Mommy: "We know someone who's one year old..."
Luke: "Faith! She's a humongous girl!"
Luke {whispering}: "I'm saying that so she doesn't get embarrassed."

"I wish I had super powers. Oh, wait! I do! I have super cool moves!"

Silas: "Can we watch the movie?"
Mommy: "No, it's an adult movie. Just for mommies and daddies. Just lots of people talking."
Silas: "Oh! I love that! Just to hear what people say!"

"If they tell you to dance, make sure you don't take off your shirt."

- Luke's advice to Silas on his first day of kindergarten

Luke: "I've been seeing 'Shrek 2' everywhere!"
Mommy: "Really, where?"
Luke: "I think mostly in my dreams."

"It's just like riding a dolphin!"

- Silas surfing on a boogie board

"This food tastes just like how it smells!"

- Silas on Aunt Leah's amazing maple apples

Daddy: "We're not going to eat fast food this time. No Arby's, McDonald's, Chick-fil-a... We're going to go to another kind of restaurant."
Silas: "Long food?"

"Luke, Si-yas!"

- Faith is finally able to say them!

"So...how was my day today?"

- Luke upon getting into the car after school. He beat me to the punch this time.

"That's cool. The wind attacks the rain drops and they fall off."

- Luke looking out his window in the car during a rainstorm

Silas: "Does it have skunks on it?"
Mommy: "No."
Silas: "Does it have tigers on it?"
Mommy: "No."
Silas: "Then what was it?"

- Silas after I told him I had gotten a new shirt for Luke. I mean, what else could there be besides skunks and tigers?

"You can just talk in a normal voice."
- Luke after I "voiced" Sister Bear

Silas: "I think those cheese crackers might taste like strawberries."
Mommy: "Really?"
Silas: "Yes, some things taste like strawberries sometimes. I'll let you know."

Mommy {to Faith's baby talk at breakfast}: "Faith, what are you talking about?"
Silas: "Don't worry about her, Mommy. She's just talking to her food."

{singing} "Catch me, catch me! Then you have to kiss me!"

Daddy: Can you spell "you?"
Luke: U.
Daddy: It's actually Y-O-U.
Luke: What?! That's crazy. Why would they do that?

"I need to call the news man. It's snowing, and you can see snowflakes on the ice!"

It's fun having the weekend on school days, isn't it? 'Cause then everybody's home!

"Daddy, can you do a story tonight from your mouth, not from a book?"

Silas: "I don't want to be a cute person."
Mommy: "Why not?"
Silas: "You have to wear ties and stuff..."

"She looks like she's about to dust something."

- Silas's reaction to Faith's first ponytail (or "ponk", as we call it) on top of her head

"I'm having two healthy things for breakfast: a banana and an english muffin. I already ate the banana. Check!"

Ma ma!

"Da-dee!"

Silas: "Look, Mommy! I got a piece of candy at school!"
Mommy: "Neat! What for?"
Silas: "I remembered something that no one else remembered."
Mommy: "What was it?"
Silas: "...I forgot."

"It looks like Transformers, only there aren't any Transformers in it."

-Silas watching a commercial for a documentary about WWII

Silas (picking up a rolled-up poster): "What's this?"
Mommy: "It's a picture. One of my favorite pictures of all time."
Silas: "Is it a picture of me?"

"Hi!"

- spoken with a staccato Southern accent

Luke: "How do you spell 'How does Buzz Lightyear fly? I see him fly.'?"
Silas: "How do you spell 'How does Buzz Lightyear fly? I see him fly. Infinity years old. Love your neighbor as yourself.'?"

(After doing Daddy's post-run leg stretches alongside him)
Daddy: "How do you feel?"
Silas: "It kind of made me longer!"

Luke had a friend over to play the other day, and I eavesdropped on their conversation...

Friend {while playing a game}: "If I win, I rock. And if you win, you rock."
Luke: "Rock what?...does that mean you win?"

Luke: "One time, a mouse fell off the fence and Zoe killed it!"
Friend {shocked}: "You have a sister named Zoe?"

Silas {while praying over the lunch}: "Thank you, God, for giving us friends."

Silas: "These are my super cool super hero glasses!"
Mommy: "They're cool. What do they make you do?"
Silas: "They make me see not so good."

(They are an opaque green. I don't know what the deal is with these "glasses".)

Luke: "Daddy, what do you say at work when they realize that you weren't there and that you went to a wedding?"
Daddy: "I'll say just that...that I went to a wedding. What do you think they would say to that?"
Luke: "'Well, I'm glad you're here today!'"

"I think she's going to write a note back saying, 'You need to work on this more'."

- Luke discussing his handwriting on a get well card for his teacher

"Ow, Faith! Your hands are like tweezers!"

Luke: "Ooooooh, this guy looks cool!"
Silas: "Awesome?"
Luke: "Yes, awesome."
Silas: "Okay, I need to see him then."

Silas: "Last night I had a dream about some roley-poleys that turned into delicious pears."
Daddy: "Really?"
Silas: "Yes! And I always wanted to have that dream!"

Luke: "Mommy, is there infinity stuff in this whole world?"
Mommy: "No..."
Luke: "I mean the whole planet."
Mommy: "Not really..."
Luke: "Okay, how about the planet, all the other planets and outer space...and all the leaves."

Silas: "I know why we wear shoes."
Mommy: "Why?"
Silas: "So cars won't bump over our feet."

Luke: "I think that I'm going to be President, and my name will be Luke Washington."
Silas: "I think that I'm going to be President, too, and my name will be Barack Obama Silas."

Luke: "What is this we're having?"
Mommy: "Couscous. Isn't that a funny word?"
Luke: "Maybe it's a different language."
Mommy: "Maybe. What country do you think it's from?"
Luke: "Mmmmm....Michigan?"

Silas: "I think I smell church."
Mommy: "Really? What does it smell like?"
Silas: "Blueberries."

Silas: "Daddy, brush my teeth really fast, please."
Daddy: "Why?"
Silas: "So I can go see Faith some more."

(after Luke proceeded to create bucket after bucket of disconnected sand castles)
Daddy: "What are we building this whole field of sand castles for?"
Luke: "So people will walk by and go, 'Oh wow, look what you guys did!'"

Mommy: "What's your favorite drink?"
Silas: "You have to guess."
Mommy: "Sprite?"
Silas: "Grape juice. You were very close."

Luke: "Mommy, why does Silas smell so bad?"
Mommy: "That's not very nice. We don't say that about other people. I think he smells sweet..."
Silas: "I farted."

"Faith just laughed at my REAL yawn. I wasn't pretending, and she still laughed at it!"

Silas:"You know what kind of friends I want?"
Daddy: "What kind?"
Silas: "Giants who are nice and friendly. And I want them to live in my house if they can fit."

Silas: "This tastes like chocolate!"
Mommy: "What does?"
Silas: "My banana bread. Did you know that if you leave banana bread out, it turns to chocolate?"

Silas: "Daddy, can bugs see?"
Daddy: "They sure can."
Silas: "Well then why did that one bug look right at me and then fly into the swimming pool?"

"Mommy! Can we get this? We buy 125 bendaroos. And then we buy 125 more bendaroos. And then...and we don't even have to buy this...we get 500 bendaroos!!"

- Luke getting sucked into infomercials

Mommy: "Luke, you've got your shirt on backwards."
Luke: "What? No, I don't." {looks inside his shirt for the tag}
Silas: "God knows, Luke. God knows that you have your shirt on backwards."

Mommy: "Pat-a-cake, pat-a-cake baker's man. Bake me a cake as fast as you can. Pat it, and prick it, and mark it with a T. And put it in the oven for - "
Silas: "Baby Bop and me! ...Daddy and Luke always say it wrong."

"Mommy, are you going to the potty? I have to gooooooo! I even have my pants off!"

- Silas talking through the crack under the bathroom door

"Hello, Mrs!"

"Okay, on the count of 3 we all fall down. 1...4...8...5...3!"

"You know, if I got married, she would STEAL my name!"

- Luke talking about his future wife

"Look, Daddy! It's the ark of the president!"

- Silas showing off his craft from VBS: the ark of the covenant

Daddy: "Goodbye, children!"
Silas: "Goodbye, daddies!"

"FIRST I wanted to be a astronaut, THEN I wanted to be an artist, THEN I wanted to be a farmer, but NOW I want to be a plumber! Do you really get to use all of those tools???"

- Luke upon seeing the plumber's bag who came to fix our hot water heater

"I'm a very good singer...but I don't rhyme."

"You know, Faith smiles when you say something three times...but sometimes she doesn't."

"I like Chuck E Cheese TOO much!"

Luke: "Do you like Chinese food?"
Silas: "I like all the food in the whole wide world."
Luke: "Do you like Portuguese food?"
Silas: "That's a language!"

"Sometimes when I burp, it hurts. Especially the Coke snot burps."

Mommy: "I can't believe you got the tree down in the front yard!"
Beau: "I know! Those guys are really strong and helped me a lot!"
Luke: "...when you said 'those guys', I couldn't tell if you're talking about us...cause you didn't say our names."

{overheard after the boys went to bed at night}
Silas: "Does the Bible really say that God loves us and we love him?"
Luke: "Yes."
Silas: "I want to read the Bible."

Daddy: "Cain brought God some of his plants that he grew, but God wasn't happy with them, and Able brought to God his best sheep to sacrifice."
Luke: "So...probably the lambs that could do tricks and stuff...and the ones that couldn't, he kept."

{after going up and finding Silas still awake an hour after he went down for a nap}
Mommy: "Silas, are you still up?"
Silas: "Yes!"
Luke: "Good job, Silas!"

"I can run really fast because I have a cheetah on my shirt. Daddy can run faster than a cheetah with a broken leg...with only one broken leg."

"Mommy, I'm trying not to tell you something because I don't want you to know...but I'm going to tell you. I have army men and an army truck in my bed...{pause} I think I'm going to bring the army truck down because it's too big."

I never had to say a word!

Silas: "Look out, Daddy! You're stepping in the lava!"
Daddy: "Oh no! What do I do?"
Silas: "It's okay, Daddy. The lava just turned into dinosaurs that don't eat you."

Mommy: "When Faith starts grabbing things and putting them in her mouth, we're going to have to be really careful and make sure she doesn't get little things."
Luke: "Yes. And you'll have to set up the baby trap to make sure she doesn't get up the stairs."

I guess we know what Luke thought of the baby gate as a baby...

Daddy: "Did you sleep well last night, Silas?"
Silas: "Probably!"

Daddy: "Do you hear the ocean?"
Silas: "No. I think Luke picked some seashells that don't have the ocean in them."

"Let me try to pick you up, but first, let me try to get my muscles stronger." {hitting his stomach}

{laughing} "Luke, please stop tickling me! It feels like ants!"

{looking at my cuffed capri pants} "Why do you have these kind of pants? So you can see your legs better?"

"I guess this is just a quiet day."

