Laughter is Good Medicine - Benj edition

Here are some hilarious episodes with my favorite little guy. I've been collecting them for awhile. :)

Benj: I don't ever want to go to Egypt.
Seth: Why not?
Benj: Because they will make us work hard.
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One Wednesday evening after church we arranged with some friends for them to come over on Friday night. This conversation took place outside of the bathroom where I was waiting for Benj to finish going potty. When Benj came out of the bathroom our friend got down on Benj's level and said, "Hey Benj, can I come to your house on Friday night?" "Sure!," Benj agreed. Friday afternoon I told the kids, "Hey guys, Jesse is coming over tonight!" Benj shrugged as if this were old news. "Yeah I know," he remarked casually, "'cause I invited them!"

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One morning the kids were playing downstairs while I was doing some cleaning upstairs. Later I came down and found Benj, spread eagle across the doorway to our "exercise room" (an unfinished part of our basement which leads to the downstairs bathroom). He looked conflicted. "What are you doing, Benjamin?" I asked. "Well...," he said with a worried glance at Leila who was playing nearby, "I have to go potty, but I don't want Leila to come in here because I think there are spiders." Sweet boy. :) Always protecting his sisters!
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Speaking of protecting...
Benj: "I'm a good protector!"
Me: "How are you a good protector?"
Benj: "When we were at the Chick-Fil-A playground Talia said, 'BENJ!' and I zoomed right up those stairs!"
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We were in the car on our way home from church. Leila, who somehow equates riding in the car with a right to be drinking milk was fussing over her empty milk cup. Benj sagely offered a gem of wisdom, "You've got to put milk in it or she can't drink it."
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Benj on what part of the knight-slaying-dragon-and-rescuing-fair-princess story he liked best: (spoken with a glint in his eye) "The part where he was in DANGER."
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In early January Seth travelled to California for his grandmother's funeral. The Sunday he was gone I decided to get McDonald's for lunch to make things easier, but not wanting to take 3 children into McDonald's by myself, I opted for the drive-thru. Because I had to special order Benj's hamburger (no bun, no ketchup-- they contain corn syrup), they asked me to pull into a designated parking space to wait for our food. While I waited I called Seth. As we were chatting I started to realize, I had been waiting there a l-o-n-g time, like 20 minutes-long. As it turned out they somehow just lost our order and had no idea I was sitting there at all. By this time, of course, the kids were starting to wonder what was taking so long. I explained the situation briefly and told them it would be a few more minutes. In all seriousness Benj shared his deepest concern, "We will die if we do not eat!" (I told him, "Trust me, Buddy, you are a long way from dying." :) )
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When discussing relationships in royal families (such as the daddy is the king, the daughter is the princess, etc.), Seth asked the kids, "If you marry a king you become a what?" Benj replied, "A soldier."