Saturday, July 12, 2014
Watermelony
The boys have been poster children for "brothers" this month. I don't know if Damon is coming fully into his role of "little brother" or what, but there are screams emenating from our home daily. Not all of them are from the kids.
Damon has learned by now exactly what buttons he can push to maximize his brother's rage. What I can't understand is the reasoning behind wanting to. I have the head knowledge enough to know that kids want attention, whether it be positive or negative. What I can't figure out is why don't they learn faster that positive is so much better than negative. Why in the world would you want to hear Liam, red-faced and fisted, screaming and making ugly faces at you? Over a LEGO? Why? More like
WHY?!?!?!?!?!??!?
How pitiful that that's the largest font I can get. Bah.
Anyway, there have been some pretty hilarious moments between them too. Damon adores watermelon. Apparently, he also loves touching Liam post-watermelon-consumption. I'm in the kitchen and I hear Liam holler (this time while laughing), "Get your watermelony fingers outta my hair!"
Totally cracked me up. Liam has a crew cut. His hair is about the same length as his eyelashes. Why Damon thought it'd be a good idea to come caress Liam with sticky watermelon fingers is beyond me, but it's sure become a catch phrase around here.
Get your watermelony fingers outta my hair!
Is watermelony even a word? I guess it is now. Brought to you by Liam, the one who coined "flowerful".
May you have a watermelony weekend.
Friday, June 27, 2014
I Spy with My Little Eye...
Damon's been on an I Spy kick lately. Usually he and Liam play together; they have their sibling-thing going on in that they don't actually SEE the things they're describing. For instance:
Damon: I spy wif my wittle eye somefing what's WED.
Liam: Santa's hat!
Damon: YES! Youw tuwn.
So after a few rounds of losing badly, I started kissing and nibbling Damon. It's one of my favorite things to do, so he's used to it. He claimed it was my turn.
Mama: I spy with my little eye something DELICIOUS!
Damon: It's meeeeee!
Mama: Yes! *proceeds to kiss and nibble his sweet face*
Damon, holding my face between his hands: Dewe is no dewicious in da game, Mama.
After a few more rounds, Carrie was directly behind me. Think of "keep-away" in basketball. I took my turn.
Mama: I spy with my little eye something ANNOYING.
Damon, from across the house: CAWWIE!
Carrie and I burst into laughter to a chorus of Damon's: Is it wight? Is it wight? IS DAT WIGHT!?
You got it, kid.
Wednesday, May 28, 2014
"Celebrity Lunch" paper
Okay, since this isn't an official quote I'll make it a different color so it pops. I'm going through the multitudes of papers that adorn every surface of our home (think hobbits) and found this gem:
Directions: If you could have lunch with any famous person, who would it be? What would you talk about?
Answered by Liam, age 8:
If I could eat lunch with any famous person it would be Jesus. We would talk about how and why he died on the cross to save us from our sins. Where would we eat and what? At Burger king of corse! I would eat pizza. And he would eat bread and drink wine.
Directions: If you could have lunch with any famous person, who would it be? What would you talk about?
Answered by Liam, age 8:
If I could eat lunch with any famous person it would be Jesus. We would talk about how and why he died on the cross to save us from our sins. Where would we eat and what? At Burger king of corse! I would eat pizza. And he would eat bread and drink wine.
Monday, May 26, 2014
Fall 2010-Spring 2011
Apparently we've had a time warp. I can't find a quote board between this one and the previous one, so some of these quotes are OLD. Carrie is 7 in some of them, and that means Liam is around 4.5 and 5, so there will be some golden oldies in here for sure. Enjoy, and happy Memorial Day!
Carrie, 7: How do you know all this STUFF?! I thought IIII knew everything!
Grandmama, about Damon: This baby sounds like a treeful of drunken parrots! (AAAACK! SCRAWK! YAAAH!)
Liam to Mama: I'm stuck in the curtains!
Mama, reading Harry Potter to Carrie: ... Professor Quirrel... zombie... etc.
Carrie: What's a zombie?
Mama: They're called Undead. Something that came back to life. They're not real. Like in the Michael Jackson Thriller video...
Carrie: So... Jesus was a zombie? He came back to life! I'm confused!
Mama: You're a good big brother. Do you know that?
Liam: Yeah. I know.
Liam,5, to uncle Doug: PaPa has silver hair like you!
Doug: You know what, come here, you little turkey!
Carrie, 7.5: *singing* A leasenoveda (Feliz Navidad, we think)
Liam, 5, to dental hygenist Cindy: Now watch it. Don't get all scrape-y by my gummies.
Liam, 5: The silos were making me sigh.
Mama to Dada: I love you. Just because.
Dada: I hope so.
Mama: After a dozen years you doubt it?
Dada: Some people have a higher pain tolerance than others!
Liam to Carrie at Bob Evans: Why don't you have your straw twisted?
Carrie: I'm not a fancy kid. I just like regular things.
PaPa, putting cinnamon on his Crispy Rice: Now they'll say, "snap crackle pop and BOOM!"
Liam jumps a mile and almost falls over laughing.
One hundred ninety and eighty-two. Liam's all purpose number.
Mama: Who invented the light bulb, do you remember?
Carrie: Zaccheus?
Mama: Liam, what're you doin'?
Liam: Brushing my teeth. That was one half. Three more halfs and I'm done!
