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