Kiera's day

[naomikritzer]

Over dinner, Ed asked Kiera how her day was. She told him about preschool, and about making monkey bread.

Molly: What's monkey bread?
Kiera: Well, first you take a dead, clean monkey. And then you put it on the table, and...
Me: (eyes bugging out, laughing hysterically)
Ed: (ditto)
Kiera: Just kidding! Actually, you take dough, and roll it into balls, and dip them in butter, and put them in a muffin pan. And then you bake the dough and then you put it in the freezer and then you eat it.

We quizzed her to find out if someone had used the "dead, clean monkey" line at preschool, but so far as we can tell...she made up the joke all on her own.

Comments

[jiawen]

I presume the writers' strike will be over by the time she gets to Hollywood. :)

[maevele.livejournal.com]

I laughed til my nose ran, and Z loved it.

[adrian-turtle.livejournal.com]

That's wonderful! Did Molly recognize it as a joke before Kiera said, "Just kidding!" or did she think a recipe for monkey bread might plausibly include a dead, clean monkey?

(I sometimes got peculiar reactions of "You must be joking! That can't possibly go in that kind of food!" from a 5 or 6 year old, when I was doing something I regarded as unremarkable. "You're crumbling dried LEAVES and putting them on SPAGHETTI? Are you CRAZY?")

[naomikritzer]

I honestly did not notice Molly's reaction, I was so busy being gobsmacked by Kiera's joke.

[sylvia-rachel.livejournal.com]

Bwahahahahaha XD

[haddayr.livejournal.com]

That is a GREAT joke.

[fracturedrefuge.livejournal.com]

Well, you know, at least she specified that it had to be a clean monkey.

And thanks for your advice. I actually did call my midwife, because I have not been able to keep anything down - not even easy things like Saltines. She said that unless I was throwing up liquids, I would probably be fine. She told me to get some Gatorade for the electrolytes and just lay low for the night. If I am still throwing up tomorrow, I plan on calling her back and seeing what more I can do.

Thanks for the advice. I think I actually have some candied ginger here somewhere. And, although I normally don't really care for ginger, I think I can stomach it just this once. Anything to stop me from throwing up.