Mama's almost out of Caramel Marvel sacue: Does that mean it comes outta the grocery budget?
Dada: That comes outta the makes-my-Baby-love-me budget, woot woot!
Liamism #332: potty pumper= plunger
Mam to Dada: Can you please get unplugged and go (help with getting kids ready for school)?
Dada, grinnning: Yep. As soon as I figure out how a human cannon works.
Dada, checking Carrie's supposedly-clean teeth: No, no, no, no, and no. Go brush again.
Carrie: Which ones?
Dada: In the general direction (pointing to the entire mouth) where your teeth are!!
Liam: There is a black, flying, hopping, and crawling bug in the bathroom. Maybe it flew out. Or maybe it is just camoflauged on my underpants. On the ink part.
Mama, impersonating Jeff Foxworthy, drawling about tornadoes, disasters, etc.
Carrie: Why are you speaking Cowboy?
Mama: I'm speakin' Southern, darlin'.
Carrie: Where's Southern?
Liam: How come old men use walking sticks?
Mama: Cuz their legs aren't as steady as they used to be.
Liam: Mine are steady.
Mama: You're young and fresh.
Liam: Yep, I'm young and fresh and you're old and yucky.
Carrie: Adishon, Subterakshon, Times (2nd gd)
Mama: I burst my button! That's what I get for trying to fit my ego in size 2 pants!
Liam, 5.5: Oh, you stupid poop! I wish I did not have a butt!
Dada: "Wildflowers" is the Latin word for "weeds".
Mama: @($*%&)$%^$ Grrrr! (Mama LOVES wildflowers)
Liam: Who was on the moon?
Mama: Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldren...
Liam: Buzz Lightyear Aldren?!
Dada, singing: How lovin' every night....
Mama: That's the only line of this you know, isn't it?
Dada: Woooo-ah! Heheheheh!
On April 2nd, Mama exclaims: WHY are there fruit flies already!?
Liam: What? You got fertilized!?
Dada, making fun of "A Sock is a Pocket for Your Toes": A bellybutton is a pocket for your lint!
Carrie, reading: "forklifted and raced..."
Mama: "frolicked, Carrie, frolicked"
Liam: Why do the mini wheats have frosting?
Mama: to make them even yummier.
Liam: Even yummier than the straw?*
* This is especially funny if you know that Mama herself used to rib PaPa about eating HIS shredded wheat, which she proclaimed as "hay". He doesn't like the frosted ones!
Liam, 5.5: Once, twice, thrice,... what's fource?
Mama: Hehehe
Liam: Thanks for my burning hot mac and cheese!
Mama: Manicotti, linguine, spaghetti...
Liam, looking at the noodle cookbook: What's this one?
Mama: Couscous.
Liam: Couscous!? Well, THAT'S a weird name for a noodle!
"Dear Santa, This year I was a dingbat. Please bring me nothing. Love, Carrie."
Dada, musing about 2011 garden: Hmm. I don't think I've ever spelled "Broccoli" right. It's like E.Coli. Not sure I wanna remember it like that!
Mama explains AB patterns to Liam: You got up, then Damon got up.
Liam,5: No, that's an LD pattern. I'm an L and Damon starts with D.
Carrie, 7.5: Sometimes my words don't come out the way my brain does it. As they say, "sometimes your brain works faster than your hand!"
Carrie, 7.5, doing homework: I need to circle the herds. (Pause.) Nerves. (Pause.) Verbs!
Carrie, 7.5, writing: Dear Santa,
Mama, interrupting: Dear Carrie, don't even bother...
Dada, also interrupting: Dear Carrie, "we are men of action. Lies do not become us."
Mama to Liam,5: Did you do your chapstick?
Liam: I accidently got it on my eye because I wasn't paying attention, but I can fix that...
Carrie, 7, eating macaroni shells: Mama, before these were cooked, were these real seashells?
Post-breaking of the bunk beds, Liam, 5: I was tempted.
Liam, 5, blowing his nose: That made my eye throw up.
Carrie, 7.5: IIIIIII am not drinking that wine, am I?
Dada: No, you're not. It's mine.
Liam, 5: It's not lime.
Carrie, 7.5, chattering about birthday parties: Makinna invited 4 girls- that's a total of 5 girls, and guess what? Isaac said I count as a boy.
On the way to preschool, Liam points out clouds: Look, Mama. There's God's foot. See it? And his other leg is on the other side. He's exercising.
Checking out Dada's spine, Liam, 5: Dada, how come you've got dinosaur bones on you?
Mama: Liam, is that... pizza sauce on your shirt???
Liam,5, matter of factly: No, it's just blood.
Liam,5: Hey Mama, the lower case 4 looks like an upside down chair. (It really does, just not in this font!)
Liam,5: Damon's a doodlebug! He's a dude!
Dada: Liam, please pee and wash up for dinner.
Liam: I DID! (loooooooooooong pause) Yesterday!
Carrie to Pap: Can you guess what music this is?
Dada: Yeah, what movie about a young wizard who goes to school?
Pap: Oh yeah... that's a good one. "Billy Potter!"
Carrie and Liam together: NOOOOO! HARRY Potter!
Dada: Does anyone want scrambled eggs?
Carrie: What kind of eggs?
