Healthy choices

Tonight's Serenism is brought to you by: The #1 lesson in marketing.

Seren was showing me the school lunch menu for May she had in her binder and all of the circles she drew to indicate her choice for that day.

She explained: Notice how on all of the days we're given a choice of a brown rice bowl. However, when you choose it, it doesn't come in a bowl and the rice isn't even brown! They just put that there because they want you to feel like you're choosing something healthy to eat.

Not to brag,  but I think she's an 8 year old genius if she's already got that ploy figured!

No car with a keypad is safe...

So, we bought an older Ford Expedition a couple of months ago with the keyless entry number pad on the door. We bought it from a used car dealer, so no one had a clue what the code was to open it that way. Mike and I didn't care because we have the remote controls. Seren had the combination figured in less than a half hour. 8 years old...

Today's Penny thought and Xanman-don't is brought to you by: Reality.

Xander, my 3 year old, was running around back and forth, often playing with a very large mirror we have against the wall but near the floor.  The poor little guy tripped and smacked his forehead against it pretty hard.

As I was picking up my crying baby boy to console him, I heard his 5 year old sister, Penny say, "It's not the portal he thought it was. .."

Evy's expert opinion is brought to you by: National Geographic

In an effort to participate in a  discussion among the kids about the quantity and quality of Daddy's farts, Evy offers: It's Daddy's animal  instinct to leave his scent everywhere he goes...

Tonight's Serenism is brought to you by : Soup's on!

We're all sick over here, so we're trying to get better by eating lots of soup for dinner. Evy dumps a bit of her glass of water on herself and we all laugh.

Evy: What?! I didn't do it!
Mommy: If you didn't dump water on yourself,  then what happened?
Evy: The bowl of soup knocked the glass out of my hand!
Seren: I guess Evy has SOUP-ER powers!

Wednesday's Penny Thought is brought to you by : The Goblin King.

We were visiting with a friend who was telling Xander that he knew how Xander felt because the man also had many sisters, 8 to be exact.
Penny, who just turned 5 not long ago and has no formal education, shared a profound truth that she concluded all on her own: "Excuse me, but you needed to get rid of about 5 sisters."

Tonight's zany Xander moment is brought to you by: There's really just one explanation that makes sense...

Daddy made a pineapple cake for dessert tonight.
Penny asked: Is it pineapple upside-down cake?
Xander laughs and mumbles in his just-turned-three gibberish: Daddy spanked the cake's bottom!

I thought about it for a second and realized that's a reasonable explanation of why a pineapple cake would be upside-down.