These are self-portraits showing off the cereal bag clips she stuck in her hair. She is genuinely this silly, this happy, this beautiful.
Driving past a church.
Jovie: When did you go to church?
Me: When I was a girl and I lived with my parents I went to church.
Jovie: How long was it?
Me: Three hours.
Jovie: AAAACK! That long? Was Jesus the mascot of your church?
The kids treat the nine minute gondola ride at Canyons as their comedy hour with a captive audience. They start out with their best jokes and then tell six minutes of bad jokes. It's usually pretty well-received and people laugh even when the jokes aren't funny, because they can tell the kids are. One day, another rider treated us to this gem: "What is the difference between boogers and broccoli? Kids don't eat broccoli."
So now that's a favorite.
A couple of weeks later, we had a rough day of skiing because Jovie would stubbornly stop in the middle of a run and wouldn't move again while Ikey zoomed down. So I had to choose which child was my favorite. I won't tell you the answer. After she refused to do more than two runs, we had to take it down the mountain.
On the drive home, when we were able to converse calmly again (the gondola ride down wasn't very funny to anybody) I said, "Jovie, why did we have such a hard time doing something so fun? We need to stick together when we ski so we can all have a good time."
Without missing a beat, he said, "What's the difference between skiing and eating in the lodge? Kids don't do skiing."
"MOM! The Olympic Rings are hanging from a tree!"
1 comment:
"Was Jesus the mascot?" is likely my favorite thing she said in the bunch. Although, today I was told that she wants to be a "poop scientist" when she grows up. She's a crackup. :)
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