Luke was sick. :(

"I think this blanket is made out of wolves."

Silas: "I know what we should have for dinner - chicken nuggets!"
Mommy: "But we had chicken nuggets last night."
Silas: "No, I mean with real chicken."

"I just can't stop looking at her face!" (referring to Faith)

Daddy: "Do you remember why the Israelites were whining and complaining to God?"
Luke: "Yes! All they had to eat was salmon from heaven."

"You know when someone yawns and then you start yawning? That's called a yawn fight."

Silas wanders into Daddy's office...

Silas: "I keep wanting you, Daddy."
Daddy: "Really?"
Silas: "Yes, it just keeps happening."

Mommy: "Silas, how many red crayons do you see?"
Silas: "All of them."

Here's a conversation I had with Luke after I told him I was having trouble memorizing the Bible verse I was going to have to recite at Bible study that night. He's figuring these things out waaaaaaay too early.

Luke: "Is everyone going to have to say it?"
Mommy: "Yes."
Luke: "Here's what you do. You wait until someone else says it, and they'll tell you the whole thing. And then you can say it after them. But you'll have to remember it then."

Luke: "Do you know why I wasn't hurting Silas when I was standing on top of him?"
Mommy: "Why?"
Luke: "I was only standing on one foot!"

Luke's assessment of Little Big Planet:

"I think they meant to call it Medium Planet."

"I wrote my phone number down at school for Brooke and Kailey. But I wasn't sure how to do the 2 and the 5, so I just wrote S's."

"Do we need to listen? Cause I hear you talking, but I think you're talking to yourself."

- Luke upon hearing me mumbling the directions to myself while I figured out how to play "Mousetrap"

Daddy: "Do you want ice cream for dessert?"
Luke: "No thank you. I just want bread."
Daddy: "Don't you like ice cream?"
Luke: "No, not really."
Daddy: "Really? Why?"
Luke: "I don't know. God just changed me like that."

"I want to go check on Faith again. I love her."

Silas {doing a headstand}: "Do you know why I'm so good at that?"
Daddy: "Why?"
Silas: "Because my head is so big."

"Hey, Daddy? Can you tell me when it's my birthday?"

- this was as soon as Christmas was over, and his birthday is May 18

Luke: "We each have fun things to do. I get to go to school and go to computer class. Daddy gets to go to work and wear a badge..."
Silas: "...and I get candy!"

"Daddy's real name is 'Beau', Mommy's real name is 'Jeanine', and Aunt Tiffany's real name is...'Aunt'?"

"A smile is fudge."

{watching me change Faith}
Silas: "It's a good thing she doesn't have a penis. She won't get it caught in her PJs."

{Mommy singing "Baby, It's Cold Outside" - best Christmas song ever, btw}
Silas: "Are they in China?"

Silas: "My hands look clean!"
Mommy: "Well, we still need to wash them because germs are invisible."
Luke: "Yes. Germs are faith."

Silas: "Mommy's not a kid."
Daddy: "She's not? What is she?"
Silas: "She's a dult."

Luke: "Oh, I love this restaurant even more than I thought I did!"
Mommy: "Really? Why?"
Luke: "Is it next to the train tracks?"
Mommy: "Yes."
Luke: "This is my favorite restaurant!"

"I would love to play football with those kind of hats."

Luke: "Hey, Daddy! We're watching the Georgia Tech game!"
Daddy: "Don't tell me yet what's going on. I want to watch it first."
Luke: "Okay. I won't tell you all the bad stuff that happened that Mommy told me about."

(This was at the beginning of the GA/GA Tech game, though. :) Go Jackets!!)

Luke's observation about Faith's upcoming birth: "She was infinity before she was born. Then she'll turn zero."

Mommy: "Luke, I'm tired."
Luke: "Me, too!"
Mommy: "Maybe we should both take a little nap."
Luke: "I know what we could do that would make us fall asleep."
Mommy: "What?"
Luke: "Maybe watch a movie? That always makes me want to fall asleep..."

Silas: "When I eat my pudding, I don't get my mouth dirty."
Mommy: "Really? How?"
Silas: "I have a big mouth."

"Can you help me? It keeps making me lose..."

- Silas on playing a new video game

Silas {singing}: "I fell into a burning ring of pacifiers..."

...followed by laughter at his Johnny Cash joke

"I'm glad Jesus didn't make me a chair or anything like that...because it feels good. It feels good like this."

Those who have been to The Coffee Park on Roswell Road can maybe relate to this one. :)

Luke: "Where are we going?"
Mommy: "The Coffee Park."
Luke: "Have we ever been there before?"
Mommy: "Yes. One time...do you remember?"
Luke: "Oh, I think I do. Weren't we locked in a cage?"

"Is Jesus making hot dogs?"

- Silas in the car as we smelled an outdoor BBQ

Daddy {to Mommy}: "Honey, I think I know where we should go for dinner."
Luke: "Daddy, maybe you shouldn't call Mommy 'Honey' next time, because I think it's gonna make me say it."

Silas: "Whose controller is this?"
Luke: "Mine."
Silas: "But it feels cold."
Luke: "Oh."

- I'm amazed and a little scared that they now know whose controller is whose based on warmth

Silas: "Mommy, do monsters know our name?"
Mommy: "There are no monsters, Silas. They're just pretend."
Silas: "What about the one at the fair?"
Mommy: "That was just a man in a costume."
Silas: "There was a costume inside the monster?"

"How does apple juice make granola bars melt in your mouth?"

"Daddy, can you race with me? Cause you're faster than a cheetah!"

Mommy: "Your eyes are blue, Silas. What color are mine?"
Silas: "Mmmm...red?"

"Whoa! My fart almost came out as #2!...Farts are kind of tricky, huh, Daddy?"

(Sorry it's gross - I thought it was kinda funny!)

"Mommy, can you hold me? Because I think you like to hold me."

"Oh, you're the best mommy in the whole wide world!"

- Luke after I beat an extra-hard level for him on his Space Monkey video game

Luke: "When do I get to go to kindergarten?"
Mommy: "Next year."
Luke {disappointed}: "Oh, man!"
Silas {panicked}: "I don't want to go to kindergarten!"
Mommy: "Why?"
Silas: "That means I have to get a shot!"

Silas: "Am I bigger than the table?"
Daddy: "You're head and shoulders bigger!"
Luke: "And neck."

Luke: "How old is Zoe?"
Mommy: "7 years old."
Luke: "How do you know?"
Mommy: "She was born 7 years ago when we got her as a puppy."
Silas: "When Zoe has a birthday party, I think she's going to need some help opening her presents because she's a dog."

"Mommy, I think you must be getting so tired of making breakfast, lunch and dinner every day. When I get bigger, I'll help you!"

Yes!!

"If I was a girl, I'd want a baby in my tummy, cause I want to see what it feels like."

Luke {after unwrapping baby girl clothes from a friend}: "It's a good thing it's girl clothes!"
Mommy: "Why? Wouldn't you wear this?"
Luke: "No. It's a 'pretty'."

After watching the Jonah Veggie Tales movie...

Luke: "Hey, Mommy, guess where I DON'T want to go?"
Mommy: "Where?"
Luke: "Ninevah."

Mommy: "Luke, is there anyone from school you'd like to have over to play?"
Luke: "Yes...I think I want to have over the bad kid."
Mommy: "Why?"
Luke: "I think I can make him nice."

Luke: "Is the baby going to be naked when she comes out?"
Mommy: "Yes."
Luke {incredulously}: "NAKED?!?!"

Luke: "I know someone who can't go to work."
Daddy: "Who?"
Luke: "Pregnant mommies."
Daddy: "Why?"
Luke: "They might bump into things with their big tummies."

Luke: "When I get to be a daddy, I'm going to work at Gametap. And then I'm going to work where you are. And then I'm going to go to college."
Daddy: "What are you going to do at college?"
Luke: "I don't know. I've never been there before."
Daddy: "At college, you learn really hard stuff."
Luke: "...I think at college I'll learn how to snap."

Luke: "Knock, knock!"
Silas: "Who's there?"
Luke: "Me!"
Luke: "Knock, knock!"
Silas: "Who's there?"
Luke: "Me!"
Luke: "Knock, knock!"
Silas: "Who's there?"
Luke: "Me!"
...

- overheard their first night in the same room

"No, Silas! Stay in here! This is the happy room!"

- Luke after Silas tried to go in the "sick" room at the doctor's office for his 3-year check-up. They have a smiley face icon on the "well" room and a sad face on the "sick" room.

"From up here you look so teeny, tiny! It looks like you're little people, and we're the big people."

- Luke on top of his bunk bed

Daddy: "What do you think, guys? Should I run for president?"
Silas; "Yes!"
Daddy: "I don't know...I think it might be a hard job."
Silas: "Can I just see you do it one time?"

Daddy: "So we're going home tomorrow. This was our last day at Hilton Head."
Luke: "But Daddy! If we leave tomorrow, how am I going to remember the beach!?"

Daddy: "Hey, Luke. I have a joke for you."
Luke: "What?"
Daddy: "What's brown and sticky?"
Luke: "What?"
Daddy: "A stick!"
Silas: "...sometimes trees are."

Daddy: "When you get a shot, it hurts at first, but then it makes you better."
Silas: "When they stop?"

"I think God touches us, and that's how we wake up in the morning."

Silas: "Can I have some more apple juice?"
Mommy: "More apple juice? If you have much more, you'll turn into an apple!" (I know, I know...it's a theme the past 2 days)
Luke: "What about me? I like milk. What will I turn into?"
Mommy: "A cow."
Silas: "What can I have then?"
Mommy: "Some water."
Silas: "Then I'll turn into a water cow!"

Silas: "Can I have another clementine, please?"
Mommy: "Another clementine?? You guys have had so much, if you're not careful, you'll turn into a clementine!"
Silas: "But I'll be careful!"
Luke: "...is that true?"

"Spit is really cool because it makes a lot of bubbles."

Silas {after Daddy threw him up in the air}: "You caught me!"
Daddy: "You should be glad that I caught you!"
Silas: "Cause I could crack my head open?"
Daddy: "And then what would be in there?"
Silas: "More hair."

Mommy {calling to Luke in the bathroom}: "Are you done?"
Luke: "No."
Luke: "...Mommy, when I say 'no', I don't really mean I'm not done. I mean I don't need help because--"
Silas: "Because you're 5?"
Luke: "Yes."

Silas understands.

Daddy: "Luke, you know what we're going to do today?"
Luke: "What?"
Daddy: "We're going to go to the doctor's office and find out if our little baby..."
Luke: "...has a penis?"

Mommy: "Are you still tired?"
Silas: "Did you hear me yawn?"
Mommy: "Yes."
Silas: "When I do that, it makes me not tired."

Daddy: "Hey, Silas!"
Silas: "Hay on a boy!"

- after Daddy tried to teach the boys the "hay is for horses" thing

"Whoever has a mouth, then they're real."

