LET'S HEAR ABOUT MOOSE!

There's many roads we must take before we get to Alayna's punchline.  First, we know that her daddy labels, uses monikers.  If you read the last blog, you know Rusty named their first harvest spider of the season , Geirstein the Big.   He named his dog Spike.  He called his first daughter "the bull".  And, now that his wife is pregnant with another child, and though not born, it's rowdy and giving mom fits as in aches and pains, so, Rusty calls it moose, LOL!

And, keep in mind that I thought all kinds of things when Alayna made this comment and made me laugh..  A person does.  When you hear the word Halloween it conjures up...what?  Jack-o-lanterns?  Trick or Treat?  costumes?  parties?

When you hear the word Christmas you begin thinking of brightly lit evergreen trees, wrapped gifts, holiday foods, jolly red Santa, glittery greeting cards, right?

And after Christmas?  The clean-up, and New Year's Eve; that's what most people think about.  In our family, we also think of Rusty's wife's birthday.  It falls right in there amongst all that other busy-ness.

Remember also, children are naive.  They're innocent.  Their comments do not include all that adult stuff we've been subjected to and attached to words.  Children's lives are very little, basic, filled with parental info and guidelines we've given them.

Now, I can tell you.  5 year old Alayna came up to me during a noisy, very noisy gathering.  After having celebrated a birthday with six grandkids running around, parents laughing and telling stories, grandparents and uncles  adding laugh lines to the stories, she put her little soft hand in mine and said, "GrammyPam?"

"Yes, Alayna..."

She said,"After Christmas..." and I thought of New Years, and her mother's birthday.

"moose" my mind wandered thinking of cold Alaska and humongous antlered creatures.

 Alayna said, "After Christmas, Moose comes out of mommy!"

Oh my lands, I doubled over laughing!  She was so serious!  I was so loosing it!

Art Linkletter said it best, "Kids say the darnedest things!"

And Alayna, unknowingly, said the darnedest of all, "After Christmas, Moose comes out of mommy!"

ROFLMHO