My mom got her 12 year old molars when she was 10. My dad got them when he was 15. I guess I got my mom’s teeth, and my older sister Deanna got my dad’s, for two reasons. Number 1, enamel. Number 2, timing.
Yesterday Lydia (my third sister) was talking about teeth. She brought up the subject of me having my 12 year old molars before Deanna. She was talking to Deanna, so Deanna said, “So?”
Lydia answered, “That means Kaitlyn is more mature than you.”
“What does that have to do with maturity?” Deanna asked.
Lydia’s reply made us all laugh: “See, you don’t understand because you’re so immature.”

View previous editions of the Carnival of Kid Comedy:

Carnival #1 – March 11, 2006 hosted at Life in a Shoe
Carnival #2
Carnival #3 – March 25, 2006 hosted at Life in a Shoe
Carnival #4
Carnival #5 – April 8, 2006 hosted at Life in a Shoe
Carnival #6
Carnival #7 – April 22, 2006 hosted at Life in a Shoe
Carnival #8
Carnival #9 – May 6, 2006 hosted at Life in a Shoe
Carnival #10
Carnival #11 – May 20, 2006 hosted at World’s Greatest Place to Live INSIDER
Carnival #12
Carnival #13 – June 3, 2006 hosted at Life in a Shoe
Carnival #14 – June 17, 2006 hosted at Life in a Shoe
Carnival #16
Carnival #17 – July 1, 2006 hosted at Nerd Family
Carnival #18
Carnival #19 – July 29, 2006 hosted at Life in a Shoe

Other helpful links:

Carnival Host schedule
Hosting tips and guidelines
Carnival rules and guidelines
Submit a post to the next carnival

What cuteness did your children assault you with this week?

I waited to almost the last minute this time since there have been other posts regarding the Carnival of Kid Comedy, but Friday is upon us. If you have a contribution, hurry and send it in!
I had several contributions come in early this week – thank you! I’ve also had several confirmed guest hosts for the next couple of months, when I’ll be “babymooning.”
If you’d like to be added to the list, just let me know and be sure to provide an email address.

It’s not nice. In fact it’s down right mean. A guy breaks off a piece of lipstick and shoots his sleeping roommate in the head at point blank range.

How mean! How inconsiderate!

How funny. I don’t know why…maybe its the way the poor chap screams from out of a dead sleep. If I can’t get the embedded player to work then click HERE to see the video

I think I hate my sister’s bathroom scale.
Not because it is saying mean and vicious things to me. Just the opposite. It’s whispering sweet nothings to me, and I don’t trust it. It is telling me that I’ve not gained a single pound over the last month, and that I haven’t yet surpassed my all-time record weight. It’s telling me that my hips are no bigger than they were a month ago – smaller, in fact, since my belly is definitely bigger.
After confirming a rather impressive weight gain at my last prenatal checkup, I found myself just 1 lb. shy of my all-time record weight, with 3 months to go in this pregnancy.
Tomorrow, I will step again onto my midwife’s scale. Tomorrow, I will learn if my sister’s scale spoke the truth to me or the sweet flattering words of deception.
I wonder…does this dress make me look fat?

Many thanks to those who have already volunteered to host the Carnival of Kid Comedy. If your name is not on the schedule, please let me know!
If you’d like to volunteer, use the comments or email me to request a date as a guest host. Please state a second and third date as backups to help me compile a schedule that works for everyone.
If your name is already on the schedule, please confirm that the assigned date will work for you.
I could really use a guest host for May 13, as we will likely be unavailable for the weekend. Any takers?

