Ferndale Kimballs

The mental wanderings of our three children

Tuesday, March 27, 2007

Is that why your shirt is inside out and your underwear is always on backwards?

Gabe: Eva's gift is doing things carefully. My gift is doing things fast!

Friday, March 23, 2007

Teaching the fundamentals of good hygiene

Dad (to Eva): No, no, no. You may not scrub your feet with your toothbrush and then put it back in your mouth.
I'm sure that can be arranged

Dad: Gabe - it's almost time for bed.

Gabe: Are you kidding me? I feel like I could move huge bricks for . . . like . . . two more hours!

Sunday, March 18, 2007

Some people think slouching in a chair and grouching into a beer is a real good time


Gabe: Well, I learned something about Robbie today. He's not much fun when he's tired . . . just like dad.

Saturday, March 17, 2007

Similarly, how much wood WOULD a wood chuck chuck?

Gabe: He's as happy as a clam . . . wait . . . How happy are clams, anyways?

Saturday, March 10, 2007

Choose your own adventure

Dad (in the middle of a story): So, all year I had been wanting a bike for my birthday. And in the morning, when I came downstairs, guess what I saw.

Eva: Chocolate pudding?

Tuesday, March 06, 2007

Dads are from Mars, kids are from Venus

Dad: Eva, do you have to go pee-pee?

Eva: Yes - but mommy's in the bathroom.

Dad: Can you hold your pee-pee until she gets out?

Eva: NO!

Dad: You can't? Are you going to go pee-pee in your pants?

Eva: Why do you want me to hold on to my pee-pee?

Dad: Not hold on to it - hold it inside you.

Eva: Only boys have pee-pees. Girls don't have pee-pees.

Dad: Well . . . yes . . . ummm . . . (leaves the room)

Sunday, March 04, 2007

What they were all thinking

Nate just got finished using a teachable moment to instruct Gabe and Eva on a "life lesson"

Mom (from the other room): I missed the life lesson. What was it?

Gabe (in stage whisper): Nothing important.
Secrets of the church, revealed.

Dad: This loaf of bread is getting pretty dry.

Gabe: Dry bread makes great toast. And when it gets really stale, it's good for communion.

Saturday, March 03, 2007

Looks great with a poodle skirt

Eva (flapping around the room): I'm a hawk!

Mom: What kind of a hawk are you?

Eva: I'm a mohawk.

Friday, March 02, 2007

Chemical warfare

Gabe (while wrestling): Dad, can you lay down for three minutes?

Dad: No way, dude.

Gabe: Aww, Man! I had a great fart comin'