Dada: What do you mean, what kind of eggs? The kind in the little shell packages!*
*Carrie is reading over my shoulder as I type, and for this last one I added, "what kind of eggs? Emu? Ostrich?" She piped in, "elephant?" I staaaaaaaaaaaaared at her until she realized, "oh wait, elephants don't lay eggs. Hahahahahah!"
Hoooo boy.
Carrie, 7: How do you know all this STUFF?! I thought IIII knew everything!
Grandmama, about Damon: This baby sounds like a treeful of drunken parrots! (AAAACK! SCRAWK! YAAAH!)
Liam to Mama: I'm stuck in the curtains!
Mama, reading Harry Potter to Carrie: ... Professor Quirrel... zombie... etc.
Carrie: What's a zombie?
Mama: They're called Undead. Something that came back to life. They're not real. Like in the Michael Jackson Thriller video...
Carrie: So... Jesus was a zombie? He came back to life! I'm confused!
Mama: You're a good big brother. Do you know that?
Liam: Yeah. I know.
Liam,5, to uncle Doug: PaPa has silver hair like you!
Doug: You know what, come here, you little turkey!
Carrie, 7.5: *singing* A leasenoveda (Feliz Navidad, we think)
Liam, 5, to dental hygenist Cindy: Now watch it. Don't get all scrape-y by my gummies.
Liam, 5: The silos were making me sigh.
Mama to Dada: I love you. Just because.
Dada: I hope so.
Mama: After a dozen years you doubt it?
Dada: Some people have a higher pain tolerance than others!
Liam to Carrie at Bob Evans: Why don't you have your straw twisted?
Carrie: I'm not a fancy kid. I just like regular things.
PaPa, putting cinnamon on his Crispy Rice: Now they'll say, "snap crackle pop and BOOM!"
Liam jumps a mile and almost falls over laughing.
One hundred ninety and eighty-two. Liam's all purpose number.
Mama: Who invented the light bulb, do you remember?
Carrie: Zaccheus?
Mama: Liam, what're you doin'?
Liam: Brushing my teeth. That was one half. Three more halfs and I'm done!
Mama's almost out of Caramel Marvel sacue: Does that mean it comes outta the grocery budget?
Dada: That comes outta the makes-my-Baby-love-me budget, woot woot!
Liamism #332: potty pumper= plunger
Mam to Dada: Can you please get unplugged and go (help with getting kids ready for school)?
Dada, grinnning: Yep. As soon as I figure out how a human cannon works.
Dada, checking Carrie's supposedly-clean teeth: No, no, no, no, and no. Go brush again.
Carrie: Which ones?
Dada: In the general direction (pointing to the entire mouth) where your teeth are!!
Liam: There is a black, flying, hopping, and crawling bug in the bathroom. Maybe it flew out. Or maybe it is just camoflauged on my underpants. On the ink part.
Mama, impersonating Jeff Foxworthy, drawling about tornadoes, disasters, etc.
Carrie: Why are you speaking Cowboy?
Mama: I'm speakin' Southern, darlin'.
Carrie: Where's Southern?
Liam: How come old men use walking sticks?
Mama: Cuz their legs aren't as steady as they used to be.
Liam: Mine are steady.
Mama: You're young and fresh.
Liam: Yep, I'm young and fresh and you're old and yucky.
Carrie: Adishon, Subterakshon, Times (2nd gd)
Mama: I burst my button! That's what I get for trying to fit my ego in size 2 pants!
Liam, 5.5: Oh, you stupid poop! I wish I did not have a butt!
Dada: "Wildflowers" is the Latin word for "weeds".
Mama: @($*%&)$%^$ Grrrr! (Mama LOVES wildflowers)
Liam: Who was on the moon?
Mama: Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldren...
Liam: Buzz Lightyear Aldren?!
Dada, singing: How lovin' every night....
Mama: That's the only line of this you know, isn't it?
Dada: Woooo-ah! Heheheheh!
On April 2nd, Mama exclaims: WHY are there fruit flies already!?
Liam: What? You got fertilized!?
Dada, making fun of "A Sock is a Pocket for Your Toes": A bellybutton is a pocket for your lint!
Carrie, reading: "forklifted and raced..."
Mama: "frolicked, Carrie, frolicked"
Liam: Why do the mini wheats have frosting?
Mama: to make them even yummier.
Liam: Even yummier than the straw?*
* This is especially funny if you know that Mama herself used to rib PaPa about eating HIS shredded wheat, which she proclaimed as "hay". He doesn't like the frosted ones!
Liam, 5.5: Once, twice, thrice,... what's fource?
Mama: Hehehe
Liam: Thanks for my burning hot mac and cheese!
Mama: Manicotti, linguine, spaghetti...
Liam, looking at the noodle cookbook: What's this one?
Mama: Couscous.
Liam: Couscous!? Well, THAT'S a weird name for a noodle!
"Dear Santa, This year I was a dingbat. Please bring me nothing. Love, Carrie."
Dada, musing about 2011 garden: Hmm. I don't think I've ever spelled "Broccoli" right. It's like E.Coli. Not sure I wanna remember it like that!
Mama explains AB patterns to Liam: You got up, then Damon got up.
Liam,5: No, that's an LD pattern. I'm an L and Damon starts with D.
Carrie, 7.5: Sometimes my words don't come out the way my brain does it. As they say, "sometimes your brain works faster than your hand!"
