Until they invent a “family” sized voting machine that all the children can squish together and watch, the children take turns accompanying us to the voting machine. Last week, Noah was my voting buddy. “Why isn’t it a touch screen?” “Where’s the keyboard?” “How old is this machine?” “What if you don’t like either one?” […]
Evan: “Drive over the wheels of the car in front of you so we can go faster.” Me: “That would cause an accident and we would not go faster.” Amy: “I saw the mailman have an accident.” Evan: “The mailman peed in his pants?!?”
Amy: “Mom! Dharma ate a whole jar of peanut butter. How did she do that?” Me: “Dharma ate the lid off the peanut butter jar?” Amy: “Well, I might have accidentally left the lid off the jar.” Me: “Dharma took the jar of peanut butter off the shelf?” Amy: “Well, I might have accidentally left […]
Evan: “Awesome! I want to paint too.” Amy: “Cool! Paint my door next.” Noah: “When I have my own place, I’m gonna paint ALL the doors and walls with chalkboard paint.” Sarah: “Sooooo, WHY did you paint Evan’s door black?” Tommy: “Where’s Evan’s door?”
Me: “I need to make a grocery run. We don’t have Jack right now.” Amy: “Who’s Jack?” Amy: “Little Dharma is a cuddly, wuddly puppy.” Me: “There’s nothing little about Dharma.” Amy: “Except her brain.” Me: “WHY did you dump the clean and dirty laundry in one pile on the basement floor?” Amy: “Because you […]
Me: “Can owls turn their heads all the way around?” Amy: “No. They turn 1/3 of the way, because their eyes only see straight ahead.” Evan: “Only the Hatter can spin his head around.”
“Amy? What do you want for your birthday?” “A clubhouse.” “Mmkay, but what else?” “Just a clubhouse.” “A clubhouse takes a lot of time to build and Daddy is working outside of the house right now. Let’s think of something else you might like for your birthday.” “It’s okay. Daddy can build it at night.” […]
Amy: “I got to go INSIDE the turtle habitat today!” Evan: “Well, I got to go in a lion cage.” Amy: “Nuh-uh. Nobody goes in the lion cage.” Evan: “Did too.” Amy: “If you went in the lion cage, you’d get eaten.” Evan: “I went in the NICE lion’s cage.”
Amy: “I’m Batman and I can beat you up.” Evan: “Well, I’m Darth Vader and I can win without even touching you.” Amy: “Nuh-uh. Batman is better than Darth Vader.” Evan: “Darth Vader is the best bad guy EVER. He always wins.” Amy: “That’s not fair. You love Batman.” Evan: “I love to win. Darth […]
When Amy is sick, she is pitifully sad. Her eyes get round like a Keane painting and they are filled with a sea of tears that quietly roll down her pale, white cheeks. Except for the occasional whimper, she is silent. Amy was in sick mode the entire ride home from Natchez Trace. On the […]