Funnies

Here are a few "funnies" from the kids...

Megan, after blowing her nose: "I'm glad I'm not a kleenex!"

We were all sitting down to a supper of roasted chicken and Brendan yelled out, "I want a bra!  I mean....that girl...chest....thing..."
He meant he wanted the breast.

Megan sweetly asked me, "Mom, what are those shiny things on some people's teeth?"
"Those are braces, Megs."
"Do you buy them, or do they grow on your teeth?"

Brendan was standing in front of the bathroom mirror, brushing his teeth, "Mom, do I have a sweet tooth?  Amara (a classmate) says I have a sweet tooth."
"Do you like candy and sweet things?"
"Yes."
"Then you have a sweet tooth"
Megan chirps in "Maybe we'll have to take you to the dentist so they can take it out!"

Brad and I were playing a game with Brendan where we would list a letter of the alphabet and he had to say all of the pronunciations of the letter and say a word that starts with the letter.  We gave him "G".  "G.  G-g-g-g-g-g...GO TO BED!"  Ummm....maybe we say that too much around here...

*Disclaimer* If you don't like reading or thinking about human bodily functions, please skip this and go on to the next...
Megan found a menstrual pad and asked me what it was for.  I decided it was time to tell her a little bit about what happens to a girls' body as she grows up, so I'm talking about how the female body develops and does things (like menstruating) to prepare you for having babies.  I'm sweating bullets, trying to find that line between being honest and open with her and preserving her little four-year-old, very inquisitive mind, and I wind up my long spiel by saying that ladies use pads to put in their underpants to help keep them clean when they have their period.
Megan bursts out laughing.
"Mom...you just said UNDERPANTS!"
Seriously, girl?  Out of everything I just said, that's what caught your attention?
So, I was re-telling the story to Brad that evening and when I got to the part where I originally said the word "underpants", Megan, from the other room, bursts out laughing again and shrieks, "You said UNDERPANTS again, Mom!"

Brendan, commenting on his approval of a meal I made, "That's even better than a horse wearing shoes!"
(Huh.)

Brad was playing a flashcards game with Megan and they came across a picture of a woman ironing clothes at an ironing board (*sigh* makes me think of my Grandma Adrian...and of my own mom, furiously ironing and muttering under her breath about how much she detested ironing...good times...)  Brad asked Megan if she knew what the woman was doing.  Megan replied, "Ummm...is she washing clothes with a turtle?"
Hmmmmm....methinks, perhaps, I don't do enough ironing around here.
(But isn't that what dryers are for?!)