Thursday, June 24, 2010

Father's Day gifts preschool style

My children continue to make me laugh...and cry at times...but mostly laugh. The other day I took Brian and Kate to swimming lessons and when I was buckling them up afterward I told them that the next day was Father's Day. I explained that daddy was their father and that we should think of something nice to get him. Brian thought for a minute and then said, "I think he would like a gun squirter (I'm assuming he meant a squirt gun)." After a moment Brian then said, "and a blow hole." I burst out laughing, which Brian didn't like at all and demanded to know why I was laughing. I told him he was just funny, which he also didn't like (I've found that when you tell kids they're funny they tend to think it's a "bad" thing. I asked Brian to explain what a "blow hole" was and he looked at me like I was an idiot. He said, "You know, it's a hole that you blow out of." Kate then chimed in from the back seat, "Dorey" (Dorey is the blue fish from "Finding Nemo"...I guess she thought Jeff would like his very own Dorey). Brian then said, "A new car." Well, there you have it: a gun squirter, a blow hole, Dorey, and a new car....it's quite a list.
We ended up getting Jeff two new shirts. I looked for blow holes everywhere, but they're hard to come by. :-)