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Baby Blues
If you read the comic section of your local newspaper, you’ve most likely seen – and nodded along in agreement with – Baby Blues. This is a hilarious strip depicting the life stage that most of us here at Simple Mom are neck-deep in – parenting littles.
The strip follows the adventures of a mid-30s career couple, Wanda and Darryl MacPherson, and their three kids, Zoe, Hamish, and Wren. Aren’t those the cutest names?
I had the privilege of interviewing the strip’s creators, Rick Kirkman and Jerry Scott. At the end, I’ve got a giveaway for ten copies of their latest anthology, Night Shift. Read on!
The Interview
SM: You don’t have to read Baby Blues long to know that you guys have some first-hand knowledge about the lives of parents with small children. What’s your experience with this lifestyle? I’d love to hear more about your background.
Jerry: About 19 years ago, Rick and I were trying out all kinds of ideas for a new comic strip. Nothing we came up with was any good, but like the John Lennon line, “Life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans,” real events conspired to create a unexpected opportunity. All the while Rick and I were working on ideas for The Great American Comic Strip, Rick and his wife, Sukey, were busy dealing with their second baby, who was, um… a handful. The more time I spent hearing his stories of parenthood, the clearer it became to me that this was a couple who was dealing with a force much more powerful (and noisier) than themselves. After rejecting the twelfth or thirteenth stupid comic strip premise we’d come up with, I looked at Rick’s unshaven face, pablum-stained t-shirt and wrinkly jeans and said, “Hey. What about a strip about a couple with a new baby?”
SM: Who or what is your inspiration for the characters?
Rick: In the first few years of the strip, before Jerry had kids, a great deal was taken from my family. We both shamelessly exploit our families for gags. Our wives are good sources of gag material, too, suggesting things from time to time. The characters in Baby Blues are composites. Physically, Darryl is a combination of Jerry and me – my glasses, Jerry’s red hair. Wanda is similar to my wife. The house they live in is based on the house where my children spent the first half of their lives in. Any other similarities are purely coincidental (our attorney told us to say that).
SM: What’s a particular Baby Blues strip that you can really relate to from your real life?
Rick: There are too many to list, but I remember the first couple of gags coming directly from our lives. One was how swaddling the baby was like making a burrito. Another was when Darryl and Wanda decided to go out for a walk and realized just as they got outside, they’d left their newborn baby in the house (sleep deprivation and habit are a terrible combination).
Jerry: There are too many to list. When you write a comic strip, there’s a funny idea due every day, seven days a week, 365 days a year. If it wasn’t for my family and their willingness to have their every word and action mined for humor, I’d be toast.
SM: What do you love about your jobs as cartoonists?
Rick: The ability to work whenever and wherever I want. And the dress code is pretty good, too.
(Tsh’s addition – This is one of my favorite things about my job here on Simple Mom, too.)
Jerry: I like working alone in a room with little or no contact with the outside world. For me, it was either cartooning or joining a monastery. And I look fat in robes.
SM: Simple Mom readers are mostly parents who long for a little more simplicity in their lives, which is hard to find when you’re raising small children. What advice do you have for the readers about how to simplify their lives and enjoy the parenting years?
Rick: I’m probably not a great one to give advice. I’d say just try to get in as much time as possible doing even the most simple and mundane things with your kids.
Jerry: Save some time for yourselves. Everyone needs their batteries recharged once in a while. It’ll make you a better parent.
Baby Blues
Ten of you will win the latest Baby Blues anthology, Night Shift! Each one retails for $10.99. Here’s how to win.
1. Leave a comment on this post, answering this question – What’s something funny your kid (or a kid in your life) did this past week?
2. To get a second entry – and a second entry on all the giveaways this week – subscribe to the Simple Mom feed and email me the movie quote at the bottom of any post in your feed reader or email inbox (there is only one quote for all the giveaways). Send it to simplemomblog (at) gmail (dot) com, and put the quote directly in the subject line. The body of the email won’t be read. And you only need to email me the quote once in order to get a second entry for all the week’s giveaways.
