My Kids Are SOOOO Funny...

My die-hard blog followers will remember Rix-isms. They were the funny things my oldest son Rix would say when he was younger. Unfortunately, Bryce and Cole weren't quite as funny as Rix. But things have changed! My kids are funny again!! At least, I think they are funny, and really that's all that matters. They make me laugh!

*Rix and I were on a late night run to the grocery store the other night, and I was telling him we needed to start planning his baptism date. We got to talking about the day and the food he wanted and stuff, and he mentioned that he didn't want to die before he turned eight because he really wanted to get baptised. Then he changed his mind and said he didn't want die before 12 because there were lots of games he wanted to play too. So I said (and discussing death with my kids is always weird for me) "Why don't you decide you don't want to die until you're really old so you can go on a mission, and go to college, and get married, and have kids and go on vacations and stuff." He paused, and said, "Yeah, and go to meetings!" Bryan and I must make meetings sound fun, because he wants to live long enough to go to one!

* Cole is a product of his environment. I know this because he asked when we were going to rootbeer.com to buy root beer. I don't know if you can buy root beer there, but him thinking of that just goes to show you how many things we really do with computers these days - I swear my 4-year-old can run the computer better than me!

* And Rix is a product of his environment too! For school he had to come up with an invention, and he came up with a Lego robot, and it would clean your room, bring you food, and play sports with you. Oh, and it would always be on sale. Yes, he wrote that on his paper. The robot would always be on sale (because I only buy things if they are on sale).

* Cole is sort of obsessed with New Mexico right now and he thinks we can just up and go to New Mexico whenever we want. He doesn't understand planning and gas money and missing work and school. He just wants to go dang it! Well we were going over our fire safety plan (something we do every year) and we changed the meeting place to Bryan's truck. I was explaining to them that the truck is far enough away from the house and the road and we are all to meet there if we ever have a house fire. Well, Cole took this (somehow, I don't know how) as the beginning of our road trip to New Mexico. Like our house would burn down, we would all meet at dad's truck, and drive to New Mexico right there. He was very concerned that dad would make it out of the fire so he could drive.

* Cole saw a pile of branches that someone had left in their yard after doing some yard work (it wasn't our yard because, uh...we don't do yard work...) but any way he said "Hey mom someone ate all those branches!" Now you have to understand when Cole says things like this I like to ask lots of questions because he has the best answers. So I said "Who ate the branches?" And he says "Nephi...he likes branches." He is interpreting the Book of Mormon in the way only Cole can.

* Rix was trying to convince his brothers that Sonic (as The Hedgehog) is the fastest thing on this earth. And Bryce says in amazement "Faster then a speeding bullet?" And Cole says, in as much amazement as Bryce "Faster than Carissa?" I told Carissa this, and she is sure Cole has never seen her run, but we should set up a date for her to show off her running skills for him. And I'd like to see this.

* I have to be honest, Bryce isn't very funny. And I know he says funny things, but nothing crazy like Rix and Cole. But when he does I'll be sure to post it. It will be a momentous occasion!