Chicken Monks

You can't help but smile & laugh when you listen in from another room as your young children converse with each other.  At this moment in our life Emily talking to her brothers is often the source of the majority of the laughter for all of us.  Eric & I were lucky enough the other day to hear her talking to Kolby.   She was standing in her bedroom door way leaning against the side just enough to peak into Kolby's room.  She had already been instructed to stay out of his room because he has the Chicken Pox.  This is the conversation that followed:

Emily: hey Kolby what are you doing
Kolby: Playing with my Legos
Emily: Oh...you still have those things
Kolby: What things
Emily: You know those things
Kolby: WHAT THINGS
Emily: Kolby the chicken monks
Kolby: {uncontrollable laughter}

Eric & I started laughing simultaneously.  Really...chicken monks?!?  Needless to say the Chicken Pox have been renamed in our house to chicken monks & at least a little humor has been brought to a not so humorous situation.

As for now Kolby is still feeling fine, he' not too itchy & he hasn't had fever.  I'm still pretty convinced that they are "chicken monks" & luckily we have only seen a few more come out.  Hopefully we will get lucky & because he was vaccinated 2x this will be as bad as it gets & he can go back to school early next week.  I think the worst part is that he waited to have his birthday party until after school started so that he could invite some friends from school.  Well the party was this weekend & of course we had no choice but to cancel it.  He is totally  bummed, but when he finds out that Eric is bringing home Avengers to watch I think he will be super, super excited :)