3. Finally, to get a third entry, post or tweet about this giveaway – if you use the URL of this post, I’ll receive it – no need to email me.
This giveaway will end this Wednesday, January 28 at noon EST. I hope you win!
I love Baby Blues! It’s where I’m at these days, that’s for sure!
And how awesome it is that you got that interview?!
Conversation overheard between my four year old son and five year old daughter. Daughter brought home a book about Cinderella from school to read. She is reading it at the table over her lunch. Son says he will never read that book. He says he knows the end, they get married and kiss on the mouth. And kissing on the mouth is “EEEWWW”!
LOL! This led them to remember the time that same son was alone in the car with Mom and Dad a few months ago and Mom and Dad caught a quick kiss…son said “EEEEWWW!” then there was some silence and “Do it again!” 
Once again proof that love demonstrated between parents, as much as it is protested verbally, is actually secretly (or not so secretly) appreciated and needed by the children.
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We moved to a warm climate when my son was 17 months. He is now 4 and we were very excited when our little weekend to the mountains was going to include snow showers so that he could experience it. While walking around he started shouting “These bugs are bothering me”. This is a common chant where we live as we ALWAYS have bugs, something I still have not adjusted well to. I told him there weren’t any bugs because it was too cold in the mountains, but he insisted saying “Look at them all”. I realized he was talking about all the little snowflakes landing on him!
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I am the mom of a 9 month old little boy and I breastfeed him. This is somewhat fascinating to some of the younger kids at our church especially a four year old little boy who loves farming and cows.
He has asked endless questions about how nursing works and how the baby likes it, etc. This week he went up to his mom and said, “give me some milk cow” (in a pretend game way not in a rude way) and proceeded to (while she was bent over doing something) pretend milk her into a dairy bottle….it was hilarious and those parents totally blame me!
My little baby girl is only 6 months old so she doesn’t do anything too hilarious yet.
This morning, I had her laying on the bed, and I ran to the other room, and I could hear her from the other room grunting so loud because she was trying to go poop. I’m her mom, so of course I thought it was cute!
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I LOVE Baby Blues, we have a rotating gallery of ones we relate to on our fridge and bulletin board. The current one being John and Wanda comparing notes about how much they got done that day… “We make a great team.” John: “With a really shallow bench.” as Zoe and Ham ask in the background….”Do we have to set the whole table or just the silverware?” Love it!
My daughter (5) and I were discussing ultrasounds and I told her we’d have to wait until our baby was a little bigger before we could tell if it was a boy or a girl. With a very serious and puzzled look on her face she said, “But Mom, how will they tell if it’s a boy or a girl since all babies have short hair?!” HA! I totally had to stifle my laughter. I then assured her that the sonographer, “just knows.” It was hilarious!!
my 18-month old daughter has started to do a ‘mean’ face when you tell her no but because we laugh and think it’s funny, she starts laughing too.
This week, my youngest DAUGHTER, 4, ran into the living room about half an hour after being tucked into bed, and told us that her sister had kicked her in the weinie. Yes, the weinie, she confirmed as I tried to hold in my chuckle. My husband looked at me from across the room with a look I had never seen before. A look of complete unbelief. How did our young daughters even know the word weinie? Let alone where one was and if it could be kicked.
So, the next morning, I sat her down and tried to explain a bit of general anatomy to my baby. *sigh* girls have a vagina, boys have a penis. We all have pee-pees. She does not have a weinie.
My 3 year old loves taking showers with his gramps, and when he was told no – that he couldn’t on that day, he replied with a full explination why he needed to shower – mainly that his hair was “SOOOOO crazy”. This was coming from a boy who barely has much to say and keeps quiet most of the time!
