The "Jokes"

Everyone who has children knows that they have funny words for certain things. Our oldest used to declare things "a little bit scroungy" and called a washcloth "a quashquash."

Our 3 year old has her own set of funny things that she likes to say. Instead of sometimes, it is "timetimes." She often watches me put "saratacs" onto my eyes, needs a "wiper towel" in order to clean up some mess or another, and babies use "firepates."

The other day at a Memorial Day parade, she informed us that she had received a balloon from a joke.

"A what," we asked?
"A joke," she replied, "the joke gave me the balloon."

After a moment, we realized that she meant a clown. A clown had given her a balloon. Timetimes, our kids can be pretty funny.