Laugh Jar Moments 2010

I cleaned out my Laugh Jar this morning. If you don't know what a laugh jar is, look at my archive and you'll see. I have to say that reading these funny things had me laughing to myself this morning. Roy Austin entered the jar this year, too, as he started to sllllllooooowwwwwllllly begin to talk! Here are a few laughs from 2010:


1. Caroline's prayer at dinner one night: "Jesus, thank you for the people in Haiti. And bless their hearts, Lord, they're so chilly!" (Haiti had just had their earthquake and that day, Chile had theirs, too).

2. We were driving to church and Roy called himself "weird" in a conversation we were having. I told the kids that Daddy was not weird because God didn't make any weird people. Caroline said, "What about that guy in the Olympics?" She was referring to Johnny Weir, the ice skater. By the way, he IS weird!!

3. Roy was getting ready for a trip to Africa and we went to REI the night before to purchase a few items. While he was gone, we drove past REI a few times and RoyBoy would say, "there's Africa!". I didn't understand what he meant until I realized he thought REI WAS Africa. It made Roy so sad to think that RoyBoy thought he was a few miles away the whole 12 days and he wouldn't come by the house to see him:( Our family now refers to that store "Africa".

4. RoyBoy also calls the Post Office, "the Toast Office" and he calls Mary Jane shoes, "Mama Janes" (Roy's family's name for their grandmother!!).

5. The door bell rang one morning, while I was still in my robe. I was hesitant to go get the door and sent Caroline to look to see who it was. She replied, "Mommy, Juan is at the door." I didn't understand what she was saying and kept saying, "who?" and she'd reply, "Juan!". When I finally came to the door, a nice Hispanic man was there selling pine needles. I guess she figured his name had to be Juan!

6. Caroline: "Mommy? Does Santa brap?" (our word for passing gas!).

7. Since I went there, I'll do this one, too. You know how some people need to take magazines or books to the bathroom to help them take care of business? Well, one day in a public restroom, Caroline had to do a little business. She was taking forever and I kept encouraging her to hurry. She finally told me to tell her something funny because that would help her go. I told her a joke and sure enough, she did her thing. So, whenever we are in public and she has to go, I have to make a funny face for her or make her laugh. Works every time!

8. On 9/11, we had the TV on with all of the footage being shown of the towers falling. I explained to Caroline what happened that day and she was shocked. Later that night she told me, "I think I'm going to be a firefighter and I'm going to get that bad guy (Bin Laden) and find him and then I'm going to put him in the deepest, deepest hole!".

9. RoyBoy demolished 16 eggs in our refrigerator one night, making them run all down my produce and cheese drawers. He made a true mess. When I asked him why he had done that, he looked at me with a pitiful look and said, "I had to!".

10. In the backseat of the car, Caroline turned to Roy Austin and said, "Buddy, are you thinking what I'm thinking?".