"Mom, I would way rather be 'Eponime' than 'Hannah Montana' when I grow up." Marisa on our way to Mom's scary halloween dinner. My response, "Yes! We are making progress." Eponime (which I know I'm spelling wrong on purpose!) is the poor peasant girl from Les Mis, we saw with Risi in St. George.
Robby to Maya, "Gross, Maya that guy is smoking, he is going to die!"
On our way to Grandma's on a Sunday for dinner, Risi to whoever, "Wow, there is a lot of people who aren't Mormon's" in reference to all the sinners at Maverick! This is classic self righteous Risi - I love it and HATE it at the same time. This girl has a passive aggressive side to her that cuts like a knife at times.
Daily's from Robby, pretty much only in the car; "Mom why do we have grass? Mom why do we have dirt? Mom does Jesus sleep? Mom when is it Sunday? Mom is it tomorrow? Mom, how come the blinker blinks? Mom, why do people buy gas? Mom, why is the light yellow?" Ok - do you get that the questions make me a little nutty? The madness of some this is HE KNOWS THE LIGHT IS YELLOW SO WE WILL SLOW DOWN! I've answered that one ten times! I want to say I don't know to everything, or just because, yet the minute that thought crosses my mind in creeps the thought that I will be stifling his development. There are at least 1,000 of these questions a week from Robby - we spend too much time in the car.
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You guys should start biking everywhere. Then you can just say, "I can't hear your awesome questions over the traffic!!" And then he'll forget his questions, and you'll never have to answer them, and he'll grow up never knowing whether or not Jesus sleeps. Problem solved.
You may not ever see this, I am reading your blog backward... but I was just reading a book that said that you shouldn't answer all of your kids questions, just say, "Why do you think we have grass?" They feel like you were listening, you can still think a thought, and you are boosting their development by leaps and bounds!
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