Because everyone needs a good laugh sometimes

From the May 2009 Reader's Digest (they have the funniest jokes):

After my four-year-old and I turned the department store upside down looking for a bathing suit for me, we finally found a black-and-white one-piece that we both liked. I tried on the suit and modeled it for her. It was a hit.

"Mommy, you look so pretty!" she squealed. "You look just like Shamu the whale."

Kind of reminds me of when I was pregnant with Jacob and we had just been to visit the Cincinnati Zoo. I was getting ready for church one morning when Callie came bouncing into the bathroom. "Oh, Mom, you look like a big, pretty manatee!" Guess what her favorite exhibit was at the zoo. It truly was meant to be a compliment, I think.

Jacob just calls it like it is. My round tummy is a favorite topic of discussion at our house. The other day all the under-aged crowd was commenting on it. Jacob piped in, "Yea, and if you didn't have any arms or legs, you'd be like a ball and we could bounce you around and throw you way up in the air!" Obviously what the scale is registering doesn't register in his little brain. And I am rounder than the picture shows -- this photo is old news by about six weeks.