Peter: You should never hide your talent under a bushel. Especially if that talent is farting. Because pretty soon it's going to get really stuffy under there.
8/23/18
Mom: Nora, you're so strong and brave. You can do anything!
Nora (slyly): ... even watch a movie?
8/22/18
Nora: Are you impressed with me that I'm a cheetah?
5/14/18
Nora (singing): Blah Blah Black Sheep, have you any wool?
2/10/18
Nora, pretending to be Benji, to get Peter to let her in his room: (cue deep, gravelly voice) Open up. It's me, Benji.
2/17/18
Travis: It was a bloodbath.
Benji: Oh, I would be so scared to get in that water. I would never get in that tub.
Michelle: haha no, buddy. People weren't actually taking a bath in blood. It's an expression.
11/2017
Nora to Benji: Hey, you wanna play that game again?
(I hear this about 5 times every single day)
7/2017
Nora: Mailed it!
(she means 'nailed it')
6/15/17
Nora: Can I have some more bugglegum? (bubblegum)
6/2017
While pretending to read aloud from her journal, Nora: Poopy pants is not my fault.
2/29/16
Benji: Fee Fi Fo Fum...Who wants a taco?
9/6/15
Me: "So Benji, what did you do at school today?"
Benji: "Oh you know, a little of this, a little of that."
6/28/15
I was trying to explain to the boys what Anne of Green Gables was about when I told them that she is an orphan. Benji piped up immediately with, "Oh you mean like Batman?"
4/15/15
As I was taking Peter to the doctor one day, he told me, "Mom. Did you know I love books? They are like my home. Whenever I read them, it's just like I'm home."
3/8/15
Benji's new word for anything he doesn't know the name for is "thing-a-ding" As in, "Where's my thing-a-ding, Momma?"
3/2/15
We picked some asparagus from the garden and Peter said: "Let's cook it and have it for dessert!" Asparagus. For DESSERT.
10/17/14
While driving home:
Benji: Dad, sometimes when you close your eyes, do you see bats?
Travis: Um, no. [pause] When you close your eyes and see bats are they good bats or bad bats?
Benji: [looking at Daddy like he is crazy pants] When I close my eyes I do not see bats!
5/1/14
I asked Benji to go sing a song to Nora while I was putting away the groceries so she wouldn't cry and this is what I heard him singing: "Rock-it bye baby..."
4/25/14
Me: Benji, what do you want on your pizza?
Benji: Peppy-roni!
7/25/13
Peter wants to be a fireman when he grows up. While leaving the library, he said to some adults sitting next to him at bingo: "See ya. If ya need me when I'm an adult, you can just call 911!"
3/31/13
[During prayers]
Peter: "Thank you for Daddy, and Mommy, and Benji and me, Peter because I know everything in this world!"
12/13/12
Peter brought me a picture of airplanes he had just drawn and said "Mommy, next to where I wrote my name, could you write 'illustrator' for me?"
11/9/12
Peter: "Daddy, I got a fluid shot today!"
Me: "Um, I think you mean a flu shot."
10/1/12
Peter: "And then I will be a full ledged member!"
9/13/12
Peter: "Momma, my favorite word is Snoozy Toozy."
Me: "Why's that?" Peter: "Cause it has an 'oozy' and a 'toozy.'
3/3/12
We had just gotten some ice cream from Cold Stone when Peter says: "It's a nice day for ice cream."
3/2/12
Coming into the garage to find Daddy: "Well, well, well."
3/1/12
Upon handing Peter a McDondalds cheeseburger: "MMmmm. My cheeseburger is hot and fresh from the oven."
2/3/12
Peter: "Did you know that girls like pink Momma? And purple. Do you like purple?"
12/31/11
While we're hiking Peter says: "Ugh. I'm all billed out guys." It took us a minute to realize he had replaced tuckered out with billed out.
12/14/11
I'm trying to put chapstick on his lips but Peter doesn't like it so he tells me: "No Momma. If your lips are chapped you just put slobber on them like this [he licks his lips]. See? Slobber makes your lips feel all better."
11/17/11
Me: "Peter -- please go play in your room. You're kind of in my hair today."
Peter: "Well you've been in my NOSE today Momma!"
10/27/11
When Travis was trying to get Peter to leave the Ronald McDonald House at the hospital.
Peter: "But I don't wanna leave the Old MacDonald House!"
10/8/11
Peter hands Travis a cup with water, milk, and juice all mixed together.
Peter: "Here you go Daddy, have some sloopie."
Travis: "MMMmm. Why's it called sloopie?" Peter: "Because when you drink it, your eyes go all sloopie."
10/5/11
Peter saw a guy wearing a stocking cap and (while laughing hysterically) said : "He's wearing a sock on his head Momma!"
9/9/11
Me: "You need to go to time out now. We don't lock doors."
Peter: "That's okay. I like time out."
Me: !!
8/30/11 (while I was putting Peter to bed) Peter: "But there are monsters outside!" Me: "Well it's a good thing me and Daddy locked the doors up nice and tight." Peter: "Oh! Fank you Momma!"
8/28/11
(while patting Benji's hair)
Peter: "Aww. He has softie duckling fluff!"
6/30/11
(After I told Peter he couldn't do something - yet again)
Peter: "No Momma. I have a sign that says "No saying no Momma!"
6/10/11
Peter: "His name is Benji, but I just call him Benj."
5/8/11
Peter: "What you doing there Mommy?"
Me: "I'm putting on my makeup."
Peter: "Oh. So you don't scare Daddy."
5/7/11 Me: "Mommy's big belly is gone." Peter: "Now we can wrestle Mommy!"
4/17/11 Peter: [singing] "Hunky Dunky sat on a wall. Hunky Dunky had a great fall."
4/4/11 [While playing duck, duck, goose] Peter: "Okay Mommy and Daddy. Now you two can quack like ducks."
3/30/11 Peter: "Ready, Steady, Set, Go!"
2/24/11 Peter: "Ma-chelle! Ma-chelle! Could you come snuggle wif me?"
2/20/11 Me: What did you learn about in nursery today? Peter: About Jesus. He is our friend. He doesn't hit us and he doesn't bite us.
1/27/11 [While watching me peel sweet potatoes for dinner] Peter: "Sweet botatoes - you are all naked!"
11/26/10 Petey: "Do you have a freight car Grandpa?" Petey: "He said no." (He kept asking my Dad this ALL day long)
11/19/10 Mom "Do the cows eat the hay the tractors cut?" Peter: "Um...nope. They just eat rocks and bread."
10/19/10 Peter saw a guy wearing a cowboy hat and said: "He's wearing a howdy hat!"
10/13/10 Peter: "You look like a princess Mama." [I was wearing a long blue dress for a church meeting]
9/7/10 [pulling a chair up next to Trav] Peter: "How's you work Dada?"
8/26/10 [while running with a big basketball-like bouncy ball] Petey: "It's a bounskitball!"
8/22/10 [While saying prayers - we're trying to get him to think of things to say on his own] Petey: "Fank {thank} you for mouthesses {mouths}."
7/31/10 Dad: "Did you hurt your nose?" Peter: "I hurt mine mustache." (pointing to his upper lip)
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