funny stuff

In the car on the way to and from Franklin tonight, the conversation was so amusing. On the way there, the boys were playing rock, paper, scissors for a while. At some point, Ross told them that we were going to meet some song-writing friends of his so we wanted them to be polite, say hi, spoke when spoken to, and so on. The main point was, "please no potty talk."

This has to be said becase lately, the only way our boys know how to be humorous is with tee-tee and poo-poo jokes, which to be fair, are often pretty funny, but we're trying to get them to branch out a little. They agreed to this rule, but after a few minutes, Sam asked if they could make potty jokes in the car before we got there, I guess as some sort last ditch effort to get it out of their systems. Ross, being the compromising father that he is, said "yes, I guess."

So, Rock/Paper/Scissors turned into Toilet/Poo-Poo/Wipes. And logic would have it that in this version of the game, poo-poo beats toilet, toilet beats wipes, and wipes beat poo-poo. I will spare you the hand motions.

The boys did very well all evening and did abide by the rule. So after an amazing night in Franklin which deserves its own blog post, this is a snippet of the conversation on the way home.

It started with Sam asking us who would win in a contest between water and fire. Very philisophical question for a 7 year old. I told him so then said, "it's hard to say."
Ross chimed in that water would win and that firefighters bet their lives on that everyday. But then I said, "yes, but the heat from the fire overcome the water and boil it."
And then Sam chimes in with, "or the heat from the fire could evaporate the water, making it so fire wins."
There you go.

Then not 2 seconds later, Sam says in all seriousness, "Do you know the muffin man?" I answered, "no, but I've heard he lives in Drury Lane." Then the kids sang out 15 different reditions of this song ranging from, "Do you know the pancake man, the dum-dum man, the Jude-Jude man, and, of course, the poo-poo man."