- Silas explaining how to determine which characters are real after seeing WALL-E

Mommy: "Can I pick you up?"
Silas: "Yes. How can you do that?"
Mommy: "I'm so strong."
Silas: "I'm so strong, too. I can pick up big pillows."

Luke {putting a small roly-poly in my hand}: "Here. He's a little bit dead."

Uh...thanks?

Mommy: "After Luke wakes up, we're going to go to Costco, then we're going to have dinner, and then who do you think is coming over?"
Silas: "Granmom and Grandad!"
Mommy: "You smart boy! How did you know that?"
Silas: "It wasn't a hard one."

Mommy: "Do you know what holiday is this week?"
Luke: "No."
Mommy: "It's July 4th! It's the birthday of our country. So we have parades, and fireworks, and wear red, white and blue, because those are the colors of our flag..."
Luke: "But what do we wear for pants?"

Silas {coming up to me while I'm flipping through a magazine}: "Mommy, will you play with me?"
Mommy {still flipping}: "Sure! Go ahead and set it up, and I'll come play with you."
{pause}
Silas {gently closing my magazine for me}: "Here you go, Mommy. Now you can play better."

{Silas doing a trick on his scooter}
Mommy: "Wow, Silas! How did you learn how to do that?"
Silas: "Vacation Bible School."

Silas: "I didn't like being a baby."
Mommy: "Why?"
Silas: "It wasn't much fun."

- Silas watching the video of him smiling for the first time...a little less active than he is now. :)

"When I get to be a cowboy, I'll be really good at riding a motorcycle."

Daddy: "I'm going to help them deliver the baby when it's ready to come out."
Luke: "Can we please come in and see the bone where the hole is in Mommy's tummy?"

{Silas and Daddy after Silas fell off his scooter}
Daddy: "Silas, are you okay? Did you scrape your knee?"
Silas: "I'm fine, but the sidewalk got a bigger scrape."

Luke: "We watched a TV show about Jonah in church today."
Daddy: "Really? Was it a cartoon or real people?"
Luke: "Daddy, the Bible really happened."

"Daddy, it's getting so big I don't know if it's really a number."

- Luke looking at the gas pump while filling up

Luke: "Mommy, can I play a video game?"
Mommy: "Why do you like playing video games so much?"
Luke: "It's just what God makes me think about all the time."

"I'm going to leave it just like this until a giant comes along and gets it out for me."

- Silas after he pushed his straw far into his juice box. For some reason he's obsessed with giants nowadays.

Luke: "I bet Mommy's tummy got bigger last night."
Daddy: "I bet it did! You know what? Mine did, too."
Luke: "You're joking, Daddy, but it looks like it did."

Mommy: "We have a surprise for you! We're going to have a baby!"
Luke: "Today??"

Daddy: "Do you want Mommy to have another baby?"
Luke: "Yes, but who is she going to marry to make this one?"

"Daddy, you're the best back scratcher. They should have you in a scratch-your-back store."

"I wish that was a dream, Mommy."

- Luke after falling off his scooter and scraping his knee

"Captain D* in Peter Pan was playing a fun, cool sword game. Ching- ching!"

*Hook

"Hey, Daddy! If you scratch your head, it will get bigger!"

Luke {singing}: "Da doo deee! Deee da dooo! Ba ba baaa!"
Silas {looking at Luke and then at me}: "That makes me happy, Mommy."

"We're Energy Boys!"

"Daddy, I'm so tired I'm starving...I'm starving for tired. {then realizing how silly it sounds} You don't know what that means, do you?"

"I love everyone. Everyone in our state, everyone in New York City, everyone in Italy, everyone in Rome, everyone in California, everyone at the beach. Everyone on this planet!"

Mommy {waving to a neighbor walking down the street}: "Hi!"
Luke: "Do you know her name?"
Mommy: "No."
Luke: "Then you shouldn't talk to her. She's a stranger!"

Silas: "I feel sick."
Mommy: "What part of you feels sick?"
Silas: "I can't guess."

Silas: "Are we going to the park?"
Mommy: "As soon as we get our shoes on."
Silas: "Okay! Let's rock n roll!"

"I'm glad you don't talk in Spanish, Mommy, cause I wouldn't know what it means!"

Mommy: "What was your favorite thing about the basketball game?"
Luke: "The chicken. And the man - I think he was a superhero."

Silas: "L-U-K-E"
Daddy: "Very good, Silas! You spelled 'Luke'! Who can spell 'Jesus'?"
Silas: "God can!"

Mommy: "It's going to be hot today, so you can put on a short-sleeved shirt."
Luke: "How about short-sleeved pants?"

Luke: "I had fun at the playground, but my feet got tired."
Daddy: "Maybe you just need more exercise. Do some jumping jacks."
Luke {pointing to our stash of jacks}: "We have those over there."

"I like kids."

Silas: "I want to work at Chick-fil-a!"
Mommy: "Really?"
Silas: "Yes. I will make soup."
Luke: "Can you make me some eggs?"
Silas: "Sure!"

Mommy: "What do you want to watch?"
Silas: "'Little Einsteins'!"
Mommy: "Are you sure? Both of you?"
Silas: "Yes, 'Little Einsteins'!"
Luke: "Silas, you're making me want to watch 'Little Einsteins', and I don't even want to watch TV! I want to play a video game!"

{"Triops Has Three Eyes" playing on the CD player...}
"Mommy, I think those are real, but they're up in heaven."

Luke: "Why do you call yourself 'Mommy'?"
Mommy: "Because that's what you guys call me."
Luke: "But some people like to call you 'Jeanine'."
Silas: "I like you to call you pretty."
Luke: "Me, too!"
Mommy: "Aw, boys...that is so sw-"
Luke: "Who wants to be called stinky man?!?"

Mommy: "Hmmm...I'm going to have to park a little better."
Luke: "You don't have to say so many words. It's okay."

"Who wants to go to the clam store with fire on it?"

Luke: "The park is close to the grocery store."
Mommy and Daddy {not thinking it warranted a response}: "..."
Daddy {but knowing Luke}: "Yes, it is."
Luke: "I thought I was going to have to say it two times!"

Luke: "The park is close to the grocery store."
Mommy and Daddy {not thinking it warranted a response}: "..."
Daddy {but knowing Luke}: "I know."
Luke: "I thought I was going to have to say it two times!"

Luke: "I miss Aunt Tiffany."
Daddy: "She'll be here in just a little bit, and then you'll get to see her. She'll come to our house, and maybe she can even babysit you."
Luke: "Daddy, we're not babies anymore. I want to call it 'big-sit'."

Mommy: "Silas, you're doing a great job playing Candyland with us. You're such a big boy! When you were littler, you couldn't play Candyland."
Silas: "Because I didn't have any hands?"

Silas: "Daddy, can you make us breakfast?"
Daddy: "I don't know how."
Silas: "You *puck it in the toaster, and then you give it to someone."

*put

Luke: "Daddy, I had a string on my lip, but I took it off."
Daddy: "A string? What was that?"
Luke: "It was some skin, but it was *killed."

*dead

(sorry for the grossness - it just went with today's picture....) :)

"Silas, when you turn 3, I'll turn a little bit more 4, and then I'll turn 5."

Silas: "Let's play leapfrog!"
Daddy: "What is leapfrog?"
Silas: "It's when you jump over Luke and play leapfrog!"

{They then play leapfrog, but Luke accidentally steps on Silas's fingers in the process.}
"And that's how we do leapfrog when Luke steps on my fingers."

Daddy {throwing away old glowsticks}: "Oh, it looks like they ran out of juice."
Silas: "Can we get some more juice?"

"I think I have candy in my nose. It's so sour!"

- Luke's weird sick notes

Luke: "I love you, Mommy."
Mommy: "I love you, too, Luke! That makes me so hap-"
Luke: "and I love Daddy, too."
Mommy: "That's gre-"
Luke: "And everyone in the whole world. Even people I haven't met yet."

Luke: "I think I might be scared tonight."
Mommy: "You don't need to be scared. Mommy is here. Daddy is here. God will protect you. Nothing will happen."
Luke: "...doesn't something happen every day?"

Luke: "I'm sick."
Mommy: "What kind of sick?"
Luke: "Big sick."

Luke: "Are we going to see TMBG today?"
Daddy: "Not today. In 3 weeks."
Luke: "3 weeks? How long is that?"
Daddy: "21 days."
Luke: "...that needs to be lower."

"Hey! We have our whole family back."

- Daddy got back into town Saturday. Yay!

"I don't like princes getting knocked over by bicycles." (around 2:40)

"Grandad can fix anything. He can fix this*."

*his bike. Grandad???

"I don't love thunder, but I love rain."

{Daddy sticking his hair up}
Silas: "You're a funny guy."
{Daddy flattening his hair}
Silas: "Now you're a daddy."

Daddy: "We're going to see They Might Be Giants with John and John."
Silas: "Are they going to sing "Jesus Loves Me"?"
Daddy: "I don't know if they know that song."
Silas: "Well, I will teach them and play on their guitars."

{Mommy finishes singing the Oscar Mayer bologna theme song...}
Luke: "Did you learn that at church?"

"I didn't go for a nap today, so I must be tired. But I'm not...yet."

"I love you, Luke."

- waking Luke up this morning

"Mmmm! Good job on Rice Chex!"

"This is the biggest snow in the whole world!"

Silas: "I'm sorry."
Mommy: "That's okay, Silas. I know you weren't trying to be mean. But it's still nice of you to say you're sorry."
Silas: "But I'm Silas!"

"Hey. look! That man is fishing on that horse!"

- Luke pointing to a man with a horse whip

"Is this katamari going to eat the world?"

- Luke panicking as Daddy rolled his first snowball

Luke {pointing to Mt Paran Church}: "Do you remember that I went to high school there?"
Mommy: "Do you mean Sunday School?"
Silas: "He means 'High School Musical'."

"Hey, look! It's a half-moon! The sun and the moon are mixed together!"

"When Anna comes into school, Mrs. Kiesler says, 'Hi, Annaboo!' cause I think that's her middle name."

"Everyone's somewhere!"

"Mommy, maybe when you grow up to be as big as Daddy, you can go to work and Daddy can stay home with us!"

Luke: "Silas, didn't you want to bring your coloring?"
Silas: "No, Luke. I'm full of coloring."

"I'm so tired about New Year's!"

- Luke after the "festivities"

Silas: "Where are we going?"
Mommy: "We're going to church. We haven't been there in a few weeks."
Daddy: "We're going to worship Jesus."
Silas: "And have snacks!"

Silas {talking about the cars in the movie "Cars"}: "How do they talk?"
Daddy: "It's pretend. It's just a cartoon."
Silas {still thinking}: "...oh, because they have mouths."

"Hey, Mommy, can you tell Daddy to wake us up in the morning so we can have Pop-Tarts?"

"Do you live here?"

Luke was talking to our regular check-out lady at Publix (Suna, if you frequent the Sandy Plains Publix) who we saw grocery shopping on her lunch break.

