"I love my house. I love my nest. In all the world, my nest is best!" - P.D. Eastman
Kids Say the Darndest Things
"You are the Best Mom in the whole...wide...county." - Hayden 7/2012
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"I don't know what to play. I am just so into talking right now." - Davis 7/2012
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"Kindergarten was so lame! We didn't even do times...Like 3 times 10." - Davis 7/2012
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"Mom, Can you take a picture of me sliding into first base and then we can make a poster out of it on posterdog.com" - Davis 5/2012, still a walking advertisement
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"Spicy on my tongue...Mmmmm the sweet smell of success" - Ryan 5/2012 after making home made salsa
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"Our house is in danger. There's a poisonous monarch butterfly stalking it." - Hayden 4/2012
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"What's for dinner, chicken winner?" - Davis 1/2012
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"Dad, what did cars look like when you were alive?" Hayden 1/2012
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"You are nicer than the average mom." - Hayden 1/2012
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"It smells like toots, but it tastes SO good. " - Davis 12/2011 on eggnog.
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"Can you download the new fruit ninja. It's off the hook!" - Hayden 11/2011
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"Pregnant people don't have an innie or an outie, they have a both-ie." Davis 10/2011, regarding different types of belly buttons.
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"I think he moved to an urban area." - Hayden 9/2011, regarding one of his friends that moved away
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"Yuck! There's NO WAY I'm eating fried Oprah tonight." -Hayden 8/2011
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"Mom, are we allowed to say especially?" - Davis 8/2011 trying to figure out which words are off limits.
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"My teacher said I am the talking-est kid in the class." - Davis 7/2011
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"Someday can Hayden and I have a midnight snack?" - Davis 7/2011
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"Mom, I think you should tell us to stop watching Nick at Night because it is inappropriate." - Hayden 5/2011 enforcing his own rules.
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"I'm allergic to buttons." - Davis, 5/2011 on why he shouldn't be forced to get dressed up Easter Sunday.
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"Chill babe! Chill!" - Davis, 5/2011 (obviously picked up from his dad)
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"Can I borrow your phone, My Lady?" - Davis, 5/2011 (no idea where he picked this one up)
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"We don't like rats, that's why we have a vege-terrier." - Davis 3/2011 on why we have a terrier known for killing rodents.
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"I have a thought for your penny." - Davis 3/2011
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"Mom, what's your iTunes password...I promise I won't remember it." - Hayden, 3/2011
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"It's a Gimmick Davis!" -Hayden, 2/2011, picking up something he heard his dad say after an infomercial.
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"We made a deal. If Davis really appreciates me today, he can sleep in my bedroom tonight." - Hayden, 2/2011
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"Yesterday was Groundhog Day?!? Oh No! We didn't celebrate." - Hayden 2/2011
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"He JUST said it! TWICE!" - Davis, 2/2011, referring to the 'Never Say Never' song by Justin Bieber.
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“When Blake turns three, can we start calling tennis shoes tennies again like we did when I was three?” – Hayden 1/2011
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“I think Blake is going to be an archeologist when he is older…because he loves to look at stuff.” – Hayden 1/2011
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"No really. I am seriously!" -Davis 1/2011 ongoing.
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"She has hair that covers her ears and an oval face." - Davis, 12/2010, describing his friend Paige from school to me.
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"Davis...dude...just because you heard it on Garfield doesn't mean you should repeat it. Dogs do have brains." - Hayden, 12/2010
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"If Blake fights me when he grows up I will take it easy on him." - Davis, 12/2010
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"The only thing I don't like about meatloaf is the meat." - Hayden 11/2010
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"Like Billy always said, 'It ain't clean unless it's OXY CLEAN." - Davis 11/2010 (completely out of the blue), proving once again that he watches entirely too much TV.
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"Ugh! Davis! You were talking too loud. I couldn't hear if batteries were included." - Hayden 10/2010, visibly upset that his brother was talking too loud through the end of a toy commercial.
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"Look at the bright side. There is a bear behind you." - Davis 10/2010
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"Oh No! We're Doomed." -Davis 9/2010
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"We are soooo going to be dead meat when Dad sees this." -Davis 9/2010, referring to the silly string he had squirted all over the driveway.
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"Dad, you're the best Dad...it's like you're my servant." - Hayden 9/2010
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"Your husband is really good at Angry Birds." -Hayden 8/2010 to me, on Jeff's Angry Birds game playing skills.
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"Take That! Or shall I say TAKE THIS!" - Hayden 8/2010 talking to his Nintendo DS.
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"I've been DYING for a new flusher." - Davis' response 8/2010 after seeing that Jeff installed a new handle on our toilet.
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"Let me try something. I don't know if it will work, but I will GUARANTEE that it MIGHT work." - Hayden 8/2010 trying a new trick out.
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"Hayden, I love it when you cheat." - Davis, 7/2010, showing his gratitude of having an older brother in summer camp who has learned how to cheat on the Nintendo DS. Just one of the many benefits of being a little brother.
