Summer 2011--What I Learned from You, Part 1

"There's 104 days of summer vacation . . . "

One thing I learned this summer was to enjoy my funny kids a little bit more. 

More often than not, this was the scene in Lily's room:

Little brothers sprawled randomly across the floor or in a chair or in her bed.
And I caught Lily like this a few times as well:

She knows she can't see the movie until she finishes the book.  She's getting there, squeezing every last reading moment into each day.

My kids are funny. Here are a just a few gems from the last couple of months:

When I picked Ben up from a football workout, he ran up to the Suburban, jumped up on the hood and rolled across it like a stunt man.  I commented, "Your workout must not have been hard enough if you have that much energy."  To which he replied, "I'm just a naturally exuberant guy."

When Lily begged for a $2 snow cone at a dive meet and I commented at how overpriced they were, she replied, "Just a guy with a cart, trying to make a living."

When I refused to hang ropes from the basement ceiling for the kids to play on, Micah replied, "That's pathetic!" (More on this later.)

When we walked across the library parking lot and saw a smashed rat (no joke!), Hyrum replied, "Poor rat."

Hyrum was correcting his dad, and Micah directed: "Hyrum, don't correct adultery."
Dad said he thought that it might be okay to correct adultery, just not adults.

Sometimes you just have to laugh or you just might cry.