you + me = US: Kids Say The Darndest Things Part 2

Tuesday, September 1, 2009

Kids Say The Darndest Things Part 2

05-07-09 This morning, after he'd given the usual 5 second prayer, I told Will to pray again, but this time for something he's never prayed for. The immediate result; "Please bless the groundhogs, that they won't see their shadow."

And in Will's prayer tonight he said; "Please bless all the grandmas that they'll be in the Holy Ghost's heart."

04-25-09 Ben and I were enjoying dinner with Nick and Amanda at Joy Luck. I waited outside the restroom as Ben answered nature's call. When he came out, I asked him,
"Did you wash your hands?" His said, "Wow, look at that picture! That guy looks a lot wierder than that lady."
"Ben, did you wash your hands?" "When I went in that bathroom, its like I was in chinese!"
A third time, I persisted, "Ben, did you wash your hands?" Acknowledging his defeat, he shrugged his shoulders and went back in . . . to wash his hands.

04-21-09 It should be noted that Will said, "Yes" to tomatoes during sandwich prep and that this conversation randomly took place two hours after we ate lunch.

Will casually said, "I don't love you anymore. Mom. . . I don't love you anymore." Trying not to laugh, I dramatically asked, "Why don't you love me anymore?" "I like you, I just don't love you. . . because you put tomatoes on my sandwich and I don't like tomatoes." In a comforting tone he reassured me, "But I like you, I like you. I just don't love you."

04-10-09 Today, Will told Alessandra, "I'm Captain Courage, that means I'm a cool kid."

04-01-09 Before I walked out the door for mutual, I said my goodbyes and quietly told Alfonso, "Goodbye, Love." Will came running up to me and said, "Mommy, I want to tell you something, but in your ear." Then in a whisper he said, "Goodbye, Love Girl."

03-27-09 Today Will said, "I got a crush on you, Mom." Two hours later, "I got a crush on you huh, Mom." I asked him, "what does it mean to have a crush on someone?" He immediately said, "It means they're pretty! I have a crush on Allie too. I want her to be my girlfriend."

03-12-09 While making Tomato soup with Will, I noticed he was about to stick his tiger slap bracelet in the pot. "I don't think that's a good idea, Will." Will responded, "Yeah, then it would be Slap Bracelet Soup, huh?"

03-11-09 Today Spencer brilliantly suggested that we "buy a whole bunch of green construction paper and cover the whole house for St. Patrick's Day." I said, "Yeah, and then we could make the house pink for Easter!" Spencer immediately responded, "I don't think pink would suit most of the people in this house."

03-07-09 Tonight Will fervently prayed, "Please bless everyone to get a Power Ranger costume. Make mine red."

03-05-09 Holding up our recently read copy of 'Green Eggs and Ham,' Will told me, "I'm gonna call this book, Green Eggs and Sausage."

02-25-09 Will urgently announced on the intercom, "Mom, I have something to tell you." Anticipating a problem with toys or the Wii, I asked, "What is it Will?" In his softest sweetest voice, he said, "Uh, I love you."

02-19-09 After telling the boys about the new addition to the family, Spencer asked, "Can we order a girl?" I explained to them that Heavenly Father will decide whether he'll send a girl or boy. Will announced, "I'm going to pray to Heavuhly Fadder for a boy." I thought he intended to do it later until I noticed that he had his arms folded, and eyes closed. He quickly began, "Heavuhly Fadder, please make the baby a boy. . ."

02-16-09 After spending time in time out, Will's attitude changes from night to day and quite proud of himself, he exclaims, "Mom, I KEEPED THE COMMANDMENTS!"

02-13-09 While eating his jelly sandwich, Will pauses and says, "Mom, do Jellyfish eat jelly?"

02-13-09 As Spencer was sleeping I overheard him say, "Don't use that tone with me, missy!"

02-11-09 In Ben's prayer he said, ". . . and please bless Rochelle, that she will be happy forever." A week later Ben prays, "Please bless Rochelle that she will have a happy life."

02-10-09 After watching the movie, "Meet the Robinsons" Spencer was sketching some of his own inventions when he asked, "Mom, do you know how to make a time machine?" To his dismay, my answer was no.

02-09-09 In school, Will was officially recognized for being a good helper. He got a neat letter from the teacher and a token to exchange in the office for a prize. In the car he told me, "I be'd a good man at preschool today." What did you do to be a good man, Will? "Cuz I was nice tah people."

02-06-09 While trying to open the package of a little green Jolly Rancher, Will explained, "I wanna see if it's seaweed."

02-06-09 In the car, Will announced, "I like being alive, Mom."

