A Year of Funnies

This year's funnies are mostly provided by Eli. When your older two are getting so big and the youngest can't talk, that's what you get. Good thing the boy is funny!

1/2/16

Eli: Mom, I like you and snow better than anything else.

1/5/16

I'm reading a book where five boys compete for the right to be the husband of one girl. I was telling Ali about it and how whichever boy won, the girl had to marry him, even if she didn't know or like him. She said, "But what if he's awful, like if he picks his nose all day long?!"

1/11/16

Ali: You're the perfect mom for me. Jesus chose right when He sent me to your family!

1/12/16

Eli: There might really be monsters in the world because if someone who doesn't like people catches a leprechaun that person might wish for a real monster.

1/21/16

My kids' favorite game lately is "Jakey tag" which is when one of the kids is "It" and runs (while holding Jake) to tag the others. This baby is so lucky that his siblings are still so smitten with him, as much or more even than the first day they met him!

1/25/16

Eli: I feel like an old man, and I'm walking like one too. (He had shots today in his leg and now he's sore.)

2/4/16

Eli: In real life mommies always know where things are.

2/11/16

Logan: What do you get when you cross an elephant and Darth Vader? An elevator!

2/14/16

Eli: There were a lot of strangers in my church class today. It was annoying. (Our ward had it's boundaries changed and today was the first day with the new ward.)

2/22/16

Logan: Jakey came to our family at just the right time to get lots and lots of love.

3/4/16

Logan to me: "You're perfection!"

And what brought on such a compliment, you ask? Me telling him they were having Kraft macaroni and cheese for dinner.

3/10/16

Me: Look at all the birds at our bird feeder!

Eli: Those are Eli birds.

Me: Really? Why are they called Eli birds?

Eli: Because they're hungry all the time like I am.

3/16/16

Eli: We have to keep Jake safe; he's the only baby we have!

3/21/16

Ali: I'm going to keep a journal, like in Dork Diaries (a series of books she's reading). But I'm not calling it the Dork Diaries because, of course!, I'm not a dork! I'm calling mine the Fab Life!

4/5/16

Writing Prompt: Who is worth more to you than gold?

Ali's Answer: My mom and dad are worth more than gold. My mom even got me born!

4/6/16

Eli: This seatbelt is too tight! I'm gonna pop!

4/7/16

Happy first birthday Jake! Logan decided this morning we should nickname him Scooter because rather then crawling he scoots around on his bum (cutest thing ever!). 

4/18/16

Eli: If you ever go to mars don't take off your helmet! Your face would turn to ice if you did.

Me: Yeah, and then you'd die.

Eli: No, you'd just be very cold.

5/10/16

Eli: Grandpa is bald... (pause) Aliens are bald...

6/6/16

Eli was trying to order me around and Ali said to him, "She's not Princess Leia, or I mean Cinderella..." You can tell which kind of movies reign around here!

6/7/16

Eli: You know what I like to do? Eat.

7/6/16

Eli: I like baths because after a bath you are all shiny like a hero. Or like a star. I bet stars always take a bath before a show to help them be shiny.

7/7/16

Me: That's a marsh. 

Eli: Yep, and sometimes martians live there.

7/11/16

Eli: watch me do kabobs! (He means bobs, ducking your head all the way under water)

7/12/16

Eli: Moms don't run! (That may not be a true statement for many of you moms, but his shock at seeing ME run was valid!)

7/21/16

Eli: Mom, you look weird in the morning.

7/22/16

Logan: I'm not gold and this is not the gold rush, so stop rushing me!

8/18/16

Logan: I don't need to worry, it's a mom's job to worry.

8/19/16

Eli: I want to look nice today so will you put some jello in my hair?

10/17/16

I have a secret admirer. I keep finding sweet notes all around the house signed "from your secret admirer." Since they all begin by saying, "dear mom," Jason has decided not to be jealous of this young man who, though a bit younger than me, is quite handsome and very sweet.

10/28/16

Eli: Everyone in my class likes me because my name starts with a letter in the alphabet.

10/30/16

Logan: That gas cost $23,456!

Jason: That is a decimal, not a comma. So it was $23.45

Logan: Oh! Whew!

10/31/16

Me: Can you not hear me or are you just ignoring me? 

Eli: I'm ignoring you!

11/26/16

Eli: What are three musketeers?

Me: They were soldiers who were friends who fought together and helped each other.

Eli: Hey, that's like us! We are the six musketeers!

11/28/16

I'm officially declaring Jake's first word a tie between "mama" and "no." And really, what more does a baby need to be able to say?

11/30/16

Eli:I know why we say "Merry Christmas!" It's because Jesus's mom's name was Mary!

12/4/16

Eli: I like it when the moon is small like that. It makes me think of Jesus smiling down on us.