Luke: "Zoe! Don't get my food!"
Mommy: "Zoe won't get it. She never gets food off the table. She's a good girl."
Luke: "She always obeys. That's because she's 6...and a dog."

Luke: "Mommy, Silas needs you to wipe him off."
Mommy: "Did you try??"
Luke: "Yes, but I can't wipe little boys' bottoms off. Only mommies can wipe all little boys bottoms. And daddies."

Thank God for daddies, too.

Luke {spying the tree}: " Oh, no! Where did all the ornaments go?"
Mommy: "I took them down since it's not Christmas anymore."
Luke: "PLEASE put them back up, Mommy! Please, please!"

"I think I want to be friends with that girl over there..."

- Luke after playing with a girl in the pediatrician's waiting room

Mommy {playing with one of those ball maze thingys}: "Wow, this is hard."
Silas: "Yes, it is hard. Even I can't do it."

Silas: "Mommy, can I play my game, please?"
Mommy: "Umm..."
Silas: "Say 'Sure!', Mommy!"

"I'm hungry for fudge, Mommy."

{interrupting the singing of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer}
Silas: "Reindeer games?! What games do reindeer play?"
Daddy: "I don't know. What games would you play if you were a reindeer?"
Silas: "Mad Tracks, that new car game, Bomberman, Lightning McQueen..."

Happy birthday, Beau!!

Silas {pointing at Uncle Josh Pavel}: "You have a hole!"
Uncle Josh: "I do? Where?"
Silas: "Right there! On your cheek!"

Yes. Josh has a dimple. :)

"Zoe is soooo beautiful!"

(Zoe got groomed yesterday, complete with red and green bows in her hair and a holly kerchief. Plus, they're working on the fact that girls are "beautiful" - of which Zoe is - and boys are "handsome".)

"Stupendous!"

Luke: "Okay, Mommy. So Meg is a girl, right?"
Mommy: "Yes."
Luke: "And Sydney is a girl."
Mommy: "Yes."
Luke: "...and we have two boys, so it's a tie!"

Silas: "'Jesus [is] the way, the truth, and the life.' Now you do one."
Beau: "'Behold, I stand at the door and knock...'"
Silas: "Well, who's there?"

Luke: "Whose tummy did you come out of?"
Beau: "Pansy's."
Luke: "Who else came out of her tummy?"
Beau: "Aunt Tiffany, Uncle Josh, Uncle Kemble, and Uncle Royal."
Luke: "WHOAH! How did they all fit?"

"My mom has a spoiler!"

read: mom's minivan

"I don't want to go to bed anymore."

Daddy: "Silas, don't put so much in your mouth please. I don't want you to choke! Do you know what 'choke' means?"
Silas: "Yes, it's when you fall down on the ground and then you choke."

Mommy: "Do you know who has a birthday in December?"
Luke: "Who?"
{Mommy pointing to Daddy}
Luke: "Daddy!"
Mommy: "Yes! And one of your uncles..."
Luke: "Uncle Royal?"
Mommy: "Yes! And..." {pointing up}
Luke: "Aunt Tiffany?"
Mommy: "No. Waaaaay up."
Luke: "On top of our car?"
Mommy: "No..."
Luke: "Jesus!"

Silas: "Hey, Daddy! Luke said 'halo'!"
Daddy: "'Halo'? or 'Hello'?"
Silas: "H...I don't know."

"Mommy, this is a sport."

- setting up Candyland

Silas: "Can I have some goldfish?"
Mommy: "Yes."
Silas: "Like Luke?"
Mommy: "Yes."
Silas: "Please?"
Mommy: "Yes."

Silas: "Mommy, what's that?"
Mommy: "Sweet potato casserole."
Silas: "I love it."
Mommy: "Well, I love you."
Silas: "Well, I love Daddy."

Daddy: "Be thinking about what you're thankful for, but don't tell me yet. Save it for Thanksgiving."
Luke: "I think the mice are already telling each other what their favorite things are..."

Luke: "Oh! These are pretty leaves!"
Mommy: "Yes, they are! What do you think we could do with them? You think we could take them home and then glue them on a paper?"
Luke: "Sure...but no."

Daddy: "How tall are you?"
Silas: "Big."

"If you see toys, shout 'Toys!'"

- Silas and I walking into a Kohl's. I think he's seen a bit of "Dora the Explorer".

Silas: "Mommy, where's your coat?"
Mommy: "I'm not wearing one."
Silas: "You can have mine if you want it."

Silas: "'Shout for joy to the Lord all the earth!'"
Silas {to Luke}: " Can you do it?"
Luke: "Can the car do it?"
Silas: "He doesn't have arms...or a mouth."
Luke: "I think he does...in the back."

"Thank you for being such a good helper!"

- to a uniformed policeman at McDonald's

Meide: "Can I give you a kiss?"
Silas: "Yes."
{kisses him on the head}
Silas: "Not on my head!"
Meide: "Where then?"
Silas {pointing to his cheek}: "Here."
{kisses him on the cheek}
Silas: "Thank you!"

"I'm going to sing with Annie!"

- "Tomorrow" came up on the CD (thanks, Grace!)

Luke: "Daddy, don't drink all of the apple juice because we will run out!"
Silas: "...of energy!"

"I can see EVERYTHING!"

- from on top of the ferris wheel

Daddy: "Who had a fun weekend?"
Luke and Silas: "Me!"
Silas: "What did we do?"

"That was a good day!"

- driving home from the pumpkin patch

Daddy {pointing to the countryside}: "Mommy wants to live here."
Luke: "You don't want to live here, Mommy."
Mommy: "Why?"
Luke: "You would be lost if we drove away."

"Will you hold me, Daddy? The wind is blowing to my shirt. Any my hair."

"Can we wipe our noses here? Like a pig?"

- right before we get to the pumpkin patch "farm"

Silas {yelling from his bed}: "Mommy! Mommy! Mommy!"
{and after entering his room, he whispers}: "We have to be quiet."
Mommy: "Why were you yelling?"
Silas: "I don't know."

"Yes, I'm just doing energy!"

- Silas's response to Granmom after running around the playground

Mommy {reading from What Do People Do All Day?}: "'Some people travel from place to place to do their jobs. What does Daddy do?'"
Luke: "Umm...plays games all day."
Mommy: "'What does Mommy do?'"
Luke: "Eat hot dogs, broccoli, ice cream - she likes those things."

Mommy: "Looks like our neighbors are having a party!"
Luke: "They're not having a party, Mommy. They're just having friends over. Having a party means that there are balloons on the mailbox."

"I love playing video games more than anyone on our planet!"

"I think the water I just drank went all over God's head!"

He told me God lives in his tummy. :)

Mommy: "I am so hungry! Let's have waffles. How does that sound?"
Silas: "I don't know. 'Tick, tick, tick'?"

Luke: "Why are we going to church again today?"
Mommy: "It's not a church day. Today's a school day."
Luke: "Well, why am I wearing two shirts?"

- "Picture Day" at school included an undershirt in today's ensemble. :)

Mommy: "What are you guys doing up so early?"
Luke: "We wanted to wake up before the birds!"

Luke's delirious notes on being sick a couple weeks ago:

"I think my throat wants to play with me."

"I think my eyes are asleep." (he was really drowsy)

"I think there are a lot of colors in my nose, and they got all mixed up."

"Hey! I love meat!"

Luke {pointing to a globe}: "Look, Daddy! That's where Aunt Tiffany lives! Somewhere...on that...planet."

"Why am I making so many puppets?"

- Luke's response to bringing yet another popsicle stick "puppet" home from school

"I'm a coach! Where my whistle? I'm Coach Dave!"

- hanging a necklace around his neck (Silas loves watching Luke play soccer!)

At the Georgia Aquarium yesterday in front of the beluga whales...

Aquarium worker {on a microphone}: "As you might notice, the beluga whales are in mating mode, so if you have any youngsters that don't need to see the birds and the bees, we've got some sea otters right through that door."
Luke {loud enough so most people could hear}: "Birds and bees?? They have birds and bees at the aquarium, too??"

Okay, so this is not a quote from either of my kids, but I thought it was hilarious. This was from Luke's first soccer game...

Coach: "Kick it to Ben!"
Kid: "To who?"
Coach: "Ben."
Kid: "Which one?"
Coach: "The one with the brown hair."
Kid {pointing}: "That one?"
Coach: "Yes."
Kid {still pointing}: "Him?"
Coach: "Just kick it straight."
Kid: "To Ben?"
Coach: "Yes." {kick...finally}

Mommy: "Silas! Your pull-up is all dry! Good job! Who's getting to be a big boy?"
Silas: "Luke is!"

"I think it's too hot for a girl to put in her mouth."

- Luke's comment on seeing his first cigarette

Luke: "When I get to be a daddy...hmmm, I don't want to be a daddy because then there would be 2 daddies!"
Mommy: "It's okay, you'll be a daddy to your own little kids."
Luke: "I don't want to change."
Mommy: "I know, but you'll grow up to be a great little boy first. Then you'll grow up to be a great daddy."
Luke: "Will I have to have a beard?"
Mommy: "If you want."
Luke: "I do!"

In the spirit of yesterday's QotM...

Luke: "You went to a wedding today?"
Mommy: "Yes."
Luke: "To get a new boy?"

Luke: "Why do you always run every morning?"
Daddy: "So I can grow old and watch you have babies."
Luke: "What? That's not how you grow a baby."
Daddy: "How does it happen?"
Luke: "This is how you grow a baby: first you get married. Then, that makes a baby."

"There's music in my hand!"

- Silas hanging on to his precious kazoozaphone

Luke {during naptime}: "Mommy, I'm awake!"
Mommy: "Luke, it's naptime. I need you to go to sleep. Mommy's going to try to take a nap, too, so you have to go to sleep."
Luke: "Will you wake me up when it's time to get up?"
Mommy: "Yes."
Luke: "How will you know if you're asleep?"

Luke: "How do you know where your home is once you get to space?"
Mommy: "What do you mean?"
Luke: "You look back, and it's just a circle..."

"How do you know when to wake up in the morning if your eyes are closed?"

Silas: "I get married."
Mommy: "You're getting married?"
Silas: "Yes."
Luke: "I want to get married, too."
Mommy: "Who to?"
Luke: "You."
Mommy: "Well, I'm already married. You have to pick another girl to get married to."
Luke: "...I don't know who."
Mommy: "You don't have to know who to yet. People get married when they're much older."
Luke: "Like 10?"
Mommy: "Even older."
Luke: "13???"

Daddy: "Now, Luke. I want you to be quiet your whole nap, okay? No talking."
Luke: "But Daddy! My mouth doesn't know how to stop talking...these words...they just have to come out!"

"I think God got really tired making the whole world!"

Silas (pointing out the car window): "Look! My swim class!"
Luke: "Could you touch [the bottom]?"
Silas: "No."
Luke: "I'm sorry to hear that."

