1/30 Ali: "This is appropriate for my eyes to see."
2/1 Logan: "My imagination showed it to me!"
2/5 Logan: "I can't take my bed to my cousins' house this summer-it won't fit in the car!-so can I take my campsite?" (Sleeping bag)
2/10 And...the house is SOLD! 4 days on the market, 3 showings, 2 offers, 1 very happy and thankful Eldredge famliy!
2/12 Ali: "Uncle JD's coming?! Is he bringing his new baby girl?"
Me: "No, she's still in Aunty Lianna's belly."
Ali: "Oh, I know, she's still up in Heaven!"
2/21 Grandma and Grandpa came to visit last weekend. Ali saw Grandma sleeping and said, "Grandma, you look like a turtle!"
2/25 Logan: "I'm cold like an ice skater!"
2/26 Ali: "That light hurts my eyes. It's spikey light."
2/28 There is a man in our ward who looks a lot like a certain Jolly Man. When Ali and Logan see them, they whisper and point. Whenever Eli sees him, he very loudly says, "Hi Santa!" over and over, even if he happens to see him during Sacrament meeting:)
3/2 Ali: "Kisses have special powers."
3/4 Logan: "Mom, I love you because you do everything."
3/14 Me: "Eli sit down and eat!"
Eli: "NO! (pointing his finger) TIMEOUT!" (As in "Mom you go on timeout!")
3/15 Ali and Logan are searching our house for Leeper-Clowns, which sounds much creepier than if they were looking for Leprechauns...
3/22 Logan: "Now I have legos like Ethan. He's my cousin. I like him."
3/25 Ali: "Logan, you need to settle down, please."
3/26 Jason: "Then men who killed Jesus were wicked; they weren't keeping the commandments."
Ali: "Did they throw them away?"
4/2 Ali: "Oh! I know what germs are--it's like my cousin Germy!"
4/10 Me to Eli: "Hi, sweetheart/buddy/etc"
Eli: "NO! I Eli!"
4/18 Ali: "Girls shave their legs so their legs don't grow beards."
4/20 Logan: "Our new neighbors have a jump-o-lean!"
4/22 We pull up to our new ward building yesterday and Ali said, "Alright, guys, we don't know anyone here, so everyone make friends, OK!"
4/29 Eli: "My (I) sleep in a cage!"
5/1 Logan: "Look at my tower--it looks like Pisa!"
5/3 Ali: "Heavenly Father hears my prayers, even when I talk softly. He's magic just like Santa!"
5/6 Logan is a little worried about the "smoke protectors" going off in the night because of a fire.
5/8 Ali: "After missionaries come home they turn into Humans again."
5/19 Ali: "I want to be a mermaid when I grow up."
Logan: "There are no mermaid schools in the whole entire country. Sorry, Ali."
5/29 Me: "I need you to try to remember and follow the rules."
Logan: "But it's hard. It makes my head dizzy."
5/31 Me: "What color is Daddy's shirt?"
Eli: "Black!"
Me: "What color is your shirt?"
(It was orange) Eli: "Umm...not black!"
6/9 Eli: "What's that beep?"
Me: "The Microwave."
Eli: "Oh, the crowave."
Me: "No, the MI-crowave."
Eli: "Yeah, YOUR crowave, not Daddy's crowave."
7/9 Me: "Logan, what was your favorite part of vacation?"
Logan: "Coming home."
7/10 Logan: "It's in my soupcase (suitcase)."
7/11 Eli: "I want to ride my mycycle."
7/15 I am so proud of Eli for doing great wearing what he calls his "wonderwear" underwear)!
7/17 Ali: "Look, it's a graveyard. That's where people go to die."
7/18 Ali: "My mind keeps talking all day long."
7/22 Logan: "Do you only take showers?"
Me: "Sometimes I take a bath to relax."
Logan: "Moms can't relax!"
7/24 Me: "Their family has five kids."
Logan:" It's impossible to have that many kids!"
Me: "Grandma and Grandpa Quillen have six kids, you know."
Logan: "What?! That's totally impossible!"
7/25 (Eli whining and me ignoring him):" Mommy, mommy, mommy..."
Jason: "What Eli?"
Eli: "I was talking to Mommy, Daddy!"
