11/14/18 Talking about the trapped feelings they’d get exploring the deep ocean or space. Jasmine: “I’d rather go in the ocean because at least it’s still on earth.” Russ: “I’d rather go to space because I’ve visited the ocean.” Kira: “I wouldn’t want to go to space because I don’t want to get hit with the balls.” Eden: “I’d rather go to heaven than either of those places.” Kira: “You probably would go to heaven if you went to either of those places!”
11/17/18 Overheard: Kira-“Let’s pretend we are just kids having fun.”
11/21/18 Kira: “You look old, mama. You look old like a grandma. You look really wrinkly right now.”
11/23/18
Me: “Kira, why are you naked?”
Kira: “My shirt was wet....I like chewing on it.”
11/25/18 Eden: “If I was ever in public school and someone was bullying me, I’d just say ‘So’s your face!’”
12/3/18 Bria woke me up this morning, “Where Daddy go? Daddy back at work?” I told her, “Yes. Daddy’s back at work.” Bria: “That’s mean!”
12/17/18
Bria snuggles up to Russ, looks up at him and says, “I love you!”
Russ: “ I love you too!”
Bria: “You are the worst.”
Russ: “What? No, you’re the worst.”
Bria: “So’s your face.”
1/7/19 Bria put her hand on my shoulder, looked up at me and said, “You’re my hero.” 💕
2/14/19
Kira: “You have a very jiggly butt!”
2/14/19
Tonight I said to Bria: “Are you going to go to bed now?” Bria: “That’s not going to be happening.”
3/4/19
Today while I was on the phone, Bria was in her room coloring. She comes out and walks up to her sister and says, “My hand is bloody!” I look over and she had colored her entire hand and half her arm completely with a bright red marker! She had written on her leg yesterday also. So tonight I’m giving her a bath and I asked her, “Are you supposed to write on yourself?” Bria: “No.” Me: “Are you going to do that again in the future?” Bria: “Yes” Me: “Why?” Bria: “Because. I’m going to do it again in the future.”
3/13/19
Eden: “Mom, what’s higher than a trillion?”
Jasmine: “A trillion and one.”
3/16/19
Acacia: "The lights are on but they're not very bright."
3/16/19
Jasmine (about wasabi): "It's like the smell of nail polish remover only spicy."
3/17/19
I asked Bria what her favorite part of the day was... “Umm, this.” (As she shows me her ring finger on her right hand.) 😂
3/22/19
I groan to myself. Bria, who sitting nearby playing, says, “What, Mom?” I said, “My phone is dying.” Bria: “Oh! I get it.” *resumes playing*
3/25/19
Jasmine: “If I had a husband, I’d want him to be quiet.”
4/8/19
Overheard:
Kira: “Bria put down the pencils! We are not cat drummers!”
4/19/19
Bria: “Mommy. You look like Bob.”
4/26/19
I randomly asked Jasmine “Why is life so hard sometimes?” She insightfully answered, “If it wasn’t we wouldn’t learn anything.”
5/5/19
Getting ready to watch “Crazy Rich Asians”. Bria says, “That guy is ugly.” Me: “What about her? Do you think she’s pretty?” Bria: “That girl almost looks like you.” 😂
5/8/19
I was kissing Bria’s cheeks and said, “I could kiss your cheeks all day! They are so sweet and soft.” Bria: “And healthy!”
5/15/19
Bria came up to me and said (as she often does), "Mom, What do you want?" I answered, "Same thing I always want, Brain." Bria: "Ewww...Mommy said she wants brain!!"
5/21/19
Jasmine: “Bria, what are you doing?”
Bria: “Trying to get you!”
Jasmine: “After you get me then what are you going to do?”
Bria: “Pick my nose.”
5/23/19
After Acacia & I were talking about the extra tax on fast food—-
Bria: “I don’t like tax. I like dinosaurs.”
6/4/19
I was snuggling with Bria and asked her if she was ready for and excited about the summer reading program. With a hopeful smile with a hopeful voice, “For dancers?” I told her “For readers.” She acted like she was disappointed and so I said, “Dancers can be readers!” She held her hands out like a book and said, “Like ‘Once Upon a Dream’!” And she started singing!
6/8/19
Bria: “Can I have a Rice Christmas Tree?” (Rice Krispy Treat)
6/8/19
Bria came up to me and lifted her arms up for me to pick her up. I said, “I don’t pick up dinosaurs.” Bria said, “But you pick up Brias.”
6/26/19
Getting in the car this morning...
Bria: “Mommy are you sick?”
Me: “Yeah.”
Bria: “Can you drive?”
Me: “Yeah...I think I can handle driving.”
Bria: “You can drive. You are amazing at driving!”
6/26/19
Jasmine: "You don't realize how much your parents do for you until they stop."
6/29/19
Kira (after playing at the park): “I thought I had lice but it was just rocks.”
7/24/19
This morning Kira was walking around on her tiptoes and Jasmine asked her why. She said “I’m trying to be like the Beast from Belle.”
7/25/19
Looking at a picture of sets of markers on Facebook...Eden: "The rainbows make my eyes happy."
7/27/19
I was up watching the sunrise and Bria ends up sitting outside with me. At one point I told her how sometimes God uses the bird to talk to me. That's often how He says, "Hi!" Eventually I had to come in and lay down because of my rib hurting in my back. A little bit later Bria comes in and says to me, "The birds say you have to come out here."
7/27/19
Bria: “I had a dream about a spider in my boobs!”
8/14/19
Bria: "Mommy, can I have a sandwich? I want Peanut Butter & Honey and Ham."
8/26/19
Kira: “I was make-suring no one goes in the kitchen.”
10/1/19
Referring to Pluto
Jasmine: "Once a planet; always a planet."
10/9/19
I was telling Bria that Russ was going to fly home tonight. Bria: “Is he gonna be a bird?”
10/16/19
Jasmine: "I don't know who I'm going to marry but I know what kind of guy I'm gonna marry. I want him to be calm, not crazy. Kinda shy. But not too shy. I want him to stand up for himself. I want him to be smart. That's a necessity! He can't care too much about 'that stuff' because that's gross! I just don't really care what he looks like. I just don't want him to have long hair. And I don't really want him to have a mustache."
11/7/19
Reading funny kid tweets on Facebook and laughing; Bria asks me what I’m laughing about.
Me: “Kids. Toddlers are funny! Are you a toddler? Do you say funny things?”
Bria: “No.”
Me: “Really? You’re not a toddler?”
Bria: “Nope. I’m the captain!”
11/18/19
This morning I was awakened to Bria standing next to my bed saying, "Cockle-doodle-doo!" I asked her why she was doing that... "Because it's morning time!"
11/19/19
Jasmine: "When I study in my room--study for real; not kissing--I don't like listening to music."
11/19/19
Bria: "I want an ice cream of my own."
Me: "But you had a tummy-ache."
Bria: "I wanted a tummy-ache."
11/23/19
Today at lunch I was chatting with my parents when Bria grabs my head & whispers in my ear. I didn't understand what she said so I asked her to repeat herself. She pulls my ear to her mouth and whispers "Don't go chasing waterfalls."
11/26/19
Watching ‘Elementary’; Bria comes in and sits next to me. A scene comes on where Sherlock is at a doctor’s office. Bria turns and whispers in my ear, “I think he’s pregnant.”
12/12/19
Saw a picture of an Elf on a Shelf on Facebook. Bria was looking over my shoulder and saw it. “I want one of those creepers that hide!”
12/24/19
Bria: “My tummy hurts because I feel constipated.”
Russ: (Trying not to laugh) “Really? I’m sorry.”
Bria: “What does constipated mean?”
