A Year of Quotes

1/1/15
Logan: I am as hungry as the whole earth!

1/7/15
Eli: I don't really like girls, except for the ones I do like.

1/12/15
Eli: Mom, pick a shirt that matches mine, because people on the same team wear matching clothes.

1/15/15
Eli: Girls have hair, boys have heads.

1/23/15
Eli: Doctrine and Covenants is a good guy.
Me: What?
Eli: Yeah, because he is a doctor. DOCTOR-in-covenants!

1/24/15
Logan: How did you know? Did you look inside my head?

1/29/15
Eli: The cold is mean!

1/31/15
Ali: I was impressed with myself!

2/2/15
Eli: (Totally out of the blue) Ghosts are very hard to capture.

2/4/15
Eli: I don't have enough hands to carry all of that! I'm not an alien, you know!

2/8/15
Eli: Nephites fight because they are ne-fights!

2/11/15
Logan is interested in words and is constantly asking me to define words he hears but doesn't know. The result is that I get kick out of some of the words this six-year-old uses in daily speech. A few I noticed this week are: resist, cluster, and shortly.

2/12/15
Me: The insides of our bodies are always very warm, almost 100 degrees.
Ali: I wish I lived inside of my body!

2/16/15
Eli: Yoda is my favorite because he is green and small, just like me.

2/24/15
Eli: Mom, I know what that's called; it's a minion.
Me: Actually, it's an onion.

3/6/15
Me: Do you need help with that?
Ali: No, I can do it; my claws are sharp.

3/7/15
Eli: Mom, you're lucky. You get to choose to do whatever you want to do. No one tells YOU what to do all day long.

3/9/15
Ali: (In a prayer) Please bless that Spring will be like Spring and not like more winter.

3/10/15
Eli: Mommy, you and me have cute eyes!

3/17/15
For the past 13 years I have been among the few privileged to call this amazing man Dad. I know there were countless people waiting to welcome him and thank him for his work on their behalf, and I know that he is probably very glad be to be able to be of service again, but I will miss him so. I love you, Dad.

3/23/15
Eli: You can call me Honey. Or Peanut butter. Or Jelly. Really, you can call me anything that's nice.

3/30/15
Ali was helping me put some of the baby's clothes away and she said, "I don't even care that it's not going to be a girl anymore; these are just SO cute!" Good thing she has accepted it; Little Mister is coming a week from tomorrow!

3/31/15
Logan has surprised us by being the most excited for his baby brother. During my pregnancy I have frequently gotten notes like this one: "Dear Baby in the Tummy, I am excited for you to come to our family. I love you. I can't wait to see you in the hospital. I am glad you are a boy. XOXOXOXOXOXO Logan"

4/7/15
World, meet Jake, my newest little love.

4/14/15
Eli: "Mom! Why are you hitting the baby!?" (Lest you worry...I was burping him)

5/16/15
Eli decided he wanted to go down a slide at a play place that he'd been too afraid to go down before. I told him I would wait at the bottom and catch him, which is why I could hear him at the top repeating, "I'm not scared, I'm not scared..." for about a minute before he came down:)

5/21/15
Me: Ali, you have such pretty hair!
Ali: Did you have to pay extra for this hair or did you just get lucky?

5/23/15
Logan: When I have my own house all the rules will be opposite--everyone will put their feet on the table and pick their noses.

5/28/15
Eli: Mom, I really love being a human. That's why I'm happy.

6/18/15
Me: Do you know what a diet is? That is where you don't eat things with sugar or extra foods because you're trying to loose weight or be healthier.
Ali: (laughing) I don't think ANYONE would do that! That's all the good stuff!

6/27/15
Eli: my nose is broken. I must be allergic to Colorado!

6/28/15
Eli: (talking about his twin cousins) Which one is that guy? I can't tell because they have the same face.

7/13/15
Eli (when eating his dessert): This is a dream come true!

7/26/15
Logan: Mom, can we put up Halloween Decorations today? It's ALMOST Halloween! October is only almost two months away!

7/31/15
Eli: You're pulling my legs off! (I think he was trying to say "you're pulling my leg.")

8/2/15
Me: Logan! Do you hit or kick your brothers and sister?!
Logan: YES!
Me: (trying not to laugh, but failing): OK, but SHOULD you hit or kick them?
Logan:...no...

8/5/15
Me: Poor Jake has a cold!
Ali: Oh, I hope I get it!
Me: Why?
Ali: Because if he gives it to me he won't have it anymore!

8/10/15
Us reading the scriptures about being righteous.
Ali: What is "being righteous"?
Me: Keeping the commandments, going to church, things like that.
Ali! Oh, good! I'm doing that! I AM going to heaven, I JUST KNOW IT!

8/28/15
Eli: If you're a girl and become a mom you're special.
Me: Dads are special too.
Eli: Yea, but moms are SUPER special!

9/11/15
Eli: Mom! Someone in my class is named Aunt Lianna! She is a human with a brown face.
Me: I think her name is actually Ellianna.
Eli (disappointed): Oh.

9/13/15
Ali: I love to play Axis and Ali's with Daddy! (Instead of Axis and Allies)

9/20/15
Eli: Mom, you know EVERYTHING!"

9/29/15
Eli: Mom, do you know what leopards are?
Me: Tell me.
Eli: They're sick people. I learned about leopards at church.

10/12/15
Eli: Happy is just my style!

10/16/15
Eli's one request for his birthday party tomorrow: "Make sure there's enough food for me and my mates!"

10/18/15
Eli: "I'm getting the ewoks out of my ears."
Also, to hear him tell it, we went to Naboo, not Nauvoo, last weekend.

11/11/15
Eli: Babies sure cry a lot. Good thing they're SO CUTE even when they do!

11/16/15
When I told Ali and Logan they would be responsible for making their own lunches this year Logan said, "No! If I make my own lunch you won't leave me notes in my lunch! That would be so sad!" When I assured him I would still sneak in notes, he had no further objections:)

11/21/15
Eli: Mom! Did you know teachers have homes?!

11/25/15
Eli: (concerned) She (his friend) said she loves me.
Me: We can love our friends.
Eli: But that's what married people do.
Me: Yes, and good friends.
Eli: It just makes me very nervous.

12/3/15
Eli: I'm playing Baskin Robbers

12/10/15
Eli: Can I have the fire fan in my room?
Me: The what?
Eli : You know, the human fire fan.
Me: Oh, the humidifier!
Eli: Yes, the human fire.

12/13/15
Logan: Mom, does Santa REALLY have a naughty and nice list? Because I've never know anyone or even heard of anyone who was actually on the naughty list and got only coal. I think the list is something parents made up to get kids to behave at Christmas time.

12/14/15
Eli: I like praying because it fills my heart to talk to Him.

12/20/15
Eli: I like it best when it's cold. I'm like a snowman that way.

12/22/15
Logan: It's so sad that a long, long time ago babies often died when they were born. You know, like in the 1980s.

12/24/15
Eli's been walking around all season singing, "You better watch out, you better not pound!..." Yeah, I guess you shouldn't do that too!

12/26/15
Eli likes the poof ball table (foose ball table) we got for Christmas.