A few funnies ...

Some of my blog posts are to share funny or insightful things (at least things that I think are funny and insightful ... maybe this stuff is only profound to me), and some are just to document life. This is a "document life" type of post, but I think you'll enjoy the humor anyway. :)

Jacob's Funny Statement #1: Scene: Eric babbling to himself and anyone that will listen. Jacob offhandedly makes the following statement to my friend Pam. "Eric speaks Spanish all day long. I don't understand what he's talking about."

Jacob's Funny Statement #2: Scene: Riding in the car on the way home from the dentist. Eric is again, babbling to himself and anyone who will listen ... in this case, he's just babbling to himself. Jacob is repeatedly asking me, "Guess what?" And then giving me some statement of fact. I'm just trying to navigate some serious traffic at 4:45 p.m. "Guess what, Mom?" "What?" "In Georgia, that's where W. Bush lives." I started to laugh, and Jacob started hysterically laughing. The kid cracks himself up!

Jacob's Funny Statement #3: Most of you who read our blog know that we're Mormon. As such, we pray several times a day. In the morning, Jacob was being a little unruly during the prayer, and Matt asked him to try harder to concentrate on who we were praying to. So at dinnertime, I said the prayer on the food. Matt wasn't home, just Jake, Eric, and me. So, after my prayer, Jacob says, "Mom, I concentrated during the prayer. pause. "In fact, I felt the Spirit." This was impressive as this dinner prayer was one of my less inspiring prayers. Oh well!

Then, today while we're at church, Eric pulled a funny one on me. Matt tried to hand off Eric (who clearly prefers Matt) to me for a minute. Eric screamed as loud as he could and clung to Matt. So, Matt just takes Eric with him and goes on down the hall. Immediately after that, a friend's sister (I had only met her a few minutes ago) asks, "Who was that little boy?" I replied that it was my son. She says, "Really?" She thought I was trying to be nice by holding the screaming little boy ... only it was MY screaming little boy. :) These crazy kids of ours!

I realize that the key to a good blog is pictures, and I promise to post some soon. Maybe of the Halloween costumes. Eric is a Jester and Jacob (drumroll, please) has finally decided to be a knight. (Note: This decision came after he realized that he'd have to have his face painted to be a vampire -- too scary -- and after he realized that he'd get to wear a hand-me-down costume belonging to his best "7-year old" friend.)

Have a great week everyone!