Tag: funny stories

Laundry and kittens– what happens when Mom and Dad are Gone

And now for the famous “Only at the Webster’s…..”   (crazy things that I’m sure only happen here and no where else!)

 

MP and I came home from a wedding reception this particular Saturday night.  As we came in, Blondie came running up to us and said, “it was an accident, I promise!  Scout put his pants in the dryer and turned it on.  He came back in a few minutes later and heard the kitty crying.  She was in the dryer.  She is okay.  I promise, he didn’t know she was in there!”

 

 Kitten in the Tumble Dryer

Now really, does this kind of stuff EVER happen anywhere else?  We did feel sorry for the kitty when we adopted her, but we thought we were improving at our house!  This is definitely a good place for “Survivor” to be filmed!  Either that or another “Griswold family movie!”    Yep—no fire this week, but we did survive the dryer!  And I might add that she is nice and fluffy.  Poor kitty—Doodle Bug traumatized her earlier by giving her a bath.  Guess we should have thought of the dryer after her bath—just kidding!  Life is just one adventure after another, huh????  Written 1/11/04

Pictures with Toddlers– It doesn’t get anymore fun than that!

I think I mentioned before the exciting time we had trying to get Cinco to take his picture…..he turned around and covered his face and told us “no” and wouldn’t smile, so we took a picture of him trying not to smile-semi grouchy face. Well, the pictures came back this week.  And it looks just like him–trying not to smile.

The kids hand him the packet and he gets sooo excited,

“OOOHHHH, look!  It’s Cinco!!!”

Then he starts pulling the pictures out and realizes that there’s more pictures.

“OOHH!  Mom!  It’s a HUNDRED Cinco’s……”

(then he pulls out the little wallet ones)….he gets really excited and says, “SIX HUNDRED Cinco’s!!”

Boy was he thrilled!  The whole time I’m thinking, “yeah, you little stinker!  NOW you like it!”  Isn’t that just the way it is…….. Gotta love pictures with toddlers!!  Written 10/5/03

 

 

 

Best Definition of a Brain Freeze

 

brain freeze

The other day, I got Cinco a Frosty at Wendy’s.  A few minutes later, he is groaning and smacking his head.  Then he asks me what I think a brain freeze feels like.  I couldn’t come up with a quick definition.  Cinco quickly interrupts my thought process by saying, “I HATE brain freezes!  It feels like there are little guys in my head trying to punch my eyeball out.”

And there you have it!!  The best definition for a brain freeze that I’ve heard yet!

Bar O Q and Burr Oak

 

I ordered French doors for the office when we started building.  Long story short, the guy got mad at us and sold them, so Mr. Perfect and I are having to order new doors.  I was looking at one with a seedy Baroque glass.  It’s kind of an old fashioned looking glass, a French word pronounced  “Burr Oak”.  Well, Mr. Perfect called to order the door.  When he came home he told me, “I told the guy that my wife wanted the seedy BAR O Q glass.”  That’s right—BAR O Q, three syllables and as red neck as you can make it sound.   I explained to Mr. Perfect the correct pronunciation.  We figure the guy is still laughing about that.  Of course, now we have to call them the BAR O Q glass doors, too!  Even Doodle Bug knew the right pronunciation.  BJ Dude probably does, too ;o). 1/9/06

Bee, Bet, Bay… How do YOU say it?

At Costco, Doodle Bug had her dad buy these really good sorbet’s (pronounced Sore Bay).  They are actual halves of fruit– coconut, pineapple, lemon, orange, that are filled with the sorbet, or sherbet-type stuff, and frozen.  Yesterday, MP said that he was going to have a Sorbee.  When we started laughing, he said, “Okay a Sore Bet.”  Finally Doodle Bug told him that they were “Sore Bay’s”.  But from now on you can have all the Sorbee’s or SoreBET’s you want!  11/7/05

PS. They are SUPER YUMMY!!!

 

 

What’s in YOUR pond?

We were at the pond by our cabin with my uncle and his wife. MP said, “when I was down here this morning, I saw the MARLIN’s on the pond.”  There was another awkward pause in the conversation, and I said, “I didn’t know we had such LARGE fish in this pond.  Perhaps you meant the MALLARD ducks on the pond.”  “Yeah that was it!”   My uncle’s wife was laughing and said that she thought marlins were a big fish.  I told her that we liked more exotic things in our pond.  That pond is so big it may hold one marlin at best =)! 5/30/05

Here’s a picture of our pond:

Here’s a picture of a marlin:

Yeah…it would take up the whole pond… Might not even be able to turn around. 

Sapphires & Rootbeer

 

At the ball game the other night, Paul, my Mom, and I were talking about the fruit stand opening up.  Mom said that Grandma was cussing Grandpa for having all that pop in the cooler and they should have watermelon, etc, etc.  Paul said, “yeah.  They do pretty good selling the sapphire root beer.”  Mom kind of paused.  I said “SAPPHIRE?”  Mom looked at me with a quizzing look.  Since I am now fluent in Maloprop-eze, I said to mom, “let me translate for you–SASPARILLA!”  Mom was cracking up!!! 5/30/05

Sioux_City_Sarsaparilla

 

Salons and Saloons– The Cowboy Way!

At Paul’s Webelo camp, they did knots at one of the rotations.  Since then he has been showing us all kind of knots with a renewed interest and excitement(to him not necessarily to us!)  He was showing the clove hitch to Blondie and Scout and while flinging the rope over the tennis racket handle said, “This is how the cowboys hitched their horse up while they went into the SALON!…….uh……I mean SALOON.”

 

You know those cowboys– always had a concern for their hair!  5/2/05

saloon

 

Cheese & Spice

We were outside the other night talking with our neighbor.  She and I were talking about cheese and she said that she didn’t like Monterey Jack cheese very well.  Paul pipes up and says, “Yeah, I like seasoned salt better, too!”  We all look at him kind of funny and Doodle Bug says, “Dad, what are you talking about?  We’re talking about CHEESE here!”

 

“Oh,” he says, “I thought you were talking about the Monterey seasoning or what is it??….”

 

Doodle Bug corrected, “That’s MONTREAL steak seasoning!”      Monterey, Montreal– they’re all just cities anyway! 11/7/04