Carrie, 7.5, doing homework: I need to circle the herds. (Pause.) Nerves. (Pause.) Verbs!
Carrie, 7.5, writing: Dear Santa,
Mama, interrupting: Dear Carrie, don't even bother...
Dada, also interrupting: Dear Carrie, "we are men of action. Lies do not become us."
Mama to Liam,5: Did you do your chapstick?
Liam: I accidently got it on my eye because I wasn't paying attention, but I can fix that...
Carrie, 7, eating macaroni shells: Mama, before these were cooked, were these real seashells?
Post-breaking of the bunk beds, Liam, 5: I was tempted.
Liam, 5, blowing his nose: That made my eye throw up.
Carrie, 7.5: IIIIIII am not drinking that wine, am I?
Dada: No, you're not. It's mine.
Liam, 5: It's not lime.
Carrie, 7.5, chattering about birthday parties: Makinna invited 4 girls- that's a total of 5 girls, and guess what? Isaac said I count as a boy.
On the way to preschool, Liam points out clouds: Look, Mama. There's God's foot. See it? And his other leg is on the other side. He's exercising.
Checking out Dada's spine, Liam, 5: Dada, how come you've got dinosaur bones on you?
Mama: Liam, is that... pizza sauce on your shirt???
Liam,5, matter of factly: No, it's just blood.
Liam,5: Hey Mama, the lower case 4 looks like an upside down chair. (It really does, just not in this font!)
Liam,5: Damon's a doodlebug! He's a dude!
Dada: Liam, please pee and wash up for dinner.
Liam: I DID! (loooooooooooong pause) Yesterday!
Carrie to Pap: Can you guess what music this is?
Dada: Yeah, what movie about a young wizard who goes to school?
Pap: Oh yeah... that's a good one. "Billy Potter!"
Carrie and Liam together: NOOOOO! HARRY Potter!
Dada: Does anyone want scrambled eggs?
Carrie: What kind of eggs?
Dada: What do you mean, what kind of eggs? The kind in the little shell packages!*
*Carrie is reading over my shoulder as I type, and for this last one I added, "what kind of eggs? Emu? Ostrich?" She piped in, "elephant?" I staaaaaaaaaaaaared at her until she realized, "oh wait, elephants don't lay eggs. Hahahahahah!"
Hoooo boy.
Wednesday, March 26, 2014
Late Spring 2011- Winter of early 2012
Mama hands freezing Crown Royal to Liam: Take this to Dada, please.
Liam, 6: Here, Dada, Dada, Dada. Here. What is it? Ink?
Before unit 4 math test, Mama coaches: If I gave you 5 M&M's, you can't TAKE 15 from them. But if I gave you 15, you COULD make 5 sets of 3.
Carrie: No. I'd just eat them.
Liam: Can we move around in Heaven? I hope there's clouds cuz if you trip and fall you don't wanna scrape your face. If you trip and fall on clouds you won't get hurt.
While listening to Les Mis, Mama comments: Poor Eponine.
Liam: Why poor Eponine?
Mama explains: The man she loves loves another girl more than her.
Liam: Oh! Probably feels like friendly fire!
Talking about winning SkyMiles, Mama asks: Who says we can't take the kids with us?
Dada raises his hand.
Carrie: Yeah, we HAVE been obnoxious lately...
Liam: Are we going home to get beatings? Oh boy! Haha. I'm just kidding.
"Went out for a run. 7:10 AM. Love ya, Scott. PS Duck Donuts here I come!" ~note from OBX
Carrie: We're setting a record of how long we can stay upstairs, so Mama, can you bring us room service?
Mama: Um, no. Come down here and eat.
Mama to a post-puking Carrie: You look like your normal self.
Carrie: Yeah. But I bet not on the inside.
Liam, 6: I love every speck of nature that God made us. Even though it makes me sneeze.
Mama to Liam, 6: Do you know that you're incredibly gorgeous?
Liam: *sigh* Of course I know. Geez.
Liam, 6, hands Mama a snack-size bag of Skittles: Can you please open these so that they don't *BOOM* all over creation?
Playing Scrabble at age 8, Carrie: I have "loy."
Mama: That's not a word.
Carrie. Oh. Yes, it is. Like "lawyer!"
Liam's in the bathroom a LONG time. Mama: You okay, Liam?
Liam: Yep. *Pause* Didn't fall in or anything.
Mama: Good.
Liam: Cuz I was STANDING! *diabolical laugh*
Mama: Can you pass me my phone, please?
Liam, at the table: Do you mind if it's sticky?
Carrie: Read me another Bible story.
Mama: Hmm. "Respect your mother and father." Hmm. How about that!?
Carrie: Not THAT one.
Mama: ARGH! How can you STILL be hungry?
Liam: I guess I'm just a hog.
Mama and Liam, 5.5, are talking about butts (again) and Mama says: Another word for butt is "buttocks."
Liam: "Butt ducks!?"
Liam, 5.5, with a twinkle in his eye: Mama, I love you.
Mama: I love you, too.
Liam: I'm hungry. Can I have a snack?
Mama: Hmm, there's something I was going to tell you. What was it?
Liam, 5 and three-fourths: I dunno. I can't read your brain.
Mama: I got you Star Wars valentines for your party.
Liam: YAY! Are there light sabers at the end for extramation marks?
Dada: I don't know what that was, but you need to focus on your food.
