Mini Stories to Laugh At

At Family Home Evening, we each get to chose a song to sing. Naturally, a lot of the songs are Primary songs. Ivory has chosen, "Hinges" the last few times, and at our most recent FHE, I didn't hear her correctly. I thought she said, "Ninjas" instead of "Hinges". Let me tell you, the actions are way more fun when you are all made of 'ninjas'.

I took a few moments today to read with the kids. (I know this makes it sound like I never read with them.) Pearl handed me Moo, Baa, La, La, La. The book is short enough that it is mandatory to read it more than once. So I spiced it up and we did several different versions: Slow, super fast, singing, rapper style, opera, robot, etc. I had a captive audience for quite some time.

I try not to let the kids eat right before dinner. I am not always successful, especially with Pearl. Since I know she won't eat dinner, I usually cave and hand over a cracker or two pre-meal. Today I succumbed and offered her a Graham Cracker. Of course, this starts a chain reaction and I have each successive kid come and ask for a cracker. Daisy was first. I told her she needed a good reason to get a cracker. She didn't really know what that meant, but her pleas that the cracker would abate her stomach pains did the trick.
Next was Robyn. I told her to give me a good reason. She said that she had done a lot of extra piano that day. I accepted. Even as she was leaving with her prize, Ivory rounded the corner and asked for a cracker. I told her to give me a good reason. She looked at Robyn with her conquest and whispered to her, "What was your reason?"(Clever...that one.)