3 Monkeys

3 Monkeys

Monday, August 13, 2012

Star Light, Star Bright

Standing in the front yard with Collin one night.

"Daddy.  I see a star"

"Make a wish."

"Star light, star bright.  I wish I have a wish tonight."

"What did you wish for?"

"I wished my friend Sarah was in my closet."

"What?"

"I want her to by my little sister.  I would keep her safe in the closet"
Collin, "If it ain't broke, don't break it!"

Run You Ragged

Been away for awhile.  Last night I was talking with Ian, now 16 and a sophomore, about his new class schedule. "I'm not looking forward to gym." "Why?" "This guy will run you rancid."  And he meant smelly because he went on to say that even though there are showers, no one is allowed to use them.

Monday, October 24, 2011

The Party you are trying to reach

This morning.

Me, knocking on the bathroom door,"Who's in there?"
From behind me, Collin, "Connor's in there."
Me, "Connor?  Hurry up."
From the other side of the bathroom door,"Beep.  Connor is currently unavailable at the moment. If you would please leave a message he'll get back to you."

Friday, October 21, 2011

Fire Water

We have a small outdoor fire pit.  And tonight was the first fire of the season.  It was me and the boys sitting around after dinner watching the last log turn to embers when I said it was time to go inside. The boys wanted to put it out because they were worried about catching the house on fire.  I assured them that it was too far away and too low and besides we didn't have any water nearby to pour on it, what did they want to do? Pee on it? Never ask a sarcastic question.  They all wanted to pee on the fire.

Me,"No it stinks, why would you want to do that?"
Ian,"I've been holding it so I could."
Me, "What?!?"
Ian,"Sure it would be cool."
Me,"Fine. Go ahead, but I am warning you now that it smells God awful"

So Ian unzips, Connor & Collin start to as well.

Me" Wait, hold on, what do you two think you're doing?"
"We want to too"
"You'd have to stand to close to hit it. No"
Ian,"Yeah, back up and don't look."
Me," If you are going to out here, they can look."

Ian is all ready to go and let's fly.  Smoke everywhere.  It smells like somebody burned down the outhouse.  We have some rose bush branches that were clipped earlier, so I throw those on with some leaves to kill the smell.

The boys are laughing like crazy.  I'm cussing about the stink and tell them that noboby else is peeing on the fire.  Collin is almost dancing, "Please Daddy?"

"Fine, whatever.  How much can there be?  Just stand back."

So, Collin unzips, aims, and pees right over the top of the fire pit on to Ian's leg.  Ian just stood there stunned for a second then says," Oh my God! He's peeing on me!"  He's not moving and Collin's not readjusting the flow.  Then Ian starts dancing out of the way.  Collin is laughing so hard he's peeing everywhere.  None of it on the fire pit.

Ian" Ew! Gross!  My leg is wet!"

I am surprised I didn't pass out from laughing so hard.

Monday, October 10, 2011

What dreams may come

From my *11 yr old* philosopher/ insomniac:
Mom, where do you think we go when we sleep? Do our minds jump into our future awake self do you think? Or do we float around in another universe?

Sunday, September 18, 2011

Square Roots

Collin, "The square root of evil is. . . "
Me, "Money."
Ian, "Religion."
Connor, " Me and Collin."

Collin, "The square root of Connor, Ian and Me?"
We all shake our heads, don't know.
Collin," Mom and Dad!"