What Noelle is learning

Sarah: Noelle, tell Daddy what you learned about today.

Noelle: I learned about noses, about good smells and bad smells.

Chris: What smells good?

Noelle: Flowers...and something smells bad when you go to the potty.

Quiz # 3

Which of the following happened yesterday evening as I was lying on the floor in the den watching the NCAA basketball tournament?

A. Noelle asked if she could sit beside me and watch the game.

B. Noelle sat in my lap and cheered for the underdog with her Daddy.

C. Noelle said, "I love watching basketball with you, Daddy!"

D. Noelle ripped off part of a dangling toenail, lifted my shirt, and put the toenail in my belly button.

Road Trip

I had a great time in Oklahoma City watching the Big 12 Tournament. Even though A&M found a way to lose a 22-point lead in the second half of their first game, I had fun. Seeing 11 basketball games in 4 days was a blast. There were many memorable moments, but I think the most notable was when I was walking up the aisle and overheard a man say, “I thought the officiating was bad, but some kid just threw up on me!”

This is worth mentioning for several reasons:

1. Some guy paid good money to see a basketball game and had a random kid throw up on him.
2. I had an aisle seat and first noticed the vomit when I saw it all over the stairs RIGHT NEXT TO ME!
3. How incredibly absorbed in a basketball game must I have been to have a kid ralph literally 6 inches from me and I missed the whole thing?
4. How incredibly gracious was the Lord for not allowing me to be the guy mentioned in point number one?

Dictionary Lesson

Last Night [lahst nahyt]
- adverb

1. on the night preceding this day
2. two minutes ago
3. six months ago at my friend's birthday party
4. earlier this morning


For the past several months, Noelle has used "last night" to mean anything that has ever happened in her lifetime. I am very aware that she does this, but it never fails that I become lost as she is explaining something to me because I am trying so hard to remember what we did yesterday evening. Thirty seconds later it dawns on me that she was referring to some random time last August , and I feel dumb.

So, if you ever hear Noelle say, "I threw up in my bed last night," don't worry. She doesn't have a stomach bug. She just doesn't know what last night means.