While breakfasting this morning with my 5- and 7-YO daughters this morning, I made my usual inquiry into whether or not they had any interesting dreams. My 5-YO usually likes to make one up if she didn't have one because she likes to participate. She is also at that stage where she likes to work in something shocking just to gauge a reaction when she can. So she pipes up: "Yeah, I had a dream. Zoe and I were having a birthday party and at the party we could blow boogers into your mouth and eyes..." I looked at her and dead-panned, "Ali, that doesn't sound like a real dream..." My other daughter, Zoe, interrupts and says, "Yeah, that's not a dream... that's a PLAN!" I started laughing uncontrollably and soon we were all reduced to a wriggling pile of gigglers. Gosh, it feels so good to laugh like that.
They say the darnedest things. My six year old girl says some of the funniest stuff ever. For instance: She can never remember the name of the Crocs sandals we all have. We were out at my in-laws in the backyard and we had all gotten ours muddy. She goes up to her grandmother and says, "Nanna, mommy says we have to go home now and wash our Crotches." She has an extensive collection of stuffed animals - the more obscure the animal, the more likely it is that she has it (ie. beaver, giraffe, bat, etc.). It is also a family past-time to attribute one's flatulence to one of the pets or even inanimate objects. We are sitting in her room when she rips one and then says, "Whoops, my beaver farted". We had a kitchen full of people and I was trying to zing her with one of those stretchy rubber sticky hand thingies and it hit her kind of low. In front of everybody, she says, "oh, right in the nuts!"
I once snatched a 20 out of a Best Buy cashiers hands with one of those things. He had no idea what happened... Carry on
Haha, that's so cute. I'm amazed how cute my sister and I were/acted when I look back at old videos. Having kids some day will be a blessing.
I'm not a dad or really much of an adult but from past work experience, I can definitely say working with little kids might be some of the most fun work you'll ever do. God they crack you up on a consistent basis and even on a bad day, they'll always cheer you up. I really miss that sometimes.
If you ever get the chance, get a copy of Art Linkletter's "Kids Say the Darndest Things." It's just stories from his House Party show of the 50-60s but most of it is just classically and instantly funny.