The Mama Mia soundtrack was given to me as a Christmas gift and we’ve been listening to some songs in the car constantly. My 4 year old has been obsessed with the ABBA song “Lay All Your Love On Me” and finally started singing along to the chorus this past week. She is very serious when she sings: “Don’t go wasting all your lotions, lay all your life on meeeeeeeeee.” It’s so hard not to laugh!! She alternates between “your knee notions” and “all your lotions” but always says life instead of love.
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My husband took my son (who is potty training) to the bathroom at a restaurant. My son saw a man in the stall next to them and he kept yelling “grandpa I see you. I am coming grandpa” Only problem is it was not grandpa.
My 2-year-old daughter has recently had her world turned completely upside down since we added a new baby brother to the family 2 months ago. Luckily, she’s finally starting to come around and at least catch on to the fact that he’s sticking around and not going anywhere. The hardest times of day are when the new baby is eating because he gets mommy’s attention almost fully to himself when he is nursing. My daughter has learned to come and sit with me while I’m feeding him for some extra attention. Lately she’s taken to lifting her shirt up and “nursing” her teddy bear together with me. Pretty cute!
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Maybe it’s not the funniest but I never want to forget it. We had 3 inches of snow last week, our first since our two little ones arrived from Guatemala two years ago. I was sleeping in with one and Dad was downstairs with the other when the sun rose. After my awake son looked outside he woke me up yelling ‘Christmas! Christmas! Christmas!’
I can only suppose he remembered it from some of the Christmas videos he saw last month. He learned the word ‘snow’ but would still call it Christmas: ‘Christmas gone.’ when it melted.
I am expecting so my story has to come from a student I teach. She is 21 and deaf blind. Due to her sensory impairment, there is a lot in life she has missed out on and we have to explicitly teach her things other kids figure out on their own. This week I was explaining that “nurse” can be a verb for when an infant or small child eats milk from the mother’s breast. She asked if I would do that with my baby. I confirmed that I hope to. She then said she would like to watch me. (Keep in mind that her watching is done with her hands.) I wasn’t quite sure how to respond to this.
I finally settled on a “maybe.”
My 3 year old told me he didn’t want to have his adenoids and tonsills removed b/c he wanted to snore forever like his granny!
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My 17 month old takes her all-in-one BabyBjorn potty chair and wears it as a head piece. Sigh….potty training will be a challenge!
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My husband bought me the first book of Baby Blues for Christmas- right after we had our daughter. It is hilarious!
So we’re potty training and our two year old thinks that when you pass gas your bottom is talking to you. She says, “Hello, Poop!” It’s all very exciting and cause for much giggling.
She especially loves it when other people pass gas. Like strangers. At the grocery store. She heard a toot (which didn’t come from either of us, but from the elderly man across the aisle) and promptly shouted, “HELLO POOP!! Ooh, hello poop!!”
At least she’s polite?
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Last night we were on a very hilly road with lots of curves. From the back seat my 5 year old son shouted “Faster Papa!! Faster!!” A few moments later he said, “This makes my blood container go up and down!!” Life with children is never dull
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My son is 6 months old and his life’s goals are to play with the remote control, the laptop, and my cell phone. Well I had him sitting next to me the other day, somehow he managed to get my cell phone out of my pocket, slobber all over it, then hide it underneath his leg – all without me noticing! Tricky baby!
My 3 yr. old son asked a guy at church yesterday if he was Jesus. The guy had a beard and shaggy hair. What do you say to that? It was too cute and funny. But I was proud because he had Jesus on his mind.
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We’re closing off our loft to add another bedroom for our baby who will arrive in a few months. My husband was explaining to our almost four-year-old that with a wall and a door that loft would be his room. “And who will sleep in your room?” my husband asked. To which our son responded his sister. “And who will sleep in Ari’s room?”
My son could barely contain his excitement, “MOMMY!!” Obviously, to his logic Daddy and Mommy only share a room because there is nowhere else for Mommy to go.
My 2yo tries to share toys all the time with my very pregnant belly, which is pretty hilarious.
My dad usually gives the grandchildren a dollar or two when he sees them. This past weekend my niece Savanna saw grandpa. Grandpa didn’t give her any money so before he left she said…
“Grandpa, do you have any college change?” My dad gave her some money and started to laugh.
