Funny Kid Things

Here are a few, random funny things the kids have said and done that I don't want to forget.-

- Alex went with the Scouts last week to Birch Creek, where they cooked, made fires and fished. Alex was very happy when he caught a rainbow trout and he carried it around in its baggy for quite a while up there. When he came home, he happily brought it from its cooler into the house and showed us his fish, with obvious pride in its beauty. Then he walked over and prepared to put it into the teeny fish tank we have for the beta. "Alex!" we cried. "It can't go in there. It's dead. You are supposed to cook it and eat it."
  Alex looked at us like we had just said we were going to cook the cat. "No! Yucky!!!" he sputtered out in his shock and dismay.
  "No, really, Alex. You are supposed to eat it. It's dead."
  "It's not dead. You don't have permission! Don't touch it!"
  Finally, I told him that fish have to live in water, that his had been out of water and was now dead. He looked at it for a few seconds and then said, in a rather defeated voice, "It's dead. Throw it away." Then, without further ado, he threw it into the trash.
 Only Alex would have carried a fish around for an hour, put it into a cooler for another hour, and still thought it was alive!! I did feel bad for him. He was very disappointed. Later that night, Danny showed him videos on YouTube of people cooking and eating fish, and then he said that we could eat it, but he still didn't want to. Of course, it had been in the trash for two hours by then, so we didn't eat it. You never know what random thing Alex will not have learned that you thought he did, that you will have to explain to him step by step like that.

- Emme, smelling the flowers I just planted- "Mmmmmm.... they smell so yellow!"

- Tristan went to Scout day camp and bought two little key chains that had a small crab and a scorpion in clear polymer, plastic. He was so proud of them and carried them all over. Later I heard him tell Haley, "They're like my very own pets! Except they're dead."

- Last week for FHE we were making and writing down everyone's summer goals.When we got to Danny, it must have been harder to think of some, but Alaina had an idea. She very happily shouted out an idea of a goal for Dad- "Take a shower every day!!"

- I was tired of asking the kids to change out of their jammies, and losing my temper I said, "I have asked you guys a thousand times to change!"
  "Mom, no you haven't," said Tristan. "You've only asked us like 15 or 20 times."

- Emme, asking about something- "Is it a little bit?"
                                                     "No."
                                                     "Is it a lot bit?"

- Emme wanted to go to the park, but I told her we would have to go tomorrow morning. After thinking for a minute she said, "Is tomorrow morning today?"

- Alaina- "What is that day after yesterday?"  "Ummm.... today?" I asked. "Yeah!"

- Apparently my toot was pretty stinky, because when I opened the back door to let in a fresh breeze, Tristan said, "No, Mom! You're going to pollute the air!!"

- We had just bought something from Sonic for dinner, which we never do, but we were celebrating something... I just can't remember what. Anyway, Tristan really wanted to eat it in the car, but I said no. "Oh, Mom!" he cried. "We can drive around and eat and you can look at pretty houses!" He knows how to get me every time.