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I finally have a funny story.
I set up a little prayer corner (and where all the statues and holy cards keep disappearing to is another story) and overhead Allyson, 3, there this morning.
"Dear God. Please take away chores. Not all the chores, because I like clean clothes. Just my chores.
Thanks. Amen"
So at chore time I gathered the troops and then handed them their chores (I stick post-it notes on their clothes). I pretended not to have one for Allyson, then "found" a letter I had quickly typed up.
"Allyson,
No chores for you today.
Love,
God"
God does answer prayer!!
Jennifer
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I posted this little funny on my blog this morning, but I thought I'd share it here too (note ~ Crackerjack refers to my 6 yo son!  ):
We like to get to Mass early so we can get seats up close, get all settled in, and take some time to look around. Crackerjack loves to watch the altar boys lighting the candles, especially. This past Sunday, as this was happening, he turned to me and said:
"Mama, how old do I have to be to be an altar boy?"
"Well," I replied, "In our church, you must be 10 years old. Why? Do you want to be an altar boy someday?"
"Maybe." he said, and he went back to watching the candle-lighting. Our Pastor came out to attend to some matter and Crackerjack turned to me again.
"Mama, how old do I have to be to be a priest?"
"Oh," I said, "You have to be a grown-up man to be a priest. Why? Do you want to be a priest some day?"
He looked at me and smiled that Crackerjack smile.
"No, Mama. Don't you remember? When I grow up I'm going to be a baseball player with Brother. We're going to play for the RED SOX!"
It's good to plan ahead! :)
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What a coincidence, Dawn. My 7yo is going to play for the Red Sox too! Maybe we can get seats next to each other for the games  .
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Well then Dawn and Angie, your fellows will be playing against my two boys who are planning to play for the Cleveland Indians! 
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Hoo boy ~ it's going to be an interesting summer around here with all of us rabid sports fans! 
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Trying to prepare for Holy Thursday Mass and our passover-like meal tonight, I was reviewing Moses, the Ten Plagues and the first Passover meal. I asked the children:
Who can remember one of the Ten Plagues?
One of my kids responded:
Do you mean like honor your mother and father?
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Priceless, Helen!
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Although dh has served in the Air Force for 19 years, he's almost always worked in an office, so the kids aren't use to seeing him dressed as a soldier/airman. As he prepared to leave for a week in Afghanistan, his desert camouflage drew an interesting response from almost everyone as soon as they saw him.
3yo dd: "Are those your new pantsies, Daddy?"
5yo dd: "Whoa, Daddy, nice boots!"
9yo dd: "Did the boots come with the costume, Daddy?"
13yo dd: "Do you have to wear that ALL day?" (More like ALL week!)
and my personal favorite,
After examining him carefully with a puzzled look, 2yo ds said, "you aren't a man, Daddy."
Obviously, God knew I needed a few laughs to ease my anxiety over his leaving. btw, he never even made it to Afghanistan---his flight was diverted to Turkey and he's waiting for a flight home. Frustrating for him, but a relief for me.
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Ds has been down for a couple of days with a flu and sore throat. DD came home from school concerned that her brother might have the Mumps, which is going around. Ds overheard her expressing her concerns, but thought she said "The Monks." So he says "Great, does that mean all the hair on the top of my head is gonna fall out?"
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I enjoy all these wonderful stories. I had a few chuckles this week from my little one. Last week we had to do some "intervention" because he was seriously constipated. He was such a good soul in having to do these uncomfortable suppositories and such. He's at the age where he's mimicking Mommy and Daddy perfectly, and also loves playing Doctor.
Saturday I was vacuuming the house, but realized I needed to clean the beater bar. I put the vacuum on the ground and was poking at the bar. Ds runs over and asks me "Are you changing the vacuum's diaper?"
I was so hard, but he kept going. He started talking to the vacuum, going through our diaper ritual: "Hold still, I'll get the wipes and diaper.... Now I have to put Desitin."