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My friend was driving with her 7 year old daughter when her duaghter suddenly said “Mom I think I just threw up in my pants!” When my friend told me this I laughed so hard.
We had the news on periodically last Tuesday to watch the inauguration coverage. Later that evening, my 3 yo was being a total goof ball and I said “Who are you?!” to which she replied, “I’m an AMERICAN!”
If you ask my 21 mo. old to say any word he will promptly respond “Dawnnng”
My 2 year old son was having a hard time falling asleep and I wasn’t having success either! All of a sudden he started to make a very loud snoring sound followed by saying “Daddy!” I guess Daddy IS a really loud snorer!
My just turned 2-year-old was talking to her almost 4-year-old big sister in the back seat the other day. My older daughter was freaking out about something, and the younger kept saying “take a deep breath ___, take a deep breath!”
Wonder where she’s heard that one before. ;o)
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Baby Blues is so cute. I get the comic sent every day. The funnies thing was my 4 year old granddaughter had her little finger motioning me to come to her and said come on grandma just a little closer with a funny look on her face. I was not going to come a little closer because I didn’t like the look on her face. But the way she did it I had to laugh. Thank you!
My friend just found out she is expecting triplets. I shared the news with my kids 0, 3, and 5. My 3-year-old girl responded in awe. “She is going to have to grow more chests!. My 5-year-old boy was in shock and said, “That is a lot of poopy diapers!” They are both right! I love their straight-forward and honest reactions!
OK I already commented once so don’t count this one again. But at our house we think Jerry is hilarious. You didn’t mention that he writes the comic strip Zits also. I have 3 boys: 15, 12 & 6. Zits is one way that my 15 year old & I connect. We laugh almost daily. He totally gets parents and teeneagers! My son has probably 5-6 of those books. WE LOVE YOU JERRY!!! Thanks for letting us laugh together again. Sniff, sniff.
My son was brushing his teeth before school this morning. And I heard him singing and brushing at the same time. I couldn’t really understand what he was saying, but it was still funny and cute to listen.
We have 4 kids, so there is always something funny happening at our house.
Two nights ago my husband tried (unsuccessfully) to convince our 5 yo that her ceiling fan was not scary to look at. After a discussion, he suggested that she just turn over onto her other side so she couldn’t see it. She told him that wouldn’t work because she could still see it with the eyes on the back of her head. He replied that she didn’t have eyes on the back of her head – only mommy does. But she was emphatic, “Yes, I do. I’m looking at my pillow right now!”
Of course, when put on the spot, I find it hard to remember the best ones…. How about this one? Winter said “I love you MomMom.” I asked, “Do you love me this much?” and I spread my fingers a little bit apart. “No.” “This much?” and I spread them far apart. “No.” So I put my arms out. No. I put them out further, the classic, “I love you this much!” pose. Um, “No.” Okay, I’m getting really curious now. “How much do you love me?” “I love you … … … SNOWFLAKE!”
Which actually was perfect as I absolutely adore snow and we have had a ton of it this winter. So her loving me as much as there are snowflakes is just terrific!
We have a 21 month old son that is 26lbs and an American Mastiff that is about 110lbs, they LOVE each other! Our son decided it would be fun to play peek a boo with Daisy. He would put his blanket of her head and say “Daisy! are oo?” and then he would take the blanket off her head and start cracking up.
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My 15 month old was sitting in her highchair and I looked to see her sticking her finger up her noise. With her large nose and skinny long fingers she could get it all the way to her second knuckle. I should have stopped her but all I could do is laugh.
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I love Baby Blues! I put mittens on my 3 month olds hands at night so he won’t scratch himself – I woke up the other day to discover he had removed the mittens, and one was sitting right on top of his head. He was sound asleep – very funny! Thanks for the chance!
