Funny Things My Kids Say, Volume 37

Daryle: "I'm hungry! I think I'll eat Ya'shar's ears for breakfast!!!" (He picked up Ya'shar and proceeded to "chew" his ears and tickle him till he giggled so hard he couldn't breathe!)

Ya'shar (gasping for breath): "But Daddy! You can't eat me! Then you'd be an eagle!!!"

Ma-lak (always able to translate): "No, he means you can't eat people because it's ILLEGAL!!!!"

Ooooohhhh....

I love that our kids get so excited about going to church and they anticipate it all week long! Almost every morning, one or some of them ask, "Is today church day?" And I say, "No, not till next week."

The other day, the girls were playing with their dolls and I overheard Ni'ke saying to Rea, "I know! Let's go to my next week church!"

I asked her what her "next week church" was, and she said, "You know, the church that we always go to "next week." Too funny.

Last night I sent the kids upstairs to put on their pajamas and brush their teeth before bed. Our usual routine is that I help them do their flossing at night because it's a little calmer than in the morning and we have more time. Rea has been trying to do it herself, but her teeth are so crowded, and it's so awkward for her, I usually have to help her too. I walked up the stairs and heard her in the bathroom, sobbing. When I opened the door, she had about 3 feet of dental floss wrapped around her hands and fingers and was having a rough time! (We were out of the much easier floss picks!) She looked at me with her eyes full of tears and said, "If I don't floss my teeth, Dr. Berger is going to be really mad and he won't let me pick a prize from the prize shelf next time!!" I assured her that Dr. Berger would understand if she needed some help and that he's NOT big and mean and scarey! Who knew that pencils and fake plastic chatterbox teeth were such a huge incentive for flossing?!

On Ma-lak's homework paper this week, he was asked to write 4 different sentences using the following words: buy, pretty, my, else

So he wrote:

My mom is really pretty.
I wish she would buy me a new dinosaur.
She doesn't have anything else to do.