Car Conversations

Chase: What are the Christmas colors?
Me: Red & green
Chase: Why?
Me: You know, I don't know why. We should investigate that.
Chase: I think it's red because of the blood of Jesus and green because that's Jesus' favorite color.
(Guess we don't need to investigate that!)

Chase: How old are Papa and Grandma Dellario
Me: They are 57 and 55.
Stuart: How old is Daddy?
Chase: He's 32.
Brief silence
Stuart: When you turn 30 you start to die.
(Lord help us!)

Stuart and Chase were hitting one another in the back of the van on the way home from school while each had a friend in the van.
Me: (after correcting them) I'm sure your friends are really surprised by how you're treating each other. You are being very unkind.
Stu's friend, Stewart G: I, for one, am not surprised.
(I'm not sure what that says about my kids, but I'm just gonna think it's because Stewart is the youngest of 4)

As I was getting Sabrina out of the car after the boys (again) being mean to one another,
Sabrina: I'm being kind, right, Mom?
(I guess the pleasing begins early)

Laughter through Tears

Life around me has been, well, a bit high drama and sad recently. I'm kinda tired of crying, but I've had a lot of "Laughter through tears is my favorite emotion" recently. (Steel Magnolias for those of you who don't remember...) So with each of these conversations, I've been crying and seriously just had to laugh.

Chase:
You know, it definitely wouldn't be good to live near a cocoa factory. I really couldn't do that. He would be too noisy. Maybe a chocolate factory, but not cocoa.

Stuart:
Could we, um, PLEASE go to, um, McDonald's and [slurping sound] get McDonald's stuff? Um, and the take the [slurping sound] McDonald's stuff, um, home and um, eat it? And then, um, maybe play there?

Sabrina:
I have three dogs. [We have no dogs]
You do? 3?
No, 2 dogs.
What are their names?
Naomi and Table.
Naomi and Table?
Yes. Those are my 2 dogs.

With a friend, London:
[I had bemoaning on the phone the difficulty of the day with the kids]
You know, Jenn, when it gets like that I think just go, [shouting in her great Louisiana accent] "OH MY GOODNESS! IS THAT SANTA CLAUS????" I say if there's a Santa up at Walgreen's, you can totally use that.

Sabrina: (Ok, I'd not been crying, but this was just funny)
Mama, I don't want a spanking!
Why do I have to give you a spanking?
Because I shouted "NO" at you.
Do you deserve a spanking?
No.
Why?
'Cause I don't want one.

Thank you, Lord for the gift of laughter and the gift of tears. And I thank you even more that we don't always have to choose.

Where are you from?

Tonight we went to the Webster pool for the first time this year and the kids were soooo excited. Michael and I were laughing remembering Chase a few years ago on the way to the pool. He was about 2 1/2 years old and tired from a great time swimming. We were talking to the boys and asked, "Did you have fun at the pool?" Chase responds "I've got hankerin' for Fr-ied Chicken!" What?! So many things funny about this.

1. Who says "hankerin"?
2. Michael doesn't like fried chicken, so we never eat it
3. He just ate a sandwich at the pool

Where does he come up with these things?

More dinner conversations

I'm not sure how to blog about this conversation.
I'll set the scene and then just trust y'all are figure it out!

We were at dinner this evening discussing our plan and routine for the next day. As you read this, imagine that every time one of the kids is talking, they have interrupted. All the while Michael is trying to contain his laughter :-)

Me: Hey, guys, we have a busy day tomorrow. We're going to get up at 7 and do our normal morning routine. We'll leave at 8 to go to the Y.
Sabrina Joy: I go witch you? I go too?
Me: Yes, Sabrina, you'll come with us.
SJ: [pointing in her crooked finger fashion at Michael] Daddy stay here?
Me: No, honey, Daddy'll go to work.
Stuart Andrew: Yes, Daddy will go to work and you will stay with us.
Me: Yes, so we'll get up and go to the Y
SA: OK
SJ: Miss Esther be dere? [Esther is Sabrina's favorite child care worker at the Y]
Me: We'll see. She's usually there on Mondays.
Chase: Esther doesn't work on Thursdays.
Me: Yeah, we discovered that last week, didn't we.
SJ: Esther be dere. And Miss Linda?
Me: We'll have to find out tomorrow. So. We'll go to the Y
SA: OK
Me: Then we'll go to the Library.
SA: OK
Me:We have to remember to bring the leap pad kits so we can check out new ones. [We forgot them last week]
SA: Ya, because if we get there and we don't have dem, I'll go "Haaa-eey"!
Me: OH. K. Yes, so we'll go to the library and then we'll go to the park.
SA: OK
C: What are we going to do after the park?
Me: Well, after the park, we'll come home
SA: OK
Me: Stu, you don't have to say 'OK' every time. After the park, we'll come home and have lunch, then rest & nap. After rest, you can watch a program or the Curious George DVD we checked out last week.
C & SA: Yea!
Me: After that we have to go to Aldi.
C: What are we going to do after Aldi?
Me: We'll come home and have supper and do our nighttime routine.
C: [tilting his head in a knowing fashion] Mom, supper is part of our night time routine.
Me: Yes, so we'll do all that and go to bed.

[pregnant pause]

SA: Do I have school tomorrow?

Bedtime Conversations

Overheard just after lights out...

Chase: Stuart, I know how we can get the "Thomas & Percy Carnival Train Playset"! We need to work really hard for the next few months. And once I have 3 $10 bills or $10 in quarters and you have 3 $10 bills we can put them together and then we'll have $60! And then we can put all the $10 bills in my spend envelope and we can take it to the store and buy the "Thomas & Percy Carnival Train Playset."

Stuart: Chase, what if our house was made of bread?