O.C.N.J., U.R.O.K.

Back from our week in Ocean City, NJ. I thought it would be an Internet-free week, but it turns out that we were able to pick up someone's wireless network (we brought the laptop along with us so we could clear out our digital camera when its card filled up).

I was pretty good online. Unlike the missus, I stayed away from posting or reading blogs, and while I peeked at some of my email, I didn't respond to any of the messages. Hopefully I'll get through that this weekend. I really just used our Internet connection to check baseball scores.

I really haven't stopped since getting home. After unpacking (and cleaning up the mess caused by an open bottle of liquid Benadryl in one of our suitcases) I somehow felt the need for a seven-mile run. Then, after dinner, I had to make up some of my famous Oatmeal-Raisin cookies as a thank you to our neighbor for feeding the fish and bringing in the mail. And of course, you can't just make one batch of cookies.

Now I'm tired and need to catch up on a whole lot of blog, so I'm just going to get all Art Linkletter on ya and tell you some of the funnier things the boys said this week:

1. "Can I get a what what" is a rap lyric that's apparently big with the kids. Except, for some reason, the three-year feels the need to say it correctly:

Me: Hey, [insert three-year old's name here], Can I get a what what?
3-year old: May I have a what what?
Me: Sure.
3-year old: Thank you, what what.

2. I snuck the three-year old into the water park for free (since he's pretty short and we had already given the park $45 for two hours of swimming) by saying he was two years old. The seven-year old was flabbergasted:

7-year old: I think that was the first time I've ever heard you lie.
Me {Thinking}: Yeah, well you just haven't been paying attention.
Me {out loud}: Yeah...

Isn't that what you come here for - kids say the darnedest things stories? I may or may not have more, non-cute, O.C. stories coming up, but I know I definitely have some O.C. photos, so stay tuned.

Comments

[Donna]

Glad you had a good time, wish we could have made it down. Friday would have been the only day and that was a wash out anyway. I'm happy that you'll pick up where you left off here. I was in a depressing withdrawal. Almost had to go out and get a life of my own.

[Janie]

Your kids are too cute. I look forward to any stories about them. And it's not just because I'm their aunt either...

[Kelly Erb]

Your story about lying reminds me of a story one of my friends once told about her children:

Her youngest was too young to go skiing but her oldest refused to go without his sister. So my friend told her youngest child that, if anyone asked, to say she was 7.

They had a lovely vacation.

Weeks later, someone asked my friend's daughter how old she was.

"6" replied the daughter, "but I'm 7 when I'm skiing."

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As always, enjoyed your posts!