{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???