Kid Quotes 2011

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• Strawberry: "It doesn't feel like Christmas Eve: it's not even dark" (at noon).
• Apple: "How did Jesus get Santa Claus to celebrate his birthday?"
• Apple: "It doesn't really feel like Thanksgiving. There was supposed to be a turkey saying "cockadoodle doo" when you woke up."
• Strawberry: (after I had mentioned that I didn't like being referred to as the 'Bishop's daughter' when I was a kid): "Waaait, your dad was the Bishop? You have never told me that. I do not believe it. Really? You never ever told me that. I just can't picture it. I can't picture him as a bishop, just as a grandpa. Are you telling the truth?" She was laughing and talking like I had told her the craziest thing. So funny.
• Mango, after lunch, pointing to her room: "Naaaaaap!" She's trying to make up for all the trouble she gave me as a newborn. :)
• Mango, after I accidentally pinched her fingers in her car seat: "I so sorry, I so sorry!" She pronounces it "shah-eee" and it is so stinking cute. Love my munchkin.
• Apple: "Watching TV where they are playing games makes me think that this is a game and I don't know what living is." I need to get her into some philosophy classes. :)
• Apple: "Mom, did we go anywhere today?" Me: "Nope." Apple (eyes lighting up): "Then that means you were a stay-home mom today!"
• Apple: "How come your mom doesn't give you an allowance?"
• Apple (while eating an apple): "Mom, I bited through to the seeds! I'm the first person who has ever done that before!"
• Apple (during a discussion about whether or not boys can be ballerinas): "I shouldn't have laughed!" Me: "Why not?" Apple: "Because then you found out what I was thinking." Me: "But I want to know what you are thinking." Apple: "But then we get into this . . . conflamation!" I love that she made up a word that expressed what she was trying to say perfectly.
• Apple: "It kind of tastes like when my hands are dirty and I suck on my fingers" (while eating fries with malt vinegar).
• Strawberry: "Mom, do you want to know why I think you are an amazing mommy? Because when I ask you something, you always explain it to me really good because you want me to learn. I really love that." Wow. I don't think she could have said anything more validating.
• Apple: "I really like those kind of cars that don't have the top part." Me: "Like that convertible?" Apple: "Yes, but I also like that one over there." Me: "Oh, that's a Jeep." Apple: "Okay, then John can get a Jeep and I'll get a white convertible and then we can have both." Holy smokes! John moved away a year ago. She hadn't actually talked about him in a while, but she had proposed to him last spring. This girl is faithful.
• Strawberry: "We were playing with Apple's Barbie and pretending she had this disease where every time she heard the voice of a grown-up over age 20, she had to scream! And so we had to take her to a secret island where they could give her a surgery." Barbie's life is getting a little interesting of late.
• Strawberry: "It's kind of hard because everyone we learn about is a boy and we don't get to learn about girls." You're telling me, sister.
• Apple (wailing): "I don't want to talk to daddy on the computer. I want him to be here actually!" :( Missing daddy around here.
• Strawberry: "Mom, do I HAVE to go to Law School?" I have no idea where that came from. Kids are so random.
• Apple: "You shouldn't be tricking me! That doesn't make me be smarter!" (to Mom after I teased her that I had bought the wrong flavor of ice cream.)
• Me: "Why were you up so late last night?" Strawberry: "I got my head stuck in a book and I couldn't stop!"
• Strawberry: "I have apparently accomplished about Justin Bieber. I like him. A lot." (I love it when she uses big words incorrectly--stinking cute!)
• Apple: "I wonder why the water is coming from my eyes" (during the new Nanny McPhee--I cried too).
• Apple: "Mom, when I am older and you are up in heaven, can I have your bed?"
• Strawberry (during homework): "Mom, can you turn on a song?" Apple: "But then I won't be able to concentrate. . . on coloring." She takes coloring VERY seriously.
• Apple: "Mommy, will you read me the Toy Story book?" Me: "In a minute, after I finish reading the news." Apple: "News isn't important; children are important!"
• Strawberry: "My favorite boy singer is Dave Matthews and my favorite girl singer is Taylor Swift." Apple: "My favorite singers are mommy and daddy." Strawberry, "Oh, mine too, mine too! That's what I meant."
• Strawberry: "Mom, this is the greatest, most interesting, most best book I have ever read in my life. I'm not even done and I'm giving it 5 stars. All I want to do all day is read it. I don't want to eat or sleep or play or do anything else but read it. It is EXACTLY like my life!" (She's reading Beezus and Ramona. Love it.)