Son: Mom, we played dodgeball today.
Me: Oh yeah?
Son: Yeah!
Daughter: Yeah, we played it in gym.
Son: Mommy, do you think if I got hit with the ball as it was hitting the ground that I should’ve been out?
Me: You mean, it hit the ground and you at the same time?
Son: Yeah.
Me: Yeah, if it hit you, you were out.
Son: (Backpedaling) Well, it actually skidded on the floor. Then it hit me.
Me: Nice try, buddy. You’re still out.
Son: Dangit!
Me: {giggle} It isn’t the end of the world, honey. If you get out, they’ll catch you back in.
Son: That isn’t how we play it.
Me: What? That’s how you play!? What do you do when you’re hit, then? How do you get back in?
Son: A doctor has to save you.
Me: A WHAT!?
Daughter: A doctor has to save you…
Son: There are four cones, and there are doctors. Y’know those pool floaty thingies?
Daughter: Yeah, the long noodley thingies?
Me: Uh.. yeah?
Son: That’s how they save you. They whack you.
Me: They WHAT!?
{Both of them laugh}
Son: Yes, they whack you. They have to reach you with the pool thing, and they whack you.
Daughter: Well, they don’t whack me. The doctors just tap me.
Son: No, the kids in my class whack people to bring them back to life.
Daughter: They do?
Son: Yeah, we get whacked.
And I couldn’t stop laughing. I still can’t. I don’t know why this conversation made me laugh so freakin’ hard, but it had to be shared. Kids whackin’ each other with pool noodles during dodgeball. Can you imagine?
I have simply HAVE to volunteer during gym. With my video camera. Heh!
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