Apollo XIV, 15 months
{Well, my friends, we have made it to the very last day of voting. Soon A Baker's Dozen and Apollo XIV will either be the Top Big Family Blog…or the second best Big Family Blog. A sincere thank you to everyone who has voted for my blog, it has been a very close race. So here's my final plea: I have a lot of blog readers…if you're reading this now, please take the time to click over to Circle of Moms and vote for me. If each one of you takes the time to vote once today, I could move in to the lead.}
So, we're doing a major room shift, flip-flop kind of thing over here this weekend. And let me tell you, it's been a bit crazy. Photos will follow, I promise, but I've been far to busy (and things have been far too chaotic) for me to update as we go along. But in the midst of chaos, I have discovered on the my favorite scrapbooks..the one where I share those oh-so-funny things kids always seem to say..and alwayas at the worst possible moment. Mind if I share a few?
Here we go…
One evening during dinner when Judah was about four years old, we were discussing miracles and giving examples when Judah piped up with: "If Daddy said, 'Judah clear the table' and I said 'yes, Daddy' that would be a miracle!"
Just after Adalia turned seven we were at dinner joking with her Great Grandma about doing the dishes. Grandma said, "Adalia, you'd help me, wouldn't you?" to which she replied, "Well, I would Grandma, but you need to learn to do your own work!"
One day when Enoch was four, he bumped into me while running through the kitchen. Without a word to me he went into the dining room and said, "Hey, guys! I just bumped in to that pregnant lady in the kitchen."
And speaking of pregnancy…when I was eight months pregnant with Hezekiah, Kalina, age three, was in the bathroom with me. When she saw me get out of the tub she said, "Mama, you have the biggest bottom in the whole world!"
And who could ever forget the story of Kalina, age four, coming out of her bedroom one night scared because she heard a noise and thought it was a tornado…when I asked her where in the world she heard about tornados (since the Pacific Northwest isn't exactly noted for them) she replied, "When Daddy put us to bed he said it looked like a tornado had hit our bedroom!".
Umm…thanks, Honey.
Ah…I could go on and on. But I won't.
If you have a funny story from your of your little ones, I'd love to hear it!
I’m still voting for you! I like your blog SO much more than Christine Reed’s – I really hope you win. Good luck!
As for funny things children say, I loved the comment about the miracle, and also “that pregnant lady in the kitchen”! Too cute!
Hey Renee! I voted every.single.day for yoru blog but it wasn’t enough (as of yet…) sorry!!
More! I love them.
We’ve voted for you every day without fail:)
I can’t wait to see the new flipped house. I always enjoy seeing pictures of other “real” houses, you know, the ones that weren’t staged for photographs. Thanks for taking the time to blog your life. I’ve learned so much about parenting from you.
All of my funny kid quotes are on my blog, under the category “Small Talk Quotes.” I’d love to hear more from your kids!
Off to vote again.
Melissa
“guess what we live in a crack house” my 4 year olds new joke and he laughs a little evil laugh, I about die bc he tells everyone this, his new obsession is the couple cracks in the walls bc we had big trucks and tractors in the yard that made the house settle
When my son was 3ish, I caught him in the bathroom with the entire roll of tp unrolled on the floor around him. I asked him if all of the tp was on the floor what had he used to wipe his rear? He replied, “I used my imagination mommy!” Btw, he was HEAVY into Barney. Thanks, ya big purple dinosaur!
While examining an oak tree last fall…
Me: Do you know what animal especially likes acorns?
W, age 4: Dinosaurs.
W (age 4) and K (age 2) spent one afternoon climbing into a large box, scooting across the floor till they ran into a table, then tipping the box over and falling out.
Me: What are you guys doing?
W: We’re playing Titanic!
And then there’s this one, which was pure transcendence:
(Beside the lake)
K, almost 3: I’m gonna catch a dragonfly!
Me: How are you going to do that?
K: I have a super big stick! (waves 4-foot-long stick)
(Seconds later, a dragonfly lands on his stick, then flies away)
K: I caught one!
He bragged about the rest of the day.
One time at the fair, I left my then two year old in her stroller as I walked two steps away to look at a display. When I started pushing the stroller again, she looked up at me and shouted, “WHO ARE YOU???”
And Saturday while visiting a farm, my three year old saw a mama pig and piglets and shouted, “Mom! I see the pig’s (insert word for boy part here!)”
The other day I was putting away laundry and discovered my linen closet was a complete and utter mess. I went downstairs to ask my husband why, my exact words were “who put towels away? It’s looks like deranged chimps did it” he said “That would be our daughters” and my youngest son(5) was walking by and wisely nodded his head and said “that makes sense” we all cracked up. That kid can be really funny. Of course this is the same little boy that has caused me to say things like “Son, don’t lick the driveway!” and “Don’t do that, not everyone wants to see your penis!” So, the good with the embarrassing.
I hope it’s ok that I’ve been voting using 4 different IP addresses (PC/Laptop/Phone/Netbook).
I was talking to some eastern European kids a few months ago while curating at the Dublin ‘Leprechaun’ museum. They got really scared when I was talking about the end of the rainbow. They point blank refused to go into the simulated ‘Rainbow room’. Turns out that in Eastern European cultures, children believe that boys get turned into girls at the end of the rainbow (and vice versa).
Voted! Hoping you win!!!!
My children are full of hilarious things, but we have been the type of parents who answer all questions (when possible) within our home, and explain that some things are private and let other kids learn from their parents-not other children. I think one of our funniest things is, because we raised goats and chickens for years our kids think that any act of… ahem marital bedroom behavior… is either called breeding or mating. So the questions that come up around here are things like, do mamas get pregnant when they breed with their mate just like goats do? My mother thinks its both funny and terrible that they truly call it breeding and mating.
Only 64 votes to take the lead!
I got a chuckle out of your cute kid quotes.
My 5 yr old girl recently told her Daddy, “I can run faster than Mommy. Mommy doesn’t run, except when she has to go to the bathroom.”
My son is 7, deaf, and has had cochlear implants for 2 years. The other day he pointed out a fossil and I told him it was a trilobite. “Oh, Mommy, I don’t like him. He’s mean. He’s trying to bite me!”
Love your blog! Found you through the voting and have enjoyed getting to know your family and style over the past few weeks. My girls and I have been reading your book recommendations (Keeping Corner and Bound, already read and loved A Single Shard, so any books listed with those would be must-reads for our family).
This morning, I was nursing my baby boy as my 3 year old hung out with us on the bed. She looked at my nipple and said, “This looks like cow poop.”
Um. Okay. I don’t think she’s ever even SEEN cow poop!
Love your site! Thanks for sharing your kiddos’ bright and funny stuff.