A Lot of Months! 2012

Here are some funny things that I've heard around here, and "jotted" down in my phone, because that's usually around. I kept forgetting to transfer them...so I'm just going to do it all at once!

One night Eliana said to me, out of the blue,"I don't want to be a mommy. I want to be a princess." I told her she would have to marry a prince in order to be a princess and she was quiet for a moment. Then she said,"I want to be a horse."

In the class that Michaela and Eliana were in this year, there was a lot of memorization...just flat out memorizing different kinds of facts. One of the categories was grammar, and part of the grammar was memorizing the principal parts of some irregular verbs. We did the verb "to shake," which goes: to shake; shake/shakes; shook; shaking; shaken. At the end of that section on the CD that we have, Eliana said,"They forgot milkshakes." 

We were in the dairy section at the grocery store, passing the eggs. Eliana saw the cartons of brown eggs and cried out,"Chocolate eggs, Mommy!" 

Once Eliana was making a case for going to the playground. She asked me,"Can we please go to the playground, for the fresh air?"

As I was driving one day, someone honked at me, and Eliana asked from the back seat,"Who horned at you?"

Christian likes to play guessing games, and often starts them in the car. One day he called out,"What is a state that starts with the letter 'A'?" Michaela said,"Arkansas." Eliana looked at her dubiously and said,"That starts with 'R'!"

Christian started another game in which he asked us to guess an animal that started with the letter "Z." Of course, the first guess was "zebra," which was incorrect. He told us it lives in the sea. No one had a guess right away, and he told us the answer was "zooplankton." Eliana burst out,"Yes! I was just about to guess that!"

I cannot remember the exact context of this one, but I must have said,"Who's a donut fan?!" Eliana exclaimed enthusiastically,"I'm a donut fan!" Then she asked,"What does 'donut fan' mean?"

Eliana was lying in her bed one night with her stuffed bear; she informed me that he did not have sharp claws. (Thank goodness!)

One day the kids were playing a game. Eliana stopped to tell me about it; it was a training game. After her training, she got her power. I guessed what power she received, but I was wrong. She told me her power was shooting out spider webs, but then she said,"But I wanted to shoot out rainbows." 

The girls were in Sam's Club with me recently and we saw one of those automatic robot floor sweepers, the disc that zooms around and dusts your floor for you. Eliana pointed to it and said,"You have to get that!" I said,"I don't!" She said,"But I saw it on TV!"

As we drove one day, we saw a huge flock of birds flying together. Eliana said,"That's a lot of birds! I guess they're playing follow the leader!"

Phew! And there are about 100 that I never got to write down!