Funny kid stories...

We had a family home evening about the Word of Wisdom tonight. Our oldest was teaching it--she has 2 weeks left to finish up her Faith In God requirements--and we got to talking about watching out for anyone trying to trick us into taking drugs. Well, that got Caleb thinking...in fact I don't know how much else got into his brain after that...cause after a while he patiently raised his and and asked "What if you go out to eat and a bad guy dresses up as your servant and pours beer in your orange juice and serves it to you?"

Okaaayyy...we assured him that he didn't have to worry about that because we don't have any servants (what the...???) they're called "servERS" and that we should just listen to that warning voice in our hearts if we are ever served anything we aren't sure about...soooo, moving right along...then at dinner (ya, dinner wasn't ready until 7pm--sue me, whatever) Caleb mentions that there is a kid in his class that "looks like he's drunk". After some discussion about this poor kid, we establish that he is probably disabled and that it would not be nice to tell him or anyone else that he looks like he's drunk. Disability talk in my house inevitably leads to discussion of my brother Danny, who is "special" and to whom my kids can relate all other "special" people. The discussion moves on and a few minutes later, out of the blue and in all seriousness Lydia says "I'm glad I don't have brain damage."

Of course you can imagine the response to that one, "Who says you don't?" Har Har Har.

Okay, so while I'm telling funny kid stories...the other day, Jim was with the youth at church and one of the girls tells him a story about Caleb. But first a little background: the kids' school had a mock election which ended the day before the real election. Since the school district consists of an Elementary and a Middle School, K-8th graders are on the same campus. So the girl telling Jim the story was the McCain campaign manager and was going around to each classroom with the "candidates" as they were speaking to the kids.

So, she tells Jim that they went in to Caleb's kindergarten class to give their presentations and when the kid who represented Obama started speaking she saw Caleb looking really frustrated...until...he suddenly blurted out, at the top of his lungs, "Obama SUCKS!" and then quickly slunk down in his seat and covered his mouth with both hands.

That's my boy. :)