Why Someecards is a Blankety-Blank (plus #ecardchallenge)

I am not necessarily a devoted fan of Someecards but I love a good chuckle so, of course, I like them and find them funny.  I even made a few in my lifetime, but the majority of my exposure comes from friends on Facebook and Pinterest - until today.

Ready, Set, Parenthood has challenged me!

I have challenged @mryjhnsn to the #ecardchallenge! Link in profile! #bloggers #someecards #funny

A photo posted by Kristen Kelly (@readysetparenthood) on Oct 10, 2014 at 7:09am PDT

The Challenge: Select the 5 e-cards that represent you!
The Challenger: Ready, Set, Parenthood

I've looked deep into my soul and dug up -

5 Someecards that represent me

7 Funny Things My Kid Said Recently

Oh, kids!  They can be so cute and they come up with the funniest lines!

I wish I would have been more diligent documenting the things my oldest said despite the many, many warnings. On the flip side, he has a baby book and his little sister has an instagram account of funny lines. Okay, she does not have an instagram account but since she is the more willing to be photographed than the oldest - it might as well be her account.

1. You want to go where?

Hello Funny! Best Video Ever About Getting Your Period from @HelloFlo

Browsing the internet this morning I came across an interesting heading from Mashable: This Is the Cutest Ad Ever About 'That Time of the Month.'  Personally, I don't get a period* but one day my baby girl will be a woman so naturally I had to check out "the cutest ad ever" for your period.

This is not an official endorsement for the company but one day I hope that I will be able to instill this sort of excitement instead of dread in this inevitable rite of passage for my little girl and hopefully this company is still around so that I may get her a care package and be like Santa for her vagina.




As I was watching this, my sweet soon-to-be-eight-year-old came walking up behind me to see what I was watching.  I did not say anything to him but I giggled along to the video.  When it was over he wanted to know what was so funny and I asked him if he would really like me to explain it to him.  He said, "no, I really don't want you to" and walked away shaking his head.




*not due to the "change" or my age but because I have an IUD

And, an Elephant Goes...

To say that baby girl is somewhat a tom boy is a bit of an understatement.  She probably has more scrapes, bumps and bruises, to date, then her brother ever had and he is five years older.

That said, she is also so very, very girly.

To illustrate just how girly she is - a friend of mine gave me a box of shoes her daughter had out grown.  As baby girl was going through the box, she stopped, stared into the box and stated, "I love shoes."  That is a direct quote my friends.  Direct.  Quote.

That is not my daughter.  This is my Husband's daughter.

My daughter is the baby girl who is using my oven mitt and a golf ball to play catch.

When the Husband caught on to this he declared that he was going to buy her first mitt (which he did) and it would be pink (which it is).

I said, "Why pink?  She may like blue."

"But she is my baby girl and it will be pink."

I did not press the issue.
What I started to do is every time he calls her pretty, I chime in "and SMART!"

He rolls his eyes.  She beams.  At which, I am not sure.  More then likely the attention she is getting.

The Husband took her to the zoo for the first time as part of her brother's first grade field trip.

As we were going through the animals she would see and the sounds that they made I could not resist adding a new one...

Me:  What's a lion say?

Baby: Grrr

Me:  What's an elephant say?

Baby: Blrrr  (very wetly by the way)

Me: What's a bird say?

Baby: Tweet, tweet

Me:  What's a Rowan* say?

Baby: I'm smart!

* her real name

Hey! I'm Pulling a Plane for Special Olympics (again) and I Need you!

  Pretty please.  Thanks!

Do I Have to Say it in Spanish?

My son is at that age when he is testing his boundaries with me using his wits and not just his actions.  Thankfully, the kid is funny and has spot on timing when he accidentally becomes a smart ass.

Case in point:

My soon-to-be-first-grader, occasionally gets dropped of to me at work and spends the last 25 - 30 minutes, of my day, hanging out at the office.  He has become a fixture in the office and most are use to him being there at that time of day.  For the most part... by the time he takes out his art supplies or books it is time to go home.

Some of my colleagues will stop by and say hello or good-bye and depending on his mood he will talk to them and say good night.  One of the girls, Ms Jody, stopped by to chat on a day that Goofy was unusually chatty to everyone and was excitedly telling me something that I could not understand if my life depended on it.

He kept repeating the same phrase and Ms. Jody and I would look at each other and then back him hoping for some clue as to what it was he was saying.  Exasperated, I said that I just had no idea what he is trying to tell me and repeating the same thing was not going to make me understand.

In disgust, Goofy replied, "Do I have to say it in Spanish?"