Our Vacation Song

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We get silly when we go on vacation. A couple of times, we have made up a song about our adventures, like the time we got lost for 2 1/2 hours in Indianapolis and made up a song that went "you can't get there from here, you can't get there from here. You can get there from anywhere else, but you can't get there from here." We were tired, okay? That's our excuse anyway. Finally some woman led us back to our hotel and actually drove us into the parking lot, not trusting that once we saw the Holiday Inn sign, we could find our way from it, into the parking lot and then into the hotel on our own.

This year, my 6-year-old has taken on the job of writing the song, prior to the vacation. It goes something like this "We're on our way to vacation, uh, uh, uh, uh" (repeat this line about 400 times). My daughter says if he's singing this, she's riding in the other car.

My Other Almost-Mistake.

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I use word expansion software in my job. The program I use is called SmartType and it expands words for me, so that I don't have to type the whole word every time. For example, I can type "hi" and the word "history" will appear in the document I am typing. It is very convenient, but I have gotten spoiled to it and expect it to expand words sometimes when I shouldn't. For example, I tend to expect it to expand the word "head" to "headache" but since the word "head" is a legitimate word too, of course, it doesn't change it. Therefore, I end up typing things like "The patient came into the emergency room complaining that he has had a head for 3 days."

My Funny Typo.

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As a medical transcriptionist, I get a lot of typing practice. Nevertheless there are common typos that I always make and I have to watch out for them. I have to proofread very carefully. The funniest typo that I make repeatedly is "diet" for "die". Yesterday, I was typing for a psychiatric patient and the doctor asked him if he was suicidal and I typed "No, I do not want to diet."

Of course I corrected it!

Counting Down.

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My daughter said last night "The day after tomorrow is the day before the day before vacation."

Be A Statue!

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We have a puppy about 6 months old. His name is Shadow. I'm currently trying very hard to teach Shadow not to jump up but he does it a lot. On me, it isn't bad because he's not very big, but for the two younger kids, he is big enough to bother them a little. Today, on our walk, the youngest got the idea to be very still so that the dog would pass by him and not jump up. It actually worked. What was so funny about it, though, was the boy said "be a statue!" and then he'd strike a pose. He wouldn't just be still in the position he was already in, he'd get in some statue-like position every time the dog would come up to him. Think "boy running", "The thinker" or even "The Karate Kid". Hilarious poses. The girl and I laughed until we cried, then we joined him, every time the dog came up to us, we posed. The dog sat down and looked at us, head to the side, thinking we had clearly lost it. It was a fun walk. Although, I can tell I need to go back to Curves and get in better shape again, I was huffing and puffing up that last steep hill.

Brave Potatoes.

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Last night we read a book from the library called "Brave Potatoes". When we finished it, I made the comment that it was a silly book. My daughter said "Well of course it was a silly book! It was called "Brave Potatoes" not Brave Warriors or something like that! A book called "Brave Potatoes has to be silly!" She's right. It is a cute book, by the way.

Funny 6-year-old quotes.

Here are some of our funnies from yesterday.

There was a moth in the bathroom, flying at the light and my youngest son said "I don't like moths in the bathroom, they disturb the privacy." Like he even shuts the door!?

He came running into my room where I was working on the computer and said "Mommy! Do you know what?!" I said "what" and he said "Well . . . There was a ..... Nevermind. I forgot what I was going to say." I thought that was an age-related thing, forgetting what you are going to say. Well, he is almost 7.

Speaking of his birthday, he's counting up how old he is. He has been saying for a long time that he is 6 3/4 and now that his birthday is very soon, he's said yesterday, "I'm six and three-quarters and a dime!"

Duo

We have a card game, which is kind of like Uno, I guess, but it is called Duo. My youngest son loves to carry the cards around and talk people into playing this game with him. This morning, he talked his father into playing but forgot to tell him a couple of important rules and before they played, the little one "personalized" the deck so that he would have all the wild cards. The little one won, of course, but not by as much as one would think. Daddy's pretty smart too. We've had a few talks about how what one person might call "personalizing" the deck other people might call it "stacking" the deck, otherwise known as cheating ...he still does it, he just tells people up front that the deck is "personalized." This means that his siblings won't play with him and he has to find a kind adult to play, usually grandma, but sometimes mom or dad. He's been trying to teach grandma to play chess, but somehow, she hasn't caught on. You should hear the explanations ...