Funny Conversations: Latin Vocabulary

Evan: Mom, I’m reading my Latin words from the next few chapters.  You’re my mater…
Mom: Yep.
Evan: …and Daddy’s a homo!
Mom: ::sputtering::  Um, right.
Glossary: mater=mother, homo=man

Lack of Trust?

After we returned home from trick-or-treating, Kendall took her candy to her bedroom. As we don’t allow the kids to have food out of the kitchen, I asked her to bring it back downstairs.  She brought it down in a box with this inventory taped inside the lid. Hmmm…

Halloween

For Halloween, we had an Indian Princess and a Power Ranger (notice the Ninja death blade the Power Ranger is carrying–long story).  The Power Ranger was extremely nearsighted until we convinced him that he could indeed wear his glasses under the mask.
A couple months ago, the kids were trying on all the Chinese clothes we [...]

Ghost Spider and Fleeing Woman

Evan introduced me to his newest Lego creation this morning at breakfast. It is called the “Ghost Spider”. He was showing me all of its features.
He must very carefully observe how things go at our house because, as he set a Lego person next to the Ghost Spider on the counter, he said, “Look! It [...]

Funny Conversations: Itchy Armpits

Kendall:  [reading the box of cold medicine] Temporarily relieves runny nose, sneezing, itchy nose or throat, itchy, watery eyes…
Evan: Kendall, does it say anything about “itchy armpits”?

Bible Comics

Evan loves comics. His favorites are Garfield and Calvin & Hobbes. While we were driving to and from piano lessons this morning, he created a whole cast of characters for his own Bible comics. Maybe I can get him to draw them. Here are the heroes and villains and their powers, as explained to me:
The [...]

Funny Conversations: Estate Planning

Evan:  Mom, when you die, are you going to leave me everything you own?
Mom:  Evan!  Why would you ask such a thing?!!!
Evan:  Sorry.  (Pause)  Well, will you?
Mom: (laughing) Don’t you think your sister should get a share of the inheritance?
Evan:  But I’m the boy.  (Thinking)  Does Daddy have a will?
Mom: (laughing too hard to respond)
Evan: [...]

Things You Don’t Expect Your Picky Eater to Say

“Can I have some more of that cabbage?”  It was stir-fried with a bit of oyster sauce. I was convinced he must not know it was a vegetable.
“I like mozzerella, parmesan, and a little bit of cheddar is okay, I guess.”  From a child who used to eat only the rubbery, individually-wrapped processed cheese food [...]

Funny Conversations: Let’s be Reasonable

We are dogsitting, so we stopped at the pet store to pick up a few breath-freshening doggie treats.  Unfortunately, the pet store had a bunch of cats at the front of the store that were available for adoption.  Our cat died nearly two years ago, and the lobbying for a new furry friend had died [...]

Funny Conversations: Unusual Excuses

Mom:  Evan, I told you to get your math and get to the table.
Evan:  (with light saber in hand) But I’m practicing the Jedi arts!