Luke: "How old was I when I was at the beach?"
Daddy: "You were 3 when we went to Hilton Head, and you were 4 when we went to Hawaii. Why do you ask?
Luke: "Because I didn't know it."

Of course!

"We get our shoes on. We go there."

- after looking through some pictures from our Hilton Head vacation

Luke: "Mommy, what are you doing?"
Mommy: "I'm getting Zoe some food."
Luke: "I can do that!"
Mommy: "I know you can. You're good at that. But I'm almost done, so I'm going to finish it."
Luke: "Where's Daddy?"
Mommy: "He's in the office."
Luke: "I thought he was in the garage."
Mommy: "No, he's in the office."
Luke: "How do you know so much?"

"Mommy, don't walk next to a tornado because it will be hard to walk!"

Silas: "Mommy, watch me jump!"
{jumps down the stairs}
Mommy: "Wow! You are so big!"
Silas: "I am so big. Thank you!"

"God, thank you for not letting it rain for soccer practice. But God, we're done with soccer practice now. You can let it rain now."

Tiffany: "Do you like cars?"
Luke: "No, I like girls."

"How does Daddy take a little nap at work? There aren't any beds!"

During a game of Sequence...

Luke {looking at his overturned cards for the first time}: "Alligator, lion, turtle..."
Mommy: "Luke, don't tell me what you've got!"
Luke: "No, Mommy, I'm telling myself."

Daddy: "So, Luke, you didn't have soccer today?"
Luke: "No. The soccer team was *killed."

* cancelled

Daddy: "Luke, who gave you that new train?"
Luke: "The mailman!"

(His new train had been provided as a "free gift" as part of the Thomas the Tank Engine toy recall.)

In response to my birthday...

"What kind of cake are you going to have, Mommy? Don't you want a baseball one filled with chocolate?"

Yesterday was Luke's first day of 4-year preschool. Silas, like last year, didn't want his friend to leave:
"I want to go to Luke's school. I so sad."

...and then after we got home:
"I stay in my car seat."

It took him about 5 min. to finally come into the house...and then he got back in the car.

"Maybe next time Daddy should do it. He never messes up."

- Luke's editorial after I spilled coffee on the table

"Look! Bacon!"
"Look at his bottom! It's all tangled!"

- Luke after spotting a statue outside of the Hawaii Convention Center/Oceanic Airlines

"Uh oh! He broke it!"

- Luke's surprise when the waiter cracked a lobster in half

Luke had fun "reading" the airplane safety card on the plane. See if you can figure out which pictures he was talking about:
- "You can sit like this...or this...or this..."
- "People like to jump together."
- "Drinks come down from the ceiling."

It appears that Luke collaborated with these guys. (disclaimer: didn't read all of the captions before linking and yes, some are extremely inappropriate. But you get the gist of what I'm trying to point out, right? Proceed with caution.)

Luke to Mommy: "Hey! You look like another Aunt Tiffany!"

Luke: "Does God have a big nose?"
Daddy: "You know, no one knows what God looks like."
Luke: "I do."
Daddy: "You do? What does he look like?"
Luke: "He wears a blue shirt."

Luke: "Look at the boo-boos on my hand!"
Mommy: "Luke, you have so many boo-boos. Do we need to take you to the hospital?"
Luke: "Hospitals don't fix boo-boos, Mommy...God fixes boo-boos."

Melt my heart, why doncha...

"I'm not tired. Let's go to the beach!"

- Silas at 5:50am

Luke {talking through his matchbox car}: "Aren't I a splendid car?"
Silas: "Yes."
Luke: "Thank you."

Mommy {to Daddy}: "How was work today?"
Daddy: "Fine."
Luke: "It's always fine. You don't need to ask him every day."

After being introduced by Chris, Kim, and Matt to the concept of throwing coins into a fountain -- and subsequently asked what he wished for:

Luke: "I wish the water was not going on the girl's eye."

Luke: "It's long!"
Mommy: "What's long?"
Luke: "The movie...it's still on!"

"Toy Story 2" got us a lot of the way to Hilton Head - the longest movie they've ever seen. :)

"I want water and juice and water and juice. All that stuff."

Silas: "Luke, you like waffles?"
Luke: "Yes, but I like Pop Tarts better."
Silas: "Okay."

"Maybe when I get 6 I will like a pickle."

Daddy: "Do you like the beach?"
Silas: "Yes, it feels good."
Daddy: "It feels good?"
Silas: "Yes, all day long."

"Fishing pool, Mommy! Fishing pool!"

- Silas upon seeing a pond

"Look, they're dancing...dancing with muscles!"

- watching a fitness program on TV

"Mommy, I've got my hands on my ears...can you scratch my nose? The top of it."

- Luke watching the fireworks

"Planes don't get hit by fireworks. They're very strong. The fireworks don't break them."

"I don't think we should've gone to the playground today because I got so tired!"

- in an effort to make the boys tired, we took them to the playground

Silas: "I love babies!"
Luke: "I love Karis!"

Luke {looking around the living room}: "Tonight are your friends coming over?"
Daddy: "No, not tonight. Why do you think that?"
Luke: "All the toys are picked up."

"Spiders not like cookies."

"Can I have some milk without any smell in it?"

Luke: "When Zoe barks, she hurts my ears."
Daddy: "Well, you need to get some tough ears then."
Luke {pulling on the top of his ear}: "Is this a rib?"

"That's too loud!"

- Luke yelling in the middle of the night when thunder is rolling

Mommy: "Do we have sunscreen? Yes...good. We need sunscreen so we don't get..."
Luke: "Sun germs!"

Daddy: "What did baby Jesus sleep in?"
Luke: "Hay!"
Daddy: "And why did baby Jesus sleep in the hay?"
Luke: "Because he loves hay."

Luke: "Mommy, Mommy! Why can't I see anything?"
Daddy {being awesome at 5:30am for getting up instead of Mommy}: "It's because it's nighttime and you're asleep."
Luke: "Well, I sure wish that would change."

Mommy: "Do you need me to change your diaper?"
Silas: "No, zoo."
Mommy: "Well, we can change your diaper AND go to the zoo. Do you need me to change your diaper?"
Silas: "No, just zoo."

Luke: "Who has blackwall tires?"
Mommy: "Not Lightning McQueen!"
Luke: "Because they're bland?"

Anyone who has seen Cars 100+ times might get this. ;)

"When you were a baby, Mommy, who drove this car around?"

Mommy: "Do you remember so-and-so's Mommy?"
Luke: "No, I don't think so...wait, does she have wrinkled hair?"

"Two sames, Mommy! Two sames!"

- Silas finding two of the "same" zebra from his Noah's ark set

Luke {pointing to a gumball machine}: "Do we have any money?"
Daddy: "No, not now."
Luke: "Maybe you can go to work and buy some."

Kid running up to Luke at the park: "If you have more than one octopus, it's octopi, not octopuses."
Luke: "...what?"
Kid: "Octopi if you have more than one octopus..."
Luke: "...Octopus starts with 'O'!"
Kid {smiling}: "Yeah."

"Oh no! I got some puddle juice in my rain boots!"

Mommy: "What do you want to do for dinner?"
Daddy: "Maybe we can order some P-I-Z-Z-A."
Luke: "Is that pizza?"
Daddy: "Yes! How did you learn how to spell pizza?"
Luke: "I used my head."

Silas {scribbling on a piece of paper then pausing to look at Luke and point to his page}: "What's that?"
Luke: "A dinosaur. A Teradactyl."
Silas {more scribbling, pause}: "What's that?"
Luke: "A yo-yo."
Silas {scribble, pause}: "What's that?"
Luke: "A 'D'."
Silas {scribble, pause}: "What's that?"
Luke: "A boat. A sailboat."
Silas {pointing to his page}: "That's a butterfly!"

But the other ones were obviously correct...

"Mommy, look! It's a boy-girl!"

- pointing to a guy with a mullet; thankfully it wasn't very loud

"Ready, set, go!"

- said all within 1 sec. of every ride as soon as he was buckled in at American Adventures

Luke {picking a sticker up off the floor}: "I've never seen this one before!"
Mommy: "Yes, I don't know where it came from."
Luke: "It came from the floor!"

"Aw, man! Silas took the cars out of the line! He didn't do it when he was 1, but he did it today!"

(Silas becoming 2 is an obvious distinction in Luke's mind.)

"Okay, Mommy, you have 2 choices. You can either play a race with Lightning McQueen and The King and see who goes farther or you can play Memory. What do you pick?"

"Uh oh...this train just broke. But I'm happy because now Silas has one, and I have one!"

Mommy: "I love you, Luke."
Luke: "I love you, too...I don't have a tag in my shirt."

"Where carseat go? Where seatbelt go?"

- Silas pointing to the passenger side of his yellow, convertible, 2-seater Hotwheel car

Silas {pointing to his shaped Pop-Tart}: "Boat!"
Luke: "Pop-Tarts are made of eating, and boats are made of wood to swim."

"It smells like jellyfish!"

- Luke after I applied mosquito repellent

Silas: "Where Mommy go?"
Daddy: "She went to ballet."
Luke: "Well, she's probably still driving there right now."
Daddy: "Yes, you're right! How long do you think it will take her to get there?"
Luke: "30...40 pounds feet."

Luke: "{burp} Excus... wait. I want to say the other thing Mommy taught me."
Daddy: "Whoops?"
Luke: "No. That's what you say when you fall down."
Daddy: "Look out?"
Luke: "No. That's what you say when you're in the street and a car hits you."

Mommy {looking through a gardening catalog}: "Tomatoes, peppers, strawberries...what would you like to grow to eat?"
Luke: "Umm...peanut butter and jelly!"

Luke: "P...P...Pee! Pee starts with P!"
Daddy: "That's right, Luke. What else starts with P?"
Luke: "N...N...Number 1!"

Mommy {tickling Silas}: "Are you ticklish?"
Silas: "No...[I'm] Silas!"

Daddy: "...and all my little brothers will be there. They're some of your uncles!"
Luke: "But they're not your little brothers anymore because they're sooooo tall!"

Luke: "I have brown hair, Silas has blonde hair, Daddy has black hair..."
Jeanine: "And some people have red hair."
Luke: "Yes! And blue!"
Jeanine: "Blue hair? Who do you know that has blue hair?"
Luke: "Some of the teachers at my school."

{singing} "I'm a little teapot, short and brown. Here is my teapot, here is the ground!"

{pointing to the back of a truck} "Oh, look! That car crashed into that truck! Or maybe it just made a loud noise."

Daddy: "Okay, Silas. I'm going to work. Can I have a hug and a kiss?"
Silas: "Yes! Sure can!"

Luke {putting on a t-shirt}: "This is a big shirt."
Daddy: "I know it."
Luke: "How big is it?"
Daddy: "I think it's probably a Large."
Luke: "I think it's probably a 4T...or a 5T."

Luke knows his sizes.

