Good game

T invented it to make the traffic jam pass during the trip to the airport. Let's invent jokes, he said. One of us would give a topic and another of us would make a joke.

C: Cannibals
K: A little girl cannibal says, "Mom, can we ask my friend Janice for dinner?" Mom cannibal says, "Sure. Why don't you ask Jessica, too?" Little girl cannibal says, "We already had her for dinner."

[I thought this was pretty good and she made great time, too.]

K: Elephants
M: A wife elephant makes her husband breakfast in bed - a tray of peanuts. But she spills it all over the bed. The elephant husband says, "Tusk Tusk Tusk."

But it was T's joke that got C laughing all the way till immigration.

T: Santa Claus came out to find his sleigh hitched to 12 elephants. He is mystified. He turns to his elves who come out of the Clause house naked except for their shirts. Then he yells: Not elephants! Elf pants!!!

C had some good ones too, but we suspect they came from one of his joke books...

The facts of life

My children now know the facts of life. Funny. Late last year, K asked me and I told her everything. I told her woman and a man's body fit together like perfect pieces in a jigsaw puzzle, and in this way, the man is able to plant a seed in the woman's body. She did not seem at all mystified by this, so I thought that was that. Today, we're walking up the stairs and she mentions reading a chapter in a science book that we apparently own - on how babies are made. She tells me she read it and now everything is clear. I said, what do you mean, it wasn't clear when I told you about it? She said, "Yeah, the jigsaw puzzle. But you didn't say what parts. I mean, I was thinking it might be the arm pits." I had to laugh.

Of course, that got C asking, so T told him straight out. "The daddy and the mommy get together and hug really tight, and the daddy's penis goes into the mommy's vagina and the seed gets planted." Non-plussed, C did not blink an eye. Then he piped up, "How does the baby get out, then?" I answer. "Most of the time, the babies come out through the mommy's vagina, but sometimes, the doctor can cut open her stomach and the baby gets out that way."

And that's when they said, "Eeeeeeew." Go figure.