Friday Funnies

Anyone with small children knows that at any given moment said small child may say or do something that could potentially cause liquid to come out of your nose due to laughter. On the other hand as parents we usually have to keep a straight face because said child really isn't trying to be funny. And so, I am starting my first weekly "column" of sorts, the Friday Funnies.

Each Friday I will try to post the "best of" the Marinoff boys. Here we go.

Mack and I were on Peter's laptop trying to find a coloring page that would satisfy this 5 year old superhero addict. It doesn't matter that I have looked for "Devildare", whose real name is actually "Daredevil", one million times and there is no such thing as a Daredevil (or devildare) coloring page because normal children have no idea that such a super hero exists. Anyway, I digress. We had been searching for a coloring page for a good half hour and I was beginning to lose my patience. We finally found one (a beaver, no less) when Peter's computer decided to hibernate. Here is the brief exchange that ensued:

Me: Oh, you've got to be kidding me! The computer is going to hibernate!!"
Mack: Until Spring?

I was kneeling down wiping Pierson's face and hands after an incident with a blue Gogurt when he looked at me and said:

Pierson: Hey, you have blue on your eyes!

Me: Yes, that's right! I have blue eyes..just like you!
Pierson: I don't have blue eyes! My eyes are red! (cue him growling at me like the little demon he can be)
Me: Yes, Pierson it would seem that on some days your eyes are in fact red.

After lunch I was putting a "Little Einsteins" (Thank you, Cass) movie on for their pre-rest time viewing pleasure. This is one of only a handful of programs that my children agree upon. While I was getting it ready this witty exchange took place between myself and my oh so smart boy who is oh so desperately trying to read.


Mack: Mama, I know what D-V-D spells.
Me: Really, buddy? What!

Mack: (With a serious look of pride) "DVD!"
Me: Wow..bud. You're really getting there.

Peter came home from work early on Thursday, I mean really early..like 2:00 which is such a rare treat considering he works in Frankfort. I was laying Pierson down for his rest time and apparently Peter and Mack were mixing up a little afternoon treat of chocolate ice cream and peanut butter. I came out and sat down with them while they ate their ice cream and we talked for a while when all of a sudden Mack got up from his chair, pointed at the seat and said:

"Look, I hatched a peanut butter!"

Apparently, he had been sitting like a "mama duck" on the peanut butter and ...well you get the rest.


TGIF!