephew looked at my brother screaming, looked at the bloody, severed hand that he was holding and started screaming bloody murder. I laughed SO hard at the retelling I wish I had been there.
9. Every night at Dinner I go around the table and ask each of my children what their favorite part of the day was. Tonight, my 5yo said, "This moment."
*sniff*
10. While I was in Texas I bought knee high dark brown leather cowboy boots. I had only planned to wear them with my jeans on the outside but this morning when I was putting them on my jeans got stuck on the inside so I just zipped them up that way. The look on my husbands face was pure LUST. "You're going to wear those later." he said.
And, well, I'm off to bed. Spurs and all.
Love,
Kit
I laughed out loud at work about the boys' JUNK. And I'm devising a plan to kill my husbad with death by bacon. Thank you for the idea.
Posted by: Krista | October 26, 2010 at 08:21 AM
We went apple picking a couple of weeks ago. Came back with 29.5 pounds of apples. On Sunday I made apple sauce in the slow cooker, apple cinnamon muffins and apple cheddar pizza. The last one, NHL took a bit of and proclaimed "This is the best pizza you've ever made!"
Of course, if I eat any more apples I'm going to turn into one. Only about 14 more pounds of apples to go...
Posted by: TechyDad | October 26, 2010 at 09:03 AM
I laughed so hard at some of these! And which Texas blogging conference were you at, out of curiosity?
Posted by: Serena Dante | October 26, 2010 at 04:21 PM
There's nothing like homemade apple pie from Mom! Yummy :) And I love the "talk to the hand" but with a talking fist. I'm going to try that next time!
Posted by: Alexandra the Tsaritsa | October 26, 2010 at 08:50 PM
SO FUNNY! Thanks for the laugh. Makes me want to start my top ten for the week. "Mommy how big is a himopotamous?" would be in there somewhere.
Posted by: Mary | October 26, 2010 at 08:53 PM
Mmmmm bacon
Posted by: Paxochka | October 26, 2010 at 08:59 PM
One thing that made me laugh yesterday: I was cooking supper while trying to supervise my 3yo decorating (not carving) a pumpkin. I always drain my ground hamburger meat when it's finished. Yesterday, I forgot to put the strainer in between the pan and the trash. Yep, I poured all my meat into the trash. Good times.
Posted by: Tracy | October 26, 2010 at 09:48 PM
thanks for sharing these, they definitely made me laugh too.
I love your dinnertime routine, that sounds great!
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