4/1/09

As a follow-up to yesterday's post about my brother, I thought I'd share a few of his jokes.

When we lived in Venezuela, David received a bow and a set of steel-tipped arrows (wouldn't happen today) for his 10th birthday. He and my younger brother went out to the open field behind the houses to try them out. A few minutes later my dad went to check on the "boys" and found...David shooting the arrows up in the sky and ordering my younger brother to try to catch them as they came down.

Both of my brothers were high school track stars. (My younger brother was a college track star until he fell in love and dropped out.) David ran cross-country in the fall and would take his practice runs on the less-populated country roads. He ran on the edge of the road (no shoulders, just ditches on either side of the road) and when a car would pass him, he would jump and fall down in the ditch. Most of the time, the car stopped and then backed up to check on the "body." David waited until the car was almost to him and then he jumped up and ran off in the opposite direction.

David's older two kids are the same ages as my younger two. My nephew is three weeks younger than my son and my niece is six months older than my daughter. For Halloween when my niece was almost 18 months old, she showed up outside my parents front door, completely naked and in a pair of her dad's cowboy boots - "puss in boots"!

David's younger son was born in Michigan and in January. To introduce the new fellow to the family, David send a video of the kids and him sledding. The two older kids were in the front and David appeared to be holding the new baby and sitting on the back of the sled. As they came down the hill, they hit a bump and, all of a sudden, the baby is flying in the air and lands in the snow. When we saw that, we all gasped. Then David picked up the baby and unwrapped the blanket to show us it was just a doll. His grin reached from ear-to-ear.