Monday, March 10, 2008

For crying out loud how old do I look?

We needed some new State shirts quick like the other night, so we made a quick run to Steve and Barrys. I saw a cute Transformers tee for the boy and then had to buy Reyna something too, so we got her a Lucky Charms shirt (for St Paddy's day :p) Jose and I are waiting in line bickering like the old married people we are. It starts like this:
Me: I shoulda got Reyes a long sleeve tee to go under this one, you know he likes to wear them under his tee shirts
Jose: why? when he comes home she just takes them off complaining he's too hot
Me: but he likes his own little 'style' he keeps it on at school and just likes the way it looks
Jose: That boy is a punk
Cashier: How old is your son?
Jose and I: 4
Cashier: (trying to stifle her laughter looking surprised) I thought he was a teenager from your conversation.

Wednesday, March 5, 2008

God got angry and killed them with plates

My kid makes me laugh so hard. I take Reyes out on a date the other night while Jose and Reyna are at the daddy/daughter dance. We decide on Pizza Hut and the mall. We have a lovely dinner with him doing his impression of the dancing zombies in the Thriller video. We then head to the mall. We hang out at the Hallmark store and listen to pretty much every musical card. He asks if he can listen to the card 'where God got angry and killed them with the plates. I so had no clue what this kid was talking about; the card showed a cartoon drawing a lady on stage, looking a little opera-esque I guess, holding a candleabra. I asked him what he meant. "You know mommy, God killed them with the plates" HUH???? I ask again what the heck he was talking about. "Remember we went to church and then came home and watched the Rugrats and he killed them with the plates" OK, we went to observe a Seder with Reyna's 6th grade religious ed class, then came home and watch Rugrats passover, so he could understand the story a little more (or I just really wanted to see it). Maybe, he was talking about the grandma and grandpa fighting about which wine glasses to use for the Seder, glasses are dishes, dishes, plates. I think I got.
I go home and ask Reyna if she knows what her brother might be talking about. Noop, she doesn't get it. I ask Jose, he explains it to me:
PLAGUES!!!!!!!
nice, well my kid sorta understood the story and I'm pretty proud of him.