7/31 Logan: "When will we be there?"
Eli: "Forty-five! Sunday!" (he was just blurting out random unit of time answers)
8/6 Ali: "Mommy, I don't like my hair like this! You can see my pokey ears and I don't like them!"
8/10 Ali: "When are Grandma and Grandpa going to have kids?" (with the tone of voice that says "geesh, what are they waiting for?")
8/14 Logan: "Mom, have you ever heard of apostles?"
Me: (realizing that's probably not the word he means, thinking back over what the TV show he was watching was about) "You mean fossils?"
Logan: "Yes! Some are three HUNDRED years old!"
8/16 Ali's new oft-repeated phrase is "You're the best Mom ever," which I admit to liking a lot more than Logan's new oft-repeated phrase of, "You don't love me any more!"
8/18 I upset Ali and Logan yet again by telling them they would not be marrying each other someday (we have this conversation often) and reiterated that they would marry some other person they will meet some day in the future. So Ali says, "So, I'll be walking around nice and clean and some boy will come up and say, 'Do you want to get married?' and I'll say, 'Sure.'"
8/24 Logan:" Mom, I didn't like sleeping in my cousin Amanda's room. Pink just isn't my color."
8/27 Me: "That car is parked."
Eli: "Like Peter Parked!" (ie-Peter Parker)
8/31 The moment your five-year-olds realize the stories we've been reading in the Book of Mormon their whole lives are stories about things that really happened: Priceless. The fact that they think these things happened "a really long time ago-like when you (Mom and Dad) were babies": not so priceless:)
9/6 Eli: "Mommy, you are my best friend!"
9/10 I told Ali we were going mini golfing. A bit later she said, "I can't wait to go Mickey golfing!"
9/18 Eli: "I have feelings."
9/20 Ali: "I'm tired. Do I have bags in my eyes?"
9/22 Someone mentioned Sweden and Logan says, "Hey, that's where Swedish Fish come from!"
9/29 Eli: "Mmm, I like this (pizza), like I like you Mommy!"
10/5 Me to Eli (who was wearing a cowboy hat): "Hi, Cowboy!"
Eli: "No! I'm a man!"
10/7 Ali: "If I only drink pink lemonade from now on, will my bones turn pink?"
10/11 Logan: "I usually play with the boy with stinky hair or the boy who kisses all the girls--he's nasty!"
10/12 Eli: "My birthday is coming down!"
10/16 Eli: "There's our sweet home!"
10/17 Ali: "During Uncle Todd's race I saw TWO people running with NO SHIRTS ON!"
Logan: "That's because they don't know about the word of wisdom."
10/22 Me: "Are you a dinosaur Eli?"
Eli: "No! I'm a dinoSAUR-OUS!"
10/29 Logan: (When he finishes his food quickly) "I'm a Holy Smoke!"
10/31 Me: What does the lion say?
Eli: Hi!
Me: what does the crocodile say?
Eli: Tick-tock, tick-tock!
11/8 Me: "Logan, sweet lips, please."
Logan: (pauses his chomping, grins, blows me a kiss, and then keeps chomping)
11/13 Ali lost her school library book. Logan told me to look for it in the school's "lost and fountain" for it:)
11/14 Eli: "We're going to the Booseum (that's how he pronounces museum)"
Me: "The Booseum?"
Eli: No, no. The Booseum, say BOO-seum"
Me: Museum?
Eli: "Yes, that's right, Booseum."
11/16 How I love my Grandpa Blau! He has been such a blessing in my life. When I told my kids he had passed, they said, "Oh! He's in Heaven now. How wonderful!" I am thankful to know this truth, because in knowing it I can't really be sad. He is a peace, at work, and happy. We miss him, but will see him again.
11/18 Ali: "Mom, what did I spell?"
Me: Looking at her letters--pecame--I say, "Nothing, not all letters spell words."
Ali: "Doesn't it spell 'Piece-a-Me' like from the song?"
Me: Realizing she is talking about the line from the song 'Clarity' that says 'You are the Piece of me I wish I didn't need,' I say, "Oh, you mean piece of me, that's three different words."
Ali: "No! It's pecame! I heard it!"
Me: "No, it sounds like that but really is three words."
Ali: "No it's not!"
