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Quotes of the Week
Toby: “You, me and Ellie are on the plump team. Daddy and Caleb are on the lean team.”
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Caleb: (after I reminded him to look for his lunchbox he left at school) “Mama, we discussed this already…”
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Ellie: “Sometimes you don’t have to tell two adults things. I already told you, so today we don’t have to [...]
Why?
Ellie: We can’t eat ducklings
Me: no…we usually don’t
Ellie: Because they’re cute
Me: perhaps that’s what stops us
The power of words
Pursuing promises of a Nintendo DS, Caleb learned the sobering power of these words printed inside a cereal box: “This box is not a winner.”
Wise daughter
Brian and the boys picked veggies from a friends garden and came home with squash, beans, cucumbers, onions, potatoes and more.
Ellie is awesome. She looked down and said, “those potatoes with the long stems we should just throw away.”
They’re beets and I AGREE. Brian must be testing both my culinary prowess and my [...]
Prince of Peace AND….
“Jesus and God are my LifeDaddies”
-Ellie, random in the van
(somewhere between lifejacket and P Diddy?)
Today’s Truth from Small Mouths
“Not ALL babies in orphanages have China eyes.”
- Ellie, in response to friends adopting from China
Bed etiquette
I had just stripped the bedsheets off Ellie’s bed and brought them downstairs to wash them. Ellie came running after me screaming, “Mama! You can’t leave my bed naked!”
It’s all about context
Toby: There’s just so many Mexicans!
(referring to the number of dominoes in the Mexican train line during our game)
The difference is noticable
Per Toby:
Chihuahuas are small BOY dogs. Poodles are small GIRL dogs …..cause they’re fluffy.
Now you know.
I know it’s a beautiful day, but….
Toby came outside and said: “I know it’s a beautiful day but there’s bees hangin’ around and I don’t wanna get stung so I’m stayin’ inside. OK?”
Ah, a great example of how fear keeps us from so much of living.
