Archive for the 'These People Crack Me Up' Category
January 24, 2008 @ 7:44 am | Filed under: These People Crack Me Up
Beanie on Handel’s Water Music: "Mommy, this may sound funny, but just being near it makes me feel warmer."
January 18, 2008 @ 2:07 pm | Filed under: These People Crack Me Up
Says Beanie, with a big hug: "Mommy, I want to model you in everything. Well, except for the grumpiness."
Ouch! LOL!
(It was that kind of week. Too many doctor trips lately!)
December 11, 2007 @ 9:33 am | Filed under: These People Crack Me Up
"Mommy, the rule I’m going to have for all my kids is: Never kill a shark."
December 11, 2007 @ 7:09 am | Filed under: These People Crack Me Up
Beanie: "Mommy, you know how they say a star is like a diamond in the sky? If you had a star, you could give it to a shop owner. It must be expensive to run a shop. Diamonds make you rich, so I think that would really help."
December 2, 2007 @ 8:00 pm | Filed under: These People Crack Me Up
Overheard, Rose to Jane: "You know why I wouldn’t want to be Supergirl? She can never get her ears pierced!"
(Later, they decided that exposure to Red Kryptonite, just long enough for a needle to pierce the earlobe, would solve the problem—in its presence, Supergirl loses her invulnerability. Such are the weighty topics we discuss over Sunday dinner.)
December 2, 2007 @ 11:29 am | Filed under: These People Crack Me Up
"Mommy, do you know why you will always survive a shark attack?"
"Ooh, why?"
"Because you never get in the water. You always stay on the towel with the babies."
I guess I can’t argue with that.
November 26, 2007 @ 11:22 pm | Filed under: These People Crack Me Up
Beanie said to me tonight, "Did you know I saw a moose at the park today?"
Me: "A moose? Really."
Bean: "I think so. It was big like a moose, and it had a moose’s tail."
(Because, you know, a moose’s tail is its distinguishing characteristic.)
Bean, continuing: "But it was a long way away."
Me: "Like, say, in Maine?"
Beanie (laughs): "No, Mommy, at the park. Here."
Me: "Ah, yes. You said that. Here. In San Diego. A moose. How did I miss it?"
Bean: "You were at the swings. I saw it from the climby thing. It might have been a dog. But I’m pretty sure it was a moose."
Me: "Well."
Bean: "Or…it could have been a person."
Hmm. Could it be that we are not quite the astute observers of nature I had supposed we were? I mean, there I was all proud of myself for identifying a viceroy butterfly on a eucalyptus tree, and I completely missed seeing the large dog-man with the tail of a moose.
A tiger? In Africa?
November 23, 2007 @ 7:26 pm | Filed under: These People Crack Me Up
Beanie, on the subject of Oscar Mayer weiners: "Are they named after Oscar Wilde?"
November 21, 2007 @ 7:21 am | Filed under: These People Crack Me Up
Ramona just added another eight years to my life.
If I were to make one of her mom’s Thanksgiving centerpieces, I’d have to put Ramona’s picture there for sure, right next to my Beanie’s. Between the two of them, I could live another three hundred years.
November 6, 2007 @ 7:48 am | Filed under: These People Crack Me Up
"What if God really made a Great Pumpkin? What do you think he would look like?"
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