Liam: It was inner peace!
Dada: Fine, but if you do anything other than eat your dinner, it won't be inner peace, it will be outer pain!
Damon: MAMA! (22 months, FINALLY. Until now it had always been "Dada", which was used to mean "person I love")
Liam trying to explain fractions to Mama: You just don't get math, Mama.
Mama, asking Carrie about her spelling test: Didja get "evaluate"?
Carrie: I'm sure I did.
Mama: How about "solve"? Didja do S-O-V-L-E?
Carrie, enthusiastic: Yep! I DID!
Mama: Cuz that's WRONG.
Carrie: Oh. No! I did it right! Hehehehee!
Liam, examining his tissue: Woah. That was boogerful.
Liam, 5 and 35/36ths, drawing: I'm gonna make an alien..................cow.
Mama to Dada: Whaddaya think your favorite part of the race will be?
Liam, from the backseat: Hopefully winning winning winning!
Liam, almost 6, wiggling eyebrows: "BUS." There's a silent f.
Liam: Did you put ketchup on it?
Mama: Yes. And spaghetti sauce. It's plain.
Liam: And sauce. OTherwise it wouldn't be sloppy joe. It'd just be Joe.
Mama: ENOUGH! I should not have to listen to toys peeing! I should not have to say things like that.....
Liam: The greatest mom in the whole entire planet is you.
Mama: Aww, thanks.
Liam: I'm hungry. Can I have a snack?
Damon, 18 months, singsong: Gall gone. (All gone.)
Liam to Dada, post-run: You really ARE sweaty. I can see your shines.
Checking Carrie's teeth (at age 8!) before bed, Mama notices: That's CORN! Disgusting!
Carrie: I didn't have corn tonight. I had it LAST night.
Mama: !!!
Carrie, in the car, waiting to "be bad": If I promise to keep my big fat mouth shut and not tell Liam?
Carrie, singing: tom ti doo... I'm drivelling a soccer ball *pause* balloon *pause* basket ball!
Liam, to Rusted Root, singing: Send me on my way, drum drum drum, send me on my way...
Liam: Amphibian and beyond
Mama: !
Carrie, 8.5: Thanks for taking my butt seriously. (Thanks for making my seat warm.)
Mama to Dada in Pepe: You made a good choice. You had a good idea.
Dada: Yay. Once in my life.
Mama: You've had lots of good ideas. I can think of 3 right now.
Dada: Hawaii trip?
Mama: I was thinking of Things One, Two and Three, but yes.
Dada: Those were impulse.
Liam,6: That upset butt was actually a bum burp.
Mama: English is so hard. You guys are learning a hard language.
Carrie: Spanish is -
Mama: Spanish is easier. If you can say it, you can spell it. Not many silent letters.
Dada perks up: Oui! Wait...
Dada snags ANOTHER fresh-from-the-oven chocolate chip cookie.
Mama: STOP IT! That's FOUR!
Dada: Do not keep a record of wrongs! *Hightails it out of the kitchen at Mama's glare, laughing hysterically*
"Hard work spotlights the character of people: Some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all." ~Sam Ewing, writer and radio announcer
Carrie, on a cold, rainy afternoon after school: Thank you, God, that I was born when hot chocolate was invented!
Liam, 5 and 11/12ths: Can I have some of those?
Mama: Marshmallows? Yep. Hinrew used to call them "marshmalloons."
Liam: Can I have some mushballoons? I mean... hahaha!
Liam, 6: Here, Dada, Dada, Dada. Here. What is it? Ink?
Before unit 4 math test, Mama coaches: If I gave you 5 M&M's, you can't TAKE 15 from them. But if I gave you 15, you COULD make 5 sets of 3.
Carrie: No. I'd just eat them.
Liam: Can we move around in Heaven? I hope there's clouds cuz if you trip and fall you don't wanna scrape your face. If you trip and fall on clouds you won't get hurt.
While listening to Les Mis, Mama comments: Poor Eponine.
Liam: Why poor Eponine?
Mama explains: The man she loves loves another girl more than her.
Liam: Oh! Probably feels like friendly fire!
Talking about winning SkyMiles, Mama asks: Who says we can't take the kids with us?
Dada raises his hand.
Carrie: Yeah, we HAVE been obnoxious lately...
Liam: Are we going home to get beatings? Oh boy! Haha. I'm just kidding.
"Went out for a run. 7:10 AM. Love ya, Scott. PS Duck Donuts here I come!" ~note from OBX
Carrie: We're setting a record of how long we can stay upstairs, so Mama, can you bring us room service?
Mama: Um, no. Come down here and eat.
Mama to a post-puking Carrie: You look like your normal self.
Carrie: Yeah. But I bet not on the inside.
Liam, 6: I love every speck of nature that God made us. Even though it makes me sneeze.
Mama to Liam, 6: Do you know that you're incredibly gorgeous?
Liam: *sigh* Of course I know. Geez.
Liam, 6, hands Mama a snack-size bag of Skittles: Can you please open these so that they don't *BOOM* all over creation?
Playing Scrabble at age 8, Carrie: I have "loy."
Mama: That's not a word.
Carrie. Oh. Yes, it is. Like "lawyer!"
Liam's in the bathroom a LONG time. Mama: You okay, Liam?
Liam: Yep. *Pause* Didn't fall in or anything.
Mama: Good.
