It's not all doom and gloom around here. We're happy people = ) For Mother's Day last week, I filled out a funny survey and one of the questions was "What is your favorite thing about motherhood?" I answered that my #1 favorite thing is the whole-hearted loving I get from my kids... but a close second would have to be hearing all the surprising, hilarious, insightful things they say. My two boys are 5 and 6 and they frequently have us laughing. We have a running Google Doc where we record the funny things they say, because who wants to forget that?? Here are some recent favorites. Enjoy. :)
On a family walk tonight, Jake pointed to a street sign that had a smiley face sticker on it. He hollered to Annie, “See Mom?! There’s one over here!”
Annie: “I see.”
Jake: “There’s one over here, Mom!”
Annie: “Yep.”
Jake: “Mom, there’s one over here!”
Annie: “Yep, I heard you… all three times.”
Jake, without missing a beat: “Third time’s the charm!” (Age 6)
I asked Jacob to clean up some toys in the living room. As he grudgingly walked over, he said, “I wish that cleaning up had never been invented!”
Lydia’s heart has a couple congenital defects, and so Jordan is so good to pray for her every day. The last couple days he has prayed: “Please bless baby Lydia that her heart will pump blood all over her body, but not on the outside.” (Age 5)
We are on a walk around the neighborhood, and Jordan stopped. I looked back, and he was bent over trying to fix his shoe. He said, “Dad, I’ve got a situation here.”
Jake: “Jordan, there’s a ghost on your head! Now it’s in front of you! Now it’s behind you! Now it’s on your head! Now...”
Jordan: “Jacob! Stop it! I’m afraid of ghosts! I don’t like ghost games!”
Jacob: “Jordan, it’s just the Holy Ghost.”
As Dan was walking out the door this morning to go to work, Jacob said, “Bye Dad! I hope you make a lot of money this time!”
Jacob: “Dad, did you already get married?”
Dan: “Yep.”
Jordan: “To Mom?”
Dan: “Yes.”
Jordan: “So we can keep her?” (Age 4)
Annie: “Jordan, do you need chapstick?”
Jordan: “No, my lips grew back.” (Age 4)
Jacob’s car seat straps were all twisted so Dan was helping him straighten them out.
Jordan: “You’re very good at straps, Dad! You’re... service you can count on!”
Annie: “What are the vowels?”
J&J: “A, e, I, o, u”
Annie: “and sometimes Y”
Jordan: “Mom, is today Y a vowel?”
Annie: “...Yes, today Y is a vowel.”
After Church, I was asking Jordan about class, but he gave minimal response. “Did your teachers tell any stories?”
Jordan: “Yeah.”
Me: “What was it about?”
Jordan: “About 4 or 5 minutes.”
Jacob: “Dad, why do we want BYU to win?”
Me: “Because we like BYU and Mommy and I went there for school.”
Jacob: “Together?”
Me: “Yep.”
Jacob: “And that's when you spotted Mom and decided to marry her?”
Me: “Yep.” (Age 5)
Jordan has been coughing all day, and felt warm so Dan took his temperature. After rubbing the temporal thermometer across his forehead a few times, he said, somewhat instructively, “It’s in my throat.” (Age 4)
Jake gave me a penny he found on the ground, “So we can be a little more richer than we have been.” (Age 5)
Today, Dan and I walked in on Jacob, who was surrounded by toys, singing his own little song:
Ascending:
"But I cannot clean up the big mess"
-key change & descending:
"All by myself." (age 5)
