That's what it's like to be the first kid

Our car conversations are my favorite.

Today Aubrey asked the boys, "So how many kids do you want?

"Like, how many kids do you want to work for? 'Cause you have to pay for them."

Owen said he wanted 60 1/2.

Aubrey looked at him like he was crazy and said, "You want to work for that many kids?

"Wait, what's a half?"

(Pause in conversation)

Then Aubrey says, "You have to have more than one

because the first one you test everything out on.

"Like, you know how you get a glass of water and do a whole bunch of tests on it?

That's what it's like to be the first kid."

30 Year Old Grandpa

It was Brad's job to vacuum today. The kitchen/dining room was in need.

Naturally, when one pulls a chair out to vacuum under it, one needs to take that chair all of the way into another room.

Naturally, when another room has four additional chairs, a bench and a high chair, that room becomes a train station.

And the floor automatically becomes hot lava.

At this point, pillows start appearing from all corners of the home.

A small chair is seen being gently tossed across the room.

I remind the passengers that that cute little chair is about thirty years old and should be taken better care of.

Passenger Ethan declares "Yeah, if that was a 30 year old Grandpa, you wouldn't treat it like that!"

At dinner tonight, we told Drew about Ethan's funny line. Someone said, "That's impossible! A 30 year old Grandpa!"

I, being the ever popular Actual Factual, pipe in with "Actually, a 30 year old man could be a grandpa. If he had a child when he was 15 and then if that child had a baby when he was 15..."

Drew replied, "That may be biologically possible, but not socially acceptable."

Ethan responds, " Yeah. Because HE couldn't have a baby at all. (Duh!)"