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| Unusual Artwork by Riley, age 11 |
Four kids who talk a lot and one who just destroys things and screams
Saturday, July 27, 2013
Friday, July 26, 2013
Poodle Butts
"Hey, do poodles have to have a lot of fur all over their butts? Is that normal?"
Brooke, age 5
Brooke, age 5
Monday, July 15, 2013
Thursday, July 11, 2013
Finally Back Up and Running at the Mouth
The kids haven't stopped yacking, but I got negligent in posting their witticisms. Please forgive me and enjoy the updated backlogs.
Backdated Quotes January 16, 2012 to May 30, 2012
May 30, 2012
Some more insight from a 4-yr old Brooke -- "Mom! Did you know God is everywhere? He's in the walls, in the air, on top of Isaac's bed, beside my bed."
Savvy was drawing my portrait. She said, "Oops, sorry. You look old. I didn't mean to, but you do." Stinker.
Age 8
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May 28, 2012
"The only Spanish word I know is 'ko-nee-chee-wah'." ~Brooke, age 4
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May 27, 2012
"Mom! Look at the living room! It's a big mess! [Pause] You really should clean that up." ~Brooke, age 4
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May 25, 2012
Quote of the day goes to my husband Jesse, when he said to me, "I really am thankful that you don't have a mustache."
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May 14, 2012
"Downstairs up in the air" means "upstairs" to Isaac. Another funny Isaac phrase. Age 2
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April 27, 2012
"Mom, your toots smell more bad than Dad's. Dad's smell like gunpowder. Gunpowder doesn't smell that bad." ~Brooke (And I hadn't even expelled any noxious gases lately either.) Brooke, age 4
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March 23, 2012
"Eyebrows [are] Mommy's eye mustaches!" Isaac, age 2
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March 21, 2012
Riley, on the subject of my birthday cake: "We're gonna have to buy a LOT of candles!" Age 10
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March 13, 2012
Some more insight from a 4-yr old Brooke -- "Mom! Did you know God is everywhere? He's in the walls, in the air, on top of Isaac's bed, beside my bed."
"Yes, baby, God is everywhere, all the time."
"I know! God is everywhere! So that means He is with us all the time. And we don't have to be afraid, because God is with us all the time and everywhere!"
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March 1, 2012
"Mom, call Aunt Karen. I like to hear your accent change when you talk to her." ~Savvy, age 8
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February 18, 2012
"Hey, can I take a picture of my booger?" ~Brooke, age 4
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January 27, 2012
I pointed to my tummy and asked Isaac what was in there. He said, "Baby butter." So then I asked where Baby Jed was, and he said, "In da box," and pointed to my tummy. First time he's really caught on that someone was in there! Isaac and me, age 2
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January 16, 2012
Brooke: "Can I play with the ATD? The TD ... oh nevermind! (frustrated), I can't spell." Age 4
Backdated Quotes June 2012 to September 2012
September 26, 2012
Savvy: "Meow."
Savvy: "Meow."
Riley: "Why are you saying, 'Meow'?"
Savvy: "I don't know."
Then silence.
Riley, 10 and Savvy, 8
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September 15, 2012
September 15, 2012
Riley: "I think it would take a long time to move to Japan by car."
Me: "Honey, you can't move to Japan by car. It's an island."
Me: "Honey, you can't move to Japan by car. It's an island."
R: "Why can't you get there by car?"
R: "Why can't you get there by car?"
Me: "Uh, the ocean, Riley."
Me: "Uh, the ocean, Riley."
R: "Oh .... yeah. Then it would be REALLY hard to get there by car."
R: "Oh .... yeah. Then it would be REALLY hard to get there by car."
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September 9, 2012
Riley, on eating gummy candies: "You really should eat the head first. That way the candy can't feel you eating the rest of its body. It's just more humane." Age 10
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July 10, 2012
Brooke swatted and killed a mosquito on the window. She said, "Uh, I have bug guts on my hand now." I told her to wash it off and she came back with, "Naw. It doesn't bother me. I'm a honey badger." Age 4
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June 27, 2012
"God has the mostest powers. But I have a little bit." ~Brooke, age 4
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June 25, 2012
"Hey Mom, you should be a librarian. That way we'd get all our books for free." ~Riley, a blondish moment, age 10
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Backdated Quotes October 2012 to December 2012
December 25, 2012
"Savvy, why are you setting out a huge mug of milk for Santa?" I asked. "Because," she replied, "Santa may need more calcium than he realizes." Savvy, 9
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November 24, 2012
A rare quote from the hubs:
"Penguins have almost the same proportions as a toddler. You don't see people wanting to eat penguins." ~Jesse
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November 15, 2012
"Daddy, did you do your mating dance when you first saw Mom?" ~Savvy, giggling, age 9
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November 11, 2012
"Mom, did you ever have to wrestle in the mud?" ~Savvy, 9
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November 2, 2012
"Orange dragons make fire. Red dragons make hot sauce." Isaac, 2
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October 30, 2012
"I'll ride on a pteranodon. It's very, very big!! We'll be careful, okay? Wait! I don't have a pteranodon. The library has one." Isaac, age 2
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October 29, 2012
"Pretend that I'm here to help, but actually, I'm a ninja. (Kick punch) And then say, 'Wahhh!'" Brooke, age 5
"I don't understand how you're patient enough to tolerate all of us." Riley, age 11, to me while I was cooking supper.
