eight is enough: flashback friday

This time last year::

There's not a speck of snow on the ground today. What vastly different winters!

crazy, funny, silly things you might hear if you lived here too:

9 more years and I'll have my license. {Joe, November 2012}
I look like a stranger to myself {Rebekah, November 2012 after getting a foot cut off her hair}
It feels good not to be sick. {Rebekah, November 2012}
Mom, look, I made a gun that shoots sunshine out of it. {Anna, July 2012}
Mom, how do you spell, 'I love Lydia and I love everyone in our whole family except the mean people.'? {Anna, June 2012}
I just learned Sara to say duckling. Now can I have my breakfast? {Anna, June 2012}
I wish there was no such thing as mosquitos. {Joe, June 2012}
God doesn't like when we say potty words. {Anna, May 2012}
He calls me cool, but I'm not cool. I'm awesome! {Anna, May 2012}
Anna :: "My mom likes it when I toot." Mom :: "No, I don't!" Anna :: "Not you, my pretend mom!" {alrighty then, I'll remember that.} {April 2012}
Are we getting the pizza from Papa Smurfy's? {Anna, February 2012}
Want to know what my favorite smell is that isn't food? Brand new newborn baby! {Rebekah, February 2012 :: that's my girl!}
I don't wear glasses. I just wear regular eyes. {Anna, February 2012}
With all these people around, you'll be speaking English in no time! {Rebekah to Sara, January 2012}
Water makes me really hungry. {Anna, January 2012}
My life isn't interesting! {Lydia, January 2012}
I hate skiing. Especially downhill skiing -- which I've never done. {Rebekah, January 2012}
Sara is my reindeer. {Anna, January 2012}
I'm trying to cough snot out of my mouth, but it's not working. {Anna, January 2012}
Goodnight Mom, I want to hug you for 5 times. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. {Anna, January 2012}
Anna said "butt"! Like the private butt. Not like, "But the store is closed." {Joe, December 2011}
The opposite of blanket is no blanket. {Joe, December 2011}
Wait, is Goldy the Gopher a racoon? {Anna, December 2011}
Dr Pepper is good for doctors. {Joe, December 2011}
more mispronunciations :: "happy sac" {for hacky sac} and "cot and candy" {for cotton candy} {Joe & Anna, respectively}
when looking at an old picture of our family from when I was young, Rebekah says :: "BopBop looks just the same. He still doesn't smile." {November 2011}
"I am in charge of the government. You can't be in the government, because you don't even know what decades are!" {Joe to Anna, July 2011}
common mispronunciations :: "jumpoline" {Anna, translation :: trampoline} and "hard work store" {Joe, translation :: hardware store}
"Mom, tomorrow it will be April. Tomorrow is April 1st, then it is April 2nd, then April 3rd, then April 4th, then April 5th, then April 6th, then it is April 7th, then it will be April 8th, and then it will be April 9th, then April 10th, then April 11th, then April 12th, then April 13th, then April 14th, then it will be April 15th, then April 16th, then April 17th, then April 1l8th and then it will be April 19th. April 19th is my birthday. Only 19 days until it's my birthday!" {Joe, March 2011}
I was explaining the school progression to Joe :: elementary school, middle school, high school, college. He then asked if I was in college and I said I was, but now I was done. He said, "So when you're done with college then you just go to the grocery store!" {Joe, March 2011}
"Bye, bye. Thank you!" {the way Anna ends phone conversations, early 2011}
"I'll be in 1st grade, then I'll be in 2nd grade, then I'll be in 3rd grade . . . Do they even make a 10th grade?" {Joe, March 2011}
"Excuse me. Oh, my butt is stinky." {Anna, March 2011}
"Mooommmm, Anna is tattling." {Joe, March 2011}
"'Just a minute' is half an hour. Did you know that?" {Joe, March 2011}
"If I wasn't born in this family, mom would cry to death." (Joe, January 2011)