My husband and I are eucharistic ministers at church. This weekend was my husband’s turn. He was up on the alter. We were sitting in the front row of the church which we never do…we usually sit off to the side so my two year old usually can’t see when one of us is up on the alter. He spotted Dada and starts yelling as loud as he could at the most quiet time of mass “Hi DADA” “DADA, WHAT ARE YOU DOING UP THERE?” Everyone in the church, including our priest, was laughing.
My nephew heard a noise that sounded like a toot one day. He ran to his mom and yelled at her to do that in the bathroom and not in the kitchen.
We’ve been trying to get our (late talking) toddler to learn to say our names. For weeks I’ve been pointing to myself and saying, “Mama, I’m Mama.” Yesterday, my husband asked him, “Hey, where’s Mama?” He looked at me, grinned really big, then pointed to his own chest, looking very proud, then laughed hysterically. He obviously thinks he’s very funny.
My 21 month old wanted her binky, we didn’t want to give it to her so we put it up high on a shelf…she decided she wanted it anyway, pulled a chair over, said binky, and popped it in her mouth. too smart, and we laughed, too! thanks
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Our 3 month old baby boy has definitely brought out the mother in our 21 month old – she fills a better part of her day carrying stuffed animals to me, telling me that they are a “yucky mess” and proceeds to change their diapers (yes, she puts on an actual diaper!). Now, she has upgraded to pulling hers off, sitting on an unfolded, clean diaper and attempts, with great persistence, to put it on her own bottom. Quite hilarious at times, and at others, well let’s just say things can become a bit interesting.
Wow! Lots of funny stories. The 5 year old is notorious for not behaving–his list of atrocities is too long to even mention. The new year has brought him new teachers at church on Sunday and when he wouldn’t quit standing on his chair in class (and probably was dancing, truth be told), he got sent to the hall as a punishment. He thought that was the greatest thing he’d ever heard–get to be out in the hall during class! Next thing you know he was on his way out, but was taking half the class with him. Now they all think it’s great to be “sent to the hall.”
We’re so proud.
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I love Baby Blues!!
My 4 year old was jealous that his sister was getting another piggy back ride from daddy, he thought it should be his turn. He said, “That’s her threeth time!” (third time). LOL!
Well, my son took a foam letter “I” in the tub the other night and held it – ahem – near his bottom and said “Look, I’m a lollipop!”
Bekah (16 months) knows what “tickle” means now and she tickles her toys. Any toy she has, she’ll say “tickle, tickle, tickle” and wiggle her little fingers all over it. Very cute!
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My 2 1/2 year old son has started using the word “because”. He uses it in every sentence and if he can’t make it fit in the sentence, he will end his sentence in “because”. Too funny!
My friend has 4 sweet, wild little boys under the age of 6. The other day, the second oldest turned to his mommy and said, with an adorable look of pity for her, “hey mommy, maybe you could get a penis now, too??” Poor kid, must have thought she felt left out.
My youngest (of 5), who is 4 months old learned to truly belly laugh this past week. He also learned to ALMOST roll from front to back. I hate to tell you how hard WE belly laughed over his reaction when he got halfway there and then either forgot what to do or just simply panicked. He was surprised and startled and confused at the same time. Helping him finish his roll brought a belly laugh out of his sweet chubby little face, so all was well in the end!
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My 3-year-old is just learning to talk and read (at the same time) and is starting to appreciate words more. Oh, and she calls her Grandpa “Bobby.” Yesterday she picked up my hair pin
“What dat?”
“It’s a bobby pin.”
She thought for a minute.
“No…..not Bobby! Mommy pin!”
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My 5 yr old son has recently picked up a new saying which is “HOLY COWS”..cows..not just one cow.
My daughter was playing in our sunroom and I heard a crash and then crying. I ran in and asked her what happened. She said, “I was trying to fly!” She had jumped off the chair, hoping she would be able to fly, but crashed on the floor instead!
