The Adventures of Elliot Weir: Boy Wonder and the Amazing Maisie: Hey Dad, You Forget Something?

Monday, July 7, 2008

Hey Dad, You Forget Something?

Sorry everyone; I was afraid of this happening from the outset. Hey, blogging ain't easy! I'm working on a new post now, so expect something within the day. I promise!

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sh*t my kids say

6.30.14: M singing

"This land is your land, this land is my land, from Canyifornia, to the New North Valley, to the Red Nose Raindeer."

3.26.14: words of wisdom from M:

"If you toot in zip-up jams you can't hear it."

2.17.14: @ the dinner table

E: "You have water milk."

M: "No, I have milkEY water."

1.16.14: M, making plans for her future: "When I'm 66, I'm going to have 100 babies."

12.6.13: To the kindly father of a classmate.

M: "Why do you don't have hair?"

9.9.13:

M: "I'm a little bit little and a little bit big."

8.18.13:

M: "When I'm an adult, I will drink coffee and tea and have sharp nails."

7.10.13: in an attempt to crack a joke:

M: "Why does the Jell-O need a bowl, why? It needs a plate!"

7.8.13: listening to an NPR story talking about Justin Bieber

M: "They are talking about Beaverton!!!!!"

7.1.13:

adult: "Elliot you are being really nice to your sister."

M: "Yes he is (very deadpan). Tomorrow he will be very mean (almost whispered & quite serious)."

6.26.13:

E coined a new term for a bail of hay: hay loaf

may 2013: in response to an observation that she has very pretty blue eyes...

M: "My Daddy did them for me."

april 2013: in a soft whiney voice indicating that she took offense

M: "Elliot called me Overham Lincoln."

E: (shouting from the background) "No I didn't! Abraham!"

january 2013: still working on her grammar, tenses & syntax

M: "Mine having a nose running."

in an attempt to improve his pleases & thank yous

E: "This dinner looks really good, I know I'll like it. Thank you for making it Daddy. (I was saying my pleases and thank yous.)"

december 2012:

M: "That is Barak Obama's house."

E: "No, he lives in a light house."

M: "That is Barak Obama's light house."

E: "No, he lives in Tennessee."

november 2012: maisie's favorite color?

M: "purtle" (spelled phonetically)

mumbling to himself after a request to alter his behavior:

E: "If I want to rock it today, I better change my ways."

october 2012:

the Presidential election is between:

E: "Pwesident Bawak Obama & McRomney"

maisie's most frequent phrase

"Wussat noise?"

august 2012: when elliot is really upset at you

E: "Bowman arrow in your eye!" (no, that is not a typo)

7.9.12: upon observing a kid riding his bike up a moderate hill

E: "That person has really serious biking skills!"

6.12.12: at naptime

M: "Stop talking Elliot." (repeated several times)

E: (does not stop talking)

M: "Do you need to go into their room?"

E: (eventually was moved into our room)

6.11.12: while correctly pointing these out to M on a globe

E: French Guiana, Brazil, Peru

5.19.12:

M: "No diapers! undies."

Stu: "So are you going to use the potty?"

M: "no, flower pot."

4.13.12: upon a slight bump of his hand against the fence

E: "It is so much blood!" (followed by loud wailing)

Clearly he doesn't remember the real "there is so much blood!" (see june 2009)

4.11.12: sampling of words Maisie said today:

mozzarella

tzatziki

hummus

falafel

3.25.12: shortly after moving the kids into their loft bed.

E: "Maisie? Do like I do. I go to sleep."

M: "No."

Monday, July 7, 2008

Hey Dad, You Forget Something?

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