Luke: "I'm happy to see you guys!"
Mommy: "We're happy to see you, too!"
Luke: "And Silas, I'm happy to see your itty bitty toes."

Daddy: "Alright, Luke, let's put on your socks."
Luke {picking between his toes}: "Wait, Daddy. I need to make sure there isn't any fluffy."

"Silas, your bottom looks like a drum!"

"Mommy, what are 'fiddlesticks'?"

"Wow, Silas, you have a lot of big teeth!"

- Luke to Silas while Silas was scream-crying

Mommy {helping Luke hold a pencil the right way}: "Here, Luke. Hold the pencil like this to write your name."
Luke {awkwardly holding the pencil}: "I need to be 4 for this."

"Mommy, you remember when we were going to the park, and I saw the little purple flowers? And then the bees came and took them home. And then they made honey and ate the flowers. And then they shared the honey with us!"

- Luke explains the honey-making process

"When I get to be a Daddy, I'm going to eat a lot of bacon."

"When I get to be as big as you, Mommy, I think I'll like pickles."

"Brother!"

- sleep-talk at 5am

Mommy: "Do you know where Pansy and Poppy are right now?"
Luke: "On an airplane!"
Silas: "Airplane!"
Mommy: "That's right! They're going to China."
Silas: "China."
Mommy: "And it's going to take them two days to get there."
Luke: "They're going to need a big drink!"

"[I'm so happy to] see you!"

- Silas's greeting upon getting him up from a nap

{train sound}
Luke: "A train! A diesel train!"
Mommy: "A diesel train? How do you know?"
Luke: " That's what Jordan always says. I think that's what it is."

"There's a bunch of people having fun!"

- Luke pointing to the NCAA tournament setting in Centennial Park

Daddy: "What do apple trees grow on them?"
Luke: "Apples!"
Daddy: "What do cherry trees grow on them?"
Luke: "Cherries!"
Daddy: "What do dogwood trees grow on them?"
Luke: "Girl dogs!"

{Silas in ()s}

"Mommy (Mommy)! What is that sound (sound)? Oh! Firetrucks (truck)! Silas, please stop copying me (me)."

"Ha ha...you're doing your wedding."

- watching Mommy and Daddy hugging

"Cars. Luke. Please. Fun. Wheeee!"

Silas: "W(all) w(all) w(all) w(all) w(all) w(all) done."
Mommy: "Silas, I think we need to start saying what Luke says when he wants to get down from the table: 'May I be excused, please?'"
Silas: "'scuse pease."
Mommy: "Okay, you can get down."
Luke: "Um, I think he said, 'Juice, please'."

"Silas, do you want to ride plasmacars with me? There's one over here...follow my sparkles!"

Luke: "Mommy, can we watch the rest of Cars?"
Mommy: "I don't see why not."
Luke: "Mommy...is that a yes or a no?"

Luke: "Bye, Daddy!"
Daddy: "Bye, Luke!"
Luke: "I love you!"
Daddy: "I love you, too!"
Luke: "I love you 3...4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, go!"

Daddy {pointing to a mountaintop airplane caution light}: "On and off...on and off...what's that light doing up there?"
Luke: "It's saying, 'Don't run into me! Because this is a special light, and I'd like to keep it.'"

Mommy: "Hi, Luke! What did you do at school today?"
Luke: "There was a huge wife*!"

* Spring Fling Art Day with lots of parents and kids

Luke {pointing to a group of people hanging out near the tennis courts}: "That is a humongous wife!"
Daddy: "What's a wife?"
Luke: "It's a whole, whole lot of people standing together and talking."

Luke: "Mommy! I know something!"
Mommy: "What?"
Luke: "..."
Luke: "It came in my mind, but it went away...will it come back?"

Another billboard special...

Daddy: "Luke, is that your car up there?"
Luke: "No, God made it and put it up there. He put that car up there to show us he loves us."

There's this billboard off of I-75 near our house that looks like an actual car is sitting on top of it, so you can imagine what kinds of conversations it has stirred up...

Daddy: "Luke, who put their car up there? They're not supposed to leave it up there..."
Luke: "It's up there to make it special."

"Oh, no! I can't do a cartwheel anymore. I ran out of batteries. My feet don't work anymore!"

Luke: "Hey, Mommy! We need to get some more of these trucks."
Mommy: "More? Why?"
Luke {pointing to a promotional layout from his Lego set}: "Because it says here that we need to get more."

Ah, marketing...

Luke: "I just saw a tent!"
Daddy: "A tent?"
Luke: "Yes, 2 tents!"
Daddy: "Really?"
Luke: "Yes! We're in America!"

Luke: "Let's talk about all the new places...the Playroom, Kangaroo Bob's, Imagine It, American Adventures..."
Mommy: "What are the old places?"
Luke: "The gas station, the bookstore, the comic book store, another comic book store..."

"Now everybody can do it??"

- Luke watching the highlight reel full of slam-dunks after the GA Tech basketball game (vs. Boston College)

"Neat. Car."

- his favorite phrase of the moment. Pertains to either random cars pointed out on the road or to his own set of matchbox cars when they do something "neat", such as sit on top of one another.

"Uh oh...sock broken!"

(his sock was coming off)

"When I get bigger and turn into a daddy, I'll be able to make dinner, and take a shower, and put a belt on all by myself. And put my clothes on - all of them! - and button and snap."

"When I get bigger, I'm going to be a daddy, just like Daddy. And then there are going to be two daddies! I'm going to be a daddy, and Daddy's going to be a daddy. And Daddy's not going to believe it!"

"I'm just going to leave my eyes open every day so I can see everything in the whole wide world."

Mommy: "Luke, what do you want for your birthday?" (only because we had just gone to a birthday party)
Luke: "A scooter."
Mommy: "But you already have a scooter. Don't you want something else?"
Luke: "I want another scooter so that Silas can have one, too!"

Awwww...

Mommy: "Luke, I'm going to put the laundry away, and when I'm done, it'll be time to take a nap."
Luke: "Okay. Just do one at a time, okay?"

I realize this might be very upsetting to people, but I'm going to put it on here anyway...

"This Pepsi tastes just like Coke!"

Daddy: "There's Grandad's office. That's where he works every day. What do you think he does?"
Luke: "What he needs to do."

Daddy: "One, two. Buckle my shoe. Three, four. Shut the door. Five, six. Pick up sticks."
Luke: "Seven, eight...I shouldn't poke anybody with the sticks. Hmmm...no. I won't poke anybody."

As I was going in to get him up from his nap...

"Wait, Mommy. You need to change people. You're not the person who put me to bed. The person who put me to bed is the person who's supposed to get me up."

Mommy: "Granmom, what do you want for your birthday?"
Granmom: "Well, I'd really like a hummingbird cake..."
Luke: "Hmmm...no. How about you have a real birthday? Like an airplane party?"

"Look how much talking I can do!"

Luke: "Daddy, I'm going to keep 'transporter' to myself."
Daddy: "What do you mean?"
Luke: "I like that word. I'm going to keep it to myself. {saying it slowly} Tran-spor-ter."

Luke: "Daddy, we're playing a fun game!"
Daddy: "What's it called?"
Luke: "When Silas doesn't know the ball is coming."
Daddy: "That sound dangerous."
Luke: "But it's exciting!"

Luke: "Is the zoo closed now?"
Mommy: "Yes. The animals all need to go to sleep now."
Luke: "Maybe the zookeeper gave them some books to read."

Mommy: "Luke, I'm about to make the icing for Granmom's birthday cake. Do you want to help me in a couple of minutes?"
Luke {playing cars}: "Yes. In a couple of minutes. We have to do some homework first. We have a lot of homework."

Luke: "Can I see that picture, please?"
{Daddy shows Luke the picture}
Luke: "I cheese'd so good in that picture!"

Luke: "Hey, guys! How about you get off the couch and sit on the carpet to talk?"
Daddy: "Why?"
Luke: "Because it would be fun. You would be all warm and cozy."
Daddy: "And what would you do while we sat on the floor?"
Luke: "...play cars on the couch..."

Luke {pointing to Daddy's car as we all pull into the garage in the van}: "Daddy, you're home!"

Mommy: "Oh, wow, Silas. Is that you? Do we need to change your diaper again?"
Luke: "No, that's me. I just farted."

Luke {pointing to a toy shelf in Pansy's garage}: "There are three trucks there. That's perfect!"

Daddy: "Don't play with the cars on the piano, please. It will scratch it."
Luke: "Does it itch?"

Luke: "Silas, did you go potty?"
Silas: "Ya."
Luke: "Did you go in your diaper?"
Silas: "Ya."
Luke: "Okay, Mommy, you're on! Silas needs a diaper change. You're the one!"

Daddy: "Hey, Luke! I flew home in a PLANE last night!"
Luke: "Really? Is it out front?"

Luke: "Mommy, can I play the animal game, please?"
Mommy: "Sweetie, I don't think you're big enough yet."
Luke: "I am! I'll take care of all the animals! I'll feed them, and give them a house, and stop them when they're fighting..."

Wait, what are we talking about here??

"Kermit, when I go on your show, can you let Piggy go get some ice cream? She really likes it, and I want to meet all the other people."

- Luke talking to puppet Kermit

"When I go down stairs like this without any hands, I'm just amazing!"

"Congratulations, Silas!"

- after Silas successfully got off the bed all by himself

"Whoa, we have a lot of traffic...{pointing to the other side of the interstate} but they don't over there, so they are set!"

This conversation took place during yesterday's picture...

Horse handler: "Do you want to be a horseman when you grow up?"
Luke: "No."
Horse handler: "How about a fireman?"
Luke: "No. I want to be an astronaut."

You heard it here first!

"Mommy, I'm not very happy. I'm just a little happy."

Luke: "Shark! I had a dream about a shark."
Mommy: "You did?"
Luke: "Yes. He was sitting on a rock. But he didn't eat people! He was my friend. And all the little fish - they didn't eat people either. And I went down, down with them. And there was this many sharks!" {holding up 10 fingers!}
Mommy: "Oh, wow!"
Luke: "And I couldn't get by them. And then I saw a shark on the wall. And I said, 'Oh my goodness!'"
Mommy: "And what did he say."
Luke: "Nothing."

"I didn't even know how far we went!"

- Christmas Day, when Luke watched his "Cars" DVD for the first time in the car on the way to Granmom and Grandad's house. He never looked outside until we pulled onto their street and was obviously surprised.

"The Wiggles aren't singing in this song. They're tired. They're resting."

- during an instrumental song on the end of his Wiggles CD

Luke: "X...X...what word is that?"
Mommy: "X-ray."
Luke: "That's in Spanish."

"This movie has lots of girls and daddies in it."

- Luke woke up from his nap when the Teague women were watching Pride and Prejudice

"God, please let the snow come and for Christmas to come back."

Aunt Tiffany {pouring milk in Luke's glass}: "Okay, tell me 'when'."
Luke: "When it's full?"

