Friday Funnies make a comeback

When I first sat down to "blog" this morning I intended to relay a couple funny stories from our week but instead I went on and on about how my little monkeys are so different. (see post below). So I am back and while I don't have a whole lot of little one liners to share from the week I do have some good stories that you'll just have to put yourselves in the moment to fully grasp. Here we go...

Wednesday night was mom and kids night. Peter had a meeting that would run late so I made the decision that the boys and I would still sit down to dinner together..something we don't always do when Daddy's not home. I made sea shell spaghetti and garlic bread for them and a mongo salad for myself. We sat down and the conversation started rolling. Pierson started asking questions about bears and if we had any bears in our woods behind our house. I told him no, no bears back there. He went on and on and I half listened and "uh, huh-ed" my way thru a few minutes before the conversation took a very interesting turn. Pierson said "If there was a bear out there my daddy would boom him and mess up him!". I stopped chewing, cocked my head to one side and with my mouth full said "I'm sorry, what was that?". Now Mack was paying closer attention too as Pierson repeated "If there was a bear out there my daddy would boom him and mess up him". I am laughing hysterically at this point. Mack is too. In fact I started crying I was laughing so hard which of course drew stares of confusion from both my kids because they weren't sure if I was happy or sad at this point. I laughed first at how horribly grammatically incorrect Pierson's statement was since clearly he should have been saying "Mess him up!". Secondly I laughed that he even knew to say such a thing in this context. Where had he ever heard someone say "Mess him up" or "mess up him!". But most of all I laughed at the thought of Peter fighting a bear. This is the man, bless his sweet heart, who stood on a crate holding a weed wacker when we lived in town and found out baby raccoons were in our garage. I had to hold a flashlight on one side of the garage while he scared them out with...a weed wacker. I laughed until I had nothing left. Pierson kept saying "Don't laugh guys, I not tendin' (pretending), it's not funny!" He was so serious. It was more priceless than a MasterCard commercial.

So once that scene settled down it was time to clean up. Pierson wanted some music on and his current favorite is Cupid Shuffle. Great tune if you haven't heard it. He loves to dance around the kitchen to it. Mack joined in some of the excitement as well. It was fun. They both have some pretty smooth moves. I had some cleaning left to do and they were in need of an activity so I set them up at the counter with paper and crayons and while they drew they watched this week's season finale of Dancing with the Stars on the computer. They love that show and none of us caught it when it actually aired this week so we were catching up. Now normally, if daddy would have been home, the boys would all be in the living room watching Spider man followed by Iron Man on TV. Peter walked in right as Edyta pulled off Jason Taylor's shirt in one of their numbers. The boys both said "Cool"! I told Peter that this is what we do when he's not home. He announced that I was leading them down the path toward a gay Cabaret.

There you have it, folks! Have a great long weekend!
xoxo