I Told the Truth

So, remember that old Mormon commercial where the little urban kids are playing baseball in the street and one of them whacks a ball through the curmudgeonly old mans front window. His friends encourage him to run, but he chooses not to. He bursts into song to declare that telling the truth is what he did, and he's very proud of this. The old man softens and they go off to get ice cream and discuss the inner workings of the game of life.

This is more or less exactly what happened a week or so ago when my little boy T busted the window of my parents neighbors house. The part that isn't shown in the commercial is where the dad goes over to offer to pay for the window. Then the neighbor gives the dad's mom the bill for a 4 foot square pane of glass that, with installation, comes to almost $350. And then the dad takes back all his sons Christmas presents in order to teach another life lesson. Ok, so I didn't do that last part, but it did cross my mind. And I'm wondering why it cost $350? I think the guy got scammed, but didn't care because he knew that it actually was I who was being scammed. Not that I'm bitter, but if I knew it was going to cost that much, I would have chucked a few rocks through the window too. But I didn't. And I don't regret it. . .really. . .well, not much at least. But it proves just one thing. Replacing my parents neighbors window has occured, and the one that T broke on the back of our house a couple Easters ago still hasn't. It's kind of a bummer.

In other news of the kids doing things they're not supposed to be doing. A couple days ago they opened a combined 10 or so of their Christmas presents. They put them away after they opened them, so that was nice, but they didn't try to be sneaky about it at all. They just told my wife they did it, and they were very excited about getting the few things they saw. Little E opened her Cinderella Barbie doll and threw a mighty fit when it was taken from her to be rewrapped. But they haven't done it since. Or if they have, they've moved onto step two of the gift sneaking, where you just poke holes in things, or gently tear back around the tape to see what's inside. And just don't go whole hog on it and take all the wrapping paper off. Then throw away the paper, then put the toys away and tell Mom what you've received for Christmas.

One more thing I must mention. T has been playing this rhyming game with us in the car for a long time now, too long really. Where you have to say two words that rhyme, and we take turns rhyming things. It's super fun. Next time you're at home with your family and there's nothing on TV and nowhere to go, play the rhyming game. I'm telling you, it's non-stop fun. So lately, Little E has been trying to get in on the game, but at this point, she hasn't really figured out how to get two words that rhyme. So she'll just say two words that pop into her head, like Puppy, and House. For a while T was trying to rhyme any word he could with 'Hole' like pole, and toll, and whole, and bowl, and foal, and. . .well, you get the idea. So Little E had been taking it upon herself to find a word that rhymed with hole and was very unsuccessful. Now lately in the morning it's been very foggy, and as such, has inspired T to rhyme words with Fog, so he'll say things like, 'Fog and dog' which is a rhyme, or 'Fog and Frog' again, also a rhyme. Well, Little E had been having a hard time rhyming hole, so she thought she'd try it with 'fog'. This obviously doesn't rhyme, however with her 2 and a half year old enunciation skills, when she yells out, "Fog and Hole!" It doesn't sound like fog and hole at all. As a matter of fact, it sounds much more like what you'd call a trampy female. Or perhaps as an insult thrown between women. Yes folks, if you haven't guessed it, she's yelling out something that sounds exactly like, "F#&*ing Ho!!" Which is at the same time hilarious and horrifying. Because I don't want my little girl yelling out this phrase. Of course, she has no idea what she's saying, but once my wife and I started laughing at this, she realized that this phrase got a wonderful response, so she started yelling it out over and over. I'm going to get it on video, and then try to get her to stop saying it. Don't want that one being yelled out in chuch.