We are expecting our second baby in about 6 weeks. In the car over the weekend, my 6 year old son asked me why girls have “boobs” and boys don’t. So, I took this as the perfect opportunity to segue into nursing since our baby will be born soon, and told him it’s because Moms need to be able to feed babies when they are born. He got a horrified look on his face and said “THEY DRINK BLOOD????” So I had to explain that no, they don’t, they get milk, but the image of a little vampire baby has made my husband and I laugh several times over.
My almost 3 year old son loves to listen to music, but his music not music on the radio. Recently we have been driving a loaner while my car is in the shop so we have no iPod adapter to listen to his music. He asked “Mom don’t you have your pot?” To which I said, Pod, honey. iPOD!!
My little 6 month old tried sweet potatoes for the first time this week. Those first-bite faces are priceless!
I know it’s not funny to most people, but the funniest thing about my little 4 1/2 year old diva, is that she’s always wearing a fluffy princess dress or ballet tutu of some sort, regardless of what she’s doing. So even when we went to a nearby walking trail to ride bikes, she was racing down the trail on her pink bike with training wheels, with her fluffy pink skirt flying out behind her. And a tiara. She’s following her super-cyclist Daddy’s bike tracks
Mytwo-year-old son Iain’s line about a song: “I don’t know the words of it. I just know the hums of it.”
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My daughter calls burping ‘little burps’ and passing gas ‘big burps’. Too cute!
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My neighbor just shared 2 boxes of Thomas trains and my son just went bazonkers with all the trains. His expressions as he showed us each and every train was funny and priceless.
Baby Blues is our favorite comic strip. Hubby even found the 2009 Page-A-Day calendar in his stocking this year.
Last night, my five-year-old daughter, who, more times than not, complains about the amount of vegetables in my cooking, told me that the carrots in my beef stew were – and I quote – “seasoned well”. I’ll take it!
My 5 year old son said the funniest thing this past week!
When he found out his 10 year old sister was grounded, he said,
“You’re gonna put her in the ground?!?”
We never eat out, it is a treat. So when I told my four year old daughter we were going to go to this one restaurant she disagreed with my choice. She said “Mom let’s go to Open and Shut…Open and Shut mom, (singing) that’s what a hamburger all about.”
I replied “You mean ‘In and Out’ , okay sweetie we can go there. If you are not familar with In and Out, I am very sorry they are the best burgers in California and all fresh ingredients. We love them.
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My Husband plays a board game called Settlers of Catan every week with some friends. In the game players trade resources needed to build towns, etc. One of the resources is sheep. My 19 month old is learning new words every day, this week he began saying “sheep” every time he handed us something. He will pick up a card or toy or some food and hand it over saying “sheep.” I guess he thinks “sheep” means handing something over. It’s pretty hilarious.
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Last week I talked with my 4 yr old about baptism, as his cousin was to be baptized on Sunday. Then on Saturday, he asked what “sanitized” meant. As usual, we asked him what he thought it meant. He cocked his head and, without missing a beat, said “that’s when Santa gets baptized”.
My deliciously funny 15 month old ds loves, loves, loves avocados! They go into everything he eats. So, today we were eating a salad, and he pulls an avocado out of the bowl and sticks it in his ear and grins! I could not stop laughing! He looked so cute! : )))
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This just happened yesterday. My little one (14 months) was sitting playing with his books. My husband asked why was dirt on the floor. Then I saw a wet spot on his tush. He had eaten several helpings of carrots the day before. Let’s just say that I hope he didn’t “eat” any carrots. They were everywhere, on books, embedded in the tread of his shoes, all down his legs. I scrubbed the floor while my husband scrubbed the tush. I couldn’t help but laugh.
Last night, Emily streaked through the house in her pull-up shouting “I’m on wheels!” She went round and round our house through the living room, dining room, and kitchen until she finally collapsed in a heap on my lap. We have no idea what she meant, but we sure had a good time laughing about it (on the inside, of course.)
