A Few Funnies...

 We went to Beech Hill Farm for our annual ice cream outing on Father's Day, and Filia made the funniest observations about the animals...  First she exclaimed, "Grandma!  Those sheep are barking!"

Then, after being shown a donkey, she remembered the story of Palm Sunday and asked, "Did JESUS put that donkey in there?"

After spending the morning on my swollen, pregnant feet peeling baby onions by the pound, simmering wine reductions for Father's Day Beef Bourguignon, and chopping piles of fresh garden herbs, I hear Rus exclaim, "Mom! It smells JUST like Sub-Way in here!!"  I told the story to Stephen, looking for some encouragement.  He just sniffed the air, burst out laughing, and said, "You know, it DOES smell like Sub-Way!"  I told him that, if he kept talking like that, he was going to have to give up his special meal for a sub.  :)

Tert offered up a prayer for "the prettiest wife and the prettiest house" when he grows up : / 

Filia was delighted to earn a "bally beach" (beach ball) through our library reading program.

Tert is very preoccupied with the weather these days.  After asking me a dozen times if it was sunny enough to swim, I told him in exasperation to "Just go LOOK AT THE WEATHER for himself!!"  The next thing I knew, he was on the computer looking up Accuweather.  I had meant for him to just look out a window, but he took me literally.  

Another day Tert said, "Mom, you said that the weather would be HORRIBIBBLE (that's the adorable way he says horrible), but it is actually nice!"

Rus - "My loose tooth is hanging on like a tick on Velcro or a gecko on a couch!"

Tert - "I can tell my swim teacher that I'm going to the dentist and the dentist that I went to swimming, and I will STILL BE ME!"

Filia is SO DRAMATIC and a touch vain these days.  She will often ask her big sister, "Will you make my beautiful hair BEAUTIFUL?"

Filia - "Oh no!  This is NOT happening.  I have a bug bite!"

Filia - Picking up my chap stick, "Mom, what in the HECK is that?"