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"Hey, I have an idea. You guys should make a puppet show ABOUT ME!" - Davis, 7/2010
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"Dad, will you coffee me and be a coffee cat." -Davis, 7/2010
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"I am the KING of burping and my mouth is my crown." - Davis ongoing 4/2010, making his parents oh-so-proud.
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"I say goodbye in my head." - Hayden 2/2010 after being questioned why he doesn't respond to our goodbyes when dropped off at school.
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"O.M.G! Look at that truck over there" - Hayden 5/2010 after watching one too many episodes of iCarly.
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"Chop Chop Lollipop!" - Davis 5/2010
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"Gotta Go Buffalo!" - Davis 5/2010
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"Mom, will you be C3PO and smell RyRy's bottom." -Peyton 4/2010 suggesting that his brother had a ripe diaper.
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"Moooommm, Hayden just punched me on the toe." - Davis 3/2010 tattle-telling.
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"Mom, you know on Fox News, they never toot. They don't toot on Fox News or Bill O'Reilly." - Peyton 3/2010
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"Didn't Santa hear me? I said a REAL magic wand." -Hayden 1/2010 vocalizing his disappointment in his not so magic wand.
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"Awesome! How did that jet make those stretch marks in the sky?" - Davis 1/2010, commenting on a jet contrail.
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"I've got it! How about whoever is four gets to play with that." - Davis 1/2010, coming up with a solution to the age old problem of sharing.
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"Maybe the Not Loose Tooth Fairy will come." - Hayden 1/2010 hoping and wishing that a second tooth fairy exists after I inform him that the tooth fairy will not be visiting us just because he is growing his six year molars.
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"When I grow up, I want to be a hot dog maker." - Hayden 12/2009 exclaiming his career aspirations as he eats his hot dog.
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"I THOUGHT WE HAD A DEAL HAYDEN!" - Davis, 12/2009, upset when the deal fell through.
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"On stay at home days, I don't like to wear clothes." - Davis 12/2009
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"Why don't you guys put me in yoga?" - Hayden's suggestion 12/2009 after overhearing me tell Jeff that we should put him in gymnastics.
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"Mom, you are a big, pretty, princess." - Davis 12/2009 complimenting me and simultaneously motivating me to diet.
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"We are not twins because I am four and Hayden is three and three...SIX...so we are not twins." - Davis 11/2009 stating the obvious in a round about way.
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"Peyton and Ryan are twins, but they say they're not." - Hayden 11/2009 commenting on the resemblance between his cousins Peyton and Ryan.
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"Duh! She's a mammal, so she will keep herself warm." -Hayden 10/2009 arguing with me over why we should put the dog outside after I said it was too cold
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"I will stop when you stop saying stop." - Davis 10/2009 antagonizing his brother by wrestling
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"I love Hayden. And I love Mom. And I love Dad. And I love myself." - Davis 10/2009, not even attempting to hide his narcissism
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"I really do love your squishy muscles Mom." - Hayden 10/2009
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"Can we put this popcicle the oven so it won't be so cold?" - Davis 9/2009
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"I love Taco Bell and Hayden and Dad and Mom." - Davis 9/2008
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"The sun is starting to sit down."-Davis 8/2009 commenting on dusk.
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"I love you so, so, so, so much...I love you this much (holding up his fingers the size of dime)."-Davis 8/2009 on how much he loves me.
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"Oh, I thought you guys had died."-Hayden 7/2009 casually mentioned upon our return from Mexico.
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"OK. Who do you want to be Davis? My servant? Then I will be your master. Now let's play." - Hayden 7/2009, recapping something he may have overheard me say to Jeff (Only kidding! I have no idea where he heard it...)
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"How many more days will you and mom live?" - Hayden 7/2009 most likely overestimating how many transformers he could buy with the inheritance Jeff and I could potentially leave behind
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"I want to go back to Davis, Wahoma" - Davis 7/2009
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"Only girls are invited to my birthday party."- Davis 6/2009 already a ladies man.
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"Sometimes when we want to save time at school, instead of saying junior mints, we call them kid mints." -Hayden 6/2009
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"Six likes to do tricks! HEY! THAT RHYMES!" - Davis three times a day beginning 5/2009
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"I wish I was Davis because he likes bagels." - Hayden 5/2009
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"I might look tired, but I'm just exhaust." -Hayden 5/2009
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"I like you just the way you are mom. Except, will you cut your hair because it looks kind of weird." -Hayden giving yet another kind compliment. 3/2009
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"But I am HAY-VING!" Davis' counter anytime he is told that he is not BEhaving. Ongoing, beginning 3/2009
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"I like Dad because he is the strongest. And I like Mom because she is the loveliest. And I like Davis because he is the funniest. And me? I'm the monkey-ist." Hayden, announcing the family strengths. 3/14/09
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"We are going hunting for spinach and food and stuff." -Hayden "hunting" with Davis. 2/7/09
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"You can have all the fun you want to, but don’t break the windows, because that would be weird." - Hayden explaining the rules of the house to his guest. 1/9/09
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“Mom, Thank you for growing Davis in your tummy…when you had an enormous tummy.” – Hayden showing gratitiude for his brother, I guess. 11/20/08
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"I will buy you some dimples like mine." - Davis, after I told him how much I wish I had his cute, single dimple, 11/2008
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"You talk to Dad. I am not a very good talker-inner." - Hayden and I strategizing on how to talk Dad into going out to dinner, 11/2008
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"Mom, you're lovely...and Dad...he's super cool. He rocks." - Hayden 11/2008
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"I was talking to my brain." -Hayden ongoing when he is overheard talking back or saying something rude.