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October 21, 2012
A conversation this morning, as I was waking Jed up to get ready for church:
Me: "Wakey, wakey, Jed!"
Jesse: "Rise and shine, little man. Time to milk the cows."
At this point, Jesse looks at me, remembers that Jed is still nursing, and says, "Maybe that was a bad analogy. Sorry, honey. Time to feed the chickens?"
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October 13, 2012
"Mom, can you just find someone to shoot a zebra for us? I'd like a zebra rug for our room. And they need to leave the head guts in it, because I want the rug to have a head." ~Riley, age 10
Backdated Quotes January 2013 to March 2013
March 12, 2013
"I didn't kick her! I just patted her on the butt with my foot!" ~Riley, 11
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March 9, 2013
From this day forward, Butterfinger candy bars shall be known as "Butterhands". Isaac came into the living room begging me for a Butterhands.
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February 25, 2013
Isaac: "Mom, my butt hurts! Can you put a band-aid on it?"
Me: "Let me look. Nope, you're ok. Not bleeding. I think it's just dry. Let's put some lotion on it."
Isaac: "But it hurts! I need a band-aid."
Me: "No, it's okay. It's not bleeding. It's not really hurt."
Isaac: "Yes it is! There's a crack in it mom!"
Me: "Let me look. Nope, you're ok. Not bleeding. I think it's just dry. Let's put some lotion on it."
Isaac: "But it hurts! I need a band-aid."
Me: "No, it's okay. It's not bleeding. It's not really hurt."
Isaac: "Yes it is! There's a crack in it mom!"
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February 20, 2013
"Did you know when Grandma was little they used candles for lights?!" - Riley, 11
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January 5, 2013
Brooke: "Heads or tails, Isaac?"
Isaac: "TOES!!"
Brooke: *Sigh*
Backdated Quotes April 2013 to July 11, 2013
I've posted on my Facebook page, but totally got lazy when it came to posting on here. So, to catch up on all extreme wit of my kids, I'm going through a year and a half's worth of Facebook posts. I might be here a while. While I work, enjoy these gems.
July 11, 2013
While I was changing him into his swim trunks Isaac exclaimed, "Everybody wants to see me NEKKED!"
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July 4, 2013
Brooke: "Mom, can I have a piece of candy after my breakfast?"
Me: "Sure, one piece."
Isaac: "I ate all my food, Mommy! Can I have a piece?"
Me: "Yep. If you ate all your food."
Isaac: "Ok. Don't look at my bowl, Mom. Can I have the candy now? Wait! Mom! Don't look at the bowl!"
Me: [Look at bowl.] "You didn't eat all your food, Isaac. There's still cereal in there."
Isaac: "Um, that's just shadows. I really ate it all. Just shadows. Can I have my candy?"
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May 29, 2013
Isaac: "Excuse me."
Me: "Did you burp?"
Isaac: "Yep. It was a mouth burp."
Me: "What other kind of burp is there?"
Isaac: "Monkey burps."
Me: "Good to know."
Isaac: "Yep. It is."
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May 22, 2013
Isaac: "Mom, can you make some apple juice?"
Me: "No, I don't have any apple juice. Sorry bud."
Isaac: "But you have apples. Just go make juice with a[n] apple."
Me: "I'd need lots and lots of apples, and I don't have that many."
Isaac: "Noooo, you just need a cylinder apple."
Me: "A cylinder apple?"
Isaac: "Yeah, you just open the cylinder apple and make the juice. It's in the freezer."
Cylinder apple=frozen tube of apple juice concentrate.
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May 20, 2013
"Mommy, when you were a little girl, were the refrigerators still made out of wood?" ~Savvy, age 9
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May 17, 2013
Brooke: "MOM!! Isaac hit me!"
Isaac: "No I didn't!" (Stomps feet.)
Me: "Did you hit her, Isaac?"
Isaac: "No ... I accidentally ran into her ... with my fist."
