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Sunday, December 19th, 2010“Mom, can I sleep on the couch on Christmas night?” ~ Annie “Sure, Annie.” ~ Mommy “Yeah, Mom said I can sleep on the couch and wait for Santa!” ~ Annie “What?!?! I want to too. Can I Mom?” ~ Kimberly and Mimi in unison “Sure you can sleep on the couch on Christmas night, [...]
A Change is in Order
Saturday, October 30th, 2010“Mom can I paint Paul’s nail?” ~ Mimi “No, not today.” ~ Mommy (I don’t have a problem with him having his nails painted but since tomorrow is Halloween I thought it would be good not to have them done today in pink.) “Yeah, not today. We have to wait until I am a girl.” [...]
12 day blues
Sunday, October 17th, 2010“Tomorrow is my birthday.” ~ Kimberly “She is just saying that to make me sad.” ~ Annie Anytime Kimberly would mention her rapidly approaching birthday Annie would amp up the drama. She claimed that the only reason Kimberly would mention her birthday was to rub it in that Annie wasn’t having a birthday until 12 [...]
All Fun and Games
Tuesday, August 24th, 2010“Paul where is Daddy?” ~ Mommy “He’s at work.” ~ Paul “What is he doing at work?” ~ Mommy “He is having a tea party.” ~ Paul
The utmost love
Tuesday, August 17th, 2010“I can’t aleive you.” ~ Paul Paul says this all the time. He says I love you and then he says “I can’t believe you.” His amazement of the love he has for us amazes me.
Gluten Please
Tuesday, June 8th, 2010“I want a bite of gluten!” ~ Paul while crying his eyes out. *repeat over and over And to think it is only day 3! UGH! First time to the grocery with not letting him have a donut while I shop. He and the sisters were not happy. Some things just break your heart.
Sometimes you can’t
Tuesday, January 12th, 2010“Papa, I know you like this dress, but I just can’t afford it!” ~ Annie Annie told Papa this today when we were shopping. She was trying on a ton of items. This particular dress was $26 and I had said nothing over $20. I told her it was too expensive and she would have [...]
The Boss
Tuesday, January 5th, 2010“Book me Dad” ~ Paul Paul said this to Bill tonight to let him know he wanted to read to him. The boy certainly knows how to communicate what he needs.
My big boy
Tuesday, December 29th, 2009“No Mom, I can do it!” ~ Paul Paul says this to me each time I try to lift him into his crib. He likes to climb up and get in by himself. My boy is so grown up!
Lost in Translation
Friday, November 20th, 2009“Kimberly is a little-miss-know-it- all.” ~ Mommy “No I am not, sometimes I say yes!” ~ Kimmie Well, I guess she told me! Obviously the translation got lost and I she felt I was saying little did she know that her response proved my point.
Surprised him
Friday, November 20th, 2009“Kids don’t normally say “hi” to me.” ~ Older gentleman at Dunkin Donuts This morning after dropping the older girls off at school Mimi, Paul and I went to get donuts. We were standing in line waiting for our turn and Mimi and Paul befriended the man behind me. I didn’t turn around to talk [...]
Water works
Thursday, November 5th, 2009“Dad Kimmie and Mimi are splashing me!” ~ Annie “That’s fine since you are all supposed to be showering!” ~ Bill Oh the drama. How they can turn super simple things into the most dramatic never ceases to amaze me.
Look who’s joking now!
Wednesday, October 14th, 2009“Knock knock.” ~ Paul “Who’s there?” ~ Everyone else “That” ~ Paul “That who?” ~ Everyone else “Knock knock.” ~ Paul And the crowd goes wild. Seriously his sisters love this kid. His knock knock joke makes them bust up and they will go round and round in circles for hours on end. Paul loves [...]
The Film Critic
Sunday, October 4th, 2009“Every kid movie has a happy ending. Because they don’t want us to be scared.” — Kimberly
It’s the little things
Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009“I got to stand next to a judge today!” ~Annie Annie exclaimed this today after the picture at Paul’s court hearing. She also did a little fist pumping at how cool it was. It made everyone in the courtroom laugh. She is just so precious and life really is all all about the little things.
Big pile of goo
Saturday, August 29th, 2009“Bye-bye Momma.” ~ Paul He said this after I tucked him in tonight as I was walking out his door. My heart melted. Paul says so few words and he really never discusses me since I am always here. It was so sweet to hear him say my name and bid me farewell.
Knowing Her, Probably
Tuesday, August 25th, 2009“Let’s play Kewlopolis. You know, with horses.” — Annie “Kewlopolis? Is that all you think of?” — Kimberly Overheard in the pool as they were trying to decide what to do after the sustained spinning contest was over. “Kewlopolis” is some Saturday morning cartoon bloc; they watched “Horseland” this weekend and apparently Annie was quite [...]
Never Too Early
Monday, August 24th, 2009“Do rock stars have to go to college?” — Kimberly This is the latest in a long series of career planning discussions we’ve had with Kimberly. After I answered in the negative, Kimberly responded incredulously with “So they just make up their own songs?” This was, to my knowledge, the first career choice she had [...]
Missing you
Wednesday, August 5th, 2009“I can’t believe you go to school in 20 days.” ~ Mommy “I won’t miss you Mom.” ~ Madeline “Well I am going to miss you while you are at preschool.” ~ Mommy “I won’t! I won’t be gone that long Mom.” ~ Madeline practically rolling her eyes at me What she doesn’t understand is [...]
Punch Line
Wednesday, August 5th, 2009“Why is 7 afraid of 9?” ~ Kimberly No response from all members of the van since we have heard this joke before and the Barenaked Ladies song. “. . . because 9 ate(8) 7.” ~ Kimberly I have explained to them millions of times that the joke only works if you say it correctly. [...]
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