I’m Gonna Fart

We’ll it has been another hilarious evening in the “Daddy Chronicles”.  I held down the fort while Meredith enjoyed a well deserved evening out with her book club.  Tonight, however, I held no pretenses – I started the evening off with ice cream and ended it with building a fort they could sleep in.  I know how to buy their loyalty… or at least keep them from screaming at each other.

At dinner Isaiah proudly announced “I’m gonna Fart!”  Then farted, and said “I’m sorry”.  He has developed a new habit of announcing his pending flatulence.  So then I asked him why he said “I’m sorry” instead of “excuse me.”  His response was to giggle and then say “pardon me… that’s what ‘fancy’ people say.”  I’m laughing even now – “fancy people”!!?  Then Harrison decided to get in on the action and repeat Isaiah, but instead of “pardon me” kept saying “part of me”.  These two crack me up.

I have a gig tomorrow, so I was practicing tonight.  Side note: I play in a big-band combo called the HASBand.  Jillian was a bit crabby, so I sat her on my lap while I practiced.  She enjoyed grabbing at the keys while I played.  Overall it was quite a feat, but I am determined.  Some might say stubborn, but I prefer determined.

At bedtime I was herding the kids up the stairs when I blurted out “go put your jammies to bed”.  I had meant to say “go put your jammies on and go to bed”, but in my haste I left out a few words.  The boys thought this was absolutely hilarious.

Jillian picked this exact time to start crawling.  Or at least I think this was the first time she really crawled.  I haven’t talked to Meredith to see if she was doing it this morning, but she was definitely not doing it yesterday.  So the boys had fun watching Jillian crawl around for a while.  She started by crawling from her bedroom to the boy’s bedroom.  There she pulled all their clothes out of a basket and then crawled into the bathroom and opened all the cabinet doors.  From there she headed straight to the top of the stairs.  It’s going to be fun…