Thumper's Rule

During wrestling season we attended a match at a small high school.  Adam was helping coach and was down on the mat with the team when they had the flag presented.  The kids and I were up in the stand in the visitors section with a few other moms on the team.  The cheerleaders presented the flag, and one of the cheerleaders was noticeably larger than the others.  I didn't think much about it.  A girl with a nice voice sang the national anthem.   All was going great, right up until the girl singing took a small pause to take a breath and a little voice carried over the gym saying "Why is that cheerleader so fat?"
Yes that was Brock.  The entire wrestling team was busting up.  The moms were holding back laughter in the stands.  I couldn't believe that he picked the precise moment that everyone would hear him to ask that question.  When I tried to tell him it was not appropriate to say that, he just asked me "Why Mom, it's true".
Sadly, this is not the first time this kind of thing has happened.  Last summer we were waiting for a seat at a restaurant and a lady came outside who was quite large.  Brock looked right up at her and said, "Wow, You're fat."  My mom happened to be right there and got right after him.  Adam and I just pretended like we didn't know who he was. 

Jump Rope Club

Ady has been participating in Jump Rope Club at her elementary school.  We've been pretty glad that she decided to, even though at first she didn't have interest.  She has improved her skills a lot and even though she started out only being able to jump 1 or 2 times, she has now gotten up to the high teens.  Her club performed at the High School Basketball game.  Even though the basketball wasn't really interesting to watch (the score was like 50-10 at half time) the half-time show was awesome. Of course Brock wanted us to sit all the way on the top row so we did. Here is a brief showing.  Ady is on the front row, 4 from the left(just to the left of her instructor).

While we are at it...

Last week Ady learned about swear words starting with A.  This week she learned about swear words starting with S.  The kids have been interested in pirates since going to Disneyland's Pirates of the Caribbean ride and since we watched Captain Blood(aka Cousin Carson who had the lead in his Jr High School Play).  So we watched Pirates of the Caribbean with the kids.  We warned them there might be a scary part, but they were sure they could handle it.  We sat down to watch and once in a while the kids would ask if this was the scary part, but we assured them it wasn't.  Then when the part came where the crew of the Black Pearl turns into skeletons in the moonlight, we told them this was scary.  The kids cuddled in closer and held hands tighter, and then after they showed the skeletons for a little bit, Brock announced that this was NOT scary.  Ady didn't think it was scary either.  Funny that these things aren't scary, but they are both too scared to go ask for a drink refill at a restaurant.   

Back to the reason for this post.  Sometimes it is hard to get the kids not to talk during the movies.  We are still working on it.  So at one point in the movie Captain Jack Sparrow says that he is not leaving without his ship.  To which Ady repeated:  " He says he is not leaving without his shit".  Uhhh....Ady he said ship.