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Luke: "Daddy, we went to a HUGE park today."
Daddy: "Really? Did they have slides?"
Luke: "Yes."
Daddy: "Did they have swings?"
Luke: "Yes."
Daddy: "Did they have monkey bars?"
Luke {confused}: "No. Just Luke and Grace."
- Luke. No primates at the park today.
Luke: "Bye!"
Mommy: "Where are you going?"
Luke: "To get exercise."
- Luke
Mommy: "Do you want some eggs for breakfast?"
Luke: "Yes. Are we going to make them?"
Mommy: "Yes."
Luke: "Don't worry. I want them cold."
- Luke, like he's ever had raw eggs
"Whoah! You turned me upside over!"
- Luke, using his own phrase for "upside down"
"When it's summer and it's hot we can go swimming in the pool. And I will swim just like a boat."
- Luke
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Luke: "Remember the big poop in the potty?"
Mommy: "No? You mean the one from yesterday? Wait, do you have to go now? Do you have more??"
Luke: "No, it's gone. It's empty. It's in my bottom. You can't see it. No poop today."
- Luke
Mommy: "Silas, do you want some water?"
Silas: "Unh!"
Luke: "That means 'yes' in Spanish."
- Luke, still loving Sesame Street
"It's so sour!"
- Luke, trying to make sense of his first sip of root beer
Luke: "Silas has a new pacifier! Miss Karri gave it to him. Did Silas say 'thank you'?"
Mommy: "No...but it's okay. I told them 'thank you' from Silas."
Luke: "Oh, that's right. He can't talk. {yelling} Thank you, Miss Karri! {pause} They can't hear me! They're too far away. Oh, no!"
- Luke, picking up the slack for Silas after the Foxes loaned us an emergency pacifier (thanks, guys!)
Luke: "Look, it's that rock again!"
Daddy: "Yep. It's always there."
Luke: "My whole life."
- Luke, during the car ride past the rock landmark on Barrett Parkway/I-575
There are 3 ways everyone will probably read this post: 1) Jeanine has gone insane, 2) Jeanine is already insane, and this is her way of dealing with it, and 3) Wow! That's cool! Where can I do that?
A while back, Beau found Trixie Tracker. I believe the exact text he IM'ed me was "Man, you are going to love this." I was fascinated by it and got even more excited when they were willing to let a group beta test the program for public release. I started off doing it when Silas was 3 days old, but things were a little crazy with Silas, as you know, and I bowed out for a while. Now I'm back doing it, and I love being able to keep track of the boys like this. It's a nice and easy way to collect data and logically figure out sleep trends, number of diapers (and the general decline!), etc. Basically, it's all the stuff I tried to collect but never really had the time for. Anyone who was over at my house in the past 9 months probably saw the charts/graphs on my counter that I had been filling out throughout the day to try to figure out how to get Silas to sleep better. This is so, so much easier.
And bonus for friends and family: you can figure out how good of a day I'm having based on when Silas got up in the morning! ;) Beau loves checking in online from work during the day to see how things are shaping up at home. I've gotten more than one call that starts with, "So...both boys are down, huh?" Maybe this is just my way of bringing the enjoyment of my industrial engineering background home, but this is FUN stuff. Enjoy!
Mommy: "Luke, do you know what we're doing outside today? We're having a garage sale! Do you know what that is?"
Luke: "I don't know."
Mommy (realizing that I don't want to really explain): "It's where people come to our house and they take some of our stuff."
Luke: "That's not nice, Mommy. We don't take things from other people."
Mommy: "You're right..."
- Luke
Luke: "I'm thirsty. May I have a drink please?"
Mommy (talking to Granmom): "He can have some H-2-O before bed."
Luke (overhearing): "I'd like some G-N-S."
- Luke
"Mommy, I know where we should go! On broadway!"
- Luke, after watching a little bit of "The Muppets Take Manhattan"
Luke: "Mommy, look! There's a clock!"
Mommy: "What time is it?"
Luke: "Twenty-two ones."
- Luke
{Silas crawling toward the forbidden drawers}
Mommy: "No, Silas."
Luke {looking at Silas}: "I can't open the drawers, either."
- Luke, Silas's biggest sympathizer
Luke: "We're going to Pump it Up! And Mommy is going, and Luke is going, and Silas is going, and...not Zoe."
Mommy: "No, they don't let dogs into Pump it Up."
Luke: "They can't slide."
- Luke
More Zoe insight...
Daddy: "Do you want Mommy to put you to bed? Daddy? Zoe?"
Luke: "No, she doesn't have any hands."
- Luke. Poor Zoe.
"I wish I could fly like Super Grover."
- Luke, after hearing Mommy and Daddy singing a song that had the words "super" and "fly" in it. But who wouldn't?
I've been meaning to post this for a while, but it seemed to overlap a bit with the Quote of the Moment. But since this requires the most explanation of any QotM ever, it gets its own post. Here it is...
One night at dinner, we were having a perfectly lovely time when Luke points his fork at Beau and says "You die." I whip my head around so fast I was practically seeing stars. "Where did you hear that? Who said that? Wait, what did you say?" "You die." Luke's smile is more confused now since he realizes that I'm not the least bit happy. It's hard to get crucial information out of a 2-year-old, and he degenerates into confused silence.
While tucking him into bed a week later, it comes up again. "You die" he points at me, laughing. I try a different approach this time. I smile back at him and say, "Where did you hear that, sweetie?" "I don't know." "You day? You jay?" "No, Mommy, you die." I try all sorts of ways to say it , and finally I ask the question that elicits a seemingly helpful response. "Do you know what that means?" He smiles and perks up: "Means 'hello' in Spanish!" I laughed, a little relieved that he at least had no ill intent, but the seed had already been planted. Sesame Street was teaching my child.
I mentally went through all the Sesame Streets and Wiggleses he'd watched in the past and vowed that he wouldn't watch another one until I had watched every second of it myself to see where he got this horrible phrase from. I calculated up all the time I would be spending watching kids shows over the next 16 years and wondered if there was a site somewhere that collected this kind of information for me.
Some days went by before it happened a third time. Beau had just gotten home from work, and as soon as he walks through the door, Luke says it: "You die." And finally, something clicks in our heads. "Wait, Luke are you saying 'you're daddy'?" "Yes!" He says it so fast that all you hear are the first and last parts of the words. "You d-y". That's why he thought it was so funny when he said it to me. (Though now we hear "You m-y" every once in a while, too.) Ahhhhhh....the relief. Thank goodness Sesame Street is back in our good graces. I don't know how Luke would fare without Super Grover.
"Mommy, I want you to go to Nineveh and tell all the people to REPENT!"
- Luke, pretending that Mommy is Jonah in his favorite Bible story
"Look! It's two little boys! They're so cute! They're saying 'hola'!"
- Luke, upon driving by the Children's Healthcare of Atlanta sign
"Mommy! I need your help now, please. It's all dirty. Look. There's some here and over there. I wish we could vacuum."
- Luke, pointing out the necessities of cleaning his play space
Luke: "I wish I could grow up to be a daddy."
Daddy: "Why? What would you do if you were a daddy, Luke?"
Luke: "I would drive. And Mommy and Daddy and Silas would sit in the back."
Daddy: "And where would you drive?"
Luke: "I would drive to Mexico."
- Luke and Daddy driving to church
"Don't forget your suitcase!"
- Luke's sayonara to Daddy every morning as he leaves for work
"Mommy, don't move the toys...I'm begging you!"
- Luke, as I push toys along the floor with my foot