Funny Fridays

it is true that kids do say the darnedest things, my kids are no exception.... below are a list of the ones that I find funny and/or odd....

1. one day this week we were waiting for an accident to clear. a pick up truck had slid underneath the trailer of a semi and it peeled back the cab of the pick up like a tin can. my oldest goes, "i hope that guy ducked!" ---me too, although i'm not so sure ducking would have helped that poor soul.

2. this is from a while back, but still funny. my now middle child was about 5-6 at the time and was in the dressing room with me trying on clothes. I tried on a sweater that I knew would need an undershirt, but i had an undershirt that would work at home, so i tried it on without the undershirt. my sweet little girl says "mommy, your balls are showing." I was laughing so hard i could hardly breath. she was trying to say my BRA was showing. The lady in the next dressing room, to her credit, was trying very hard not to be heard laughing hysterically at that comment.

3. another good one from Sissy that still makes me laugh - we had trouble with her saying things like - wow, that lady's really fat and things like that (now keep in mind she was 3-4 at the time) but we still have to watch her and give her the stink eye in line at stores and stuff to make her keep her mouth shut. one day we were standing in line at target behind a very, very large lady who was driving one of the go-go scooters. I had given Sissy the stink eye and Brother was just looking at me with this total look of fear that his sister was going to say something and we had almost made it through without incident and the lady was getting her bag to leave and just as we're almost in the clear, the lady has to back up for one reason or another. Brother was standing not too far behind her when the lady began to back up. of course you know the scooters have the safety option that beeps when you back up. so when the scooter starting beeping, Sissy yells at the top of her lungs - "brother look out, that big fat lady is backing up, get out of the way."

4. on the way home from vacation one year, after a week of being together in that "god just let me get home" mood of the last hour of the trip, Daddy had completely lost it and told the kids that he had had enough arguing. not a word - "not one more word until we get home out of either of you." to which they typically would be quite for a few min, but then the whispering starts and here we go again. but you know how, as a parent you have what i call the "scary quite?" i realize we've gone "scary quite" in the car and i look in the back seat to see that Sissy has gotten a rat tale comb out of my bag and proceeded to tease her hair. to the point that she has her hair so tight around that comb, it's stuck and i mean really stuck. so there she sits with a comb stuck to the front of her head and i'm laughing so hard i have developed side pains. I couldn't get it out for laughing so hard and Daddy gets mad because i can't stop laughing to help her. She's crying because i'm laughing at her and god help me, i cannot stop laughing. if that's not the kicker to the end of that vacation, i don't know what was. but yet every year, we seem to do it again....and every year that last hour before we get home daddy has the "not another word" moment and that vein in his head twitches......