But then he ran away and came back with a miniature plastic egg, and tells the vacuum: "Now, I have to put this medicine in your bottom. It's going to hurt a little bit, but you have to hold it in there. You'll feel all better."
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Ok....
So we're in the car this am and I ask Juliana - who'll be making her First Holy Communion on Sunday - what kind of a cake she would like...
Me: Would you like a white cake with strawberries?
Juliana: I would like a Hello Kitty cake.
Me: Oh, honey...this is for your First Communion, we can Hello Kitty for your birthday.
After a pause....
Juliana: Oh, I know! Why don't you do Hello Kitty in a First Communion dress?
Isabella - ever the practical one: I don't think Hello Kitty is Catholic.
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After watching one of my 6yo ds's many jousts (with his Playmobil knights) tongiht, I was putting him to bed. He was already planning tomorrow night's joust. He said, "Mommy, I think you should come because it's really magnificent to see them use a flail."
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My 3 yo was having a rough evening, and I finally just scooped her up and snuggled with her on the couch. She had been crying, and, referring to the tears rolling down her face, she says to me in the sweetest voice:
"I'm dripping"
So I pulled her in close for a hug, effectivly drying her tears on my shirt. She then looks up into my face, and so seriously says,
"Mama, did you smoosh my drips?"
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This is all so funny!
Well heres mine for the week. Our 3yo son was wrestling with brothers and cut above his eyebrow on the edge of a chair thus dh and I ended up in the ER with him. He got about 4 stitches.
Anyways, I was dreading the question about what time did it happen as it happened at 10PM and I was sure someone would ask what a 3 yo was doing up and wrestling at 10 PM  . Well our son kept a continuous chatter with everyone the entire time.
First he had to talk to the business office workers where daddy signed in. He informed them that they had a Sopwoth Camel. We're all looking at this airplane laughing and wondering where in the world the 3 yo figured out the name of the plane. It really was a Sopwoth Camel. He asked about the TV, the ER truck (ambulance), whether he was going to get to stay, etc., etc.
Then we are taken back to triage and he continues his conversation with the new nurse - telling her that he had a bad day because he got a bleeding cut - but his brother had a bad day too because he punched him in the nose and made it bleed and also had a broken bone but that was before he was born. He claimed to be 5 and said he once said he was 16. He was talking 90 miles per minute - except when they took his blood pressure because the nurse asked him to be really quiet while she squeezed his arm.
In the room waiting for the doctor, he continued his chatter - asking about the equipment, telling us that the power cords were snakes (but don't worry they aren't poisonous). The nurse came in and looked at him - and John continued his conversation now including her. He began calling her the lady Doctor to distinguish her from the male Doctor much to her amusement. In the litany of questions, she came to the question about speech - looked at me laughed and said normal without waiting for my answer.
Then he suggested that we leave and come back to pick him up - I think he wanted the experience that he remembered when we picked up a hospitalized friend for her dh who had a napping toddler. He also said he was going to stay and help them out - become a doctor. Then he commented that maybe he should become a mom because mom's don't wrestle and get bleeding cuts. After a while he decided that that wouldn't work - he'd have to be a dad. Then he wanted to know if the doctor was going to write something out about not getting bleeding cuts. I asked if the doctor gave orders for no more bleeding cuts, would it work.
John commented on the bed and how comfortable it was, then laughed and sat straight up when I suggested he pretend to go to sleep. Then he wanted to know why he couldn't see his cut - and he wanted to look at it.
I had explained to him earlier that it wasn't a really bad cut, but it was just big enough that we needed a doctor to look at it. He proceeded to tell the nurse that his cut wasn't too big. He also wanted to know how the bed worked - and on and on. At one point, he stopped and made a comment that he had a bleeding cut just like Jesus (like it was a badge of honor - the wisdom of little children) and he was going to pull a thorn out for Jesus (thanks to whoever suggested the playdoh crown of thorns this lent - obviously this made an impression on 3 yo) for and then he named the pregnant mom we know that was hospitalized for dehydration and extreme nausea.
