Erika, age 12, December 31, 2009"I'm never going to wear makeup again."
We'll see how long that lasts.
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Erika: I can't find my glasses! I've looked everywhere!
Us: Let us help.
Hours later with no success.....
Girls: Mom! Dad! Can we watch a movie?
Mom and Dad: Yes.
Five minutes later...
Girls: WE CAN'T GET THE TAPE IN! IT'S JAMMED!
Dad (fiddling with it for five minutes): I don't know what's wrong with this thing. The tape won't go in.
Five minutes later....
Daddy: ERRRRRRRIKA......what are your glasses doing INSIDE THE VCR????
Erika: I don't know! I don't know! I didn't put them there!
Daddy: Did you put them there Alex?
Alexandra: No.
Ten minutes later.....
Alexandra: Okay. Yes. I did put them there. I wanted to play at trick on Erika. (ages 10 and 11)
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Me: I have a lot of papers to grade. I don't know how I am ever going to get them done.
Alexandra (age 9): My teacher has to grade lots of papers. She has forty!
Me: Teachers have to do so much work! I don't know where they get the energy."
Alexandra: "They get it from food when they eat!"
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The geese had bands around their legs. "Oh!" I said, pointing to one male. "He has a band around his leg. Do you know what that means?" I asked the girls.
"Yes," said Erika, nine at the time. "That's for social security." (Erika, age 9)
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Daddy was holding Alexandra's stuffed bunny rabbit, and she wanted it back. Daddy pouted and held it close to his chest, pretending he didn't want to give it up. "Don't worry, Daddy," she said. "You have ME!" (age 7 at the time)
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Erika, age nine at the time: "Some people say that butterflies are the souls of people."
What a lovely thought! (Erika, age 9)
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"Alexandra, take chill pill," I said.
"A chill pill? Is that like amoxicillin?"
(age 8)
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After watching the movie and listening to music from Phantom of the Opera: "The Phantom should watch Hunchback of Notre Dame. That would make him feel better. Quasimotto looked ugly, too, but his friends loved him and helped him and he didn't hate anyone. "
They might not have said this had they read the original book, but.....they have the right idea, don't they? (ages 9 and 10)
__________________________________Erika shouting at the bus stop: "Bye Mom! Love you! Don't let Shiba eat cat puke today!"
I'm going to get her for that. (age 10)
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Erika to her teacher at the teacher's conference: "Ms. M. You have bed head!"
After giving Erika my "look" : "It's okay. Sometimes I have bedhead too."
We're still working on those social skills. (age 10)
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Erika (age 10): "I know how you met Daddy."
Mom: "How?"
Erika: "On e-Harmony.com"
Pause. Mom: (after fits of laughter, because it's just not the same world it used to be) "Well, you're kind of right. Except it was Yahoo Personals."
Kind of makes me wonder how THEY will meet their future loves.
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At three years old, Erika was accustomed to a baby gate across her door, giving her time to play quietly before she took a nap in her toddler bed.
One day, I decided to see if she would nap without the gate.
"Mommy!" I heard, as I walked down the hall.
"What honey?"
"I can't sleep without my nap-time cage!"
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Something to picture:
Alexandra, age ten, riding on her bike, holding a dead beaver by its tail.
"I wanted to bring it home to bury it."
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Erika, age 12, talking to Sallie, the dog, who apparently felt her be-hind wasn't as clean as it could be: "Sallie--stop butt surfing!"
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Alexandra, age 11, upon seeing a wig: "That thing freaks me out. I'M KEEPING AN EYE ON YOU, WIG!"
19 comments:
Hi, Katherine -
This is a great idea - to have different blogs for different blog "genres". I'll be sure to come and visit you at this address, too.
Lol...from the mouth of babes! I love it! The social security bracelet...too funny!
Chill pills reminds me of an associate that said his 3 year old hollered out before leaving the doctors' office 'Daddy, don't forget to ask the doctor about Lunesta.' I know, too much TV!
LOL That is scary when kids know the names of meds being marketed to adults!
Thanks for visiting.
I wanted to add one of my quotes because my kids repeat them back to me when they wish to be cute.
"Okay, never mind," I say, after interrupting their play. "Carry on with childhood."
....which Erika has adapted to, "Okay, carry on with adulthood," after she has interrupted a conversation.
Erika, age 13 with a random sense of humor: "Your mother is a cabbage."
Alexandra at age 11 seems to be obsessed with carrots.
Alex sings:
"I've got a feeling
BOO-HOO
that my carrot is old and moldy."
(Remember that old song by Black Eyed Peas, "I've got a feeling"? That's the tune she uses.)
Erika's new word obsession: Squirrels. She interjects it whenever she has nothing important to say but is bored. Problem is, now I say it! (she's 13)
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Alexandra (12) picked up a phrase from the Junie B. Jones series she read in 1st grade: "That's what." She adds it to the end of sentences. "Because I have to do my homework, that's what." But she isn't answering anyone's question.
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David and I get ready for a "date" (which, by the way, already freaks the kids out). He is wearing a tie and jacket. "My husband is so hot!" I say.
"Ewwwwww!" says Erika.
"Mom!" says Alex. "That is SO inappropriate!"
Mom: "Alex, can you stay 12 forever?"
Alex: "I'll try."
So Alexandra has started to part her long hair on the side...except it's not quite on the side and the front section ends up in the middle, leaving a crooked path across her head. I tell her this and volunteer to fix it.
"Mom," she says. "Who cares? It's not like the FBI is going to take a picture of the top of my head!"
(She's 12.)
Alexandra, age 13:
"How do you spell ADHD?"
I'm very, very worried.
Alex (13)had a nosebleed for several days.
"Alex, have you put the saline and Vicks in your nose? The doctor said you have to keep doing that to keep it moist."
"Mom! My nose is bleeding. How much more moist does he want it?"
Erika applies for an ID from the DMV. On the form, is asks if you want to be an organ donor.
"Erika, do you want to be an organ donor?"
"Um. No. I think that would hurt."
"Erika...(I'm laughing my ass off now)...your organs get donated when you DIE!"
Erika, while winterizing the deck:
"If this stuff is flammable, why are we putting it on the deck?"
(Great question!)
Erika while roasting marshmallows: "These marshmallows are like men. The longer they stay, the more wrinkly they get."
"Alex, when are you going to be done with your homework?"
"In a few minutes."
"When are you going to be done being cute?"
"When I'm fifty."
On a related note:
"Alex, this is a horrible song!"
"You just think that because you're from the 1980's."
Erika regarding VA state mandated tests (Standards of Learning or SOLs):
"We looked dumb to the rest of the world to begin with, but at least 90% passed. With this new format, only 40% passed. Now we look even dumber!"
Cosmo the cat ran away and was missing for several days. Erika came back from a search, muddier than an explorer. Alex to Erika: "We're looking for a cat, not an earthworm."
Totally bickering teen girls irritating the crap out of their mother. Response from Alex?
"We're not arguing. We're debating."
Alex:
Kinda mean. Kindamean. Is that like Dramamine?
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