{Last night after the boys went to sleep (Christmas Eve), I froze as I dropped a box in the middle of the hall...}

Luke {from his bed}: "Mommy?"
Mommy {going in - it's Christmas Eve, after all}: "Yes?"
Luke: "I'm excited."
Mommy: "I know. I am, too!"
Luke: "When it's blue out there {pointing out the window}, I'm going to call you on that {pointing to the monitor}."
Mommy: "Okay."
Luke: "And then we will do the calendar, go downstairs, have breakfast, and then open presents."

A sample of a conversation in the car on the way to church...

Luke: "10 is the number of the day...and 2."
Daddy: "There're two numbers of the day? That's wacky!"
Luke {looking out the window}: "Where's wacky? In the fountain?"
Daddy {seeing an opening for fun}: "Yes."
Luke: "Is wacky a dog?"
Daddy: "Yes."
Luke: "Is he under the water??"

...and on and on and on...

"I wish I could be with the geese, and fly with them, and dress up like them."

(We pass a flock of geese on the way to school every time.)

Luke: "Daddy, do you like being 33?"
Daddy: "Yes, I do."
Luke {looking up}: "God, can I be 5? Or 6, or 7, or 8, or 9? God, can I be 9? I'd like to be 9. That would be fun."

"We don't need to do anything with our body. Just our mouth."

- Luke expressing his feeling about always doing the motions to the "Quack, Quack, Cock-a-doodle-doo" song

Luke: "Daddy, we don't have a ticket for you!"
Daddy: "To go to Granmom's house?"
Luke: "Yes, we only have 3 tickets. Not 4. I'm sorry."
Daddy: "Well, that's okay. I only have 1 ticket to go to work, and I'm going to use that one. I'll try to get one next time."

"I like chocolate. Chocolate doughnuts, chocolate ice cream...everything chocolate."

Luke: "I don't have any more coughs, Mommy. Look!"
Mommy: "Oh, good! Thank you, God, for making Luke all better."
Luke: "Can He hear me?"
Mommy: "Yes. He can hear you any time you talk to Him."
Luke: "Thank you, God, for making me all better! ...He said, 'You're welcome.'"

Luke {after being put to bed}: "Mommy, I've got three words for you."
Mommy {touched}: "Aw, what?"
Luke: "Can you leave the door open a crack and keep the light on in the hall?"
Mommy: "Oh. Yes. Okay."
Luke {as the door is being closed}: "I wish I could fly! ... In a balloon!"

"I want to be an astronaut. Wait, let me talk to God. God, can I be an astronaut, please? I want to go see space."

"When it's a no school day, I'm happy. And when it's a school day, I'm very happy!"

Mommy: "Luke, it's time to go to the doctor. Let's get in the car!"
Luke: "Am I sick?"

(We were off to Silas's well-baby visit)

Mommy: "Luke, did you play with any toys today at school?"
Luke: "Yes, there were toys on the table and toys on the floor. And Ms. Mary Ann said, 'Luke, what would you like to play with?' and I said, 'Granmom and Grandad'."

"Are they tired of running?"

- Time-out during a Georgia Tech football game

"Bye-bye! I-ya-yoo!" {kiss}

Luke {pointing to the hot pepper on my plate}: "Mommy, you didn't eat that!"
Mommy: "I know. I have a cold, and I can't taste anything yet. And I really like hot peppers, so I want to wait until I can taste it. Do you want it?"
Luke: "I don't think I want it...I'm not embarassed about that."

"When my tongue itches, my teeth rub it."

"I'm going to draw a square. Here's one side...and then another...and another...and one more. Hey! I drawed something different! I drawed a couch!"

"I can't wait until Skinny Day...I mean...Thanksgiving Day."

"Excuse me. I love you, dear. I want to go to American Adventures and a circus."

Mommy: "Luke, you're going to take a nap, and when you get up, you and Daddy are going on a special trip."
Luke: "To space?"
Mommy: "No."
Luke: "To Atlanta?"
Mommy: "Yes."

"Uh-oh. That's a big job for a superhero!"

- Luke after his basket of cars dumped over

"My nose smells like dog food."

To continue the joke theme...
Luke: "I have a joke."
Daddy: "Okay, let's hear it."
Luke: "We eat plates."

Luke: "But Mommy, the thing that I tell you is the thing that I told you."
Mommy: "You seem to have some circular reasoning."
Luke: "That's a funny joke, Mommy."

Luke: "I see a switch in Daddy's office."
Mommy: "Yes, I brought my computer down here."
Luke: "And your chair?"
Mommy: "Yes!"
Luke: "That's going to be fun for you."

Mommy {to Silas}: "Okay, my dear. Let's take off your shoes."
Luke {smiling}: "He's not a deer!"
Mommy: "He's not? What is he?"
Luke: "He's Mr. Teague."

Mommy: "Would you like your muffin warmed up?"
Luke: "What are the options?"

"Hey Mommy, sometimes Zoe's food smells delicious."

Mommy (to Daddy): "Somebody needs some S-L-E-E-P."
Luke: "Me?"

- It appears that Luke has inherited his "are you talking about me?" complex from his mother, regardless of whether he knows what's being talked about. But he was right about this one. He did need sleep.

Luke: "Now, we have to be careful we don't go in their space."
Mommy: "Okay, why?"
Luke: "Because they're children. We don't want to crash into them and wreck them."

- Luke explaining how to carefully park our big trucks next to the little matchbox cars

Mommy: "'With God, all things are possible.' That's a good Bible verse."
Luke: "'Jesus made me, and I'm special.'"
Mommy: "Oh! That's good! Where did you learn that? At school or at church?"
Luke: "A birthday card. It also said 'What are you doing there?'"

Luke: "The other Luke was in my class, but he was not my age."
Mommy: "How old was he?"
Luke: "28 months. I mean 5 months. ...I'm bigger."

"I enjoy being here."

- Luke to our neighbors who were watching him at their house. He had just been offered a root beer and was watching TV on their couch.

"Oh, dear. I can't know what the other parts is!"

- Luke singing a song

Luke: "Mommy, what's my favorite color?"
Mommy: "I don't know. You tell me. What's your favorite color?"
Luke: "Red."
Mommy: "Oh! That's a great color. My favorite color is blue."
Luke: "My favorite color is blue, too. Daddy, you should pick black."
Daddy: "Oh, yes. I like that color, too."
Luke: "But who picked it?"

Daddy: "Luke, I have a question for you."
Luke: "What?"
Daddy: "Why did the chicken cross the road?"
Luke: "What chicken? Did I see a chicken?"

"This is how old I am."

- Luke stepping onto the bathroom scale

"I like robots all the time. I like RObots all the time. I like RObots all the tiiiiiiiiime!"

Luke: "We didn't go sing at marsha."
Mommy: "Marsha? Do you mean 'worship'?"
Luke: "Yes, worship!"

Daddy: "I have a good idea. I say we go get doughnuts!"
Luke: "Oh, I think that is a wonderful idea. But I have one question. What is a doughnut?"

"It's really quite simple..."

- Luke talking about how the humidifier helps his coughing

Luke: "Daddy, I'm really happy."
Daddy: "Why are you happy, Luke?"
Luke: "Because I love the world."

"Mommy, why am I crying?"

Luke: "I'm a happy boy!"
Mommy: "Good! Why are you so happy?"
Luke: "Because God made such a wonderful world. And that's why I'm happy."

"Here I am...Professor Luke!"

- no context whatsoever

Luke: "I need 3 more fingers."
Mommy: "Really?"
Luke: "Yes. I asked God."

Luke: "Remember that girl in my class says 'sweet pea'."
Mommy: "Does she call you 'sweet pea'?"
Luke: "No, but you call me potty-trained."

Mommy: "You know who that was on the phone? Uncle Josh. And you know what he told me he did? He flew in a helicopter!"
Luke: "Just like Mater!"

Luke: "Daddy told me that when he's 8-6, I will have children!"
Mommy: "What?"
Luke: "Yes! And I can take them places!"

Daddy: "Luke, it's almost time to get dressed to go to the creek with Sydney and Meg."
{Luke sees Daddy glance at the clock}
Luke: "Yes! The clock is ticking!"

"I don't want to play with the ball anymore. It makes me sweaty."

Mommy: "Everett, do you have a joke you want to tell?"
Everett: "Yes. Why was 10 angry?"
Mommy: "Why?"
Everett: "Because 7-8-9!"
Luke: "I have a joke, too!"
Mommy: "Okay, let's hear it."
Luke: "I-P-U-K-E."

"Mommy, I like to play cars all the time!"

Don't we know it.

Luke: "Daddy, let's play blocks!"
Daddy: "What do you want to build?"
Luke: "American Adventures and a huge Tower of Babel!"

"My house is tipping over!"

- Luke after a spinning session

"Ow! My throat is hurting! Maybe I ate a snake..."

"Mommy, you can't wiggle your bottom. I tried."

- FYI, this is actually referring to "one's" bottom. Not mine. :)

"Sorry, sweetie."

- Luke to his friend Kathryn after accidentally bumping into her

Mommy: "Did you have any dreams last night?"
Luke: "Yes! About a crocodile, but it didn't come in my room, so I was safe. But I didn't know who farted. Who farted in my room, Mommy?"

Luke: "Is Silas still sleeping?"
Mommy: "No."
Luke: "Oh, good! I'm going to go tell him about the motorcycle store and car store."

- Luke, upon waking up in the morning

Luke {leaning over into Silas's face}: "Silas! Granmom and Grandad are coming over, and I'm going to a big movie!"
Silas {pointing to what's in Luke's hand}: "Car!"
Luke: "No, Silas. Mooooovie. I'm going to a mooooovie."
Silas: "Moo..."
Luke: "Very good, Silas."

"I'm flipping out. I'm serious. That is a huge moon!"

"Oh, the batteries stopped working! They changed their mind."

Luke: "I'm about to cry. I got hurt."
Mommy: "Are you okay? What happened?"
Luke: "I ran into Silas, and he's hard!"

Luke: "I'm about to cry. I got hurt."
Mommy: "Are you okay? What happened?"
Luke: "I ran into Silas, and he's hard!"

"I wish I could go potty outside like Zoe."

Daddy: "Silas, I love you!"
Silas: "Bye-bye!"

- apparently, the Daddy-leaves-for-work routine is stuck in Silas's head

"I couldn't look out."

- Luke, after a collision with the floor

"All the birds go on that hanger right there."

- Luke pointing to the birds on the power lines

Luke: "Mommy, did you get your teeth cleaned?"
Mommy: "Yes, I did. Do you want to see? {showing him} Do they look clean?"
Luke: "No. I think you need to try again."

The rest of the story...

"Silas, you're my best friend."

"I got a yellow cup!"

- the very first words out of Luke's mouth as he came back from his first day of school

"Mommy, that van's wearing the wrong wheels."

-Luke, pointing to a minivan with spinning rims

"That girl over there is sooooo beautiful!"

- Luke, pointing to one of Aunt Tiffany's (married) friends

"What number are you going to be on?"