01-26-09 While building a huge fort at Grandma's house, Spencer told Will, "We need this pillow to staple-ize it." Will, as usual, agreed, "Yeah, we need that pillow to staple-ize it!"

01-09-09 On our way to comb his hair in the bathroom, Will exclaimed, "Ouch!!! My broken heart!" "Why is your heart broken, Will?" "Uhhh. . . . . . . . . because I can't walk very well."

01-01-09 While saying the prayer Will said, "Heavenly Father, please bless the a's, b's, p's and w's"

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Kids Say The Darndest Things

9/8/14 After a massive pillow fight with Spence and Will, Mia fell to the floor and exclaimed, "I'm soaking tired!"

5/15/14 We were watching a Baby Einstein movie featuring a rhino puppet. Mia said, "Mom, that rhinoceros is a genius."

5/13/14 Mia just told me some disturbing news about her imaginary friend. "Squella, not like you, so her is hiding." I even offered Squella a popsicle to bribe her into liking me and she wouldn't budge.
5 minutes later:
No wait, Mia just informed me, "Her likes you now. Her gets a pop-is-cle."

5/02/14 Mia has been coming up with some unique names for her imaginary friends, Squilla, Quinley, Tortilla are just a few. Well today she was talking to her friend Celia and said,
"What's your Cat's name, Celia?
"Tiddley-Dee"
"Oh!!! GREAT name!!!"
Later, I asked her later about the cat and found out that there are TWO! One cat's name is "Tilly-Tina" and the other's name is "Tiddley-Dee."

4/21/14 Mia was shouting at me from the bathroom in a bossy way. I said, "Mia, don't talk to me like that." She said. "I YELLING at you." I needed to leave the room and she shouted again and said, "Mommy come here, right now. I gon count and you gon go in time-out!!!" Sweet swirling onion rings, I'm in for it.

4/4/14 While enjoying a chocolate chip cookie together, I asked, "Mia, why is chocolate soooooo good?" To which she naturally replied, "Cuz we gon' eat it."
Best reason ever.

1/07/14 At the store, at the top of her lungs, in attempt to tell me that she's going to "crack me up" Mia shouted, "Mom, I go a crap you up!"

12/11/13 Today at story time Miss Sally was teaching the kids about the color red. She was pointing out those with red hair. She said, "This little boy has red hair, and look, this mommy has red hair. And this mommy has red hair!" There was a pause and Mia shouted out, "I HAVE TWO MOMMIES!" All the parents looked around, Miss Sally bewildered, looked at me. Appalled I laughed and said loudly, "I have NO IDEA what she's talking about." Everyone started laughing. . . hard! For the life of me I couldn't figure out why she'd say that. So afterwards I asked Mia, and she pointed to the two mommies with red hair and said, "See? Two mommies!" Ohhhhhh, now I get it. Two mommies with red hair.

12/14/13 The dinner table was busy with multiple conversations occurring at once when Mia said, "Hey Will, this song my favorite: (in sing-song)
Hello Kitty, Hello Kitty,
I like Hello Kitty"

12/03/13 Ben was teasing Mia on the couch. When she angrily yelled, "Ben, DON'T BLOW ME! I NOT a bubble!!!"

11/13/13 Today I was crying and couldn't stop. Mia dropped what she was doing and ran up and said, "Hold me, you feel better!" I hugged her tight and put her down. A few seconds later she came up and said, "Here Mom, a have a Kleenex."

Lately, Whenever we are having a nice snuggle moment as a family, Mia will come up and say, "All To-ah-gedder."

10/13/13 I need to preface this by saying, Mia's word for "girl" is "grill." After church Mia got very upset and ran to her room. Alfonso went up to try to comfort her and said, "Don't cry, Mia." To which she responded, "But grills like to cry."

09/25/13 Mia and I were playing with pretend snakes. In their "conversation", they made a deal and so I told her, "Let's shake on it." she immediately began to violently shake the snake.

08/24/13 Once again, Pandora displayed the album cover (One World's Acoustic) of Justin Bieber on the screen. Mia looked at it again and said, "Mom, look! A doggie. Doggie wif guitar."

08/21/13 Pandora displayed an album cover of Justin Bieber on the t.v. Mia, startled a little by the music, looked up at the screen, studied for a minute and said, "Cute doggie!"

08/19/13 As we were all getting ready to go swimming, Mia was excitedly showing everyone her "swimming soup."

08/17/12 A day after I taught Will about the Star of David, Will was playing with a couple of triangle magnets. When he had overlapped them just right he held them up and said, "Look, it's Jared's star!"

08/16/12 After taking off Ben's newly acquired football gear, Will sat next to me, sighed, and said, "It's nice to have a football player in the house."