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My 3-month old’s loud bowel movements always crack me up, especially when we’ve just finished changing her diaper _ better laugh than cry…
The funny thing that my one year old little girl did this week was:
When I got home from work she wanted to be picked up immediately as usual. While she was giving me a hug, my wife came over to give me a hug too. My daughter pushed her away!
my son says at dinner “Mommy the baby wants my broccolli.” . . . FYI the baby was in the other room sleeping.
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This week me and my daughters were driving home and my 2 year old Sadie was eating chicken nuggets. When she wanted me to hand her another one she said, “Moooooo”. It was hilarious!
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A student of mine was filling in a worksheet on beginning sounds. One of the pictures had “iger” written underneath it. She wrote “l” for lion. The liger is one of my favorite animals.
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Maddy, my 6-year-old, is so excited that our dog, Bruno, can now sleep in her bedroom at night. One of the best advantages to his bedtime company? “I don’t even need to worry about monsters now. If any come in my room, Bruno can use HAIKU on them!”
My 3 year old was playing with my 6 month old and got her laughing like we have never heard her laugh before. We got it on video and it was hilarious.
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Our son is five months old – he recently started bounding like crazy in his bouncer…this week he started laughing while he jumps. It is so fun to watch!
We read the book “If you were onomatopoeia” the other day. I think we spent five minutes just laughing as the boys attempted to say onomatopoeia. We got on-a-mama-potato….ona-motha-peeeyaa and many other hilarious results!
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My 4-year-old son was shrieking during bathtime. All of a sudden, he stopped, and with great dramatic flair, asked “What is my problem?” I laughed so hard! Then he started laughing, then the baby joined in, too. Love those kids!
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We study a letter of the alphabet each week. Last week was O. My dh asked my 3 year old: “What does an octopus shoot out?” Answer he was looking for: ink. Answer he got: “Um, laser beams.”
Something funny this week? I have to narrow it down???
Well, just tonight, we had a friend and her 11 month old little girl over. My five year old walked into the living room where Little Girl was playing. “Wow! What HUGE ears!!!” He marvelled.
At first, I was mortified, but seeing as how my friend was laughing fit to kill, I enjoyed a guffaw too. To be clear, Little Girl does NOT have huge ears. They are, however, a little pointily elvish.
This afternoon my 19 month old son Nathan was enjoying a fudgsicle out on the back patio. His daddy had left him and went for a rag to clean him up with. Nathan took the opportunity and stepped inside the kitchen dripping fudgsicle on the floor. He then reached down to wipe it making more of a mess. My husband came rushing back in and said, “Nathan Paul Barber”. Nathan stepped quickly outside while repeating his dad, “nathan paul barber”. It was so funny he couldn’t quiet say it clearly but we sure understood him!
Owen is 18 months old and thinks jumping is the best thing (never mind that he can’t actually get his feet off the ground!). This week I found him “jumping” in the crib, on the vacuum, on his trucks, in the laundry basket, and on a big box.
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hmmm… how to choose… I have 5! There was the time son #2 fell off the back of the couch, jumped up with arms up and yelled “TA DA!”… Or when Son #1 & #2 were walking around the house with balloons up their shirts at the front, and down their shorts at the back… When daughter #2 and son #3 took turns ‘massaging’ each other’s feet (they’re 2 & 1 respectively)…. It’s a party that never quits at my place!
My kid cracks me up all the time. I blog about it frequently.
Today he was taking gigantic bites of applesauce “because it’s so yummy”. I don’t think he could’ve balance another speck of applesauce on that spoon. When I corrected him about his huge bites, he started taking bites that we so small you couldn’t see the applesauce on the fork. Of course he had that glimmer in his eyes and grin on his face because he was cracking himself up.
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My 2yo son has just discovered footie pajamas. He’ll have me put one on, then he runs around the house saying “I’m so cute!” Yes he is!
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My daughter wrote a letter to our new president with some instructions on how to govern:
“Make peace and love. Lower the gas prices. I voted for you (well, I wanted to).”
My baby (7) slept in her fish hat that I made for her, so when I went to check on her, I saw a fish in bed!
