Bria (Smelling a bar of YL soap): “It smells like almond milk mixed with a new dress.”
9/16/20
Jasmine: “Why are women so attracted to muscles? They are just bumps on the arm. Personally, I want a guy with a strong brain.”
9/17/20
Bria: “You know that song? It says, “Who’s that sexy thing standing over there.” I keep singing it but it’s inappropriate for kids! It’s inappropriate for 4 year olds!”
9/24/20
Me: “I was being sarcastic.”
Bria: “What does sir cactus mean?”
9/26/20
Bria: “We have to comb your hair so you don’t get crickets. When your hair gets tangled that’s what you call it. You get crickets.”
9/26/20
Bria: "The password is 'fungalogical'."
9/28/20
Eden (explaining why she doesn’t want to go to youth group): “I just don’t like teenagers.”
10/8/20
Bria: (Looking at her blister) “I don’t like how Jesus made us because I don’t like that skin under that skin”
Me: "What?"
Bria: "I mean--I like Jesus--I just don't like how he made us because I don't like the skin under the skin."
11/16/20
Bria: “In my dream you were kissing Dad. A lot! For some reason my brain wanted to see that! It wanted to see how that works!”
11/7/20
Tonight we were asking the kids if they had any prayer requests.
Bria: "I want to pray that the butterflies won’t be eaten by dogs. Because they would die if the dogs eat them.”
11/14/20
We’ve had the kids choosing bible verses each night...tonight was Acacia’s turn to pick. Russ comes up and asks Acacia, “So what did you pick?” Acacia: “A scab.”
11/17/20
Apparently during dance today (during Big Oak Tree) Bria said, “This song should be about Jesus because he’s a really nice man.”
11/21/20
Bria: “I love you from the sky to the ground.”
Me: “I love you from the moon to the ground!”
Bria: “Wow! That’s so far! A cow jumped over the moon one time! In real life.” Then she explained how big the moon was when the cow jumped over it.
Bria: “What if I love you from the cow to the ground? Because the cow jumped over the moon that one time!”
11/22/20
Bria: (Crying) “Kira hurt my kidneys and my brain.”
12/3/20
I was upstairs in the kitchen with music playing and I casually asked Acacia where Bria was. Bria (who was in the basement at the Lego table) yells up...”I’m right here!” She comes upstairs and I said, “That always amazes me that you can hear me that well.” Bria: “It’s because I’m the smartest & specialist kid that you ever had!”
12/15/20
Bria: “I’m not the boss of everything but I’m the boss of this walk!”
12/26/20
I walked into the living room and saw the Christmas aftermath mess and said “Ugh. I hate to see this!” And Bria speaks up and says in a sweet voice, “Then don’t look at it.”
12/31/20
Bria: “God is working on the snow AND You. He can do both at the same time because He has 2 hands!”
1/6/21
Bria: “None of us has powers but Jesus does. He can stand on the water and make everyone feel better.”
1/14/21
Bria praying: "Help mom's heart not to be broken anymore. Because Jesus didn't heal it already. No offense--but that's rude."
1/18/21
Bria: (in a conversation about prayer) “I can hear Jesus talking.”
Me: “Really? What did He say?”
Bria: “It doesn’t matter what you look like. Even if you’re ugly.”
1/31/21
Bria to me: "In my dream last night you were kissing a lot."
Me: "Who was I kissing?"
Bria: "Your husband."
Me: "Really? What did he look like?"
Bria: "The same as he looks now. And you looked the same as you look now. And you were in a tiny house. We kept seeing bugs. And there were pictures all around the house. It was weird."
2/18/21
Bria: “I want an anniversary, but I also want to pee in my room.”
4/14/21
Bria just called a question mark—“that mystery thingy”.
4/20/21
Today Jasmine asked Bria if she learned the presidents and Bria said yes.
Jasmine: “Do you know who our president is right now?”
Bria: “Trump?”
Jasmine: “No.”
Bria: “The real Biden? The guy that fighted Trump”
5/2/21
Bria: “I’m glad we go to church. If we weren’t Christians, I’d want to be a Christian.”
Me: “If we weren’t Christians how would you know you’d want to be one?”
Bria: “Ummm...it’s hard to explain.”
5/5/21
Bria (singing): “I want to dance in the middle of a cucumber!”