Then we were waiting in the room for the doctor and after trying out all the chairs including the doctors spinning one (while mom and dad are trying to make sure he doesn't have another injury in the ER), he stopped looked up at the clock (which was past midnight) and said - "Mom its PM, I should be in bed by now." My husband and I couldn't contain ourselves anymore, we just cracked up - - which of course put ds on center stage and he really was hamming it up.
We were asked if he would cooperate and assured the doctor he would, just be sure to tell him what you are doing. Well, he just laid down, held my hand while they stitched him up and we talked about how the doctor was using something that looked like fishing twine and was sewing him up. (Can he use it to fish with after it comes out?) He wanted to see his stitches so we got a mirror and he said they looked like train tracks. He couldn't wait to show his older brother his train tracks and his "dog tags" (the hospital ID tag with his name on it and a bunch of numbers).
Then when it was time to sign more forms before leaving (by now it's after 1 AM), he wanted to know which forms he was supposed to sign. We let him write on the bottom of the ER evaluation form. They now have our praise of their good work, coupled with Johns scribble at the bottom.
Just before the doctor left, John looked over and said, "Maybe I should stay, just in case there are any more problems". We assured him we'd bring him back if he had any more problems. (He also referred to the ER as the doctor's house, said something about them working hard - which I am sure tickled everyone present). Anyways, John swaggered out as if he'd just had the best field trip of his life. Mom and dad were tired but we've never had more fun! Never thought I'd have fun in an ER.
Janet
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Hate to post again - but as we were praying night prayers and asking dc who to pray for. Ds with stitches popped up and said, "For me because I have major damage."
Janet
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Regina (4): Daddy, I like your yellow car. Can I have it when you die?
Daddy: (laughing) Sure, but that won't be till I'm much older.
Regina: (hopefully) Oh, I think your old enough to be dead now.
(I promise, we don't go around telling the grandparents what we want to have when they die. I don't know where this came from.)
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ROFL!! Thank you EVERYONE for the laugh...I love childhood wisdom! I needed some today!!
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Once upon a time ...right before Christmas, my dh and I had to go shopping for gifts for the children. We left them at my brother and sil's apt that windy night while we hurried around tying up loose ends. While we were gone, my ds then 5yrs old, got curious about a long snake like thing that was in front of the sliding glass door...The conversation, went something like this...
Aunt Melinda? What is that for?
It is for the drafts Joe.
Oh? You have drafts?
Yes...and they are pretty strong and we have to keep them out by using that thing there.
Joe...his eyes getting bigger...well...HOW do they get in??
They get in under the door...but that thing keeps them out..we get a lot of drafts here...you can really feel them in the closet...
You can FEEL the DRAFTS in the closet?
Yep! Here, come in here with me and I will show you...
Joe...peering into the closet would not go until Aunt Melinda said...It is OK Joe...come on in...Joe shruggs his shoulders and goes in.
Then Aunt Melinda CLOSED THE DOOR>>>
Can't you feel the drafts in here Joe?
Aaaaunt Mmmmelinda??
Yes Joe?
I can't SEE the drafts....
Of course you can't Joe, they are invisible!....
INVISIBLE??!! Then how do you know that they are in here?
Well Joe, you can just feel them...can't you feel them?
Aunt Melinda, how do you know it is safe in here?
Safe? Joe, it is just a closet...of course it is safe.
So is that why the drafts come?...to be safe? How come the drafts come into this place anyway?
Do they get hungry?
Aunt Melinda laughs for like an hour and we came back to her still chuckling over this incident, because you see...Joe THOUGHT she was saying GIRAFFES!
He still thinks giants live under the ground and cracks and holes appear on the Earth's surface from when they try to poke their heads out to take a look around...
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Something funny here:
Yesterday dd5 and I were baking a cake, dd looks at the food processor which had been working very hard and says, "If that was a person it would be exhausted!"
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That is a good one, Erin!
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