As Seen on TV and the Tivo Generation

While watching TV we saw an ad for exercise equipment. Brent and I were making fun of the countdown to get this great deal by saying, "only 5 seconds left!"
Brooklynn looked up and said, "Just pause it. Then the timer will stop."
Phew! Now we can get the Bender Ball AND VHS instruction tape for the special price of $9.99.

Nativity Story

Brent to Brooklynn following the reading of the nativity story from the Bible by Brent and the acting out of the story with the wooden nativity figures by Brooklynn and assisted by Mom... "Wow, Brooklynn, thanks. I've never seen the nativity story with a shooting star, the wisemen falling to their knees because they were knocked down by a meteor and the shepherds telling the sheep to 'wait up.'"

Taking over the world

Brooklynn to the vacuum: "Don't take control of the whole world you naughty thing!" I'm not exactly sure what she meant by this but thought it was funny.

She was vacuuming the stairs at the time. Her method was also amusing, she took the hose and jabbed it five or ten times at each stair then say "1-2-3 Stop!" and turned the vacuum off and moved it down one stair, said "1-2-3 Go!" turned on the vacuum and repeated the process. We'll see how effective that was when she's done, but I suspect I may have to redo it.

Will was playing with packing peanuts while I was taking gifts out of the boxes. I had a big box of the peanuts on the floor. He started dumping them out on top of the dog and all over the floor. Then he layed in it like he was making a snow angel. When he got up and was running through the peanuts I asked him what he was doing. He said, I am making it look like Christmas! (snow)

... Used to hate, but now I love.

While playing a game called Conga on Thanksgiving,when it was Brent's turn we had to guess what his answer was for the question: Something I used to hate but now I love. He asked the question, the timer started and Brooklynn was the first to guess. Without any hesitation she said very mater-of-factly, "Sex!?" We had to stop the timer as we all laughed hysterically. We aren't sure where she came up with this answer. LaDawn said Brooklynn doesn't even know what the word means. And unfortunately I think we've now taught her that that is a funny word. But we just couldn't help but to laugh. I'm guessing LaDawn, Brent and Brooklynn had a very interesting conversation that evening after we all left. :)