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alicegunther
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I thought it might be fun to start an ongoing thread in which we share funny stories about our children. We all have many, I know, and this would be a perfect place to pass them along. If we keep it up, it won't be long before we have a "4Real" memory book right here on the board!
Here is a typical example of banter in our house.
This afternoon, I was watching the children outside in the pool. The baby, much to my delight, was peacefully sleeping in a blow-up boat. Swaddled in a towel, she was the picture of tranquility and looked as if she could go on for another hour at least. Before long though, my three year old son began a series of his customary shrill shrieks.
"If you keep screaming like that," I scolded in a hoarse whisper, "you are going to wake the baby!"
"Actually," chimed in my eight year old, "if you keep screaming like that, you are going to wake the dead."
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Too funny! I am not a good storyteller, but I love this idea, Alice. My kids are very funny like that, so I will try to remember and share here once in a while.
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This happened with my youngest last year when he was 4.
We were at Mass and he asked me
'What is this in my torpedo?" I was a little confused because we don't take toys to Mass and definitely not weapons . Well he asked again, I looked closely at him and he was flipping through his MISSAL.
It was a really good thing Mass was ending because I was laughing so hard.
Btw, his Missal had been in my purse all week and the stubs from a movie we had seen slipped into his book.
Leave it to a boy to make a weapon out of anything!
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Last night I sat here at the computer, just around the corner from the stove, waiting for our late dinner to be finished. My very hungry 6 yos announced the time at 7:05 then came upset at 7:07...I wasn't paying much attention because he has been a very vocal impatient little boy for the past few months. I told him it would be ready in twenty minutes. He started to cry, "Its never going to be ready, mom...listen... you don't understand...first it was 5 then 7!" (7:05 then 7:07) Ds was used to watching my timer count backwards...I did not set it last night... he was watching time move forward and was extremely anxious that he would never eat!
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You folks are all so fun!
Trip, my child who never talks  , is always good for a laugh. His new project is compiling amusing stories and observations from his altar boy duties.
The other day he told me that he now knows why he must keep his hands folded and at a particular angle...you see, it's hard to walk with a cassock on, so he must create an air-foil to part the air so he can keep up with the priest. 
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When our little guy Andrew (going on 6) was four, I discovered that *someone* had ripped a large section of the wallpaper border off my teen dd's bedroom wall. The next-to-youngest was 8, everyone else older, so I was positive it had been the 4yo. I questioned everyone; no one knew anything about it.
I took Andrew to look at the damage, but he flatly denied doing it. I interrogated him for several minutes, and finally, he looked at me slyly and asked, "Did you *see* me do it?"
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What a great idea, Alice. Stop in here for a smile!
My 7 yo recently dressed as a fairy godmother complete with wand and came to me:
Kate: Do you have any wishes?
Me: Yes, world peace.
Kate: (sounding very confused) A piece of the world?
Me: (LOL) No, peace, as in no war or fighting.
Kate: Oh (light dawning in her eyes), that's a real hard one.
Loved this!
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Our 19yo son, John, has always been very mathematical and inquisitive. Once when he was four he was riding in the car with me and asked, "What does infinity mean?" Wow, what a question from a 4yo, I thought. I did my best to explain that infinity means the numbers go on forever. You can take a very big number, add one to it, and always get a larger number.
John listened intently, and then asked, "What would happen to me if I ate infinity green beans?"
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When our oldest, Dara, was four and her brother was two, she told me, "There's something missing in this world." When I inquired what was missing, she said, "A baby...YOUR baby." I told her that that was up to God, and she should pray to Him about it. She said, "Yes, and if you pray really hard, God will give you a baby girl, but if you don't pray very hard, He'll give you a baby boy." I guess she prayed hard, because she had a sister the next spring.
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When our youngest, Andrew, was born he was eight weeks premature and in the special care nursery for three weeks. He was in a glass incubator and was jaundiced, so they but him under bili lights. His incubator glowed blue. When our 4yo daughter Elizabeth saw this, she asked, "Why did they put the baby in a fish tank?"
