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!

More chocolate

While in the car, Clara was singing one of her made up gibberish songs.  Suddenly, we heard "la da doo de more chocolate laa deee dooo."  Dru and I looked at each other and said simultaneously, "Did she just sing 'more chocolate'?"  That's my girl!

Slight misunderstanding

Fin misunderstood me twice today with quite funny results...

Fin (running in from finding an egg in the chicken pen): Mommy!  I found another egg!
Me: Great job!  Did you find it in the roost or on the ground?
Fin: Mom, we don't have any roosters, only chickens.  Silly mom!

Later that day.....

Fin (coming in after helping Dru set gopher traps): Hi, Mom!  What's for dinner?
Me: Spanish chicken.
Fin: Smashed chicken?  Oh, just like we smashed that gopher out there!

UH ice cream?

Clara was making an obnoxious noise and it was driving Fin crazy.  Finally, in an effort to completely distract her, he asked, "Baby?!?  What is your favorite ice cream?"  Clara stopped making the obnoxious noise and started thinking out loud, "Uhhhhh, uhhhhhh...."  Fin interrupted and said, "Your favorite ice cream is UHHH? Can you put chocolate on that?"

Chicken story

Dru was outside with the kids the evening we got our new chickens while I was inside making dinner.  Fin suddenly burst through the door and hollered, "Mom, do we have any chicken stories?"  Before I could answer, he ran into his room, grabbed something, and was headed back out again.  "Fin, wait!  What did you get?"  "A book!  The chickens want to hear a bedtime story, Mommy!"  A minute later, Clara ran in, grabbed a book from her room, said, "I need to read the chickens a story, too, Mommy!" and ran back out again.  They love our new chickens!

Smelly Dad

Dru got home from work and was trying to cuddle with Fin on the couch.  Fin kept getting up and walking away.  Dru finally said, "Fin, why don't you want to sit with me?"  Fin answered, "Because you smell SO bad!"