Me: "Fine. You're right. Great job, you spelled pecame."
11/19 Upon hearing that if you get the lucky side of the wishbone you get to make a wish, Logan said, "Will my wish really come true?"
Me: "It might."
Logan: "So if I wished my lovey (the thing he sleeps with at night) would come alive and talk to me, that might really happen!?!"
Me: "Um, no...probably not."
Logan: "Dang."
Poor little guy was truly disappointed!
11/26 Logan: "I have a FANTASTIC idea! Let's live at the bank! Then we'll have all the money we want. And we'll put caution tape on the doors so no one else comes in to take any away!"
11/27 Frequently when I ask Eli to do something for me he says, "Me busy." Logan's usual response makes me much happier but is still funny, he says "Yes, Sir!" often with a salute.
12/8 Logan was a little distressed to find out that Santa brings coal instead of toys to naughty kids. I have heard him mutter "I don't think I'm going to have a happy Christmas..." several times lately!
12/10 Continuing with the Santa theme, top items on Logan's wish list are not actually toys, but things he's seen in movies or books. When I told him this, that they don't actually sell those things in stores, Logan said "Mom, Santa MAKES the toys!" There was a clear "duh" implied. I might be in trouble...
12/11 We drove over the broader into Wisconsin, and when I mentioned that to the kids Ali said, "We're in Nonsense?" at the same time Eli said, "We're in Conference?"
12/13 Some funny comments about "Bad Words" in the Eldredge Home:
Logan was telling me about a "bad" song he heard on the radio: "Santa Baby". "Baby" is not allowed in our house, because they always use it ugly.
I told Ali I didn't like the words in a song we were listening to and she said, "Oh, does it say (whispers) "stupid"?
If Eli is REALLY mad at you he will call you the meanest thing he can think of: "You are a Stinky Diaper!"
12/17 Eli pointed to the Christmas tree and said, "Look! It's a Ritz cracker!" Curious I look where he is pointing and see a Nutcracker ornament:)
12/28 Eli is wandering around singing "Frosting the Snowman" and "Christmas Bells are Reindeers."
Jason: "What Eli?"
Eli: "I was talking to Mommy, Daddy!"
7/31 Logan: "When will we be there?"
Eli: "Forty-five! Sunday!" (he was just blurting out random unit of time answers)
8/6 Ali: "Mommy, I don't like my hair like this! You can see my pokey ears and I don't like them!"
8/10 Ali: "When are Grandma and Grandpa going to have kids?" (with the tone of voice that says "geesh, what are they waiting for?")
8/14 Logan: "Mom, have you ever heard of apostles?"
Me: (realizing that's probably not the word he means, thinking back over what the TV show he was watching was about) "You mean fossils?"
Logan: "Yes! Some are three HUNDRED years old!"
8/16 Ali's new oft-repeated phrase is "You're the best Mom ever," which I admit to liking a lot more than Logan's new oft-repeated phrase of, "You don't love me any more!"
8/18 I upset Ali and Logan yet again by telling them they would not be marrying each other someday (we have this conversation often) and reiterated that they would marry some other person they will meet some day in the future. So Ali says, "So, I'll be walking around nice and clean and some boy will come up and say, 'Do you want to get married?' and I'll say, 'Sure.'"
8/24 Logan:" Mom, I didn't like sleeping in my cousin Amanda's room. Pink just isn't my color."
8/27 Me: "That car is parked."
Eli: "Like Peter Parked!" (ie-Peter Parker)
8/31 The moment your five-year-olds realize the stories we've been reading in the Book of Mormon their whole lives are stories about things that really happened: Priceless. The fact that they think these things happened "a really long time ago-like when you (Mom and Dad) were babies": not so priceless:)
9/6 Eli: "Mommy, you are my best friend!"
9/10 I told Ali we were going mini golfing. A bit later she said, "I can't wait to go Mickey golfing!"
9/18 Eli: "I have feelings."
9/20 Ali: "I'm tired. Do I have bags in my eyes?"
9/22 Someone mentioned Sweden and Logan says, "Hey, that's where Swedish Fish come from!"
9/29 Eli: "Mmm, I like this (pizza), like I like you Mommy!"
10/5 Me to Eli (who was wearing a cowboy hat): "Hi, Cowboy!"
