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More Five Funny
Sam wanted Luke’s baggie of almonds and raisins. For the most part, there were only almonds left because Luke had picked out the raisins the way a kid (or, frankly, the way I still would, given the...
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More Kid Comedy, Some on Purpose
“It’s kind of funny how they call him Pustin Boots,” Luke said, thinking aloud in the backseat and remembering the movie, Puss in Boots, he saw a couple of years ago with a friend. “They named a cat...
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More Comedy from the Home Front
You know homeschooling is off to a great start when your kid asks on your first official day of doing the kindergarten curriculum at home, “Why are you saying it kind of like in a zombie way?” as you...
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May the Force be With You
I remember the feeling of my feet in Luke’s shoes the day I found a movie he recorded on his camera. In it he ran through the house taking a video, even tucking into the dark places beneath furniture...
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Six More Darndest Things
Luke told me today I have a “sort of wrinkly belly.” “That’s because I’ve had two babies in there,” I said. He smiled as though he’d just solved a riddle, realizing he was half of those babies. What’s...
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Owl Heads, Stubborn Letters, The Bright Side, and Other Funny Kid Stuff
“Mama,” Luke said in the authoritative tone he gets anytime he’s excited to tell me something he thinks will be news to me, “do you know how you say ‘lookit’ in Spanish?” “How?” I asked. “Si, si!”...
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Growing Up, Changing Clothes, and Treasure Hunts
At the playground near a nature trail we sometimes visit, I overheard Luke try to introduce himself to a little girl he’d just met there. The two of them were gathering buckeye seeds and cracking them...
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