Liam: Cuz I was STANDING! *diabolical laugh*
Mama: Can you pass me my phone, please?
Liam, at the table: Do you mind if it's sticky?
Carrie: Read me another Bible story.
Mama: Hmm. "Respect your mother and father." Hmm. How about that!?
Carrie: Not THAT one.
Mama: ARGH! How can you STILL be hungry?
Liam: I guess I'm just a hog.
Mama and Liam, 5.5, are talking about butts (again) and Mama says: Another word for butt is "buttocks."
Liam: "Butt ducks!?"
Liam, 5.5, with a twinkle in his eye: Mama, I love you.
Mama: I love you, too.
Liam: I'm hungry. Can I have a snack?
Mama: Hmm, there's something I was going to tell you. What was it?
Liam, 5 and three-fourths: I dunno. I can't read your brain.
Mama: I got you Star Wars valentines for your party.
Liam: YAY! Are there light sabers at the end for extramation marks?
Dada: I don't know what that was, but you need to focus on your food.
Liam: It was inner peace!
Dada: Fine, but if you do anything other than eat your dinner, it won't be inner peace, it will be outer pain!
Damon: MAMA! (22 months, FINALLY. Until now it had always been "Dada", which was used to mean "person I love")
Liam trying to explain fractions to Mama: You just don't get math, Mama.
Mama, asking Carrie about her spelling test: Didja get "evaluate"?
Carrie: I'm sure I did.
Mama: How about "solve"? Didja do S-O-V-L-E?
Carrie, enthusiastic: Yep! I DID!
Mama: Cuz that's WRONG.
Carrie: Oh. No! I did it right! Hehehehee!
Liam, examining his tissue: Woah. That was boogerful.
Liam, 5 and 35/36ths, drawing: I'm gonna make an alien..................cow.
Mama to Dada: Whaddaya think your favorite part of the race will be?
Liam, from the backseat: Hopefully winning winning winning!
Liam, almost 6, wiggling eyebrows: "BUS." There's a silent f.
Liam: Did you put ketchup on it?
Mama: Yes. And spaghetti sauce. It's plain.
Liam: And sauce. OTherwise it wouldn't be sloppy joe. It'd just be Joe.
Mama: ENOUGH! I should not have to listen to toys peeing! I should not have to say things like that.....
Liam: The greatest mom in the whole entire planet is you.
Mama: Aww, thanks.
Liam: I'm hungry. Can I have a snack?
Damon, 18 months, singsong: Gall gone. (All gone.)
Liam to Dada, post-run: You really ARE sweaty. I can see your shines.
Checking Carrie's teeth (at age 8!) before bed, Mama notices: That's CORN! Disgusting!
Carrie: I didn't have corn tonight. I had it LAST night.
Mama: !!!
Carrie, in the car, waiting to "be bad": If I promise to keep my big fat mouth shut and not tell Liam?
Carrie, singing: tom ti doo... I'm drivelling a soccer ball *pause* balloon *pause* basket ball!
Liam, to Rusted Root, singing: Send me on my way, drum drum drum, send me on my way...
Liam: Amphibian and beyond
Mama: !
Carrie, 8.5: Thanks for taking my butt seriously. (Thanks for making my seat warm.)
Mama to Dada in Pepe: You made a good choice. You had a good idea.
Dada: Yay. Once in my life.
Mama: You've had lots of good ideas. I can think of 3 right now.
Dada: Hawaii trip?
Mama: I was thinking of Things One, Two and Three, but yes.
Dada: Those were impulse.
Liam,6: That upset butt was actually a bum burp.
Mama: English is so hard. You guys are learning a hard language.
Carrie: Spanish is -
Mama: Spanish is easier. If you can say it, you can spell it. Not many silent letters.
Dada perks up: Oui! Wait...
Dada snags ANOTHER fresh-from-the-oven chocolate chip cookie.
Mama: STOP IT! That's FOUR!
Dada: Do not keep a record of wrongs! *Hightails it out of the kitchen at Mama's glare, laughing hysterically*
"Hard work spotlights the character of people: Some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all." ~Sam Ewing, writer and radio announcer
Carrie, on a cold, rainy afternoon after school: Thank you, God, that I was born when hot chocolate was invented!
Liam, 5 and 11/12ths: Can I have some of those?
Mama: Marshmallows? Yep. Hinrew used to call them "marshmalloons."
Liam: Can I have some mushballoons? I mean... hahaha!
Saturday, March 22, 2014
Here We Go Again
Quotes from The Best Nest ~ April 2013- March 2014
Wisdom from Grandmama #348: QUIT FUSSING! Geometry does not affect taste!
Damon, 3 and a half, shivering: I brrr-ing!
Rita: Coffee before Cheerios. Coffee before ANYTHING!
Carrie: Five over one = five oneths.
Carrie drops a piece of Popsicle on the floor, retrieves it, eats it, and announces: No Popsicle's going to waste on MY watch... *giggles* And my watch doesn't even work!
Mama finished a cup of hot coffee 1-21-14 without reheats!
Rita: Nobody could hear me today BECAUSE MY PANTS WERE TOO LOUD!
Damon, in the backseat: Horses say "neigh", donkeys say "hee haw" (repeat endlessly)
Mama: What do mamas say?
Damon, pauses: DAMON!
Mama to Carrie, who has her hand on her own behind: What are you doing?
