Fishing

We went fishing on Mother's Day.  We passed a kind gentleman who asked Fin if he was going fishing.  Fin held up his pole and said, "Yeah!"  "Well, good luck," said the man.  "Thanks!" said Fin, "I already caught an octopus!"

Later that day, Fin asked me to sing the "sunshine" song.  I sang You Are My Sunshine and when I finished, Fin patted me on the shoulder and said, "Mommy, I will never take your sunshine away."  LOVE HIM!!!

Dandelion stains

When I went to get Clara up from her nap yesterday, I noticed she had brown stains on her shirt, arms, and legs.  I smelled the spots but they smelled fine.  I asked her what the spots were.  "Poop!" she replied.  "Clara, it's not poop.  What is it?"  "Poop!" she answered again.  Trying another tack, I said, "Where did it come from?"  She looked me square in the eye and answered, "My bum!"  (I later figured out the stains were from dandelion stems that she'd smuggled into her crib).

Yogurt overload?

We were relaxing outside and Fin was laying with his head resting on Dru's abdomen.  Suddenly he sat up, patted Dru's belly, and said, "Daddy, you have a big belly.  Did you eat a lot of yogurt to get your belly so big?"

Maybe it was YOU

After Clara went to bed, I opened up the cupboard where we keep the DVD's and found a puzzle and some other toys in there.  "When did Clara get in here and put these here?" I exclaimed.  Fin retorted, "maybe it was you who put them there!"

I've told the kids that if they don't get caught when they do something wrong, it's still wrong because Jesus sees it.  Fin went to bed the other night and instead of staying in his bed I heard him throwing his ball and heard the ball hit something (I'm assuming his dresser) and he said, "Oops, sorry Jesus!"

At least she's honest...

On the way home from church, Clara was saying something in the backseat.  Fin said, "Mo-oooom! Clara said a bad word!"  I turned around to ask her if that was true but before I could ask, she held up 2 little fingers and said, "Two bad words.  I said two bad words, Brudder!"  It took near superhuman strength to hold back my hysterical laughter.

Too Early

At 6:45 this morning, Fin came running into my bedroom crying.  I asked him what was wrong and he said, "It's too early to get up!"  I said, "well, then, go back to sleep!"  "But Mommy, the sun is up!"  "Finny, we can still sleep even when the sun is up."  (wailing) "Nooo, we can't! The sun won't let us!  It came up too early and now we have to wake up!"

Funny/Broken Leg

I was watching cartoons with the kids and this silly monkey was singing a song about bananas - Fin and I kept looking at each other and laughing.  Clara, however, was sitting silently in my lap.  After Fin and I went into another round of giggles, she looked square at me and said somberly, "I don't want to laugh," then crossed her arms and stuck out her lip.  That made me laugh even harder.

This evening Dru and I got home from a date and the babysitter told us that Fin's new spiderman action figure's leg had broken off.  Later, when Fin was showing it to me, I asked him what happened.  "Oh, spiderman was watching the Bear in the Box [jack-in-the-box] and when the music stopped the bear jumped up and scared him and he broke his leg."  HAHAHA!