Myrtle Beach

We took a family vacation to Myrtle Beach at the end of July, and of course the kids said a ton of funny things. I picked out a few of my favourite stories from the trip:

1. After a long day of walking around Brookgreen Gardens, Penelope announced, "I'm a really really tired dinosaur!"

2. One evening Penelope was trying desperately to get Porter, who was running up and down the stairs, to listen to her. She literally spent 10 minutes saying, over and over again, "Porter, be still! Be still, Porter! Hmmph. Porter, I'm trying to tell you something! You have to listen to me! You have to liiiiisssssssseeeennn tooooooo meeeeeeee!!! Okay. Porter, stop talking. If I hear your voice one more time..." I was amazed that she never gave up.

3. Sarah Ann's carseat is in one of the bucket seats, right behind the passenger side. During one ride home from sightseeing, she kept kicking the seat in front of her, where her mother was sitting. Leslie asked her nicely a few times to stop, without success. She then threatened Sarah Ann with a minor punishment, to which Sarah Ann replied, "But I'm so hungry!"
Not really sure what the connection is there.

4. Led by Rachel, the kids got together early in the week and decided they were going to start plotting TAs - "Tricks on Adults". They tried multiple times to put salt in our water, hoping we would unknowingly drink it, and eventually they succeeded. They laughed and laughed and laughed. So we told them that we were going to plan some TKs - "Tricks on Kids". We kept talking about the secret TKs we were planning, warning the kids that they never knew what to expect or when to expect it. They very quickly became paranoid, and convinced that around every corner was a TK waiting for them. Porter, for instance, sat on a plastic cup on the floor and immediately jumped up, insisting that an adult had placed it there just for him. The best TK we ever did was doing absolutely nothing.

5. During the whole TA/TK fiasco, Sarah Ann came up to me and whispered, "I have a great idea for a TA!" I asked her to tell me in my ear what it was, and this was her reply:
"Okay. Well, you know how some of the adults don't like salt in their water?" (At this point I wondered if there were any of us who DID) "Well. I'm going to make them THINK there is salt in their water, but there's really not, so when they drink it, they'll be really surprised! Heeheehee!" That's a good trick, Sarah Ann.