Eli: "No! I'm a man!"
10/7 Ali: "If I only drink pink lemonade from now on, will my bones turn pink?"
10/11 Logan: "I usually play with the boy with stinky hair or the boy who kisses all the girls--he's nasty!"
10/12 Eli: "My birthday is coming down!"
10/16 Eli: "There's our sweet home!"
10/17 Ali: "During Uncle Todd's race I saw TWO people running with NO SHIRTS ON!"
Logan: "That's because they don't know about the word of wisdom."
10/22 Me: "Are you a dinosaur Eli?"
Eli: "No! I'm a dinoSAUR-OUS!"
10/29 Logan: (When he finishes his food quickly) "I'm a Holy Smoke!"
10/31 Me: What does the lion say?
Eli: Hi!
Me: what does the crocodile say?
Eli: Tick-tock, tick-tock!
11/8 Me: "Logan, sweet lips, please."
Logan: (pauses his chomping, grins, blows me a kiss, and then keeps chomping)
11/13 Ali lost her school library book. Logan told me to look for it in the school's "lost and fountain" for it:)
11/14 Eli: "We're going to the Booseum (that's how he pronounces museum)"
Me: "The Booseum?"
Eli: No, no. The Booseum, say BOO-seum"
Me: Museum?
Eli: "Yes, that's right, Booseum."
11/16 How I love my Grandpa Blau! He has been such a blessing in my life. When I told my kids he had passed, they said, "Oh! He's in Heaven now. How wonderful!" I am thankful to know this truth, because in knowing it I can't really be sad. He is a peace, at work, and happy. We miss him, but will see him again.
11/18 Ali: "Mom, what did I spell?"
Me: Looking at her letters--pecame--I say, "Nothing, not all letters spell words."
Ali: "Doesn't it spell 'Piece-a-Me' like from the song?"
Me: Realizing she is talking about the line from the song 'Clarity' that says 'You are the Piece of me I wish I didn't need,' I say, "Oh, you mean piece of me, that's three different words."
Ali: "No! It's pecame! I heard it!"
Me: "No, it sounds like that but really is three words."
Ali: "No it's not!"
Me: "Fine. You're right. Great job, you spelled pecame."
11/19 Upon hearing that if you get the lucky side of the wishbone you get to make a wish, Logan said, "Will my wish really come true?"
Me: "It might."
Logan: "So if I wished my lovey (the thing he sleeps with at night) would come alive and talk to me, that might really happen!?!"
Me: "Um, no...probably not."
Logan: "Dang."
Poor little guy was truly disappointed!
11/26 Logan: "I have a FANTASTIC idea! Let's live at the bank! Then we'll have all the money we want. And we'll put caution tape on the doors so no one else comes in to take any away!"
11/27 Frequently when I ask Eli to do something for me he says, "Me busy." Logan's usual response makes me much happier but is still funny, he says "Yes, Sir!" often with a salute.
12/8 Logan was a little distressed to find out that Santa brings coal instead of toys to naughty kids. I have heard him mutter "I don't think I'm going to have a happy Christmas..." several times lately!
12/10 Continuing with the Santa theme, top items on Logan's wish list are not actually toys, but things he's seen in movies or books. When I told him this, that they don't actually sell those things in stores, Logan said "Mom, Santa MAKES the toys!" There was a clear "duh" implied. I might be in trouble...
12/11 We drove over the broader into Wisconsin, and when I mentioned that to the kids Ali said, "We're in Nonsense?" at the same time Eli said, "We're in Conference?"
12/13 Some funny comments about "Bad Words" in the Eldredge Home:
Logan was telling me about a "bad" song he heard on the radio: "Santa Baby". "Baby" is not allowed in our house, because they always use it ugly.
I told Ali I didn't like the words in a song we were listening to and she said, "Oh, does it say (whispers) "stupid"?
If Eli is REALLY mad at you he will call you the meanest thing he can think of: "You are a Stinky Diaper!"
12/17 Eli pointed to the Christmas tree and said, "Look! It's a Ritz cracker!" Curious I look where he is pointing and see a Nutcracker ornament:)
12/28 Eli is wandering around singing "Frosting the Snowman" and "Christmas Bells are Reindeers."