Honesty Anyone??

For those of you who have kids or have been around them for an extended amount of time, are sure to have had some experiences in this matter. Ever wonder what happened to childhood honesty as we get older?? I often wonder how kids can get away with being so honest and truthful, but if an adult said the same thing it is pretty much guaranteed that someone would get offended in some way.

I heard a while back a story that Heidi Klum was telling Ellen DeGeneres on her show. She was talking about honesty in children and then related this story: Her daughter had just completed potty training and they were getting ready to go swimming, so Heidi asked her daughter if she needed to go potty before she got into the pool. Her daughter non-shalantly answered :" No, that's o.k mommy, I go in the pool and no one knows."

Another example that was a little closer to us personally is one Adam related to me:

The other day Adam was talking with a friend of his and he told Adam something funny that his daughter said to him. This friend of Adam's is white, however is skin complection is a little darker than most. (Which I am totally jeolous of by the way since having a baby has hindered my keeping up on my tan. ) The family had been reading about the Lamanites in the Book of Morman recently. One day, his daughter (3 years old or so) said "dad, your skin is brown right?" Dad answered "yes." His daughter replied "that's okay, you're still a good person." Apparently her dad looks like a lamanite. (j/k)

Now Ethan doesn't talk yet (unfortunately), but he obviously has his father's sense of humor. He is constantly cracking himself up at the simplest things he comes up with. Right now his favorite thing to do is run up to you and scratch your leg or arm and laugh. He thinks he is "getting or tickling" you. And to conclude, here are a couple of pictures of Ethan thinking he is soooooooooooo funny.

That would be his bib, which would have been funnier had he not had a runny nose and smeared snot up his head.

I think he was trying to take his shirt off but forgot to take his arms out of the sleeves first.

Ever wonder what made us stop laughing at the simple things in life. Let's bring back the simple honesty and laughter.