A Tale of Rabies

This funny comes courtesy of Nana who was kind enough to take the boys to the zoo while I had a wonderful time at the dentist...
"At the zoo the other day when we were eating lunch, they were all having fun watching squirrels. We saw one with no tail and Ryan said, yep, that means he has rabies!"

I Love Lukeisms

Luke just told me he could walk on his "thumb toes" underwater. I'll never call them "big toes" again.

Hopefully Not His Only Talent

Luke's strange and interesting fact for the day - he can lick his own elbow. Try it for yourself - it's next to impossible.

Drink and a Haircut

Don took the boys to play putt-putt today and the course has several old buildings you play through.  Don looked up and said, "Hey we get to go to the saloon now."  Ryan replied with, "No way - I don't want a haircut!"

Daily Pains

I had a sudden pain in my stomach today and yelped. They all wanted to know what was wrong and I said my appendix just burst.
Showing no concern at all for me, Andrew said, "Oh well that happens to me every day."

Granny Gimicks

I looked at Flynn while we were eating dinner and said I felt bad for him - he was laying on the back porch looking pitiful.
Andrew said not to worry about him because he was asleep. Ryan looked over and said, "He's not asleep. He has Grandma eyes."

I wasn't aware of this phrase but all three boys agreed that it is a widely used term to mean you are pretending your eyes are closed but you are peeking. Who knew??

Fruity

Quote from Ryan -
"I'm not a vegetarian - I eat fruit!"

Can't Fake Him Out

In a parade this weekend, we saw a float representing the local water park. At the top of the float was a lifeguard sitting in the lifeguard stand.
We happened to see the float later in the day and we realized that it was a mannequin instead of a real person.
When this was pointed out, Luke said, "It is a real guy. It's a real dummy guy."

Nope... Only Cows

Luke just asked me, "Are there cars in Texas?"

Coin Expert

Andrew picked up a penny and yelled, "Whoa! This is a 2013 penny! It looked more like a 2011 until I saw the year."

Egg Obsessed

We had an exciting change at our house this week. Our lizard, Griffin, laid eggs. This was a bit of a shock because we've had her for 3 years and thought she was a boy!
Luke is thrilled with the whole thing and told me this... "Maybe Flynn is a girl, too! I can't wait for her to lay puppies!"

Tennis Expert

Sticking with his "favorites" theme, Luke asked what was my favorite sport.  We were on our way to play tennis so I said, "As much as I like to play tennis, I don't really like to watch it.  I like to play tennis and golf but I'd rather watch football, baseball or basketball.  I used to watch tennis all the time but now I don't even know who's playing so I get bored."
Luke replied, "Not Daddy!  He loves to watch tennis.  He knows ALL those girls' names!"

Confident in His Answers

After asking for everyone's favorite movie, Luke informed us that his favorite is Despicable Me 2. I told him he hadn't seen that one yet since it wasn't even released. He nodded and said, "But I know it is going to be my favorite!"

Fatherly Advice from Luke

Luke has been on a roll lately with talking. Nonstop. About anything.
His latest conversations all start with "Mom. What is your favorite..."
He asked what my favorite ride at Disney World would be. That's a hard one but one ride I mentioned was Pirates of the Caribbean. He got all excited and agreed and said he loved the hill in that one. Of course Andrew said he hated the hill and we were crazy. Luke said everyone should love it other than babies. I reminded him that he had ridden it as a baby and loved it. His reply - "Well I was not a teeny baby. You shouldn't take a baby that you just got born that day onto that ride. They wouldn't like it."

"Loves To"

This is probably my favorite report card ever.  Luke's PreK teacher was kind to write it this way.  She mentioned several times that he was a bit of a talker!

Chicken Tales

Ryan came in the house and announced, "Well. I just had a talk with Red about multiplying!" Red is one of our hens and I assumed Ryan was wanting her to have baby chicks. I didn't want to go into the details of the fact we don't have a rooster and have to explain all of that. Thankfully when I asked him what he meant he said, "You know, I just told her 2 times 2 is 4!"

Sadly, last night Ryan's chick, Waffles, died. Ryan wasn't home and Luke cried and cried. He finally said, "Ryan will be sad. He can share the other chicks." Thinking he meant to share his chick, I told him that was sweet and Ryan would love to share Ariel. He quickly let me know that he meant for Ryan to share Jeffrey (Andrew's chick).

I'm Waiting for Mine, Too

Ryan just seriously asked me when I thought he would be getting his inheritance. As I laughed he said, "What? Not til I'm 20?"
Don't I wish!

Sick Day

Poor Andrew is missing the last day of third grade - he has strep throat.
On the way to take Ryan to school, Andrew said he wished he could go because the last day was always so fun.
Ryan tried to help him with the following:
Ryan: At least you only have strep. You're lucky you don't have lice. If you had lice you'd have to take a bath in tomato sauce.
Andrew: I think you have to take a tomato bath if a skunk sprays you - that's not for lice.
Ryan: Oh yeah. You're lucky a skunk didn't spray you.

As we got close to home, Luke said, "Don't forget to get us crackers and Sprite when we get home!"

I had to remind him that he isn't sick, but he is enjoying crackers and Sprite as I write this!

Roundabout Help

I'm trying to get 3000 things done before dinner/baseball tonight. I just got frustrated (it happens!) and sighed and told Luke I was never going to get it all done. He looked really sweet and said, "You need help to make dinner?" I was surprised and started to say yes when he added, "I can go get Ryan to come help you."

You Only Grow Once

This evening Luke told me his stomach hurt. A minute later he said his head hurt. A minute after that his knee hurt.
A lot had hurt today and I had told him that maybe he was growing. I barely had the words out of my mouth again when he held up his hand and said, "Mom. Don't say I'm growing. I already grew earlier today."