Friday Funnies

Lately Jacob (as I suppose can by typical of boys) has enjoyed using words like "pee-pee" and "poop" and "butt," in out-of-context rude ways...just trying to get a reaction, I guess. I'm not sure what brought it on, especially as we know it doesn't come from Andrew. In our house, we discipline sins with the mouth (back-talking, rudeness, lying, etc) with "medicine" to help remind it to talk kindly, etc..."medicine" being a touch of Tabasco to the tongue.

At any rate, we were in the van, and Elmo was along for the ride with Jacob. I hear from the back seat some random talk about a butt, though I can't remember it verbatim now! We've been over this a zillion times with Jacob, so I didn't have much patience for it.

"Jacob, do you need some medicine for that mouth, since it's talking so rudely?"
"That wasn't me. It was Elmo."
"Tell Elmo that if he keeps talking like that, he's going to get some medicine."
"I can't. He's asleep."
"But he was just talking. How can he be asleep?"
"He was really tired and fell fast asleep just right now."

And when I don't know whether to get frustrated and push the issue or to just laugh right out loud, I generally opt to just end the conversation with silence!