Colorado

I've just spent that last 10 days in Colorado with my sister and her boys. What fun!!

While I was there, I spent a lot of time with Hunter (my oldest

nephew who is 6). These are some of the funny things he said to me. Warning: they may not be that funny to you, but they were funny to me so context may be important.

Here are some quotes from my time there (in no particular order).

1. "Heather, why do you look younger than Mom?"

(for those of you that don't know, my sister that lives in Colorado is older than I am.)

2. "Don't forget to pick me up at the bus stop today."

(One of my duties while there was to pick Hunter up fro

m the bus stop each day. He would say this numerous times as we are driving our short distance to the bus stop.)

3. "I was afraid you had forgot to pick me up."

(This is what he said as he got off the bus.)

4. "It's okay this time, but Mommy and Daddy usually get out of the car when I get off the bus." (Oh, I didn't know there was a proper way to pick up kids from the bus stop.)

5. "Schmeather"

(What he calls me sometimes. To which I respond, Schmunte

r.)

6. "Can I keep this dough in my room?"

(We made cookies and were making shapes out of the dough - kind of like playdough, but with cookie dough. He wanted to make one that looked like a fire truck. After he made it, he wanted to keep it in his room. You forget kids don't understand that some things have to be refrigerated and can't just "sit" in your room and rot and have bugs crawl on it.)

7. From Hunter's friend as I'm picking him up from school, "Can Hunter and I battle? I taught myself karate and I want to try it out on someone who kno

ws karate?"

(Ummm, no - you can't just beat up on someone who is 2 years younger than you just because you want to try out your karate moves. Hunter does take Tae Kwon Do lessons, but not sure if after school is the place to try out your moves. I did respond in a nicer way for those of you thinking I said this to a 2nd grader.)

8. I went to Hunter's class for show and tell one day. As he is introducing me, he is patting my head like a dog, "This is my Mom's younger sister." His introduction wasn't the funny part, the fact that he was stroking my head like a dog was funny. He must have had this thing with me being the younger sibling. Maybe since he has a younger sibli

ng he was making a strange connection, but nonetheless...younger sister who I pet like a dog and comes when commanded.

9. During his show and tell, kids from his class are allowed to ask questions about the show and tell. One of the kids asked a question that Hunter had answered in his presentation, so when this girl asked it, this was his response, "Actually I already answered that. Do you have another question.?" So business like.

10. "While you put Colton (his younger brother) in his car seat, is it

okay if a do booty and head slides in the bank?"

(It snowed while I was there and we went sledding. Not sure why I think this is funny. Maybe because I was like, sure go ahead...Do a booty and head slide into the snow bank. Or maybe it was because he used the word booty. It could also be that I just let him do head dives into a snow bank. He had on a helmet so I guess I didn't think he could do that much harm to himself. Guess you had to be there.)

Picture of the nephews who I will miss until I get to hang out with them again...Until then, I need to brush up on my monster truck tricks and jumps...

Note: this picture was not taken while I was there. Come on, would I remember to bring a camera and take a picture. You must not know me...