Carrie: I'm protectinve you from my butt.
Mama: Really?
Carrie: Yeah.
Mama: Really!?
Carrie: I mean... *dissolves into laughter*
On February first, Mama: Like Mother Nature's saying, "Welcome to March." Er. February. *sighs* I WISH I could fast forward to March...
Dada to Liam: I'm scooping your ice cream in anticipation of you actually following directions. Don't disappoint me or I'm gonna get fatter.
Carrie to Mama: I have a crick in my neck- could you bite it out? NOIDIDN'TMEANIT!!!
Damon: I hate nuts in my mouf.
Mama: Did you just say "don't touch my natural gas stink hatch"?
Dada, about Carrie: Natural gas escape hatch.
Carrie falls over, laughing: Someone get me an inhaler...
Mama describing pride, good and bad, with Carrie. Liam pipes up, "Sometimes pride is a collective noun. Like a pride of lions."
Mama: Who else is coming?
Carrie: Aunt Kelly and Uncle Belly.
Mama: Ohhh, I love this song.
John Denver: You fill up my sen-ses...
Damon, vetoing: Wanna play Angwy Biwds. *changes channel*
Liam, 7.5: "Star Wars" was actually real, because in the beginning it says, "a long, long time ago" which was probably win the 1980's... yakyakyakyak, etc...
Carrie, 10.5: I threaded water for two minutes.
Dada: That's impressive.
Mama: Carrie, you need to clean up all this stuff and NOT put in on the counter.
Carrie: I will. *Steps to counter and drops book onto it*
Mama: THAT'S ON THE COUNTER!
Carrie: You have no sense of humor.
Mama: Oh, I dunno, I smiled as I said it.
Damon: Grandmama! PAUSE! (Perhaps too many e-games)
Damon: Strawberry jelly! YAY! YAY YAY!
Mama: Strawberry jelly... and a kiss. *smooch*
Damon: No kiss.
Damon: I hunnry!........ for donuts!
Damon, 2 and 11/12ths, to a curler-clad Grandmama: I wike da mufhrooms in yo' haiw. (He meant marshmallows.)
Mama: Are you pooping?
Damon: Noooooooooo!
Mama: Are you DONE pooping?
Damon: YES!!!!
Carrie, dancing uncomfortably: I'm being WEDGIFIED!
Damon, 2 and 11/12ths: Mama, I hunnry. I hunnry all day wong. I hunnry for purdy soon.
Damon, 3: To the fingy... and 'yond!
Grandmama reading: One day, Miss Nelson had her.... out.
Liam: Toenails?
Grandmama: Um, tonsils.
Damon: Maaaaaaaaaamaaaaaaaaaaaa, I need a baf.
Mama: Whyyyyyyyy?
Damon, pausing: Cuz I'm WEAWY poopy?
Damon, 3.5: Da sun is pwaying hide n seek wif da moon... and da biwdies.
Mama: If you were to pick a fictional character and there was no Gandalf, who'd you want between you and the Balrog?
Dada: VOLDEMORT!
Carrie, 10.5: I've already learned it; I'm too lazy to do it.
Damon, protesting Mama's comment: I not a silky. I a softy!
Damon, 3.5: Wee-um spwashed his baf into my eyebaws.
Talking about the December 18 episode of Grimm featuring Krampus, Dada notes: Carrie, if you're gonna be naughty, now's the time to do it.
Mama: That's not nice! Ha ha ha!
Liam: Where are we even?
Mama: Sidecut Park, sweetie.
Liam: Why are there GRAVES?
Dada: That's what happens to the kids who don't listen here.
Liam: WHAT?!
Mama cracks up for several moments.
Dada: Guess we're goin' back.
Carrie hands Dada an algebra paper. He spontaneously combusts. Carrie, cackling: Guess that means I got it wrong!
Carrie in chair with butt up in the air.
Dada: Pain rises. (Stephen King reference) Just proves she's a pain in the bum.
Liam, singing: No, nay, never... no nay never no more... will I play the wide Grover...
In unison, Mama and Carrie: ... no...
Mama devouring Damon, 3.5: Will you always be kissable?
Damon: No.
I'll be kissable TOMORROW.
Carrie, singing loudly: ya da da da da DA, yadadadadaDAdadadadadadda DA...
Mama, louder: PUT A SOCK IN IT!
Carrie yanks off sock & stuffs it in her mouth: Gwadwy!
Mama: There's good stuff in beef.
Dada: It improves your moooooooooood.
Damon, 3.5, after taking apart Liam's SmartLinks and seeing the approaching school bus: Uh oh. I'm in big twouble!
Carrie sneaks up on Mama, who grabs her and pins her arms. Carrie: Do you ever run out of tricks?
Mama snakes a hand into Carrie's armpit and tickles: nope.
Carrie falls to floor: AHHHHHHHHHH!
There are other drawings and comics that I obviously can't depict here, but those are the latest for your enjoyment. =)
Wisdom from Grandmama #348: QUIT FUSSING! Geometry does not affect taste!
Damon, 3 and a half, shivering: I brrr-ing!
Rita: Coffee before Cheerios. Coffee before ANYTHING!
Carrie: Five over one = five oneths.
Carrie drops a piece of Popsicle on the floor, retrieves it, eats it, and announces: No Popsicle's going to waste on MY watch... *giggles* And my watch doesn't even work!