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May 17, 2013
"Mom, I learned your brain is in your skull. And inside your skull, it's a disgusting place." Brooke, age 5
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May 13, 2013
"I never want to see deer mating. It's gotta be awkward with all those long legs." ~Riley, age 11
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May 13, 2013
"Mom, can you take this booger off of me?" Dangling off the end of his finger ... ~Isaac, age 3
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This little gem is from Savvy, April 24, 2013. Age 9.
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April 22, 2013
Sometimes, I'm just taken aback by their vocabulary ...
Me: "Brooke and Isaac, stop running in the house!"
Isaac: "But we're finding dodecahedrons!"
Brooke, 5 and Isaac, 3
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April 18, 2013
"Mom, I shoved a spoon up my nose and it didn't feel good." ~Riley, age 11
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April 16, 2013
My son cannot be the only boy in the world to look at a toilet full of poop and find "pictures". "Look, Mom, that's a stegosaurus, and that one's a carrot." Isaac, 3
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April 16, 2013
"Jed slobbered all over my face, and now I have to straighten out my eyebrows." Riley, 11
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April 6, 2013
"Riley's a marshmallow. She doesn't do kung fu." ~Brooke, 5
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April 4, 2013
And today's Quote of the Day comes to you from Savvy. As I was explaining how to make a line graph in math, she stops me mid-sentence and says, "WAIT! Am I supposed to be LEARNING this?!" Savvy, age 9
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April 4, 2013
Isaac's Word of the Day: cannibal pencil. Otherwise known as a mechanical pencil.
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July 11, 2013
While I was changing him into his swim trunks Isaac exclaimed, "Everybody wants to see me NEKKED!"
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July 4, 2013
Brooke: "Mom, can I have a piece of candy after my breakfast?"
Me: "Sure, one piece."
Isaac: "I ate all my food, Mommy! Can I have a piece?"
Me: "Yep. If you ate all your food."
Isaac: "Ok. Don't look at my bowl, Mom. Can I have the candy now? Wait! Mom! Don't look at the bowl!"
Me: [Look at bowl.] "You didn't eat all your food, Isaac. There's still cereal in there."
Isaac: "Um, that's just shadows. I really ate it all. Just shadows. Can I have my candy?"
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May 29, 2013
Isaac: "Excuse me."
Me: "Did you burp?"
Isaac: "Yep. It was a mouth burp."
Me: "What other kind of burp is there?"
Isaac: "Monkey burps."
Me: "Good to know."
Isaac: "Yep. It is."
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May 22, 2013
Isaac: "Mom, can you make some apple juice?"
Me: "No, I don't have any apple juice. Sorry bud."
Isaac: "But you have apples. Just go make juice with a[n] apple."
Me: "I'd need lots and lots of apples, and I don't have that many."
Isaac: "Noooo, you just need a cylinder apple."
Me: "A cylinder apple?"
Isaac: "Yeah, you just open the cylinder apple and make the juice. It's in the freezer."
Cylinder apple=frozen tube of apple juice concentrate.
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May 20, 2013
"Mommy, when you were a little girl, were the refrigerators still made out of wood?" ~Savvy, age 9
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May 17, 2013
Brooke: "MOM!! Isaac hit me!"
Isaac: "No I didn't!" (Stomps feet.)
Me: "Did you hit her, Isaac?"
Isaac: "No ... I accidentally ran into her ... with my fist."
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May 17, 2013
"Mom, I learned your brain is in your skull. And inside your skull, it's a disgusting place." Brooke, age 5
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May 13, 2013
"I never want to see deer mating. It's gotta be awkward with all those long legs." ~Riley, age 11
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May 13, 2013
"Mom, can you take this booger off of me?" Dangling off the end of his finger ... ~Isaac, age 3
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This little gem is from Savvy, April 24, 2013. Age 9.
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April 22, 2013
Sometimes, I'm just taken aback by their vocabulary ...
Me: "Brooke and Isaac, stop running in the house!"
Isaac: "But we're finding dodecahedrons!"
Brooke, 5 and Isaac, 3
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April 18, 2013
"Mom, I shoved a spoon up my nose and it didn't feel good." ~Riley, age 11
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April 16, 2013
My son cannot be the only boy in the world to look at a toilet full of poop and find "pictures". "Look, Mom, that's a stegosaurus, and that one's a carrot." Isaac, 3
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April 16, 2013
"Jed slobbered all over my face, and now I have to straighten out my eyebrows." Riley, 11
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April 6, 2013
"Riley's a marshmallow. She doesn't do kung fu." ~Brooke, 5
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April 4, 2013
And today's Quote of the Day comes to you from Savvy. As I was explaining how to make a line graph in math, she stops me mid-sentence and says, "WAIT! Am I supposed to be LEARNING this?!" Savvy, age 9
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April 4, 2013
Isaac's Word of the Day: cannibal pencil. Otherwise known as a mechanical pencil.
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