Best intentions. I have lots of best intentions. But as we all know, best intentions don't always pan out, do they?
I should start off by saying, Caleb and Noah are at those ages where they have learned the concept that there are swear words out there in the world. And that they shouldn't say them, but my god, they are desperate to find out what they are.
Especially since they started riding the bus in the afternoons and are around kids who go all the way up to 8th grade. They'll come home and, in a combination of pride and sheepishness, announce, "I know what the 'A' word is! Ass! But it can also mean a donkey, so I am not sure why it's a bad word."
Or ask, "Mom, is there a Q word?"
And Noah was quite excited once, a few months ago to come home to tell me he knew what the "S Word" was...Stupid. And I told him that wasn't exactly right, but that we didn't call people "stupid" anyways.
As I have written, we were up in Lutsen, Minnesota over New Year's with my entire immediate family. For those of you counting, that makes 12 people and 6 dogs. It was cozy. In anticipation of us all being in the lodge together for the first time, my parents decided to move an old sectional sofa up there to the lower level family room, adding it to the one that was already there, to make a place where we could all comfortably sit.
So last night, we were all doing just that. Sitting down there. And my dad was asking people what he thought about all the sofas. Which led to joking about him being the "Sofa King." Which led to jokes about the "Saturday Night Live" sketch about the Sofa Kingdom. (If you haven't seen the sketch, read that slowly and then watch the clip at the end of the post.
The adults got talking and joking and speaking in the style of the sketch somewhat forgetting that the big boys were in the room. And I could sense their ears perking up. And then Abby said, "We are in the Sofa Kingdom!" And Noah repeated, "So fah-king dom!" And proceeded to giggle. I assumed he "got it." So I immediately shot back:
Me: Noah, you know we don't say that word!
Noah: What word?
Me: [oh no, he really didn't know what he said...fishing, fishing, fishing...] Dumb!
Noah: But I didn't say dumb!
And then I had to get up and leave the room I was laughing so hard. Yup, that's right, I was sofa kingdom.
6 comments:
I love it! When my best friends little boy was 2 he would say "Duck", only it came out sounding like "F..." It started one day at the lake when we had brought bread for him to feed the ducks. He got so excited he started screaming "DUCK! DUCK! DUCK!" You get the picture. Well, we all started laughing hysterically, and that was all he needed to make Duck his new favorite words... It was a few months of fear anytime we were in public after that! :)
oh my, thanks for that. I'm dying over here.
My high school friend gave me a slip of paper and told me to read it out loud so I did: I Am Sofa King We Todd It.
I read it over and over while she laughed and laughed. Then I got it.
Shame.
Oh, so funny...my oldest son has a stuffed duck that he loves. He used to call it Ducky. So one day he started singing the name game..."Ducky Ducky bo bucky banana fanna fo..." you get the picture. We changed the duck's name to Quackers.
I love this post, and I think it is hilarious...but I am really cracking up at Kate's comment.
Ah yes. I remember the days when my cousins and I played the "Is there a Q word." We even asked our grandpa to tell us the "C" word because we were doing a "Cussing alphabet" and couldnt think of anything. We walked away feeling real big that we already KNEW the "C" word: "Crap." Funny post!
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