• Carnival #9, May 6: Life in a Shoe
• Carnival #10, May 13: My Life In The Kid Zoo – confirmed
• Carnival #11, May 20: World’s Greatest Place to Live INSIDER - confirmed
• Carnival #12, May 27: Life in a Shoe
• Carnival #13, June 3: High Desert Hi-Jinks
• Carnival #14, June 10: Why Homeschool – confirmed
• Carnival #15, June 17: Life in a Shoe
• Carnival #16, June 24: Principled Discovery – confirmed
• Carnival #17, July 1: Nerd Family – confirmed
• Carnival #18, July 8:
• Carnival #19, July 15:
• Carnival #20, July 22:

I’ve had several offers from others who would like to guest-host the Carnival of Kid Comedy, and with a burgeoning belly and rapidly approaching duedate it seems wise to share my new toy.
With that in mind, I have set up a new email address exclusively for carnival submissions and correspondence. Hosts need to make sure I have their email address in a timely manner. Beginning each Saturday morning, all carnival email will be forwarded to the host of the week.
From now on, please use carnival.kidc0medy@gmail.d0t.c0m for all carnival-related email. I have replaced all the letter “O’s”in the address with zeros and spelled out the word “dot” so we can keep away some of the spam. Please remember to correct them or your email will not get through. Regardless of my attempts at encoding, I suspect some will get through. Requests for money-laundering that originate in Nigeria should not be included in the carnival.
Remember, contributions can also be sent via the Conservative Cat’s Carnival Page. I would really encourage contributors to give it a try and hosts to promote this method; it makes it very easy for both contributors and the host.

Hosting tips:
Henry Cate of Why Homeschool has been tremendously helpful to me, and in return I will shamelessly plagiarize the Cates’ expectations/guidelines for guest-hosting a carnival:

1. Hosts will read this article on hosting a carnival.
2. Hosts will put out a wide call for submissions.
3. Hosts will respond promptly to submissions. With all the problems of spam and filters, it is common courtesy to reassure our participants their submission were received.
4. Hosts will have carnival up in a timely manner. Submissions are due Friday evenings at 11:59 PM CST. The goal should be to have it within 24 hours. This means the host will get much of the work done during the previous week as submissions come in.
5. The host will work to promote the participants. Hosts should minimize self promotion.
6. Promotion of that week’s carnival is the part of the responsibility being the host. As the carnival’s organization I’ll also help. And I expect other hosts to help.
7. At the end of each carnival the host will point to the host for the next carnival, and how to enter submissions.

A few additions of my own:

• Remember to check each contribution against the guidelines: to summarize, each must be family friendly, g-rated, and compatible with a Christian lifestyle. It should not come from an offensive website.
• Feel free to include appropriate posts that you have found. Remember, links need not be submitted by the original author.
• As I mentioned above, please do not include requests for money-laundering that originate in Nigeria.
• Be creative if you have the time and talent. Otherwise, at least take time to proofread the carnival and check each link before you post it. Better yet, have someone else proofread for you.
• Please email a link to each contributor (and anyone else that comes to mind) as soon as the carnival is up, encouraging them to promote the carnival on their own website.
• Smile: kids are cute, and God made them that way on purpose. It sure makes them easy to love, doesn’t it?

Updated 5/12:

• Host will evaluate each contribution for suitability. As stated in the Carnival Rules and Guidelines, contributions should be family friendly, g-rated, and compatible with a Christian lifestyle. Host should also consider other elements on the linked page: comments, ads, titles of other recent posts, etc.

I love it. I know this feeling so, so well.

Thanks to Higher Up and Further In for the laugh.

If you apply before May 15, the Homeschool Legal Defense Association is offering a free trial membership good through August 15, 2006. A full year membership is $115 and worth every penny, especially if you live in an unfriendly state.
Thank you to Old Paths for the heads-up.
Learn more about the HSLDA at the homepage and the FAQ.

Me: 2 minutes. Really. And it’s a very useful skill.
It’s a little early to declare the high point of the day, but I’m pretty sure I won’t be topping this accomplishment:

Can you see it? Can you believe it? I painted my own toenails. Yes, I had to hold my breath to do it.

Is it just me, or do those freshly painted toenails look really far away? And can you see the hulking belly in the foreground? I had to go outside to take the picture because the flash was ricocheting off my belly and utterly confusing the camera. The camera couldn’t figure out why the silly operator would want to focus on the tiny faraway details when such a grand and glorious photo subject was so close at hand. Left to the judgement of the camera, my toes became dark blurry little silhouettes in the distance, while my belly glowed with supernatural intensity.