A few funnies from my boys...

This is a small portion of the entertaining things my kids have said, but I better post them before I forget...

While eating dinner one night Aaron was teasing me about having another salad. He said to the kids, "Your mom is a rabbit." That made Zack mad. He stood up in his chair and pointed at me while saying, "HIM NOT A WABBIT. HIM MOMMY!"

We were all packed and moved out, but had a few cleaning supplies and last minute things to take to a neighbors to store for us for a month (thanks Samye and Dustin!) From underneath everything in the van, I hear Ben yell, "How LONG are we going to be living in this car??" I just laughed out loud because it was day ONE and he had no idea how long we were actually going to be LIVING in the car... I replied with, "You haven't seen nothin' yet, kid!" He said back, "We really ARE homeless, aren't we mom?" Is that a bad thing for your kids to experience? I hope he doesn't grow up with issues.......

My friend, Jane, watched the boys quite a bit in the middle of my moving out craze (and so many others helped too!) One day while making lunch for the kids she asked Luke what he wanted. He said, "I will take a peanut butter and jelly sandwich with everything except for peanut butter." (So... you're saying you want bread and jam- was Jane's response.) And a minute later when she asked if they watched a particular show on Nick Jr, Ben responded matter of factly, "We watch it more often than we don't." Hmm..

All the kids were so excited about being in a hotel room for an extended stay. They kept going around to every corner, checking things out. Aaron and I would smile everytime we would hear a comment such as, "Hey! Look at this cool TV!" or "It even has toilet paper!" and even better... "Whoa, look a wall!" We were living like kings (with walls and EVERYTHING.) After a day or so of being in the room, Ben got frustrated when Luke was in the bathroom for a while and said to me, "Can't we stay somewhere that has at least TWO bathrooms or something." Getting a little picky, aren't you Ben.. just yesterday you were happy with toilet paper..

I was busy cleaning when Ben came up to me and said, "Mom, I just really need to know something.... Who is the lady in the Statue of Liberty?" I just rolled my eyes and said, "Why do you REALLY need to know that?" Ben said, "Well, I don't NEED to know, but I was just wondering about it." I shrugged my shoulders and told him that I think she's a French chick. Sounds like a future lesson for homeschool, but I am not in the mood to do any extensive research at the moment.

While hanging out at the Silverton Casino, we threw pennies in the pretend river/waterfall and made wishes. Then we spent a while in our hotel room talking about what we wished and why. Luke's WISHES cracked me up. He started out by saying, "I get to have lots of wishes because my first wish was brilliant. I first wished that I could make a wish any time I wanted... and then I thought of more." When we tried to ask about the other wishes, he wanted us to guess them. He gave us a few clues by saying, "The 4th wish has something to do with lizards and transformers." Ben said, "Do you wish there was a lizard transformer?" Luke's eyes got big and he ethusiastically said, "HOW did you guess that, Benny?" All the boys, including Aaron, thought that I wished for another baby.. but they were wrong. I just want our house to close on schedule. No point to bring another kid into the world when you aren't sure if you'll have a roof over your head....

Zack is REALLY a big boy and has had only a couple of accidents this whole month! He is so funny about going potty and wants to be left alone on the toilet (he can climb up himself and if you come in, he says, "Don't YOOK at me!") When he's done, he lets me know.. one day he came out screaming, "I pooped a rocketship!" of course, Ben and Luke had to rush in to see, and it was a long skinny, pointy poop that looked as if it was ready to fly up into space..

Another time while he was running around in the hotel room without his underwear, I said to him, "You better go get your underwear or I will spank your bare bum." He stopped, looked at me and said, "My don't have a BEAR bum. Mine is a mouse bum!" We all started laughing and I said, "You think you have a mouse bum, huh?" He laughed and said, "My have a mickey mouse bum!"

stay tuned... there are more funnies to come....