- Luke asking about Mommy's upcoming birthday

Daddy: "Luke, what are you doing?"
Luke: "I'm wearing Mommy's glasses."
Daddy: "What does it look like?"
Luke: "It looks like the ground is going up."

Luke: "Mommy, I'm hungry. Can we have lunch now?"
Mommy: "Yes."
Luke: "Perfect, Mommy...perfect."

Luke: "Daddy, why is it raining?"
Daddy: "Well, God needed to water the trees and the grass."
Luke: "Then why is He watering the street?"

"All my laughings went away."

- Luke, attempting to laugh after a pouting session

"Wow! What a lovely house!"

- Luke, looking around the kitchen after dinner

"Mommy, what are you and Daddy doing downstairs?"

- 9:48pm last night after I found Luke awake in bed. A while back he alluded to the fact that he knew we watched TV after he went to sleep...

Luke: "I remember when Silas went to the hospital."
Mommy: "Do you mean when he was born?"
Luke: "Yes, and I remember he was in my tummy."
Mommy: "He was in Mommy's tummy, right?"
Luke: "Yes, and then he came out and went into mine for a little bit."

Luke: "L-U-K-E spells Luke!"
Daddy: "Wow, Luke! Good job! Can you spell anything else?"
Luke: "Yes. T-R-8-U-R-Yellow-U-K-E-U-R-U spells tree!"

Luke: "I wish I could be a baby."
Mommy: "Why?"
Luke: "Because I thought it was fun!"

"We were riding all through the town."

- Luke discusses where he and Silas were riding their bikes (I believe this phrase came from the song "The Wheels on the Bus")

"Zzzzzzzzo"

- Silas, working on "Zoe"

Luke {pointing}: "This way to go to church?"
Daddy: "Yes."
Luke: "Ok. Got it."
Daddy: "I'm glad you got it. Now you can drive us to church."
Luke: "Uh...I'm not a very good driver. Am I a very good driver, Mommy?"
Mommy: "You would be a very good driver. You just need to practice."
Luke: "Practicing is really good. And then I can drive us to another aquarium - like the one that has the sharks."
Daddy: "Where else?"
Luke: "America, American Adventures, and a treehouse."

Luke: "Mommy, what are we having for dinner? Is that edamame?"
Mommy: "No, they're sugar snap peas."

- Ha ha. I love this. What little kid knows what edamame is? Beau's kid, that's who.

"Mommy, I just open my mouth and close it so God could come in and fix it. And he did! My mouth doesn't hurt anymore! And now, I will drink my milk."

- Luke with a boo-boo in his mouth

"Mommy, the tummy is saying, 'No more toast!'"

"Dit doo."

- Silas's "thank you"

Luke: "Mommy, I'll get another book to read, and this time I'll read the book."
Mommy: "Oh, okay! Sounds great!"
Luke: "...can you say the words?"

"Granmom, remember to remind me about the swimming pool."

- Luke, making sure everything gets done in Hilton Head as we head to the beach

The rest of the story...

Luke: "Are you talking about the tunnel?"
Daddy: "Yes."
Luke: "Are you talking about the tunnel?"
Daddy: "Yes."
Luke: "Are you talking about the tunnel?"
Daddy: "Yes. How much confirmation do you need, Luke?"
Luke: "A LOT."

"Hey, Daddy! That water over there is saying, 'Come throw rocks in me!'"

- Luke and Daddy riding a bike by a pond in Hilton Head

"A shark ate my ice cream!"

- as overheard in Luke's sleep at the beach

Mommy: "I'm going to color these trees green because trees are green, right?"
Luke {looking out the window}: "Let me see...no...but the leaves are."

Daddy: "I've got two quotes!"
Luke: "Where?"
Daddy: "In my brain."
Luke: "I don't see them!"

- Luke and Daddy

"There were lots of happenings in the movie, but I don't want to tell you about them. I want to tell you about the happy things and the silly things."

- Luke, talking about seeing the movie "Cars". I believe "happenings" are scary things.

The rest of the story...

"Thank you for my Clubhouse and for all my friends."

- Luke, praying through his Mickey Mouse before bed

Daddy: "Luke, are you talking to your snake?"
Luke: "Yes, we're talking about America, and swimming pools, and my birthday...all these kinds of things."

- Luke, after being discovered talking to his stuffed snake upon waking up

"This is a hard day to go to Granmom's house. I need a break."

- Luke on a 30 min. traffic-filled drive, leaning back with his arms behind his head

"I forgot. I did the wrong answer. It was my fault."

- Luke, after saying he wanted to watch "Sesame Street" instead of "Thomas"

Luke: "Mommy, I've been waiting for you."
Mommy: "Waiting for me?"
Luke: "Yes, to talk off of the phone."

"I'm putting this in your eyes so you can see soooo much better."

- Luke shining a flashlight in Daddy's face

"Car!"

- It's only appropriate that one of Silas's first words would be what makes up the majority of this home's offerings at the moment

"It sounds just like Rice Krispies!"

- Luke, after going #1 on the potty

"I love Christmas all over the world. I love snowmen...and snowgirls."

The rest of the story...

"Let me see what letter's on this M&M...E!"

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'!"

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

"I had a lollipop, but I didn't like it."

- Luke, explaining why he needs to have another piece of candy

"We need one more car to go in this space. We need to ask the man. But then he'll say, 'No, you can't have any more cars. You have plenty of cars.' But I only have {looking around at his massive amount of cars}...a lot of cars."

- Luke. The "man", as I found out later, is Daddy.

"Granmom's not going to school. So she doesn't have to go potty anymore. So...I can spend the night."

- Luke. Luke's allowed to spend the night at Granmom's house when she's not going to school anymore. And the stipulation for him to go to preschool in the fall was that he needed to be potty trained. I didn't realize that he thought people only went to school when they had to go #1 or #2.

"I'm jumping so high...all the way to Mexico!"

- Luke

"They're these things on my nose...polka dots."

- Luke, pointing to his dried snot. Gross, I know. But if you call them "polka dots", doesn't it make it a bit more palatable?

Luke: "Can I have more ice cream?"
Daddy: "No, there's no more ice cream."
Luke {pointing}: "What about those girls inside? Do they have ice cream?"

- Luke and Daddy eating ice cream outside Bruster's

"Mommy, I was pretending to be a moustache...and now I'm a moustache."

- Luke

"Mommy, please don't split my neck open."

- Luke during a haircut

Luke: "Mommy, I want to go to the huge park today."
Mommy: "I think we can arrange that."
Luke: "It's not raining!"

- Luke. Arrange? Rain? Get it?

Daddy: "That's the restaurant Mommy and I went to when we found out Mommy had you in her tummy."
Luke: "Oh yes, I remember her tummy. It was a beautiful place."

- Luke and Daddy after seeing our neighborhood Ryan's closed down. :( We went there after we found out we were pregnant with both Luke and Silas.

"You have a sneaky nose."

- Luke

Luke: "Mommy, I want to tell you a story...when it's 7, you can sing lots and lots of songs. But when it's 8, you can only sing one song."

- Luke, trying to make sense of bedtime and why the routine was cut short last night

Luke: "Are you fixing that Mommy?"
Mommy: "Yes."
Luke: "Now remember, you have to say 'ta da!'"

- Luke, informing me of what should happen upon the untangling of the slinky

Mommy: "It looks like it's going to rain."
Luke: "It has to thunder first."
Mommy: "First? Why?"
Luke: "It lets the rain out."

- Luke

"Remember when we went to the red park? With the chocolate slide? And I made some dominoes? I want to go back there."

- Luke, upon waking up this morning

{more PG potty talk...only this is from a while ago - he's actually done training now!}

The rest of the story...

"I think he's getting bigger! Look!"

- Luke. He says this pretty much every day about Silas. It's normally right after I say something like, "When Silas gets bigger, you guys can play by yourselves in the Bounce 'Round..."

"That sounds like Baby Einstein!"

- Luke, upon hearing me play the piano

Girl: "Let's play house."
Luke: "House?"
Girl {running up the stairs and going down the slide, Luke following}: "Yes. House."
Luke: "That was fun. Let's play house again!"

- Luke and a new friend at the park

"Jesus lives really far away in heaven, but I can just say 'Hey Jesus, will you come live in my tummy?'"

- Luke

"Guys! Come play cars with me!"
{to himself} "There's nobody playing cars with me. I don't believe it."

- Luke

Luke: "Silas, what would you like to do today?"
Silas: "Ta!"
Luke: "Okay, let's play 'ta'."

- Luke and Silas

"It looks just like a microphone!"

- Luke, after doing #2. It did.

Luke: "Jerome, what did you do today?"
Jerome the cow {played by Daddy}: "Oh, I just went to the farm and gave some milk."
Luke: "To the animals?"

- Luke

Zookeeper: "Does anyone have a question to ask about the turtle?"
Luke {raising hand and getting called on}: "He's wearing a rock."

- Luke, during a special "Critters" presentation at the Children's Museum of Atlanta. This is where he learned the whole "raising hands" concept and really got into it when he figured out how it worked.

{Luke patting my arm}
Mommy: "Yes?"
Luke: "Oh, nothing. I'm just making you into a pancake."

- Luke

{More PG potty talk}

The rest of the story...

"Look! They're sharing!"

- Luke, talking about his hands as he passes a Dorito from one hand to the other

Luke: "Mommy, that chocolate was SO good."
Mommy: "What did it have in it?"
Luke: "Cheese."

- Luke, after eating a mini Milky Way

"My shoes are worried. I'm going too fast."

- Luke

"Mommy, you're hitting you. Be careful to yourself."

- Luke, watching me in my flip-flops

"I burped two times. Excuse me. Excuse me."

- Luke

Luke: "Can we go play now?"
Mommy: "In a minute. But right now we need to clean up a bit because things are disgusting and messy in this house."
Luke: "Can we go to another house?"

- Luke, trying to figure out how to work the system

"Look, Mommy. I'm driving you crazy!"

- Luke, jumping around on our bed in the morning

"Wait, Mommy! Wait for me! You have to stop...and look both ways...and there's a boy there!"

- Luke, extrapolating his knowledge base to try to get me to wait for him to go downstairs

Mommy: "Luke, let's go try to do #1 on the potty. Otherwise you'll have to go in your diaper. Do you want to go in your diaper?"
Luke: "Yes, I will on Thursday."

- Luke

Daddy: "Luke, you should go on 'The Muppet Show'."
Luke: "Daddy, I'm not an animal. I'm a boy. I just watch it. I don't live there."

- Luke, after expressing his interest in "The Muppet Show"

Daddy: "I love Mommy."
Luke: "Yes, you do."

- Luke, after seeing Daddy give Mommy a hug on his way to work

Luke: "I'd like some yogurt, please."
Mommy: "Okay, we have strawberry-kiwi and strawberry explosion. Which would you like?"
Luke: "Strawberry colon."

- Luke

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.