Corn

For today’s funny story I decided I would copy an entry from my journal dated March 13, 2009. (My son, Joe, would have been 10 years old at the time.) Here it is:

“Last night we are all sitting eating dinner. Ben had made a beautiful and delicious salad full of all kinds of veggies, including a new family favorite: beets!
So as we were all eating our salad I expressed to the children how proud I was of them for eating healthy and liking veggies. This started the following conversation:
CJ: I know a kid at school who won't eat any vegetables except corn. He loves corn but no other kind of vegetable.
Ben: Actually, corn's not really a vegetable
CJ: Yeah it is!
Ben: No, it's really a grain.
Camerin: Actually, it's a fruit.
Ben: Hey, maybe you're right Camerin!
Camerin: Yeah, because it has those yellow seed things that you eat, on the outside of it... you know those things?
Joe: (as he rolls his eyes at his little sisters "stupidity" for not knowing what they are called) "They're called urinals, Camerin!"

After Ben and I busted up, Joe realized his mistake and corrected it... Poor Kid, he gets it from me unfortunately!”

It’s true. He really does get his air brained ways from me. I plan on writing about those later on and posting them on this blog.