RYKER, 8 years old
Paul hurt his back playing basketball at the rec center while Ryker was a Karate. We all lack in the empathy department around here, especially as Paul was pale and barely able to walk because of pain...
"Dad you are such a 32 year old baby."
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"When I grow up I'm going to be a soccer coach so that I can just play at work all day."
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He's been working to earn money. So far he's saved up $40, some from Christmas money, some from chores. He searched Amazon for 30 minutes, he'd would have searched longer but that was his time limit, for something he wanted to buy. He settled on a $5 Harry Potter lego mini figure.
"I don't want to spend my money, I want to save it up till I have $100 and do something really cool with it."
What is really cool?
"I don't know but when I figure it out I probably won't want to spend all the money I saved up on it."
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He likes to make faces at us when he disagrees with what we are saying, or disciplining him. You all know what I'm talking about, we've all been in that stage of life before. Making those dumb faces because you think that whatever you are being told is so off the wall stupid that your only response is to make hideous faces…yeah those faces.
He looks…well…ridiculous, and it is hard to keep a straight face when I see him acting this way. I'll laugh when he calls me as a parent someday complaining about these faces. I remember doing the same.exact.thing to my parents.
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He's picking up on southern things -
"I need supper. People here in Mississippi eat supper, mom" said about an hour after we finished dinner.
"surely we will go to soccer tonight"
- who says surely?!
KIP, 5 years old
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We went to the bank today. Kip was so concerned because he thought they were going to hand and foot cuff me.
Apparently he thought I was going to the bank to steal money…
What a nerve wrecking thought. Now I understand his bad behavior prior to going inside. It didn't seem like an ordinary errand in his mind.
We discussed how the money I earn goes straight to the bank, so I was going to get my money I earned from work, out of my account. Now he says, I want to do that too.
"I want an account to get $50 bills from, so I can buy a whole lotta silly string."
Of note, I did NOT get $50 bills out. Though I sure wish I did.
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Numbers are the going thing around here.
"mom what is 8 and a 0 and another 0 and another 0 make," - that is 8,000, Kip.
"Is that the hugest number in the world?" - Nope, infinity is.
"Lets count to infinity, mom"- he starts counting, makes it to 159 then says...
"hey, wait, you're wrong mom. The biggest mega number is infinity and beyond, mom, cause that is more than infinity."
Everything he needs to know he learns from Toy Story, apparently.
and he insists, "infinity and beyond IS a number."
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Mom, when the clock says 6 dot, dot 1, 8 what should I be doing?" - Taking a shower or bath most days.
"okay, I'm gonna scrub up my wiener at 6 dot, dot, 1, 8 every single day then."
Of note - he asks me what time it is when he is in the shower/bath every day since. I don't ask what he's doing…but I notice the soap is getting used up.
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"Mom I want some 'ganilla' ice-cream. It is the best, yeah."
- is corrected by Ryker, "VANILLA, Kip, not ganilla, VANILLA. There is no such thing as ganilla"
and just like that, 5 years of ganilla changed by a big brother who corrects him. I am so, so sad.
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The way he says tomorrow. Can't even type it out, it is just unique, and perfect, and when he starts saying it correctly I'll be sad.
JOVIE, 4 years old
We went to the movies yesterday
"mom you hafta hold me a cause the seat keeps trying ta eat my body!"
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"I can't sit next ta you a cause you are eating poop, and you are disgusting" as she seriously gags while running away holding her nose.
Apparently the brown rice, black beans and grilled chicken mix wasn't appealing to her…
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"YOU CAN NOT CALL MY SISTER A HE!!! UGGGHHHH!"
- yelled at Kip, because he still hasn't mastered the whole he/she, him/her concept yet.
runs to puts a hair bow on Hartley, then says to Hartley -
"There, that is better, I'm sorry you have boy looking hair and Kip keeps calling you a he. Some day you gonna have beautiful hair that is long and girl like."
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"mom can I do the laundry because I want to wear a kitty shirt, and it has been dirty since yesterday."
- music to my ears
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Whenever she gets dramatic, which happens frequently, because she is 4 and a girl, she runs to her room in hysterics
"BLANKIE, BLANKIE, I NEED MY BLANKIE"
Follwed further by "DADDY, I NEED MY DADDY" or "MOMMY I NEED MY MOMMY" whoever happens to be the parent at work that day and not ticking her off.
Girl drama.
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She calls smoothies "rainbow juice" because when we make them we stack the blender with the colors of the rainbow.
HARTLEY, 10 months
"dadadadada" still her only word.
though lately she looks at you, mumbles, and is so very expressive. Girlfriend thinks she is carrying on a conversation, and it is adorable.
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Your kids are the best. I wish that I lived closer bc I think our kids would love each other. :)
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