Remember the summer before I moved here there was a white board on the fridge for notes? I cleaned out some boxes the other day and recycled a great deal of paper. Among the papers, I found this gem:
Amy: This is my adopted son.
Becki: Really? He looks just like a camel!! 
Amy: He is a camel.
Becki: Ohh!! No wonder!
Mom: No camels are allowed in the house…
Dad: Camels have padded feet just like you. We let you in the house.
Mom: If we’d known you had padded feet, we wouldn’t have let you in the house either!
Becki: So, if you have padded feet you can’t come in??
Amy: This is why Bear lives in the garage.
Dad: But Bear does not have a hump. That’s not fair.
Mom: Who said anything about hums?!?!
Becki: Aren’t we talking about camels???
Mom: Camels??? What camels???
Becki: Okay, who let in th monkies?!?
Amy: Sorry, it was the camel.
Dad: One hump or two?
Mom: No camels in the house, dang it!!!
Amy: *hides camel* What camel?!?!
Becki: I think there are two.
Dad: We’re not in canvas anymore!
Classic. 
susanne3n said,
29 September 2010 at 6:26 am
Ah yes . . . those were the good old days, eh?! LOL We cracked me up big time. I think the ‘sheep’ one was such a classic I still have it around here somewhere.
And wasn’t the line actually ‘we’re not in KANSAS anymore’ . . .
you know, Dorothy, Oz, all that . . . bwahahaha
amypeech said,
3 October 2010 at 6:34 am
My note clearly says ‘canvas’. I thought Dad was making a play on camels being desert animals and there being a lot of canvas tents, bags and clothing in the desert.
The whole thing makes me laugh every time.
susanne3n said,
3 October 2010 at 12:37 pm
Bwahahaha! You’re right, it definitely could be that way. I’d always thought it was a play on the Wizard of Oz. LOL I didn’t get the canvas connection – went right over my head. *rme*
Shows you what I know, huh.