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One day a few months back, I was basking in the blessings I've been given. I beamed at my kids and said, "How did I get to be so lucky as to raise three such incredible kids?"
Emily shrugged and said, "You're a Catholic. It's what you do."
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During January and February I temporarily babysat for a sweet little 2 1/2 yo girl. One day we were all in the living room reading, working on school work, etc., and I got out all the Fisher Price Little People (the old ones, not the new fat ones) for her and our 5yo to play with in the middle of the floor. After a few minutes, I glanced down and noticed she had put two of the men UNDERNEATH the two tractors. I asked her, "What are they doing under there?" She told me, "They're fixing the tractors, just like Papa does. They go BANG BANG." Her papa (grandpa) farms a little and apparently she had seen him crawl under the tractor to fix it. It was so cute!
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I have another funny Ronan story.
This spring we were on our way to the National Zoo to see the cheetah cubs. My two big kids were visiting their grandparents in Florida so we had a few Foss children joining us and adding to the fun of our trip . I wanted to make sure everyone saw their animal of choice so I went around the car asking what they wanted to see most. Everyone but Ronan answered BABY CHEETAHS! Ronan said BABY JESUS! I guess cheetah and Jesus do sound a little alike .
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Yesterday Christopher (5yo) took my sunglasses and put them on going up and down his face rather than across. Then he said, "Look, Mom. I'm Picasso."
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Today being Mary's birthday, we baked cake and then read Mary by Father Lovasik. As I was reading, my 2.5 yo was getting more and more excited. When we got to the part of Jesus's birth, he jumps up, grabs his plastic scooter and races out of the house onto my driveway, screaming... " I found her! I found her! I'm going to Nazareth! I'm going to Nazareth!"
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Got one!
Today, Paul was doing his copywork from Psalms. He finished, and proudly read his work...and declared it was from the Book of Possums (Pah-sams)! 
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We went to go up closer to visit Jesus in the tabernacle. Our toddler went extra close and looked like he was going to try to get in. We finally figured out that he intended to knock on the door.
During family rosary when all are busily attentive to God and not our toddler, he sometimes gets into a do whatever it takes to get attention. Well he began to crawl up and stand on this car garage toy. It really looked like he was proclaiming from his "pulpit" and we all spent the next half hour laughing before getting back to the rosary.
After our oldest son had just been trained by the sisters for altar serving, he proceeded to train his brothers with the Mass set we got from Our Father's House. They chose the toddler as the priest and had him fully vested in pint size vestments. They taught him when to elevate the host, etc. but the funniest was his homily. You have to understand that our toddler doesn't do anything much quietly and he sounded very much like a circuit preacher yelling at the top of his lungs - "I can speak till I'm blue in the face about vocations". Our priest had recently given a homily that started with those lines and he was quite tickled to hear it took with the 2 yo.
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I never remember the funny things my little ones do, but this one has been making me smile all week... This past Sunday our family went to a picnic attended by many of the Franciscan Friars of the Renewal (The Order begun by Father Benedict Groeschel) If you've ever seen Father Groeschel, you know the habit is a plain hooded grey robe tied with a cord and most of the Brothers have full beards. Well, my two-year-old, Hannah, was fascinatd by the Brothers, and whenever they would try to talk to her, she would touch the beard and ask the same question: "Are you Jesus?" Invariably they would reply: "No, but I work for Him." When she met Sister Lucille from the Sisters of the Renewal she yells "Look, Mom it's Mary!"
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I just learned about this humorous occurence from my daughters earlier today. A few years ago, when we were on vacation at the beach with my extended family, my girls and some cousins woke up earlier than the rest of the family. They tiptoed from the sleeping area to the kitchen area as a group. My oldest, seeing that no one else was awake yet when she got to the living room, turned to the rest of them and whispered, "The coast is clear." One of her younger sisters started getting very upset at this. Only after a few minutes did they realize that she thought her big sister had said, "The ghost is here"!!!
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A couple of weeks ago it was the Feast of Blessed Mary MacKillop. We read her story and the children were taking it in turns to tell Dad all about her. When it came to ds6, turn he said, "And she was executed!" (She was excommunicated).
Children are so funny!
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