Kid stories

I walked into the bathroom where Kaia was sitting on the floor coloring. She looked up at me and said, "No laughin' mattuh. No laughin' mattuh." I asked, "No laughing matter? Where'd you learn that?" Kaia responded, "My body taught me that! No laughin' mattuh. I have to practice."

My kids have been obsessively watching one of the Land Before Time movies that has 4 short episodes on it. The songs in the episodes are ridiculously catchy and I find myself singing them all the time, but my favorite thing is to hear Asher randomly sing a line from one of them, "I feel happy!"

The other night I was lying next to Kaia in her bed for a minute. She suddenly said, "Sometimes when I yawn my legs flip up on the inside because my leg bones aren't as strong but my arm bones are really strong." Okay.

Asher drinks more fluid than I thought was humanly possible. Thus, we always have to change his diaper right before we go to bed so he doesn't soak his entire bed. The other night we didn't change it in time. I was holding Asher while Peter changed his sheets. When Peter took Asher's pillow out of the bed, Asher said, "Daddy take my pillow. No that nice!"

Finally, a bathroom-related story. All you squeamish folks or those of you who are just disinterested in poop, consider yourselves forewarned. :)

I walked into the bathroom earlier today to discover the toilet had not been flushed. I called out, "Kaia, did you go poop?" Kaia: "Yes." Then I realized there was no toilet paper in the toilet. The following conversation ensued:

"Kaia, did you wipe?"

"Yes."

"There's no toilet paper in the toilet."

"I flushed it."

"You couldn't have flushed it because the poop is still in the toilet."

(After a couple minutes of silence.) "I know! It's magic! The poop stayed in the toilet and the toilet paper got flushed down!"

Of course. Why didn't I think of that?