Mama finished a cup of hot coffee 1-21-14 without reheats!
Rita: Nobody could hear me today BECAUSE MY PANTS WERE TOO LOUD!
Damon, in the backseat: Horses say "neigh", donkeys say "hee haw" (repeat endlessly)
Mama: What do mamas say?
Damon, pauses: DAMON!
Mama to Carrie, who has her hand on her own behind: What are you doing?
Carrie: I'm protectinve you from my butt.
Mama: Really?
Carrie: Yeah.
Mama: Really!?
Carrie: I mean... *dissolves into laughter*
On February first, Mama: Like Mother Nature's saying, "Welcome to March." Er. February. *sighs* I WISH I could fast forward to March...
Dada to Liam: I'm scooping your ice cream in anticipation of you actually following directions. Don't disappoint me or I'm gonna get fatter.
Carrie to Mama: I have a crick in my neck- could you bite it out? NOIDIDN'TMEANIT!!!
Damon: I hate nuts in my mouf.
Mama: Did you just say "don't touch my natural gas stink hatch"?
Dada, about Carrie: Natural gas escape hatch.
Carrie falls over, laughing: Someone get me an inhaler...
Mama describing pride, good and bad, with Carrie. Liam pipes up, "Sometimes pride is a collective noun. Like a pride of lions."
Mama: Who else is coming?
Carrie: Aunt Kelly and Uncle Belly.
Mama: Ohhh, I love this song.
John Denver: You fill up my sen-ses...
Damon, vetoing: Wanna play Angwy Biwds. *changes channel*
Liam, 7.5: "Star Wars" was actually real, because in the beginning it says, "a long, long time ago" which was probably win the 1980's... yakyakyakyak, etc...
Carrie, 10.5: I threaded water for two minutes.
Dada: That's impressive.
Mama: Carrie, you need to clean up all this stuff and NOT put in on the counter.
Carrie: I will. *Steps to counter and drops book onto it*
Mama: THAT'S ON THE COUNTER!
Carrie: You have no sense of humor.
Mama: Oh, I dunno, I smiled as I said it.
Damon: Grandmama! PAUSE! (Perhaps too many e-games)
Damon: Strawberry jelly! YAY! YAY YAY!
Mama: Strawberry jelly... and a kiss. *smooch*
Damon: No kiss.
Damon: I hunnry!........ for donuts!
Damon, 2 and 11/12ths, to a curler-clad Grandmama: I wike da mufhrooms in yo' haiw. (He meant marshmallows.)
Mama: Are you pooping?
Damon: Noooooooooo!
Mama: Are you DONE pooping?
Damon: YES!!!!
Carrie, dancing uncomfortably: I'm being WEDGIFIED!
Damon, 2 and 11/12ths: Mama, I hunnry. I hunnry all day wong. I hunnry for purdy soon.
Damon, 3: To the fingy... and 'yond!
Grandmama reading: One day, Miss Nelson had her.... out.
Liam: Toenails?
Grandmama: Um, tonsils.
Damon: Maaaaaaaaaamaaaaaaaaaaaa, I need a baf.
Mama: Whyyyyyyyy?
Damon, pausing: Cuz I'm WEAWY poopy?
Damon, 3.5: Da sun is pwaying hide n seek wif da moon... and da biwdies.
Mama: If you were to pick a fictional character and there was no Gandalf, who'd you want between you and the Balrog?
Dada: VOLDEMORT!
Carrie, 10.5: I've already learned it; I'm too lazy to do it.
Damon, protesting Mama's comment: I not a silky. I a softy!
Damon, 3.5: Wee-um spwashed his baf into my eyebaws.
Talking about the December 18 episode of Grimm featuring Krampus, Dada notes: Carrie, if you're gonna be naughty, now's the time to do it.
Mama: That's not nice! Ha ha ha!
Liam: Where are we even?
Mama: Sidecut Park, sweetie.
Liam: Why are there GRAVES?
Dada: That's what happens to the kids who don't listen here.
Liam: WHAT?!
Mama cracks up for several moments.
Dada: Guess we're goin' back.
Carrie hands Dada an algebra paper. He spontaneously combusts. Carrie, cackling: Guess that means I got it wrong!
Carrie in chair with butt up in the air.
Dada: Pain rises. (Stephen King reference) Just proves she's a pain in the bum.
Liam, singing: No, nay, never... no nay never no more... will I play the wide Grover...
In unison, Mama and Carrie: ... no...
Mama devouring Damon, 3.5: Will you always be kissable?
Damon: No.
I'll be kissable TOMORROW.
Carrie, singing loudly: ya da da da da DA, yadadadadaDAdadadadadadda DA...
Mama, louder: PUT A SOCK IN IT!
Carrie yanks off sock & stuffs it in her mouth: Gwadwy!
Mama: There's good stuff in beef.
Dada: It improves your moooooooooood.
Damon, 3.5, after taking apart Liam's SmartLinks and seeing the approaching school bus: Uh oh. I'm in big twouble!
Carrie sneaks up on Mama, who grabs her and pins her arms. Carrie: Do you ever run out of tricks?
Mama snakes a hand into Carrie's armpit and tickles: nope.
Carrie falls to floor: AHHHHHHHHHH!
There are other drawings and comics that I obviously can't depict here, but those are the latest for your enjoyment. =)
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