"I want to be a 'nola (granola) bar when I grow up. (Anna, January 2011)
"Either I want to be in the circus when I grow up or an artist." (Joe, January 2011)
"Sara always sticks her tongue out after she smiles. It's her hobby . . . I mean her habit." (Rebekah, December 2010)
"Sara is the youngest, youngest, youngest, but Anna is young. But she is a big girl." (Joe, December 2010)
"I. AM. SICK! Do you know what sick means? Then be quiet!" (Joe, December 2010)
"The B-I-B-L-O, yes that's the book for Joe." (Joe, December 2010)
"Mom, can I have a piece of candy since you love me so much?" {Joe, November, 2010}
Me: "Hey bud, how was school today?" Joe: "WELL, I was the last one done with my project because I was doing my quality work. Some of my friends were scribbling." {November 2010}
"Ama lets me have chocolate ice cream for breakfast." {Joe, November 2010 after I told him he couldn't have chocolate ice cream for breakfast.}
"I need NOT help!" {Anna, November 2010}
"I think Yoda is cuter than Anna." (Joe, November 2010}
"Dad, you are a random pig." (Lydia, October 2010)
"Sara, this is your first time at Caribou. This isn't your home, it's Caribou." (Joe, October 2010)
"Mom, when you eat food does it turn into poop or milk?" (Joe, October 2010)
"That one is the hop and this one is the scotch." (Joe, September 2010)
"Would you like to work all day if you were Batman?" (Joe, July 2010)
"I just took a bite of apple and it feels like dried pears just melting in my mouth." (Lydia, May 2010)
"Joe is like an actress." (Lydia, May 2010)
"Anna, please don't do that. It makes me nervous." (Joe, May 2010)
"Dad, maybe this Halloween we can dress up as Bible characters." (Rebekah, May 2010)
"S'mores? I love s'mores! Well, I don't, but I do like those crackers." (Joe, April 2010)
"Do I look like a real boy?" (Joe)
"I make my own dreams." (Jacob)
"I can save you. I have a utivity belt" (Joe, who always mispronounces "ultility belt", you know, like a superhero has)
"Now I know why they call a mini van a MINI van." (Jacob)
"Mom, you don't make the rules here, I do and I WANT A COOKIE!" (Joe . . . who, much to his chagrin, did NOT get a cookie!)
"Sometimes I burp out my nose." (Jacob)
"I poop bats and then they fly around in the toilet" (Joe, while wearing Batman undies!)
"I wok!" (translation::I rock! -- Anna)
"I love you the more the best!" (Joe)
"When I have my 13 birthday, I'm going to invite all my 13 guys and watch all the 13 movies!" (joe -- planning his birthday party for 8 years from now)
"when I shut my eyes it looks like space." (vince)
"Yo! Pull your pants up BEFORE you leave the bathroom, ok?" (Kirbs)
"Mom, my power is that I don't need to sleep." (Joe)
"We're like two peas in a carrot." (Lydia, talking about herself and her friend)
"Mom, you smell like Advil." (Rebekah)
"I want dad to make shake 'n bake at my wedding. Dad can be the cook. Dad and Ama." (Lyida)
"We do have 5 kids, mom. I counted and we do." (Joe)
"Yesterday when I hiccuped or burped it tasted like puke, but today it just tastes normal." (Jacob)
(Joe, while looking at the manger scene) "Do you know who this is? He starts with a "g". It's Jesus. Do you know who this is? He starts with J-O-E-Y." (pointing at Joseph!)
"But, if I don't have a happy meal then I am not happy!" (Joe)
"Rebekah, I didn't do bad grammar. I was just trying to explain it to Joey." (Lydia)
"Christmas trees are just like regaler (regular) trees, but no one buys dem (them) in the summer time." (Joe)
"When I am 16 I will be in 2nd grade, but when I am 5 I will just be a bus cop." (Joe)
"Mom, thanks for washing all of my clothes." (Joe)
"I think that Anna did that." (Joe)
"Winnie Mc Who." (Joe's attempt at Winnie the Pooh, which apparently he's never heard correctly in his entire 4 years of life!)
"What smells like new shoes?" (Rebekah)
"I want a piece of pop." (Joe)
"I can't do gentle." (Joe)
