Thursday, October 02, 2003
Well, DUH!
While standing in the checkout line the woman in front of us suddenly declared, “Oh dear, I forgot my purse in my car!” She ran off to get it and Jenica exclaimed in a loud voice directly to the lady....
“WELL, DUH!”
I didn’t know whether to be proud of my snarky little brat of be embarassed to death. I chose to look mortified externally while snickering to myself in my head.
Tuesday, September 30, 2003
Guest Entry: Rowan Again
Another guest entry from my girl Rowan. Her brother may be a cutie, but he’s a stinker pie over the phone. Heheh.
discussing an old dairy barn that was demolished
me: i wonder what they did with all the cows
casey: yeah
m: they probably send them somewhere else
c: yeah, they probably chopped them up and sent them to the pork shop.
Monday, September 29, 2003
Guest Entry: Rowan
A guest entry from my girl Rowan
at the mall with casey age 9
casey: we need to find a dictionary
me: a dictionary?
casey: yeah. a dictionary that shows where everything in the mall is
Sunday, August 10, 2003
More Bedtime Issues
Jenica: (out of bed for the zillionth time) Mommy? Can I have a drink?
Mom: No. Go to bed.
J: Please? I need a drink.
M: No, go to bed.
J: I need a drink.
M: Go to bed.
J: Drink!
M: Bed.
J: Drink!
M: Bed!
J: DRINK!
M: BED!
J: (pointing) What’s that!??
M: (looking) I…
And yes, ladies and gentlemen, the child had snatched my soda and was taking a nice long drink of it. Pretty sad when you can be tricked by a 2.5 year old.
Wednesday, July 09, 2003
Replaying Sleep Issues. Over, and over and..
Jenica is playing with her baby dolls. One (apparently the mommy) says to the other, “You go ni-night. No more. Hush.” The baby says, “I can’t. I need a drink of milk.” “Ok. ONE drink. Ok?” “Ok, Mommy.” *baby makes appropriate drinking noises* “Ok. GO NI-NIGHT!” “No! I need Bastian!” “Ok, I be right back.” Mommy goes to get “Bastian” and reappears with Gi Joe. “Ok, here Bastian. GO NI-NIGHT!”
(can you tell we’ve been having sleep issues lately?)
Tuesday, July 08, 2003
The Voices of Angels? Er… Demons.
I’m scared of my old teacher. I hope I get a new one when school starts cos my old teacher really scared me with her singing. I think she might have a demon in her throat. (Bastian, age 6)
Friday, June 27, 2003
Polite, If Not Helpful
Devon: Sebastian, would you like to help me carry these bags out to the car, please?
Sebastian: No thank you.
Thursday, June 26, 2003
Guest Entry: Bad Sunburn
Another wonderful guest entry:
Roen came in after a couple hours of playing at the playground yesterday. She said to Mom: “I got a bad sunburn mom!!!” Mom said “How do you know?”
Roen replied, pointing to her armpit: “Its all hot and wet!”
Thursday, June 19, 2003
My Lally-La-La
There’s a TV commercial which plays pretty frequently where a daughter busily fusses with her mother’s hair. Jenica apparently loves the idea so anytime the commercial comes on (and sometimes even when it doesn’t) she’ll grab a brush and whatever other hair goodies she can scrounge up and she’ll brush, tangle, knot, twist and flop my hair all about.
In the background of the commercial is the song, “Mrs. Brown, You’ve Got a Lovely Daughter.” Either Jenica can’t speak well enough to mimic the lyrics exactly or else she doesn’t quite get what they’re saying. In any case, she will often lean over my shoulder and say, “Mommy? Mommy, I Lally-La-La?”
To which, of course, I reply, “Yes, Jenica. You’re my lovely daughter.” She bursts into giggles and continues to brush my hair, delighted with my response.
Sunday, June 08, 2003
Guest Entry from Erica
Tristan’s new school is Oquirrh (say oaker) Hills.
