Strange there is really only one funny story that sticks out at this time and it is about Hayden. So I will relate it and then as I can remember others I'll try to add to this post.
Marie called me at work one day and asked frantically how to use the camera. She then used it and we have proof of the fact that Hayden is very blonde or at least was for one day. Marie had been baking and he was only about two years old but somehow pulled a bowl full of flour off the counter and onto his head leaving a ghostly blonde little boy sitting amid a world of white flour. We have smiled over that memory for many years.
One not so funny but still in my memory was actually a series of events.
Tia we called the Tick magnet because no matter where we went where there might be ticks she would get them on her. One day in fourth grade (we don't remember for sure which grade) she had two teachers one lady in the morning and another lady in the afternoon. Well the morning teacher found the tick and wasn't too worried about it as long as we got it out when she got home but the afternoon teacher freaked out and we had to go get her and have it removed at once.
Ben was a pizza delivery boy for Slice A Pizza when he was in high school. One night he called and told me the car wouldn't stop roaring. The engine was racing at full speed. Marie and I went over and I ended up riding on the engine holding the throttle back while he drove over the Max's Car Repair shop where they found that the cruise control had stuck. He removed the link to the throttle and we drove it that way the rest of the time that we owned that car.
Jeff's memory was one day when he was coaching soccer and he came running into the house looking for something and soon after a neighbor from on Larsen's lane showed up and was wanting to talk to him about driving 40 miles an hour down the road. He had motioned Jeff to slow down but Jeff motioned back to him something that made him mad so he got in his car and followed Jeff home. I cooled him down and said that I would take care of it. He didn't actually live on that road he was just there with his dad when the event happened. Jeff to say the least was pretty hot about it and so was the other guy.
Loren has a series of funny stories that have followed him. The funnest one was when as a family we went to the National Jamboree in Virginia and visited a number of sites while on the trip which included the Statue of Liberty. For some reason, and this was probably fear in a two year olds mind, he cried all the way up the narrow steps to the top of the statue where we were able to peak out small holes to the little people below in line waiting for their turn to come up. I am not sure what everyone else behind and in front of us thought but all I could do was carry him and keep telling him we could not go down because of all the people behind us, beside the fact that I wasn't going to go back anyway. When we got to the top he stopped crying and was just fine after that. We have it all on tape because I left the video recorder going the entire time as well.
OK So I'm on role and won't have to edit this later.
Brittany's was on the same trip when we were in West Virginia and had stopped at a Motel for the night. We had two rooms and while carrying in the luggage Tia and Brittany were in one of the rooms. Somehow Britt pulled a set of lockers down on her and had cut her head open. Tia couldn't do anything about it and for some reason the rest of us were locked out. When we finally got in I cleaned up Britt and then we went to the pool where the owner of the building was at and was also a doctor. He looked at her and did the necessary first aid. It was not funny at the time but since then has become one that has put a smile on our faces several times.
I am sure there are many others such as when Marie and I went to Parent Teacher's conferences and were told by Hayden's teacher that She has had to learn to tell any students that were sitting around Hayden to be quiet because it was obvious it wouldn't work with Hayden since every time she tried catch him and would ask him a question he would not skip a beat as he quit talking, told her what she wanted to know and would go back to talking.
Well that's it for now.