07/24/12 I was looking at my wedding ring while tucking Will in to bed. Will noticed and said, "That's a pretty fancy ring." I said, "It is. It's the most beautiful thing I've ever owned. But I love it mostly for what it stands for." Will surprised me when he responded, "You love it because it reminds you of the day you got married. Even if it was made of wood, it would be a still be a great treasure."

07/23/12 After a run to Dairy Keen, Will shared the following insight: "The most humblest flavor of ice cream in the whole entire world is vanilla." When I asked why, he said, "Because it's simple, it's plain, and it's always there. "

07/05/12 Fearing that Mia might ruin his pillow fort, Will asked, "Mom, can we put her to sleep?"

06/28/12 As we were setting the table for breakfast, Will (7)said, "I'm a simple man." I couldn't help but smile. "I'm a simple man with complex thoughts." Did I mention, he's 7???

06/25/12 While I was looking for a rubber band, Spencer handed a large one to me and proudly said, "I wear 5 rubber bands on my wrist at all times."

06/22/12 For the second time, Spencer said, "I don't believe in sarcasm." I argued that sarcasm does exsist and gave him an example. His response, "I call that oppositism."

06/03/12 While we were driving, Spencer spotted a slowly oncoming tractor and car and said, " 'Wow, tractors drive slow!' thought the lady in the green car."

06/03/12 We had watched a bunch of old footage of Beatles performing some of their hits, when Will yelled out, "Can we PLEASE stop listening to classical music?"

05/12/12 Trying to explain to our sick kids why we couldn't have friends come play, I said, "We need to get this virus out of our house." Will said, "Lets give it to someone else!"

03/03/12 Will just said, "I have a faculty butt."

03/01/12 Will told Ben that from now on he wants to be called Bethica, queen of the sea.

03/01/12 Will came inside from shoveling snow with cold hands. After explaining to me that the problem was his gloves, he asked,"Can I have an upgrade?"

11/29/11 Me: "Will, what do you want the person you marry to be like?" Will: "Hot and sexy." Room fills with shock & stifled laughter. Me: "Will. . . what does it mean to be hot?" Will: "That you just came out of the desert."

11/28/11 When it's time for oracion/prayer, Mia oftentimes will fold her arms and talk quietly while the prayer is said. At the end we say "amen." She loudly says, "BOB!"

11/26/11 Alfonso swatted at the pesky fly once again. "It's taunting me." He said. Will exclaims, "It's taunting you??" Mutters to self, "I hate taunting flies."

11/10/11 Will walked in the door and when he saw his friend Annie sitting on the couch said, "I knew this day had something special in it." "What?" Annie asked. "You! I knew you were coming over. You make today special."

11/10/11 In the car, Annie (a girl I'm tending) said, "Jesus is so lucky! He gets to be born on Christmas, huh!"

09-09-11 Alfonso and I went on a date for our anniversary and left the kids with family. After we picked up the kids, Will politely asked, "Were there a lot of people at the anniversary?"

09-08-11 At the breakfast table, I was telling the kids that tomorrow would be Alfonso and my anniversary. Will lowered his head and said, "I'm glad I don't have to see that."

09-07-11 At a restaurant, we were all joking back and forth and Will said, "You gotta be pushing my leg!"

08-20-11 At our moving sale, my 3-year-old neice, Nicole held up a shiny quarter and said, "Look, I have a quenny."

08-20-11 5 minutes later, Nicole was whining. Her Mom, D.D. said, "I'm not going to talk to you until you use a big girl voice." Nicole gave her a mean look and said, "But you just talked to me."

08-19-11 Will, sitting at the table kept singing, "Can't you see, I love my pancreas, look at me, I love my pancreas." Over and over. Thank you, Wierd Al.

08-19-11 Quite proud of himself and giggling a little, Spencer announced, "Faster than a speeding two-year-old, able to leap a towering pile of laundry, it's SUPERMOM!!!"

04-29-11 We had just finished a large meal at Chick's Cafe when Spencer leaned back in his chair and energetcally patted his stomach saying, "Now I know what Santa feels like."

04-28-11 Will was helping me pull our huge new stroller out of its box. His job was to pull the box down as I held the stroller up off the ground. It wouldn't budge. He paused and said, "Wait, should I go drink some milk, to make my muscles stronger?"

About Us

Our blended family is many years and obstacles in the making. We two were raised in separate countries, different cultures and upbringings. For each of us, God's blessed broken road weaved through marraige, the birth of a child (or two) and a painful divorce, in the end, leaving a himless her and a herless him. We met on a blind date in 2008 and haven't been able to stay away from each other since. Married for time and all eternity in the Salt Lake Temple, we and our four children are determined to BE a forever family. This blog is an account of our daily lives, our ups and downs, and our journey to become "one."