Boo-WHAT?

Do you ever say something—some random thing—and suddenly find it hilarious? Every single syllable for some reason just cracks you up? Almost gets you stuck on an endless cycle of repeating those insignificant, yet decidedly silly words? And you can't stop because of the bubbling laughter in your throat?

Then you'll understand our family dinner tonight.

We had tacos, which itself is entirely insignificant, but Hudson reached for something on the table, and I moved to hand it to him. For some random reason, I plopped that food onto his highchair and announced, “BOO-YAH!”

For about a second, he stared at me in shock. Then proceeded to laugh his you-know-what off. Apparently, I was THAT funny.

And for some reason, that set the rest of us off, too. I mean, we were rolling on our chairs, tears spurting out of our eyes, just totally laughing in each other's faces. I cannot explain it. It was just one of those things. Hilarious.

Just as we started to settle down, Hudson's eyes lit up and he did his own best impression of BOO-YAH!

Which got us all started again.

And so it went. Someone would shout BOO-YAH! (we kept getting louder and louder) and the rest of us would laugh like hyenas. No food was eaten. We just reveled in our hilarious round of BOO-YAHS!

I guess you had to be there. But even if you weren't (and let's face it, it was just our crazy foursome, so you weren't), but even if you weren't there at our table, believe me when I say you'll appreciate this next part of the story. Because just as we finally caught our breaths and turned back to our food, Ava decided to chime in with one final shout.

She stood up from her chair, executed some complicated ESmith-type hand gyrations, and shouted at the top of her lungs—BOO-YAH, MOTHER F*CKER!

For about a second, we stared at each other in shock. Then ROARED some more.

(FYI: I have no idea where she heard this, but judging from the look on Erik's face immediately after she said it, I think I know the answer to that. And before I get any ranting emails....yes, I realize laughing at her was not the best parenting move given her statement, but there was absolutely no preventing it. Taken in context, it would've been impossible. We were already giggly! But I do promise that I had a serious post-BOO-YAH! chat with her about appropriate dinner conversation. And I think she got it just fine.)