Oh, those funny kids

Things Cassie says:
vitamin seeds (Vitamin C)
suncsream
unrella (umbrella)
"I am full of hands" (my hands are full)
We were playing a game and it was Cassie's turn to roll the dice. She asked, "Where's the ice? I mean mice."
I was busy hemming some jeans a while back and Cassie patiently explained something to me (I don't remember what) then using a very grown-up tone asked, "Do you understand that?"


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I came into my bedroom the other day and Camie had made a "self-portrait" as she called it, of me, using my clothes, complete with a padded bra for shaping. She had a shirt, skirt, shoes, bracelet on the arm of the shirt,  necklace, and cell phone, opened as if I was talking on it. I laughed long at it all.

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The kids have been interested in jokes lately, so I got some books from the library to teach them some new ones. Micah tried retelling this one to Matt:
What happened to the astronomer when the telescope hit him on the head? He saw stars.
But his version was, "Hey Daddy, What did the officer guy see when he looked through the telescope? Stars!"

Sometimes (well, often, sadly) they branch out and make up their own. Just tonight I heard Micah ask this one:
What did the water say to the ice? You can't float!
Their jokes either make no sense at all or they are so logical they're not funny. But at least they're trying. :)

When I'm reading jokes and have to explain them, that's even worse. Felicity doesn't share my sense of humor apparently and doesn't think they're funny because they are not sensible answers.
For example,  What's the difference between an elephant and a flea? An elephant can have fleas, but a flea can't have elephants. This was not even funny to her, because of course fleas can't have elephants.

And while we're on the subject of elephants, I was trying to teach the kids this funny poem:
Way down south where bananas grow,
A grasshopper stepped on an elephant's toe.
The elephant said with tears in his eyes,
"Go pick on somebody your own size."

Felicity just could not get past the ridiculousness of an elephant crying because a grasshopper stepped on his toe.  And after  I tried to explain it again, my laugh at the end of it started sounding forced, because now I  wasn't finding it as funny. Nothing like having to explain a joke to ruin it for you. :)

And one last joke to close us out here:
Where does the woodpecker go to get his lunch? To the lumber store! (That was a Camie-original.)