"I love the smell of malls!" (Lydia)
"If you have syrup in your gas tank, then your car won't go, 'cause syrup will stick to the wheels" (Joe)
"When I play in the sun I get all hot and summery." (Joe)
We were driving by a cemetary where there was a bunch of wood stacked and Kirb mentioned that they must have taken down some dead trees when Joe piped in: "Did they bury the trees?" (nice thinkin' there, Buddy!)
"We looked at Ama's house on 'Google America'" (Lydia, who, it would seem, needs to work on expanding her worldview!)
"You are not the real Jesus' dad!" (Lydia to Joe)
"Maybe when I get biggeh I can drive a snow plowed." (Joe)
"God is so silly, He just snowed on all the roofs." (Joe)
"She's got lots of drama in her." (said by Rebekah . . . talking about Lydia)
"When Dark Vadeh [Darth Vader] was getting littler and littler he was turned into Anakin." (Joe)
"When I was little you put me in your tummy." (Joe)
"CR2PO is in this one" (talking about Star Wars and either C3PO or R2D2. I'm not sure which) . . . (Joe)
"i cracked myself up twice today." (kirbs)
"anna doesn't like myself." (joe)
"i got 2 blessings." (joe, when he sneezed twice)
"daddy is wearing his gray hair today." (rebekah)
"mom, you give me food. you are kind and nice." (joe)
"anna likes it when i spit my tongue out at her." (joe)
"i want a ha fa funday pa top, please mom!" (joe) translation: "i want a hot fudge sundae pop tart, please mom!"
"i love you, mom. you are my best mom in the world!" (joe)
"i'm gonna go get the joaster. you know like toaster, but with a j!" (kirb)
when you have wings like a bird and a airplane and a helicopter then you can fly with me." (joe)
"thank you, my mom." (joe)
"did you give her her anna-biotics yet?" (rebekah -- when anna was on antibiotics for an ear infection)
' i do like fiss [fish], but i don't like sarks [sharks] because they eat me all the time!" (joe)
"what in the wide world?" (rebekah)
"i want an iphone!" (joe)
"mom, i need to tell you a question." (joe)
"Jesus is a frog." (joe)
jacob: "what is that smell? does anna have a stinky diaper?" lydia: "no, that's my breath. my breath has hurt all morning."
"this water tastes like potatoes" (lj)
"i have memorized my customer number from on the lego magazine." (jacob)
"anna the grace." (joe)
"i'm gonna taze you. zzzzzzt." (joe . . . i really am not sure where he comes up with this stuff. we really don't talk much about tazers at home!!??)
rebekah: "smells like a winter poop." mom: "what does that mean???" rebekah: "it's smells like snow . . . and . . . poop." (rebekah, talking about anna's stinky diaper)
"because just no." (Joe)
"Daddy, did you make these out of scratch?" (Rebekah, talking about pancakes)
"do you want to get a shot or do you want to die?" (rebekah, explaining to lydia about why we get the flu shot and how, potentially, you could die from the flu)
"i am allergic to water. i said i want caulk-it [chocolate] milk" (joe)
"Mom, what color is Haddon? I think he red. I'm red, Mom" (Joe)
"Mom, will you just go away please?" (Joe)
"mom, you are my little pig dropping." (joe, after watching his new favorite movie, annie!)
"my legs are falling off and my bones are falling apart." (lydia when climbing down barn bluff in red wing on our family hike)
"silly mom, a pony is not an animal. a cow is a animal!" (joe)
"yell-come" (that's "you're welcome" in joe language!)
"You should have called my middle name 'Avenue'." (Lydia)
Kirby: “I smell rain.” Joe: "Mom, I smell funda [thunder]"
“I just saw a car like Ama & BopBops [his grandparents]. It had two headlights, one trunk and dis many wheels.” [holding up an indistinguishable number of fingers – he’s not too great at holding up his fingers to represent numbers for some reason] (Joe)

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Friday, February 10, 2012

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