Hanging Out

Our tree has been up since Black Friday. The boy barely held out for that long. He had it decorated by Friday night. He loves Christmas trees, so I thought he would appreciate today's joke.

Just the Essentials

The boy wrote his letter to Santa last night. It's an itemized list, most of which are precious gems. He also decided he wants to start getting holiday jokes in his lunch. He's super excited about Christmas this year. He decorated the tree by himself, picked out the candy canes to hang on it afterward, and helped wrap some of the gifts to his cousins. Since Christmas is my favorite holiday, I'm loving his enthusiasm.

So, we're starting the holiday jokes early this year. Nothing but holiday jokes form here until Winter Break.

P.S. That's an excerpt from the boy's actual list.

What a Catch

Apparently fishing is an intergalactic pastime. I never would have guessed.

Now the real question is, what are they using those Earthworms to catch?

Near Miss

We're back! Hope everyone had a great holiday weekend. Remember how I promised all the space jokes? Now that turkey day is over, the space jokes are back.

Poor little meteowrongs.

Duck Disguise

If you have a little one in elementary school, you've probably helped them disguise a turkey to help it avoid becoming a Thanksgiving meal. The boy chose to disguise his as a storm cloud, complete with rain and lightning. This kid loves the weather.

Today's doodle and joke remind me of that turkey project.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Not all Keys Open Doors

Only two more days until the big turkey day. Only one more joke after this one. Tomorrow is a half day and then the boy is off for the next two days to celebrate Thanksgiving.

I suppose this joke could also work for monkey, but those guys could probably open doors if trained. Turkeys will never have the opposable thumbs necessary for knob turning.

Gobble It

Given that there's a very special turkey day coming up this week, I decided to put the space jokes on a hiatus to do a couple of Thanksgiving ones.

UFO's

When the boy read this joke in the car, he started cracking up. It might be one of his favorites from the space joke book so far. Today's doodle is eerily similar to the illustration in the joke book. My alien just isn't wearing a space helmet.

Because, really, who wears a helmet while they're frying eggs? Unless I've been doing it wrong this whole time...

That's a Mouthful

I hope you're like me, and that these space jokes won't ever get old. Drawing aliens is fun.

The boy and this alien are kindred spirits. Mine loves marshmallows too.

Flying Saucers

Technically, there's only one flying saucer in today's doodle. There are two saucers total. One just doesn't fly.

If this falls flat at the lunch table, at least the kitty thinks it's funny.

Lunar Cycle

I dug the Space joke book out of the library bag. The promised spaciness commences today (just one day late!)

Space was a Lie

I know I said there would be an influx of space jokes. Here's the thing. Mornings come early, and we cleaned the house yesterday, so I put the space book away. I had this much more accessible joke, so went with it. I promise it's still a good one, it just has nothing to do with space.\

More space jokes tomorrow. Maybe.

Light beverages

We went to the library yesterday. The boy found a joke book filled with outer space jokes. It's a gem. Be prepared for an influx of jokes that are out of this world.

He read me this joke yesterday, and I told him I was going to send it in his lunch today. He requested that I draw the illustration that is in the book. I complied. So credit to the authors Sean Connolly and Kay Barnham for the great jokes and the fun illustration used for reference.

Rock a bye baby

The boy was reading a National Geographic book about rocks and minerals this morning. He read me this gem, and I decided it would be fun to send it for lunch today.

My pebble just looks like a bald baby. Maybe I should have colored it gray.

I'm Yelling Timber

The boy and I just finished a book called Wishtree by Katherine Applegate. The main character is a tree that tells terrible jokes. The boy really enjoyed this one, so I thought I would draw it as today's doodle. It's one of the only doodles I haven't used a reference picture for.

Side note: I love Applegate's books. This is the third I've read and they never disappoint.

Lucky Day

It's too early for me to say if this will prove to be true, but I'm hopeful. It really just matches today's joke.

It could be argued this is more of a riddle than a joke, but I used it anyway :)

Peds

I'm hoping the boy will be able to read all of the big words in today's joke. It's a good one though.

Rawr!

Cowabunga

Did anyone other than Michelangelo (the turtle, not the artist) ever say this? A quick google search says it actually originated on the Howdy Doody show. A little fun trivia for you this Friday morning.
For some reason, this was the first word that popped into my head when trying to come up with a title for today's doodle.

Have a great weekend :)

Late Start to November!

I missed the first post of November! Inktober has come to an end, but November brings its own challenge. I'm participating in NaNoWriMo, so will be trying to write 50,000 words of a novel by November 30. This means there may be a lot of missed posts this month. My brain tends to be all over the place in November with novel writing and Christmas and Thanksgiving prep. Bear with me. I promise all the doodles will be posted eventually!!

Here's yesterday's. We were running late after sleeping in, so I went with something simple.

Today's doodle has a little more substance to it.

Hope your November is off to a great start!