QotM. #0135:
Luke: "I need to go potty. I need help."
Daddy: "You're a big boy. You can go all by yourself."
Luke: "Okay. And when I come back, you can cheer."
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Luke: "I need to go potty. I need help."
Daddy: "You're a big boy. You can go all by yourself."
Luke: "Okay. And when I come back, you can cheer."
"I put this red thing in my mouth so my teeth will get bigger."
- Luke, goodness knows what he ate
"Toe!"
- one of Silas's fun, new words
"I'm just figuring out how the wheels work. They're loud, and they pump up."
- Luke, after about 10 minutes of silence on a car ride
Luke: "Daddy, I'm potty-trained."
Daddy: "What does that mean, Luke?"
Luke: "It means I go 'choo-choo'!"
Back when we switched up the name, I talked about wanting to give the site a new look. And now half a year later, Uncle Josh Teague Studios has gone and redesigned the site for us! Sweet!
As you can see, he stayed true to our pre-gender-knowledge color palette of green and purple -- I wanted to make sure we had a flexible thing going on just in case we end up with a girl down the line. But color is about the only direction I gave him. He came up with everything else on his own and (in keeping with the site name) pretty much knocked it out of the park.
Speaking of the site name, the other fun change the design brings is the fact that we finally have a URL that makes sense. Now you can just bookmark ATeagueofTheirOwn.com -- should be much easier to type, remember, or pass along in casual conversation about green and purple websites that feature children.
Luke: "I wish we could live in it."
Daddy: "Well, it's too small for us to live in."
Luke: "Oh, it's only for babies?"
- Luke and Daddy after seeing a hot air balloon
"Yay, Mommy! You saved the day!"
- Luke, after I retrieved a toy from a tree
"I wish I could go in a plane to go to America. I wish I could do that."
- Luke
"I had a new question, but I missed it. What was I going to say?"
- Luke
Daddy: "Hey, Luke! Do you want to cut your fingernails, too?"
Luke: "No, thank you. My fingernails don't have any more."
- Luke and Daddy, after Daddy cut his fingernails
Luke: "I'm hungry."
Mommy: "Well, when we get home you can ask nicely for some food."
Luke: "Oh, okay. Mommy, can I have some nicely, please?"
- Luke
"It's just like the same! We have both shirts to match!"
- Luke and Silas in their seersucker Sunday best
Luke: "Mommy, I have one more question. "
Mommy: "Okay."
Luke: "There were five penguins...no, not penguins...and they went to the grocery store. And they got apples, and peaches, and oranges, and bananas, and peanut butter and jelly, and water, and milk, and juice, and cups. And I have another question..."
Mommy: "Okay..."
Luke: "There was a turtle, and it was on the street..."
- Luke. This "question" comes up a lot.
"Ok, yes. That's good. Move the sugar way high up so I can't reach it. So I can't stick my finger in it and eat it."
- Luke, honestly happy to avoid temptation
"Mommy, I want to tell you a story. There was a lion next door, and it was roaring. And I said, "sssss", and it said "roar". And I said "sssss" again, and it went back home to his family. And it's not there anymore. Look! It's not there!"
- Luke, after waking up
Luke: "I think all my boo-boos and scabs went away!"
Mommy: "Did Jesus make them all better?"
Luke: "Yes. I think he put them all in a nice basket."
- Luke
Luke: "I'd like some balogna for lunch."
Mommy: "Well, we had that yesterday, so we'll have something else today. It's not really good for you, so we can't have too much of it."
Luke: "I won't have too much."
- Luke
Luke: "What's this?"
Mommy: "It's a rice krispie treat. That's for later."
Luke: "Is it for me?"
Mommy: "Yes."
Luke: "Not for dogs?"
Mommy: "No."
Luke: "Not for Zoe?"
Mommy: "No."
Luke: "Not for Charlie and Midge?"
Mommy: "No."
- Luke, after spying a packaged rice krispie "treat" on the table. Charlie and Midge are the dogs next door.
"If I climb over here, I will crack my head open. I will fall, and it will hurt. I don't want to do that."
- Luke, active listener, explaining why it's not good to climb over the 2nd story balcony
Luke: "I farted two times."
Mommy: "You did?"
Luke: "Yes, but they were quiet. They went {whispering} 'Ta. Ta.' And they smelled, too."
- Luke
{fly zooming by}
Daddy: "What was that? Did you see that?"
Luke: "It was a bee."
Daddy: "What was his name?"
Luke: "John."
Daddy: "Where was he going?"
Luke {pointing}: "He was going over there. Then he felled out of the window and landed with his bee friends."
Daddy: "What were their names?"
Luke: "Hag, Deed, Veed, Fag, and Grags."
- Luke and Daddy
Well this is a horrible first: four Teagues down in one fell swoop of sickness. The boys started it with seemingly minor colds, then Jeanine caught it, then the boys' colds developed into double ear infections, then I got it, and now we are all miserable. At the same time! That's pretty much the worst part of it. Typically, these things swing through one, maybe two, of us at a time and then serially take over each person just as the previously infected heals up. We've never had a case where BOTH Jeanine and I were unable to function properly.
So the house is a total wreck. Bits of uneaten food litter the countertops, nasty used Kleenexes are jammed into the couch cushions, Silas has been wearing the same diaper for the last 4 days, and Luke's sleeve is now stuck to his crusty nose. We've enlisted the aid of grandparents only to infect them as well. This must end! I am officially calling for an end to the madness.
Next week's Pictures of the Day will either be non-existent or grossly unpleasant, and you can already see the hit the Quote of the Moment area has taken. The good thing is that I'll end up posting again as soon as we're better -- if only to get this disgusting and sad post out of the top slot!