Top Ten--April 2010

10) M: I love you, my little Adam. And I love you my big Isaac.
I: I'm not big, mom. I'm just medium sized.

9) Adam's knowledge of the natural world expands.
M: What's that?
A: A tuttle
M: What's that?
A: A ephant.
M: What's that?
A: A funny wabbit.
Watch out "Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom."  Little A-man could be your next host.   

8) Broken this month: glasses, skin, lips, my sanity, skin again, several toys. Is it weird that I love it when my kids' toys break? Cause then I get to throw them away and my life feels less cluttered.  (Just kidding about the whole sanity thing.)

7) Lucy's favorite expression for the month: Touche. And I haven't caught her using it incorrectly once yet.  Is "touche" a normal expression for a nine year old to use?  (Blogger, why won't you let me put an accent over the "e"?  What have I done to displease you so?  Anyone know how I can fix this?)
 
6) M: What should we do for dad for his birthday?
K: I think we should hit him in the head with a rolling pin.

What we actually did: let him go fishing in Mexico with Gpa D and Derec and then went out to dinner with his sibs when he got back.  Happy 36th birthday, hubba lub.  Love you.
 
5) Oh spring weather, why do you tease me so?  Oh wait.  I already wrote that.  But it still applies and I'm leaving it.  The upside, however, is that my allergies are very manageable right now.  And that blessing is nothing to sneeze at.  (Badumbum.)
 
4) Lunch conversation:
M: Where would you go if you could go anywehre in the world?
A: Da demple!  Da demple!
I: I would go anywhere that dad would go--and when he goed.
M: You want to go to China?
I: Yeah, there.
(And later)
I: Dad'd better bring me back some chapstick from China.
M: You mean chopsticks?
I: Yeah, that.
 
3) Kye's inherited sensitivity to feel good family movies. 
K: (After watching Hotel for Dogs on famly movie night): I'm feeling really cryable right now.

Who did he inherit that from?  Was it me?  No.  Well, unless I'm feeling hormonal.  Was it Zach?  No.  Who could it be?  ( I'd never post for all to see that it came from one of his uncles on my side.  *Ahem* Micah. . . )  Love it.

2) I: You can't break a pinkie promise or you have to cut off your pinkie.
 
Too bad we can't institute this pinke promise practice into our government somehow.  Of course, then our country would be run by pinkie-less politicians.
 
1) Adam's on the potty train!  Woowoo!  (Or, as he says, "Poopoo!")  Kind of weird to have no diapered kids.  Rumor has it I'll get used to it very quickly.