Gems

I love the days when Carter is unintentionally hilarious. Examples follow.

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On our scheduled trip to see This is the Place Heritage Park tomorrow:

ME: "It's a place where you can see what the lives of the pioneers were like."

CARTER: "Mom, are they alive or dead?"

ME: "They're all dead now."

CARTER: "Oh. Did they get red?"

ME: "'Get red?' What does that mean?"

CARTER: "It means they got sick and died. How many of them got red?"

ME: "Uhhhhh......" (Making a mental note to 1) brush up on my church history and 2) avoid conversations on death with my kid.)

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After Carter decided to attack me as "The Tickle Monster," albeit a tickle monster who had just gone potty and was naked from the waist down:

ME: "You're naked."

CARTER: "MMMMOOOOOOOOMMMMM!!!! Don't call me naked! It's a bad word!"

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After babysitting my niece Kinsley this morning:

ME: "Carter, your room is a mess."

CARTER: "Hmmmmm. I don't know, maybe Kinsley did it."

(Attention Kiirstin: Kinsley didn't do it. His room looked like the aftermath of a tornado BEFORE Kinsley got there.)

Sneaky kid.