Lessons We’ve Learned from Our Kids #12

• If the toilet doesn’t flush the first time try, try again until you get a really neat waterfall!

• Some brands of toilets are self clogging. Daddy: “What did you put down there Nico?” Nicholas: “Nothing, it just happened!”
• Does Walmart sell brothers?: When Jeremy first learned to play "Hide and Seek", he didn't know that he needed to tell others that he was playing. This resulted in half the church desperately "seeking" a disappeared little boy for about 20 min one Sunday morning. From his hiding spot he thought it was great that so many people were “seeking” him! Once we found him and nerves were quieted down, Nico asked: "Daddy, if we didn't find Jeremy, would you buy me another big brother?”
• Desitin (diaper rash cream) has the same basic ingredient found in that white sun block mom used to put on your nose, it's called Zinc Oxide. Talk about bumper to bumper dual purpose material! So next time your skin is getting baked at the beach, pass the diaper cream!

• Jeremy: If God is God, and Jesus is God too, how could He have himself as a baby?
• Benadryl is a gift from God through pharmacists. Nico didn’t realize he was standing on a fire ant nest until they started biting. By the time we cleaned him off he had about 8 really bad bites and began to turn red and puffy, talk with a swollen tongue and have difficulty breathing. We rushed to the pharmacy for a dose of Benadryl and he was better in ½ an hour. Praise God!
• Faulty memory is not only for the elderly. Mommy: “How did you get so dirty? Jeremy: “I don’t know”
• Grownup rear ends can be severely damaged on slides made for little buns. (Daddy was black, blue, red and some nice shades of green for 2 weeks after one particularly painful game of playground tag.)
• Snails are really neat, but extremely messy if they get “pet too hard”.
• According to our in resident dino-hunters: “Lizards don’t become dinosaurs because they don’t live long enough to get that big”.

• When set at high speed, a ceiling fan can make a Superman action hero fly like in the cartoons if thrown just right! It can also make rolled up socks, hats, quarters and even sunglasses do the same…just not necessarily in one piece.

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