Foster Funnies

When I called Max to my barber chair for his June haircut he sat down and said, "What'll it be today, Delilah?

We made a big mistake and took the boys to a PG-13 movie that we hadn't researched. Gunnar prompted us to leave halfway through, but not before one of the middle school actors said, "Jesus!" in a very derisive tone. I was horrified and looked at Trey next to me who was smiling and looked quite pleased at what the boy had said. I said firmly, "We DO NOT talk like that." The next day Trey took his snack up to the cockpit and both Dave and I heard him use the exact same tone and word. We moved fast, pulling him to the top of the companionway stairs for a lengthy dissertation of how Jesus name is precious to us as he died for our sins and how we would never speak his name like that. Trey looked mildly amused and baffled through our impassioned speech and when it was over said, "What!?! All I said was Cheese-Its." Sure enough, he had a bag of Cheese-Its in the cockpit with him and he later confided to me that he thought the boys in the movie must have liked them too as they wanted them for their snack. Oops.

Gunnar got to help Dave rebuild the head (aka marine toilet) in May. He emerged from the depths of that disgusting chore and said, "That job is crap."

After watching fireworks with our cousins on the Fourth of July, Gunnar let loose one of his amazing long yells. His Uncle Dave commented dryly, "Wow, you're really loud." Gunnar said, reasonably, "Well, I don't get the chance very often."

Gunnar took Trey to the bathroom at the restaurant and after a while threatened, "Corporal, you are going to become a Private if you don't hurry up." From the stall Trey calmly responded, "The Corporal is still taking his bathroom break."