Magicness
Giggles: Daddy, my little Cinderella doll had magic shoes.
Me: Oh really?
Giggles: Yeah, their magicness was that they can disappear.
Daddy: How do they disappear?
Giggles: Because I haven’t been able to find them for a loooong time.
Daddy grins: Hmmm, I guess my shoes are magic too.
A Turn Off
Chuckles had a pretty busy day, running and playing hard with the boys at church and afterward at our little celebration gathering with friends. He was exhausted when we got home. As he walked toward his bedroom to lay down he turned and said, “My legs are turned off.”
Hmm, how many of us know that feelin’?
A moment later, laying in bed he commented that his feet were turned off too. I told him that in the morning they would turn back on, to which he replied, “That’s good, because walking will be hard like this.”
Birthday Silliness
4 years and a few hours ago, Mama Chanoli was in a hospital room proving that a beautiful woman can remain beautiful even in labor. I’ll never forget that she was smiling and cracking jokes at a time when any worldly woman would have been throwing scalpals at me and accusing me of causing her misery. Thank God for her, and thank God for the product of her labor, Silliness.
Today Silliness turns 4 years old. It seems like I’ve barely blinked since the day she was born, and yet so much has happened since then.
Today Silliness declared that we were going to have a “family birthday.” When asked what she wanted for her birthday, she was satisfied with nothing more than a cake. No materialism here… just so long as it’s purple on top and pink on the sides with chocolate swirls on the bottom.
We bailed out on trying to create that and found a nice little bakery in Turlock to provide the magical image of swirls for her. Her cake was small, but nicely sized for our family birthday party. I thought that Silliness’ name would be all that could fit on it, but the lady behind the counter assured me that she, “could put the Lords Prayer on a cupcake.”
That won me over. I owe her a plug for her patience in letting us take the picture below, so here they are, along with a picture of her letting Silliness look at the finished product.
Olde Tyme Pastries
http://www.otpastries.com/
(Chuckles is holding Silliness up so she can see the cake.)
Remember Gremlins?
There’s a reason we don’t feed these things after midnight.
Back In Action
9 days gone, and the family has returned safely to our humble abode. The funny fodder is coming in so fast that I can’t keep track of it! The dog just isn’t funny enough to provide blog entertainment.
They’re Fake
You gotta’ love this one.
Annie Oakley, The Early Days
This one speaks for itself.
Under Fire
Mama and I were chatting away and suddenly we looked up to Chuckles and Giggles sneaking into the room armed with nerf dart guns aimed at us. They shot, we died, you know the routine.
A moment later, Silliness comes charging into the room with a plastic rifle. I laugh, “Look, Lily has the assault rifle.”
Without missing a beat Chuckles chimes in, “Yep, she’s shooting salt. You better watch out.”
Tropical Impression
Chuckles has a small plastic boomerang which he needs practice with. In the course of practicing today, he bounced it off of Silliness’ head by accident. Silliness tends not to forget such things. Later this evening she recounted the story to me while she, Chuckles and I were at a local park. I did not catch exactly what she was trying to tell me so in mild frustration she tried telling me a different way than the first time…
“Charlie hit me in the head. He almost busted my coconut.”
Where she got that, I do not know.
A Moment of Clarity
In explaining and quizing about some of the mundane facts of life, Mama Chanoli asked Chuckles a random question.
Mama: “Chuckles, are you a male or a female?”
Chuckles: “I’ll give you two guesses.”
