Chuckle-fest with the kids

Stefanie has recently told me I should write about Adriana and her marvelous adventures. Well, not so much adventures, as 'bon mots'.

She and I had a Sunday to ourselves one day (Stefa & Larysa were in a diving competition and Orest took them) and coming out of church, she was obviously trying to piece together her religious knowledge. She told me that there's this place where Mary and 'Jophes' were with the baby Jesus, but she couldn't remember the name of it. I tried stables?, the inn?, but she came up with it on her own: 'Bethany-hen'!

Next, she was telling me she'd learned a new prayer, the Ave Maria. It goes something like this: 'Ave Maria, Holy Mudder of God, the Lord is wit dee. I once saw 4 men swimmin'. Once she hit that last line, it was impossible for me keep a straight face. I tried to correct her that it's 'Blessed are thee amongst women', but she was having none of it.

Larysa has also caused us to have a fit of the giggles a few times as well. We were all around the dinner table and Adriana was horsing around with Larysa and told her to put 'this cup' on her head. Larysa misheard her and asked incredulously: 'What, you want me to put this crap on my head?' Stefanie was drinking orange juice at that moment, which came spraying out, causing her to start choking and eventually up-chuck. I meanwhile was thinking: 'Lovely end to a delicious meal!'

Another time we were driving to the pool for diving lessons and Stefanie piped up: 'I can tell time..' Larysa immediately interrupted with 'Me too!' and Stefanie finished her sentence with '...in French.' Larysa then deflatedly said: 'Oh.'

Same trip...I asked Larysa if she had brought underwear with her, knowing that she already had her swimsuit under her clothes and would need something to change into later. She pulled up her top, thinking I meant 'did she bring her swimsuit', and said: 'ding, ding, ding, ding!' as if I were on some gameshow. Completely bizarre, but anyway I repeated: 'No, your panties!' again she deflated and said: 'oops!'. I won't tell you what the end result there was....