He got in the van yesterday and said, “Shannon, our new school is Yogurt Hills.”
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Tristan has also decided that he and Shannon have to marry only children.... See, once upon a time, they wanted to marry each other, so we told them that you can’t marry brothers and sisters. He over-generalized that to mean that you can’t marry anybody who has a brother or a sister!
Sunday, May 18, 2003
Guest Entry from Rob and Anika
Here’s a couple kidsays from friends Rob and Anika:
Molly had to go to the National Naval Medical Center last week to get an object removed from her ear. A teeny little bead took a good three hours and screaming bloody murder to pull out. When asked how the heck the bead got in there, Molly informed us that instead of a quarter, the tooth fairy traded her an ear-bead for a tooth. “I’m never letting that crummy toothfairy in my room gain!”
AND…
Knowing we had a movie and popcorn coming up after dinner, Molly opted not to eat anything. We, of course told her it might be a good idea to eat her food. “Popcorn isn’t really something you can live on, Molly.” She replied, “Sure it is. It comes from corn, and that is really good food.”
Tuesday, May 06, 2003
Guest Entry from FW
This guest entry had me rolling. Too precious:
Mom said to Anne, “Are you still wearing your pink underwear from yesterday?’
To which Anne said, “Thank you for noticing.”
Monday, May 05, 2003
Lellow
We’ve been working on teaching Jenica colors this past week. For the most part, she only has learned to say the words, not really to associate the words with the actual color. Today she surprised me, though.
While riding in the car she exclaimed loudly, “Mommy? MOMMY!”
I calmly replied with a firm, “Yes, sweetie? What do you want, Jenica?”
To which she exclaimed with sheer delight, “LELLO!”
Sure enough right ahead of us where she was pointing was a huge yellow billboard. She finally is getting it. Or maybe it was pure dumb luck. Either way it was a neat experience.
Friday, April 25, 2003
Goose Poop
Me: Sebastian, what was your favorite part of our trip?
S: When we got to see the goose’s butt open up and poop squirt out.
So glad that entertainment for six-year-olds is still so inexpensive.
Sunday, April 20, 2003
Pro Veggie
A recent journal entry by Sebastian:
a Liin at Meat and ditd a panfll DEF.
(tanslation: A lion ate meat and died a painful death.)
I think he’s been hanging out with “a certain vegan”:http://hippycrites.com/ again. Heheh.
Tuesday, April 08, 2003
Okie Dokey
Me: Jenica, get over here so I can change your stinky diaper!
Jenica: Okie dokey.
Wednesday, March 26, 2003
Manners
The other night at dinner Devon asked, “Mom, can you get me a drink?” to wich Jenica promptly responded in a chiding tone with, “Please and thank you!” Well, at least one of my kids minds her manners… or at least other people’s manners.
Thursday, March 06, 2003
When You’re Sitting in Your Chevy…
I guess moms aren’t supposed to laugh at the diarrhea song. I really guess we’re not supposed to let kids make up new lyrics, either.
I admit I’m not always the best mom. Sometimes, I make quite obvious mistakes, but none so amusing as teaching my kids the diarrhea song.
It all started with a simple, “When you’re sitting in your Chevy...” and got really side splitting funny from there. Except, I’m a grown up. I’m not supposed to laugh at burps and poops and diarrhea songs. Uh, but I do.
This version of the song (courtesy of Sebastian) really caught me off guard, though. Oops. Bad Mommy.
bq. When you do a little dance
and then you S*** your pants
diarrhea
diarrhea
Thursday, February 13, 2003
Six
“Six (Sebastian’s hamster) kept me up all night, Mommy. It sure is hard taking care of a new baby.”
Sebastian, age 6
Friday, February 07, 2003
Beer Popcicles?
Sebastian was so thrilled to come home after school and explain to me the process of making popcicles.
“You can use anything wet to make them,” he explained. “Well, not bad stuff like blood or beer or diet but anything else.”
