First I wanted to let you know who each of my kids are with their internent names. They choose their own names.
This is Alice: She is the one in the red jacket and blue pants. :)
This is Luke:
This is Chlorine: I asked her why she choose that name and she said that it is a beautiful girls name if you don't think about the stuff in the pool.
I have been keeping notes on little things the kids say that I find funny. Here are a few:
Alice: I only have to make a poster for homework. It’s not due for a week so I have time. It’s only a poster.
The details of the poster:
· One page report on the Great Depression and World War II in Utah.
· A timeline including important events and/or people
· Artifacts from that time period
· Pictures from the same time period
· Map showing everything (mines, mountain, cities…..everything) Also all natural resources during that time period.
· Prepare a 3 min oral report on what you have learned.
“IT’S JUST A POSTER!!!!!!”
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Luke: “Mom, I have made a commitment to myself.” “I am going to watch just a little bit of TV on the weekends and on the weekdays I am going to………watch a little bit of TV.”
Mom: so what changed?
Luke: nothing but now I have made a commitment.
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Chlorine: Alice and her friends were talking and giggling about boys. Chlorine leans over to me and says, “they grow up so fast, don’t they?”
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Chlorine: I had a bad dream
Mom: Really what was it about.
Chlorine: Me and Luke took a trip to the moon. We missed the balloon that was suppose to pick us up. We didn’t have enough air in our tubes. It was scary.
Mom: I am sorry, it is a good thing you don’t have any trips to the moon anytime soon.
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Mom: Son, if you could pick anywhere in the world to serve your mission where would you pick.
After some time to think about it…….
Luke: I want to serve in Kansas.
Mom: Kansas, why there?
Luke: because they have cows.
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Chlorine signing in the bathroom, “I am free, free falling.”
Chlorine - “my favorite veggie is the white broccoli.”
Chlorine – “Mom, if you wore those clothes on What Not to Wear, they would take them away.”
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I needed to take the scouts on a field trip. The scouts were in the back talking…..so I just listened. (ok so this wasn't any of my kids, but still made me laugh)
Webelos (speaking with intensity): In Japan they use just chop sticks and a spoon to eat. They eat sticky rice and if we stop shipping them sticky rice they would starve because they only can eat with chop sticks.
ME: I am laughing a little bit to myself.
Webelos: (even more intense) All the rice fields are here in the US and we want to stop sending them sticky rice but we can’t because they will starve!
ME: I had to butt in at this point, “So you don’t think they have rice fields in Japan.”
Webelos: No they only have them here in the US.
ME: So you don’t think they have rice fields in Korea? Or even China?
Webelos: No
ME: “ Well they do have rice fields in these places, I’ve seen them.”
Webelos: Silence.
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Chlorine – “mom, when I was 3 I was sssooooo cute and then I turned 4 and now I look like this."
Mom – And you are still sssooooo cute.
Chlorine – “Yeah, I am, but I liked my chubby cheeks when I was a little girl."
