Tuesday, July 27, 2010

Family Quips, Quotes and Quirks



Me: Faith, do you want a hot turkey roll up?
Faith: No, I just want cold turkey.
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One Father's Day weekend--
Me: Faith, don't forget Father's Day is tomorrow and hug Daddy.
Faith: Okay...so when's Kids Day?
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I came home yesterday from school and obviously they were reviewing LEFT and RIGHT. I was a little disheartened to find an "L" written on her right hand and the "R" written on her left hand. I asked her, "Faith, do you know that's wrong?" She said, "Yes, the teacher messed up."
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During the Christmas season--
Faith: Mommy, is it Easter again?
Me: No, Faith, it's time for Christmas now.
Faith: But it's raining hard again.
Me: Oh...that's a NOReaster, Faith.
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So I'm reviewing musical notes with Faith and she properly identifies the quarter note, half note and whole note. I draw a dotted half-note and ask her what that one is. She said, "that's a half-note with a mole."
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Read the Christmas story to the kids as I tucked them in. As Faith was falling asleep, she said, "Mommy, why was Jesus born on the table?" I said, "no, Faith, he was born in a stable." Then she said, "oh" and fell asleep.
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While planning the family Christmas bruch, I was reminded of how last year I mistakenly put mimosa in Faith’s sippy cup. She drank the whole thing and said, “Mommy, can I have more juice?”
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I was holding Nick in one arm and feeding him mac 'n cheese in the other when he laid a big cheesy kiss on my cheek. "Eww" and "aww" at the same time!


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I dusted off and showed Dave our 2009 resolutions. He said, "Hey, these are still good. Just scratch off 2009 and write 2010 at the top since we didn't do any of them anyway."

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Sign of the times: "Mommy, how do you spell dot-com?"

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We did prints of Nicky's hands and feet for his one year birthday while he was sleeping. We were doing pretty good until Dave sat in the paint. So we managed to get a butt print of Dave as well. Too bad no one was documenting this on video.

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Nicky at 2 1/2: Nicky took his hacky sack ball and threw it at me hitting me right between my eyes. As I leaned over in pain, Nicky said, "Mommy, catch!"

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