The things they say

  • E R B

    That's how you spell yogurt, and baking powder, and just about everything else, when you are three years old! 🙂

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  • Why can’t they all be this helpful?

    Three year old Teresa is playing quietly on the floor with Augustine. She comes to me and says, "He is poopy. I put my hand in his diaper and he is poopy. Where are the wipes? I need to change him."

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  • Thought process of a five year old

      Conversation in van yesterday: Clare: I think we should sell our house and buy the one with the gold door. (a couple of houses down from ours) Mommy: Well, that's not something we can do now.  Clare: Then when I grow up and get married, I will buy it and live there. Mommy: That would be great.

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  • Delicious!

    Teresa, this morning at breakfast, said "I don't like my oatmeal. It is Delicious!" and then tonight, at dinner as she is throwing part of her chicken in the trash, "This piece is Delicious!". We are thinking she does not quite know what that word means! LOL!!!

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  • Instant gratification

    Clare, picking up a really old toy camera (you know the Fisher-Price ones with the "flash" on top?), takes a picture of Teresa and says "Wanna see it?" She turns the camera around to show the "picture". Then she says, "Wait while I load them on my laptop, then we can see better."

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  • Overheard: honeymoons and bedrest

    The girls come in from playing on this glorious autumn afternoon. Still wrapped up in their game they begin to share it with me. Elizabeth tells me she just got back from her honeymoon (she is 30, you know) and she went to Africa. Then Clare pipes in with "I just went on my honeymoon.

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  • Every third word

    So, Timmy, Augustine and I are running around earlier today and I am trying to put the stroller in the back of the van (I really need to give the van some cool name) and Timmy, up in the first row, starts talking to me. Of course, being about a mile away from him, I

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  • I wah breh’fes!!!!

    In the morning Teresa ( Lilac) comes down the stairs(usually after having gotten out of her crib by herself)and asks for her juice. She doesn't think about food until after one of her older sisters mentions breakfast. Then she remembers that she is starving. `I wah breh'fes!!! She is then fed up to three bowls

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  • Bear Cave

    Walking into my room this evening, I had to push a large box with laundry baskets stacked on top of it out of the way of the door. It looked to me like some sort of barricade. Then Little Red tells me, “That’s the Bear Cave so Sweet Em can’t get out while we are

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  • No rum

    “You are invited to an unknown tea party”, the invitation reads. “What is an unknown tea party?” I ask. “Well, it’s just secret, like up in the attic. There won’t be like any rum or anything.” states Belle. That’s a relief! LOL!

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