Giving birth to two sons was tantamount to delivering comedians. Both boys live for the laughs. Victory is particularly delicious when I'm rolling on the floor or tears sprinkle my giggles. Those are their proudest moments.
Perhaps the funniest moments are the unintended ones, when they have no idea how funny they are! My youngest seems to have more of these than his older brother, but sometimes he doesn't appreciate my response.
Take our recent "educational" conversation about the gender of planets:
Stephen: "Saturn is definitely a girl planet."
Me: "R-e-e-ally? Why's that?"
Stephen (incredulous he needs to explain his logic): "It just SOUNDS like a girl."
He continues: "But Venus…Venus is definitely a boy."
Everyone, but my son apparently, knows Venus is the Goddess of Love, Beauty and Fertility, and I'm confused at how he could possibly think it sounds like a boy. But then it hits me–
Me (thinking my powers of deduction border on brilliance and/or I'm now channeling the mind of a 12-year-old male who appreciates the art of bathroom humor): "Ooooh…because Venus rhymes with penis?!"
Stephen: "Great, Mom. Thanks for putting perverted thoughts in my head…."
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I never did find out why Venus sounds like a boy planet, but I thought it best just to walk away before I planted any more seeds of perversion.
Your turn: Jump in the boat with me! Share your kids' funniest moments or how you've misinterpreted something they told you :). made a mint off of these jewels!!
You are just … so … incredibly fun, and funny.
That is hilarious. Honestly, I probably would have thought the same thing.
My son (2 years old) often says things that I can’t quite understand. He recently said something that sounded like “I’m so flipping high”. I think he was trying to say “The flowers are high” (on the shelf). Made me giggle.
My husband and I are totally laughing our heads off. We agree with you, quit while your (slightly) ahead! Thanks for sharing!
Hm, I have had a rough weekend- flu bug here- so I can’t think of any funny stories at the moments. I’m commenting to say that this was great. Thanks for the laugh. I can imagine my thoughts going the same way as yours (I have 3 boys) and getting the same end result in conversation.
Speaking of penises…when I was a fourth-grade teacher of little know-it-alls, the District Judge’s daughter was in my class and told this of her little sister…
“Guess what, Mrs. Winters? Kristi my little sister walked in on my dad taking a shower…she pointed and asked, “Daddy. Daddy. What’s that?
He replied, “I don’t know. Go ask your mother.”
I wish I’d written them all down. When Amanda was about 5 she asked me “mama, is there an end to the world?”
…after several minutes of hemming and hawing (in front of her sister who was 10 years older and in a real teen age frame of listening) … I finally began to talk about the things that people believe about the end of the world.
… and she got all upset and put on a pout and said, “NO Mommy! Not that kind of end. The kind where you just drive by the last house and thats the end of the world!”
Boys are great. I shared a funny from my younger son on my blog last year:
http://www.j-wag.com/2009/02/20/little-known-skin-diseases-of-the-bible/
Oh my gosh… that is hilarious! LOL
oh my dang! that’s hilarious! (will never view my venus razor the same now… thankyouverymuch!)