I'm Easily Amused

I was painting the walls in the basement yesterday afternoon and I was running out of paint. No big deal, I hadn't finished "mudding" one of the walls anyway. I took what was left on the paint brush and wrote, "HI" in big letters on that wall. My daughter came downstairs and "caught" me in the middle of it. She said incredulously,"MOM, you're doing something fun!"

What is so shocking about this? Am I THAT boring?

A few minutes later my 6-yr. old son came down, saw the wall and said, "MARY! You painted on the wall?!" She said, "No, MOM DID!!! Can you believe it!"



Yesterday, for show-and-tell, my son decided to bring the notebook that the tooth fairy gave him the other night. I didn't think it would be very interesting, but he was very excited to bring it. When he got home from school, he told me the kids in his class liked that it had 70 pages! I asked what they thought of the blue cover. He said, "Nobody mentioned that. Most questions and comments were about the 70 pages." Only in kindergarten could there be a whole discussion about a blank notebook without the color being brought up!



Last night, Bob (age 3), could not get to sleep. I thought maybe his room was a little warm so I opened his window and said, "You can listen to the crickets while you fall asleep. Won't that be neat?" His expression changed immediately to one of concern, and he said, "Crickets?" After a lengthy cricket discussion, he decided the window should be closed. Fifteen minutes later he called to me again and after a little more cricket talk, I re-opened the window. After getting up this morning, he stood at the window and said, "I'm looking for the crickets."



Maybe I need to explain the size of crickets a little better...