Funny things

1.  We went to see my parents a few weekends ago.  We left later than planned and ended up picking up dinner on the road instead of eating with my parents.

When we pulled up, the aroma of grilling filled the air.

We walked into the house and my parents were in the middle of eating.

Amelia popped herself up onto a stool next to my dad.

Amelia: That smells sooooooooooo good!  Especially the french fries!!  They smell sooooooo good!

Grandpa: Didn't you already eat?

Amelia: Ohh.  Yes. I already ate.

Amelia: But, you should still share with me.

Grandpa: I should?  You think so?

Amelia: Yes.  Yes you should.  You should share with me because I am so funny!

Grandpa: (snort and gives a half laugh) Because you are funny?

Amelia: See? I just made you laugh.  Share with me.


and then grandpa handed off the french fries.

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2.  Keeping summer hours with the kids has been fun.  Gemma still needs to sleep early as she has dropped her nap, but the big kids can stay up a little later as they don't have school in the morning.  Tonight, the kids picked to have a scavenger hunt.  John and I wrote clues for 2 separate scavenger hunts and hid the clues.

On William's clue I wrote the following in my best handwriting:

A picture of Mom and Dad before they got married.

Then I put it on the picture of us from when we got engaged.

William looked and looked before coming to us for help.

Turns out, he was looking for a picture of John and I before we were maimed.


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3. At breakfast, William and Amelia were fighting.  Fighting and fighting and fighting.  Fighting the only the way brothers and sisters will.  Despite my best efforts, there was no distracting or dissuading them from their endless fight.  Soon, Gemma started trying to get them to stop.  In the end, three kids were yelling at each other across the table at each other and no one could hear the other.  It was absolutely a picture of domestic bliss.

Finally a lull in the fight occurred and I loving told my gorgeous children the next one of them to talk, scream or peep would be losing their privileges.  Gemma wasn't done yet.

She stood up in her chair, spoon in hand and pointed her spoon at William.

"You not listening!"

Spoon pointed to Amelia.

"You not listening!"

Both hands pointed back at herself.

"I not listening either!!!"