Top Ten-ish for Junlygust and Sepoctvember 2012

Until I start paying $2.50 a month for all of my pictures storage (Ummm, what!?) on google, it looks like I'm stuck with wordy-word posts.  Luckily, I haven't done a top ten since Aprimay of this year, I don't usually have pictures for those.  So here we go:

Top Twenty-One for a lot of months 2012:

21) I love to sing.  I love to sing the wrong words.  Well, that part is actually unintentional.  Most of the time I just can’t hear the words, so I sing . . . whatever.   But apparently it’s hereditary.  After listening to Hey there Delilah’s line “Two more years and you’ll be done with school,” Adam asked, “What is ‘McDonald’s school?”

20) Panicked pride-the feeling you get when you realize your kid understands the Parent Code of Spelling which you have used to tell secrets in plain sight/hearing.  So now we are down to 1—ONE kid that we can have private/public conversations in front of. 

19) Eli vocab at 18 months: MOM!  DAD!  Dedus (Jesus), Ehmo, shoe, dump (jump), Sissy (Lucy, Kye, Isaac, or Adam), see-wo (cereal), mechhhh (milk), and choo-choo.

18) Isaac (after running back into his class to grab his forgotten homework): My teacher was gone, but she left the music running.

M: Oh!  Why kind of music does she play?

I: You know, the sad kind.

M: What is sad music?

I: The kind without words.

17) What Eli will eat: lipstick, his blanket, Zach’s deodorant, trash, gum, and cereal.

What Eli will NOT eat: chicken, hot dogs, veggies, fruit, rolls, salad, and anything healthy.

16) Adam (while we drove past the Springville High School, just down the hill from our neighborhood): We drove past this way when dad took a wrong turn and lost hisself . . . and us . . . and the van, too.

15) Proof that my hubby’s caffeine habit is corrupting the children:

K: Lu, what is the world’s largest fruit.

L: Tomato?

K: Nope.

L: Watermelon?

K: Nope.

Adam: Pepsi?

K: (Pause) Nope, but it DOES start with a “P.”

14) Ahhh, the language of childhood.  It’s how we’ve gained some of our favorite family words: “spirsty” from my niece Sarah, “witchy-witchy-ho” (delicioso) from niece Hannah, “scritchpures” from Lucy, and our latest additions, “kawiwi” and “swirlpool” courtesy of Adam.

13) A sure sign your children are watching too much Phineas and Ferb:  Adam (to Lucy)—Argh!  Curse you, Perry the PlatyLOOS!

12) A: I forgot what Samuel the Lamanite looks like!

M: Umm, did you ever know what he looked like?

11) Wherein Eli and I have a disagreement.  I think he still needs 2 naps a day.  He does NOT.  He’s winning. 

10) Overheard:

A: Where is Jesus?

L: In heaven.

A: Where’s heaven?

L: I’m not sure.

A: I think it might be in space . . . or under the ground.

L: Ummm, okay.

A: I think the worms help people by going down and telling Jesus their prayers.

(Aaaaaand it’s time for a lesson in FHE about prayer.)

9) While joining Zach and I on a date to celebrate his 9^th bday, Kye was very excited to go out to Ruby River.  This kid loves steak.  What did he order?  “Yes, I’ll have a ‘kay-bob’ please. “

Adam has his own language.  Case in point . . .

M: How did you sleep last night?  Did you have any dreams?

A: I had a sleep check.

M: A what now?

A: A sleep check.  That’s what I call it when I don’t have any dreams.

M: Why?

A:  I don’t know.  I’m so awesome.

8) And “footless”: wherein you are only wearing one shoe.

And “doom”: as in “Oh good.  It didn’t land in the doom.”

M: Huh?

A: The doom is my mouth.

7) I feel like most of part of the conversation with Adam is, “Umm, say what?”

A: I want to marry you mom.  That would be saweeeeeet.  Just kidding.  I can’t marry you.

6) Isaac’s current dream job: a dancing sword-fighting ninja.  Love it!

A: Mom, what is dad’s job, even?

M: (description of job).  Why what did you think dad’s job was?

A: I thought it was blahblahblahblahblah.

5) 11 crayons and a beyblade: what I fished out of the vents when I realized Eli had been taking off the vent covers and stashing stuff in there.  I’m beginning to suspect there is a reason I haven’t been able to find my wedding ring for 2 ½ months.

4) Wearing nylons and a skirt with satin lining + holding the squirmiest toddler in the world= I feel like I’m wrestling a greased pig during church.  (And I get a little unintended leg exposure in there.  Blast!)

3) A: I want to go on my mission to a zoo.  With penguins.  So I can teach them.

2) A: That would be funny if animals could eat each other at the same time.

M: I think that would be gross.

A: Yeah.  Gross and FUNNY!

1) 17: The average number of times that Adam says he’s awesome every day.