21 January 2011

Last night I was thinking about what I would blog about today.  I have NOT ONE picture on my camera from the week.  It was one of those weeks.  As we were tucking the kids into bed (all in Beckett's bedroom lately which I LOVE...I've been trying to get them to sleep with each other for YEARS in hopes that it means they will stop crawling in with US!) I was thinking about all the funny things they've said lately.   So I snapped one pic and here are your five, Kids Say the Darndest Things Edition...

1.  Beckett:  Mom, why can't Tate scream like a girl?  

Me:  Well, probably because he's not a girl.

Beckett:  But Mom, JACKSON AND I can scream like girls!

Me:  Oh believe me, I know. 


2.  One night I came home and the kids were calling E by a new nickname.  After I heard them call him "Rapunzel Pits" about 5 times I finally had to give in and ask.  E said "Avery asked me why boys have hairy armpits.  I told her it was because that's just the way boys are.  Then she started calling me Rapunzel Pits."  Nice.  Please don't do that in public, children.


3.  As we were leaving ECFE on Tuesday night Beckett's teacher told me that he was playing house and pretending he had triplets (that were actually Care Bears).  She said he pretended to put them to sleep and then laid on the kids couch they have in their classroom and told his teacher he was "watching an ADULT movie."  EEEK.  I tried to explain that we often rent 2 movies on a Friday night...one the kids can watch in the family room while E and I watch an "adult" movie downstairs.  Beckett always comes downstairs and asks "Is this inappwopwiate?"  She now probably thinks E and I watch porn.


4. Tate recently lost one of his front upper teeth.

Tate, yelling down the stairs:  Awwww, Man!  Still a tooth!  No money, Mom!  The Tooth Fairy forgot again!

Me:  Oh no!  What is her problem?

Tate:  Yeah, seriously, what is her problem?!

Oh Tater.  If you only knew.


5.  Last night Aves asked the question every parent dreads...

How do babies come out of mommys' bellies?

Ummm...

Cricket...Cricket...

After a few mumbles under my breath to E about what was appropriate I decided to give her a modified truth that I thought was appropriate for her age.  Before I could say anything she said "I think they come out of Mommy's belly buttons" to which Tate interrupted "but sometimes they have to have surgery to cut them out!"  Avery burst into tears and said she never wanted to have a baby because she didn't want surgery.  So instead of Sex Ed 101 for 5 year olds I just tried to console her that Mommy, both grandmas, and both aunts who have had babies didn't have to have surgery, but that even if she did (I told her Kelley had Braxton and Brielle that way) that she would be just fine.

YOWSERS.  That's enough for a Thursday night.