When I found out my wife was pregnant I told my little sister, who is 5yrs old, that she was going to be a aunt. She started crying an told me I don’t want to be an ant I want to be a lady bug! IMMD
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Lol. Too cute!
Smart girl. Ants’ lives are so regimented; I’d rather be a ladybug, too!
did this guy get married when he was 15 or something? I mean jeez how far apart in age are these siblings?
Actually, this isn’t all that hard to believe.
In fact, my Dad’s oldest brother is only 3 years younger than my Mom’s father. My Mom’s youngest brother is only 1 year older than my oldest brother.
(If you want a laugh, look up “I’m my own Grampa” on YouTube! It’s a song from the 60s or 70s.)
It’s a song from the 1950′s, actually.
Willie Nelson sings a good version of it.
Oh please. You seriously can’t imagine someone with a much-older sibling? My mother was born the same year as her aunt. It happens.
I knew a brother and sister (a year between them) whose niece was two years older than the elder of them.
Really isn’t hard to believe, especially when you consider that an acceptable age for pregnancy is over 18-20, and the menopause hits somewhere in the late 40s/early 50s. That’s 20-30 or so years to have another kid.
I have a friend whose aunt on one side of her family is the same age as her grandma on the other. Also, in high school I knew a girl whose oldest sibling was about 20 years older (there were 3 in between).
The number of siblings in the middle also matters. I know of a family (from my town, but from several decades ago) that had 22 kids, with only one set of twins. You can pretty much guarantee there was a decent age gap between the oldest and youngest.
*Facepalms* It IS possible. My Grandma was 40 something when she had my aunt and my mom was 22 at the time.
I’m 23 my mom is only 39.. she could totally have another kid if her and my dad wanted one..
My 13 year old daugher has an uncle that is only 2 years older than her.
I was a great-aunt at ten. There was admittedly a case of teenage pregnancy involved, but it does happen.
I know a girl who’s the second aunt of another girl that’s a year older than her.
i dont know why we call em ants, there is a u in there….my dad learned english from the brits and i still get bugged about how i say some words…
still cute tho and yeah, i’d rather be a ladybug than an ant
It all completely depends on where you are from. In MN we pronounce it “Ahnt”, and I have relative from just about evey extreme of the us, and some of them will look at me as if I’m speaking a foreign language when I say “aunt”
This is why in UK, Australia, New Zealand etc where we speak English there is a difference in pronunciation between aunt and ant.
Many people in the US pronounce them differently as well.
They pronounce them differently in New England, too. I had to read this twice because of that.
You know what I find funny? The “short a” pronunciation of aunt as ant arrived in what would be the USA *before* the “broad a” pronunciation (aunt as ahnt) developed in the British Isles.
Folks in regions in the USA which retained closer ties to Mother England are more likely to say ‘ahnt’ than ‘ant.’
Awesome!
Congrats with your future baby!
This reminds me when I captured a ladybug that had gotten inside the one classroom at my college and released it outside. Ladybugs have it good.
Agreed.
Most people don’t squash ladybugs, they just release them outside. And I’ve never seen anyone use a magnifying glass to catch a ladybug on fire. Also, they rock polka dots better than anyone.
Well, ladybugs are our friends! They don’t sting or otherwise hurt us, and they eat some particularly nasty insects that we don’t like!