Reese, after preschool: "Today, during snack time, we said 's' words." (Maybe you had to be there :)


I was reading a Book of Mormon story one night with the girls and I had just explained how having "faith" can mean believing in something even though we can't see it. Reese: "Well, I have faith in monsters!"

I was wiping Claire's face after she had been outside playing and eating brownies....
Claire: "Being a kid isn't easy."

Reese was sitting rather impatiently off to the side waiting for me to finish something up so I could help her....
Reese: "Being patient makes me bored."

At the hospital after having Everett:
Discharge Nurse filling out paper work: "Who delivered the baby?"
Me, totally confused as to why she was asking me this question: "I...I did."
Nurse: "No, which doctor?"
Me: "Oh...."

Claire: "I'm so lucky to have a baby brother."
Tom: "Did Heavenly Father send Baby Everett to us?"
Claire, laughing in a don't be silly way: "No, Dad! We got him from the hostible (hospital)!"

Claire dragged her time out chair over to the kitchen counter and started digging her little fingers into the pan of brownies that I had made earlier.
Me: Claaaaire?!
Claire, knowing she was caught, immediately turned around with both palms facing up: "Nuffing."


Reese was sitting on my lap feeling the baby kick... Reese: "What color is the baby gonna be?"
Me: "Umm, white."
Reese, frustrated: "Why is he going to be white?!"
Me: "Ummm...because Daddy and I are white."
Reese, totally disappointed and annoyed: "No! I want him to be black!!"
Me: "If this baby is black I'm gonna have some explaining to do."

Reese and Tom just finished racing to the car.
Reese: "Daddy, sometimes you win and sometimes you lose......AND I won!"

Reese: "When I turn 5 do I get to go to school ANNNND wipe my own poo?!"

Me answering a phone call from an 800 number: "Hello?"
Man with "an accent" on the other end: "Yes, may I please speak with (what I swear I heard) the Master of the Chateau?"
Me totally taken aback: "THE WHO?!"
Man: "Matthew DeSanto."
Ohhh, that was better, but nope, neither of those guys were here.

I had just finished up a silly dance, Reese laughed then said: "Mommy, you're funny.........but Daddy's REALLY funnier than you!"

Me: "Claire, are you poopy?"
Claire: "No."
Me: "Are you tricking me?"
Claire running away with a big smile: "Yeah, I trickin' you!"
She was poopy.

Cousin Noah asking Claire all the animal sounds...."What does a kitty say?"
Claire: "Meow."
Noah: "What does a piggy say?"
Claire: "[some form of] Oink, oink."
Noah: "What does a mommy say?"
Claire: "Rarrrr!"

The girls were being super clingy and climbing all over me. Tom, trying to give me a break, said, "Girls, let's go play in the loft!" Very excited at the idea, Reese got right in Claire's face and said in a high pitched talking-to-a-little-kid voice, "Yeah, come on, Claire! Daddy's more fun than Mommy!"