The funnies

Funny: Julia's shining moment of fame--she's officially on a cereal box (at least it's not a milk carton!)

I made rice crispies tonight for our fhe dessert and Julia was reading the back of the cereal box. It had all sorts of interesting facts about hurricanes. It also has the list of the names of hurricanes for the past couple of years and what the names will be for next year. Apparently in 2010, one of the hurricanes will be named "Julia". Her reaction when she read that?

"Hurray! My name is on a cereal box! Next year will be my lucky year cause I'm going to be a hurricane!"

I wonder how she'll feel about that hurricane if it comes through our way? ;)


Funnier: Shoo fly, don't bother me....or especially Marcus.

A couple weeks ago we had the missionaries over for dinner and a random fly found its way into our dining room. Marcus absolutely F-L-I-P-P-E-D out. And not out of happiness either! Right as we were about to bless the food, he noticed the fly and started screaming and crying all while trying to climb up Ryan and I for protection. The missionaries, Ryan and I were trying so hard not to laugh. My poor little son is scared spitless of flies! We're trying to teach him that flies are really our friends--but he still started to cry when he noticed a fly at dinner tonight.


Funniest: Girl Cooties--the revenge

We all know that in our junior years of elementary school, it's a well known rule that boys and girls have cooties. If you get touched by one of the opposite sex, you have to go home and detoxify yourself.
So Julia is now if fourth grade. It's not considered the junior part of elementary (in fact, 6th graders attend the middle school now so she only has a couple years left there!). Apparently she's quite over "cooties" and the belief that she's going to shrivel up and die or catch something if she touches a boy's school work or whatever. However, tonight she told me that there's a certain boy in her class that has fits whenever girls touch his papers. He swears up and down that he gets cooties from the girls and that his hands positively BURN from having to touch the same papers as them. Julia thinks this is quite humorous...so humorous that she volunteers to pass out the papers for her teacher and she always rubs her hands ALL OVER this certain boy's paper before handing it to him just so that she can see him writhe in pain. :) LOL. That's my girl!!!