Quotes From My World

It has been so long since I've taken time to write that I'm going to change up my format for you, Reader. I plan to highlight some of my favorite quotes from the kids as of late.

"Henry, you can pee standing up like a man. You wear undies. You sleep in a big boy bed. You are almost all the way grown." - by Evelyn

"Yaya, Yaya! Help!! I'm in the dark bathroom." We found Henry with fake stick on rainbow colored fingernails. His hands were outstretched, fingers wide, and he couldn't turn the doorknob. He had on CARS PJs. "I really like girl nails."

"I'm going to get us four more Super Soakers." Robbie's plan after Dad and Jane brought the kids a box of sports and outdoor fun items that they got at a charity auction, including a Super Soaker. Robbie did it. We now have five.

"Do NOT squirt the baby in the face!!!" My words to you know who.

"Mommy, Vivian speaks Spanish or maybe China." Ev's comment after Vivian let out a string of babble that sounded as if she was really trying to tell us something important.

"Now we have seen two naked men." Evelyn whispered this indignantly during Olivia's dance recital in which children from preschool through high school performed for over two hours.

"Vivian can say, "Banana, cheeze, this, that, these, ball, baby, Mommy, Daddy, Yaya, up, down, done, out, fish, finished, doggy." This was Olivia's answer to her pediatrician's question to me regarding if Vivian is saying any words. Olivia answered a question directed to me about Henry too. I told her doctor, "Henry has two mamas." Doctor said, "Henry needs two mamas."

"Up, Mom-meee!" Vivian switched from calling me mama to mommy last week. Now she seems almost all the way grown.

"Mommy, I love you so much." Henry's final words to me this evening after I tucked him into his big boy bed after his first day of skipping a nap. He's been messing around bothering Vivian to no end during their afternoon naptime lately. I'm terrified that he is trying to give up his nap, and I told Robbie, "I can't go 13 hours without a break from Henry."

"I LOVE my tight Lightning PJs." The fitted ones that are slightly too short all over are his favorite ones. He keeps thanking me for laundering them for him, which I adore.

I said, "Why are you screaming?" to Evelyn. She said, "He's trying to throw a mammoth on me."

We were almost out the door. A babysitter was three minutes from arriving. Evelyn started screaming as though something catastrophic had happened. Robbie and I rushed to the scene. We found Evelyn in the bathroom, Henry without any pants, and pee spray soaked various non-toilet surfaces. A puddle stood on the floor. "Henry peed on me FEET!!!!" I had to escape around the corner to conceal my laughter. I then ended up on hands and knees in my party clothes wiping pee while Robbie cleaned Evelyn in the tub. I figured out from the trajectory of the mess that Henry had turned toward Evelyn, who was standing on a stool brushing her teeth, while he was mid-stream. He did not enter the bathroom and pee on her feet as she had led us to believe.

"Done. Fished (with full arm sign language). Down." Baby Vivian's words to me after she is "finished" nursing.

"Hi, Yaya!" or "Mommy, out." Baby's words when we enter her room after she's awake from a nap.

"You are the most beautiful and kind mutha (mother) in the whole wide world." Evelyn says something along these lines when she crawls into bed with me first thing in the morning while I am still terribly drowsy. Her voice is always low and soothing, and I pull her little body near me for a warm cuddle.

"Where's Henry?" Henry kept taking off on us at a farm outing this weekend. My brother was with us, and the three of us adults could not keep close tabs on our wild man. He is busy, curious, and fast. At one point he hopped off of the wooden platform and attempted to climb onto a pony before the school girl could even help him. He was the definition of big shot, and he got his full $3 of enjoyment out of his figure eight trip through the field while riding the slow pony.

"AHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!" Uncle Anthony handed Olivia a paper bag of animal feed while she was inside a pen of goats, and she got pressed up against the fence by seven hungy ones. One put his front hooves on her chest, and she started screaming for help. She was quite terrified.