5/24/21
I asked Bria, “Why are you so adorable?”
She answered, “I don’t know. Probably because I’m not 13.”
5/27/21
Bria: “I just want to sing a song about freedom. I just want freedom so much! I want to be a bird!”
6/18/21
Bria singing a song from VBS, “You know why I’m singing that? It’s because Jesus loves us sooo much his heart is bubbling!”
6/27/21
Bria comes out of her room and had changed her shorts. I just looked at her and didn’t say anything. She holds up one finger and says: “I know I’m wearing pajama pants but don’t patronize me.”
6/29/21
Bria: “Love me to the stomach of your heart”
7/4/21
Bria: “violence is one of my answers for love.”
7/23/21
5/24/21
I asked Bria, “Why are you so adorable?”
She answered, “I don’t know. Probably because I’m not 13.”
5/27/21
Bria: “I just want to sing a song about freedom. I just want freedom so much! I want to be a bird!”
6/18/21
Bria singing a song from VBS, “You know why I’m singing that? It’s because Jesus loves us sooo much his heart is bubbling!”
6/27/21
Bria comes out of her room and had changed her shorts. I just looked at her and didn’t say anything. She holds up one finger and says: “I know I’m wearing pajama pants but don’t patronize me.”
6/29/21
Bria: “Love me to the stomach of your heart”
7/4/21
Bria: “violence is one of my answers for love.”
7/23/21
Things Bria said on our walk:
“I’m the leader of this walk”
“If zombies come I will hai-ya!”
“If I had super speed like Dash…faster than Dash, I’d be first.”
“Get off my arrow, ants!”
8/9/21
Me: “Bria, thanks for being my buddy today and taking it in stride when the ice cream machine was broken.”
Bria: “That’s just what I do! Nice stuff!”
8/24/21
Jasmine: “What’s a Pap smear?”
Eden: “It’s when they look at your thingy for scientific purposes.”
8/28/21
I was complaining about my hair turning grey on top and Bria came over and inspected.
Bria: “I don’t see any grey. I only see black. *pointing* That mirror is WRONG.”
12/16/21
Bria: “You’re wearing makeup? Your face looks stale.”
1/13/22
Eden: “I really like this outfit. I look both hot and modest because modest IS hottest.”
3/17/22
Jasmine: “If I had a dollar for every time I rolled my eyes today, I’d have my monthly allowance.”
3/25/22
Bria: “Dad, I love you more than anyone except for God! I love God a trillion and I love you a billion. And I love Mom a billion, too!”
4/11/22
Bria: “Can I play Minecraft?”
Me: “No. Today is Monday; you have to do homework.”
Bria: (exasperated, throwing her head back & her hands up) “Ughh!! Everyday is Monday! Seriously!”
5/5/22
Eden & I were discussing the accuracy of our scale here. Bria weighed herself and said “It says 32.8”. I asked her “Is that what the scale in Oregon said?” Bria: “yeah…well no, it said 32.7 but I did some push-ups. so, yeah.”
6/15/22
Acacia heard Beastie Boys “Fight for your right” and said “For a minute I thought this was the boy version of ‘Girls just want to have fun’”
9/12/22
Bria: “I can’t snap. I’m still little and my fingers aren’t as feisty as yours!”
9/26/22
Me: “You can just lay in a beach chair with a sun hat over your face and let the sound of the ocean lull you to sleep.”
Eden: “I don’t like being lulled.”
10/8/22
Eden: “I’m really mad that mullets are in! How am I supposed to find a boyfriend if they all have mullets?”
10/15/22
Bria: “You’re a soggy burrito, Eden!!”
Eden: “That’s so insulting. I’m a crispy burrito.”
10/19/22
Bria’s philosophical question of the day: “Why did Thumbkin run away?”
11/23/22
Eden: “You know what would be a stinking cool tattoo to have? An important name or word written in Gallifreyan!”
Jasmine: “Maybe if you’re a nerd!”
Eden: “Lucky for you, I am then!”
Jasmine: “Is ‘nerd’ the right word or would it be ’geek’ in that context?”
1/6/23
Bria was asking about sewers. I asked her if she knew what sewers were for. “No”. So I explained…
Bria: “Eww. It’s weird that the Ninja Turtles would live there.”
2/1/23
Bria: “I like tying things. It’s my passion.”
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