Summers are ALWAYS interesting, not becuase the house is filled with children, but due to the various ages of the kids. These are all kids that I have had since they were babies. There's never a dull moment in the house during our days. There's plenty of laughter, just as many 'WTF' moments, and more face palm times than I can count. I love every minute of the insanity. Here's a few lines and moments that stick out from our one month of summer break:
1.) "Don't sit on the dinosaur. It hurts your butt. That happened to me last week." Super long pause. "There's a bruise."
2.) Mulberries fall from our neighbor's HUGE tree.
Me: "Don't eat the mulberries off of the ground!"
Kid: "I didn't. I ate them off of the tree."
Me: "The tree clear up there that I can't even reach, that also happens to be all the way in the neighbors yard?"
Kid: Looks up at the tree with wide eyes.
Me: "Care to change your story?"
3.) Kids watched me bake brownies and gluten free vegan cookies for the next day's snack. I told them repeatedly when we were going to eat them.
Kid: "Can I have a cookie to go? I don't think I'm going to be here tomorrow."
Me: "You're definitely here tomorrow. That was an amazing try though."
4.) "I lost a shoe. I don't know where it is. It was on my foot one minute and the next it was gone." We found it in a bucket in the mud kitchen....across the yard from where the kid supposedly lost it. The dog nearly got blamed for that one.
5.) Cussing kids.
Kid 1: "Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, WTF, Saturday." All kids at the lunch table giggle.
Kid 2: "I know what HE double hockey sticks really means."
Kid 3: "Do you know the A word?"
Kid 4: "What about the S word?"
All Kids: "Ooohhh, that's so bad! You're NEVER supposed to say the S word. It's worse than the SH word."
After more clarification, the S word is stupid.
6.) "Can we listen to Build A B*tch?" said by a sweet, quiet 5 year old.
7.) "Everyone pause the burrito, I have to pee!"
* they were in the midst of a wicked round of Throw Throw Burrito *
