Things your family does that makes you laugh

[J Le]

My mom has always had a tough time with names. She usually goes through 1-2 relatives before she hits your name. She'll call me Mary Evelyn (her sister) and Tammy (the dog-gone for 25 years) but my brother has it worse.

My brother's name is Ken. One year she bought him some sweats with the name 'Dave' embroidered on them because that's all they had, he needed a pair and they were like $4. Later that year we're at a wedding and she's introducing us to some friends - "This is my son Chuck. Oh, no, that's my brother. His name is Dave. Oh, I mean..." and at this point my brother just stepped up and introduced himself.

Mom still doesn't get names right but we all laugh about it together. My brother turned 40 earlier this year and we had a big 3 foot card. Mom's note started with Chuck (crossed out) Dave (crossed out) and then Ken.

 

[NHdisneylover]

My daughter is a voracious reader so she has an extensive vocabulary. Unfortunately, that doesn't always translate into being able to pronounce the word correctly. Our favorite pronunciation has been "pen-in-sway-la" for the word peninsula. It sounds so much more exotic her way. At least she used it properly in the sentence, even though it took us a moment to figure out what she meant.

My DD13 does the same thing I love it!

 

[PUZZLDY5]

My DH is notorious for mispronouncing words. One day we got a letter in the mail and looks at the return address and in all seriousness asks where Dez Monez is. : I looked at him and just started cracking up laughing. I guess he was absent that day in geography class.

 

[Shih-Tzu]

I was driving home from the mall one night a few years ago and a deer jumped out of the ditch and crossed the road.....I had to slam on the brakes and do some quick manouevers, but luckily we missed him
By the time we got home, my 19 year old(yes - he was 19 at the time) was telling his father, almost breathlessly "And we were driving down the Vanier and deer pulled right out in front of Mom...." at which point DH, without skipping a beat said "And what was he driving?"
Now, animals don't run across the road, we always say "look at the raccoon pulling out on the road" or whatever. DS, now 26 just gives us that disgusted look every time we say that....

 

[AmazingGrace]

We text each other silly things while we're sitting in the same room.
Once when dd was about three, she came down with with lice. I would do the combing thing every night and tell her whether or not I found live ones. For months after that, whenever I even touched her hair, she'd ask, in her little drawl, "find any live ones, mama?"

 

[poohfriend77]

My family loves to play games, anywhere and everywhere. When we go out to eat, we like to play Disney 20 questions or Disney Hangman while we are waiting for our food. We all know that when it is my DD's (who was 6 at the time) turn at hangman, that the spelling might be a little off. Anyway, it was her turn and we were all trying to figure out her person. She wrote
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ / _ _ _ / _ _ _ _ _ . Ok, so we are guessing letters and trying to figure it out. As we get more letters picked, I just burst out laughing. Once we had placed all the letters we figured out her person was "litning the queen". LOL We never knew that she thought his name was lightning the queen. We still laugh about it whenever we see Cars.

My DD insisted it was Lightning the Queen for about a year and a half. I guess that's what happens when you live in a princess-centric house.

 

[DisneyMissy318]

I love reading these little snippets of life! I need to keep a journal - so many things to write down!

We were in the car on Saturday after fireworks - we pass a "Deaf Children Area" sign on side of the road. She read "deaf" - said "death" and couldn't figure out why the road was so dangerous that kids kept dying there. I'm like "deaf - with an "F"! Too funny.

Another is whenever we go to an amusement park or zoo - or outing - my DH usually ends up carrying the "pack". DD started calling him Pedro because of a donkey with saddlebags she "met" when she was little. It doesn't fail - as soon as DH gets the bag - he becomes "Pedro".

Oh, last week - she painted her Papa's toenails purple with glitter. He sported his purple nails until Saturday - when he asked my Mom for the remover - he was sure it was going to wear off and he didn't want to go to the 4th of July concert with purple nails! Too funnY!

 

[buckler]

Proving that I can laugh at myself, here's one I did.

A few years ago we were at Epcot in the country area. I was pushing a stroller and a bunch of birds were ahead of us and not moving. I commented that I had to be careful or I'd run over the PENGUINS. I wasn't trying to be funny either. It was just a mental slip up. My family thought it was hilarious and we joke about it still. So if you see a family at Epcot calling the birds "penguins", that's us.

 

[Huggles]

Aged 2 and faced with a little pile of corn ( sweetcorn?) on her plate with her dinner, DD tried them and declared "I don't like the beads Mummy".