My son Eli (former preemie) is finally beginning to walk at 21 months old and we were going crazy this wknd cheering for him as he proudly displayed his moves. His twin Alex started spinning circles while he did this as if to say “look at me, look at me”. He hasn’t done this dizzy circle spinning before so it was pretty adorable.
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My 3-yr-old girl is obsessed with dresses. Yesterday we went to a bridal shop to get her measured for a flower girl dress. Oh My, was she ever in heaven! I know it’s not super funny, but it cracked me up how she entered with awe: “Mommy, look at ALL the BEEEAUTIFUL DRESSES!” and then went around petting them.
And Oh My, watching a bride trying on dresses: “But Mommy, WHY DID SHE TAKE OFF THAT BEAUTIFUL THING???” She couldn’t understand why the lady would take off her veil!
My son is always full of wonderful sayings…’Ethanisms’ we call them. One of my favorites:
My husband and I were discussing something in front of him that was getting a little too deep.
Ethan was playing with toys at the table.
My husband looked at me and said, “We don’t need to be talking about this stuff in front of…”, and he nodded toward Ethan.
Ethan didn’t look up, kept playing and in perfect timing finished his daddy’s sentence by spelling “…E-T-H-A-N.”
We are trying to potty train my son and he has every excuse in the book to not use the potty. Everything from I’m too small, the potty’s too small, to I’m a big boy and big boys don’t use the potty. But the one that takes the cake is “there are bees in the rug.” He was complaining that he didn’t want to use the potty because the floor was cold. We told him that he could stand on a rug so he wouldn’t have to touch the cold floor. That didn’t work due to the bees. I wonder what the excuses with be today.
My three year old nephew grabbed his uncles brand new puppy boxer (about 4 months old) and walked him over to the pool and just let go. His father had to run over and rescue the poor pup. Now whenever the pup sees him he nips at his butt and holds on like the coppertone ads.
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Baby Blues has been my favoirte comic forever. As a matter of fact, I like to give one of their books to my friends when they have their first baby. I have created several converts!
The funniest thing my daughter did this week was mangle the english language with her pre-schooler speak. She was playing with her brother’s police dress up stuff. She came up to me and said, “Mama, could you get these hand muffs open?” She continued to call them hand muffs all day. I giggled every time.
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I have always told my kids they could ask me whatever they want, that no question is off limits. However, my oldest(5) some is wanting to help pump gas lately & so I let him lift the lever, open the cap, etc. We went to the pump the other day & this man was talking about gas being down & such, just making conversation over the pump. I looked down to see my son just staring & realized he was staring at this man b/c he didn’t have any teeth. Without looking away from the man my son said, “Momma..”, I said no honey, son..”no, but Momma…”, I said not right now….this happened a couple more times. So, I bent down in his ear & said I know you want to ask me about something but I want you to wait until we are in the car. Once we returned to the car he said, “You say we can ask you anything, why wouldn’t you let me talk.” I said, I know you wanted to ask about that man’s teeth but it might have hurt his feelings! His look was in awe, he couldn’t believe I knew what he was going to say! Three things came of our experience;
1. A lesson about taking care of our teeth
2. A lesson about questions…all can be asked, some have to wait to be asked!
3. My son thinks his mom is magic…or at least that I can read his mind!
Hmmmm . . . my 16 mo. old did a cute/funny thing the other day when a neighbor’s daughter was over at another neighbor’s house I was visiting. He’s normally shy with strangers, but walked up to her and just put his arms around her and hugged her.
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Fiona began doing a faux startled face this week. She does it all the time – I actually blogged about it earlier today. She’s just sitting around, watching me do the dishes for example, and then when I look at her she’ll pull this very startled face out of nowhere. It’s hysterical!
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Baby Blues is the ONLY comic I read–I love it!
Funny thing: We were talking about Buzz Lightyear, and I said, “To infinity and beyond!” and my son rebuked me: “Only men can say that, Mommy!” Well, pardon me!
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