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"Mom, you smell good. Davis, SMELL MOM. She smells GOOD." - Hayden 9/2008, in a tone of complete SHOCK after smelling my fruity bubble gum.
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"The Earth is like a planet, but it's not. When you get bigger Davis, I am going to take you to outer space." - Hayden, 9/2008
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“Mom, Did you tell Davis that the birthday boy gets to do whatever they want?” – Hayden trying to convince Davis that he didn’t have to share since it was his birthday. 10/14/08
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“Prolly God will take care of me” – Davis being a bit dramatic, but assuring me that everything will be okay after one of his frequent bloody noses. 9/2008
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"We could just make some money. I would color it green and write on it with a black marker." -Hayden already solving one of life's most challenging issues, 7/2008
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"When I'm not a Superhero, they call me Joe Darket. Well, sometimes they call me Darket Joe and sometimes they call me Joe Darket." - Hayden, 5/2008
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“I’ll be in charge of the tornado. I’ll put my arm on Davis’ chest so he doesn’t fly out the window.” - Hayden, 4/2008
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"Mom, Please do me favor." - Davis, 4/2008
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"NO, I FOUR. YOU'RE TWO HEIDE!" Daivs, 4/2008, successfully pushing Hayden's buttons
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“Mom, I can hear the ocean in my hand.” –Hayden, 2/2008
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“Look outside Mommy. I got you a surprise. See the beautiful sunset. I got you that sunset for Valentime’s Day.” –Hayden, 2/14/08
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"My balance is back. Last day, I lost my balance, but I found it and put it back in my body." - Hayden, 1/08
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"You are a great chef mom." –Hayden, 1/08 as I heated his cheesy burrito in the microwave. His future wife can thank me later for setting the bar low.
"Angel, when we were at the fair, we saw a dog that was better than you." -Hayden 11/2007 discussing the dog show with our dog, Angel
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"When I am older, I am going to play football, soccer, baseball, basketball, fireball, and bolleyball." -Hayden, 10/2007
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“Davis, do you want a spanking?” (me, threatening him for throwing his food). “Yes Mom, he does. He said yes.” – Hayden, 8/2007 being ever so helpful
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“I can’t tell you or it won’t be a surprise” – Hayden, 8/2007 responding to Mimi’s question about what he wants for his birthday
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“I have a great idea…we can trade Reed for Davis” - Hayden, 8/2007 already thinking like a stock broker
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“I am so nervous about my homework” - Hayden, 6/2007. We have no idea what he was talking about, but he must have gotten a zero on whatever it was, because he wasn’t nervous enough to do anything. I have yet to see a progress report.
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"When I turn 4, I will eat toast with you and watch commercials" - Hayden, 8/2007 daydreaming of the benefits that come with aging
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“Dad, if you eat more, your head will touch the ceiling” – Hayden, 7/2007
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“I don’t need to go potty, I was just dancing” – Hayden’s excuse after doing an interesting dance, 7/2007
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"Can I buy Davis?" - Hayden's friend Sarah, 4/2007 (AKA: The President of the Davis Fan Club)
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"Quit mommy-ing me" - Hayden, 4/27/07 response when I asked him to quit kicking me as he was sitting in the grocery cart.
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"Actually, her name is Lisa Michelle" - Hayden, 4/2007 correcting his friend after she called me 'Hayden's Mom' for the 15th time
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"I like your buttons." - Hayden, 4/2007 during circle time when he was forced to give a compliment to the person sitting to his right.
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“What is Davis doing, in the heck….there’s no telling” – Hayden, 4/5/2007
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"If you don't eat, you will die" - Hayden 3/2007, ironically reminding Davis of the consequences of not eating
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“I knew you wouldn’t let me UP!” – Hayden’s response after he found out he could have more than one toy, 3/2007
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“Don’t worry about me, worry about yourself” – Hayden responding to me after I asked him if he needed a coat, 3/2/07
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"Sometimes I get candy, sometimes I don't" - Hayden ackowledging that he would not be getting any Valentines Day Candy since he didn't eat his dinner. 2/14/07
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"I just forgot one fing today…I forgot my listening ears" - Hayden 1/29/07
5 comments:
So cool! He does have tough shoes to fill.
Such a beautiful father's day card! You're good lisa!!!
What lucky little boys to have such a great Dad (and Mom).
Really cute card.
Jeff is an amazing Dad and especially gracious when 3 people bombard you on Father's Day! (Even though he is stingy with the marshmallows!)
Jeff your a great Dad :) !!! Happy Father's Day !!
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