I decided to include a section called ‘You Gotta Laugh’ because there are so many ‘not so funny at the moment’ stories that are hilarious when you can step back and reflect on them.  I am just going to include a few of them here and add more over time.  It would be great if others had funny/crazy/scary stories to share as well so we all know we aren’t alone!

*At 13 months old JP went missing.  He couldn’t have gone far because he didn’t know how to walk yet. Turns out he had managed to pull himself upstairs, into the bathroom, onto the toilet and into the sink where we found him turning the water off and on and laughing.  It was another month before he could walk, but he had so much upper body and abdominal strength he could pull himself up and into anywhere!

*At 3 years old JP and a friend from daycare were alone in the kitchen for a very short time.  It is amazing what two crazy boys can get into during that amount of time – a full bag of Gluten Free Flour all over the floor, food colouring all over the floor and their bodies (they looked like smurfs) and they tried to clean it up with Norwex cloths and then decided to run and hide in their daycare teacher’s bed so they wouldn’t get in trouble, thus turning the floor tile, themselves, the cloths and the bed sheets blue in the process!  The picture I received at work is below.  I won’t post the one of the two boys posing with their guilty looks or in the bathtub with blue water, but it was about a week before the blue came of their skin!

*We were at an outside pool party last week with work colleauges and JP decided to go skinny dipping in the pool. The two little girls, age 4 and 6, were in shock but kept covering their faces and looking at the same time. 

*In Kindergarten JP told the Principal we had a gun at home in a lockbox and we kept the key under our bed because only his dad had arms long enough to reach it. He was so specific and detailed the Principal wasn’t sure if he was telling the truth or not until JP said his dad shot a robber and the window smashed and it cost $1 million to fix it. The 5 year old storyteller comes through eventually! 

* Just after JP turned 5 he convinced a boy at his daycare that he was an orphan. He said I died in a earthquake and his dad died from choking on pizza that was too hot. The boy told his mom and the next day the mom talked to the daycare teacher about starting a Christmas hamper for JP because he was an orphan! 

There are many more stories that we can laugh at now that time has passed and I’m sure there will be more to come. Please comment and share a story that made you laugh!