Year in Review 2014 pt. 3

July:

• Wyatt found the Lord of the Rings Pez dispenser set at Walmart today. He pointed directly at Gandalf and said, "Mommy!" Thanks kid.
• So... There's a made up story I used to tell Lincoln when he was little in order to get him to eat his bread crusts. Today he was recounting "memories" from the story during lunch.
• Ana and Jessa playing with mermaid dolls... 
  Jessa: mom, I want lunch. 
  Ana: we don't eat lunch in the depths of the sea.
• Me: girls, why don't you come sit by the pool with us instead of on the porch? 
  Lincoln: yeah, don't be so obvious!
• We're going to a birthday party this week and I let my kids choose gifts for their friend: a "decorate your own" mug, a toothbrush, mini tongs, and rubberbands. Should be fun to see what their friend thinks of the gift.

September:

• I'm eating breakfast and Jessa says, "Hey! You're not supposed to eat breakfast!" 
  Me: Why not? 
  Jessa: You're a mom!
• Lincoln to me: I didn't recognize you in that picture because your butt was so fat....

October:

·        Lincoln wrote a note to Jessa:  You are the 3^rd best ever.  I love you!

November:

• I gave Wyatt a carrot, and he observed, "Yellow, cold, sword."
• Lincoln : Why do I have to go to school? My birthday was yesterday. 
• Watching the Broncos game, Lincoln asks about one of the players, "is that Taylor Swift?"
  Um. No. Taylor Swift doesn't play football sweetie. We're obviously not into pop culture at our house. I honestly don't even know how he knows her name.
• Looking at a homemade bead necklace, Lincoln says, "Did you get this at Kay?"  Me, "Kay?"  Lincoln, "Yeah, from the ads."  Me, "Um. no."
• 2nd quarter. Broncos are up 17 to 0 and Lincoln says, "oh man. They're going to lose. I can feel it." Guess who got sent straight to bed.

December:

• I pooped with Wyatt in the bathroom. When I was done, he wanted to flush it. Before he did, his commentary went like this: poop! Big poop! Nice!
• Wyatt jumped off the full sized trampoline (maybe fell?), stood up and said, "CRAZY!" and walked away.
• I just learned that when Wyatt wants you to wake up he pinches your nose and wiggles it while yelling "wake up!" at you.
• Ana says: I can count by 5's! Then she counted to 100 perfectly. Then continued 105, 200, 205, 300, 305, 400.....
• Lincoln's Baptism. The first thing he said after being baptized - That was awesome! I'm glad I brought dry underwear because free-balling in church pants doesn't seem like a good idea.
• Me: what's your favorite Christmas song? 
  Jessa: once there was a snowman!
• Jessa is coloring. I said, "try to stay in the lines." Wyatt yelled, "LIONS! AMAL (animal)!"

Year in Review 2014 pt. 2

May

• I bought Gone With the Wind at DI today and Ana asked if she can take it with her to college where she'll be "cold and homeless." How am I going to say no to that?
• Jessa didn't eat her lunch and was hungry and asking for food. I told her she threw her lunch away and it would be wasteful to make more food. She started to cry and yell, "I want to waste money! I want to waste money!"
• Ana is throwing a fit and has gone to bed because "Let it Go!" from Frozen, says "Here I stand *In the light of day*!" and not JUST *and here I'll stay.* 
  On another note....Ana is also never going to eat lunch AGAIN because I didn't let her feed her lunch to the chickens.
• Jessa and I were doing shapes and she held up an oval and said, "Ooooh! This is a funny rectangle!"
• Lo (age 5): owls and ghosts are really mean! 
  Me: says who? 
  Lo: Jesus.
• Jessa locked me out of the house so I knocked on the door and started singing, "Do You Want to Build a Snowman."  She opened the door and said, "But it's not snowing!"  So clueless.

Year in Review 2014 pt. 1

Year in Review 2014

Lincoln - 7,  Ana 5, Jessa 3, Wyatt 1

January

• Jessa is chewing with her mouth open and Lincoln says, "That's not chewing like a princess. That's chewing like an evil devil."
• Jessa wants Santa to bring her a baby doll for her birthday.
• I was telling Jessa how we got her from a parade-they were tossing taffy, Frisbees, etc and Jessa. And she said, "No. You got me at DI!"
• Jessa was reading the animal book to Wyatt and she told him the chicken says, "chicka-chicka-doo." then she told him the Fox says, "hauty-hauty-ho."
• Lincoln: Wyatt is sitting on my spleen and it's making me have to go to the bathroom!
• Lincoln: do you know anyone who was alive in 1999?
  Me: I was. 
  L: You're THAT old?!?
• L:I know where Jessa's favorite color came from! A: Walmart.

February

• Lincoln: what year were you born? 
  Me:1978
  L: no. Like year of the dog, horse, snake? Like that? 
  Me: I don't know
  Lincoln: which year is a bad secret keeper?
• Lincoln: what is racist? 
  Aj: it's when you don't like people because if the color of their skin. Like blacks or Mexicans. 
  Lincoln: who wouldn't like Mexicans? They make great churros!
• We went to the turkey farm to eat lunch and there's a cow and bison that some kids were petting and Jessa said, "Look! they're feeding a moose and a bear."
• Lincoln and Ana have a race and Lincoln wins. 
  Lincoln (triumphantly) : I win!!! 
  Ana (just as triumphantly) : I lose!!!
• I was helping Jessa say her prayers:  Me- help me not to whine. Jessa- help mommy not to whine.

March

• Jessa's so fun to take a road trip with. Things she's said today: "you are a crazy driver! " (which may be isn't typically funny, but coming from her little 3 year old mouth as we went around the mountain curves, it cracked me up!), "when can we go back to the show and tell? (hotel)", and "HOW ABOUT Lincoln and Ana sleep on the floor and I sleep in your bed with you?"

April

• Playing memory with little kids is like playing that cup shuffling game.

Year in Review 2013

Year in Review 2013
Lincoln - 6; Ana - 4, ; Jessa 2

May:

• Jessa said - Mom, nurse me! I said - I don't think you know how. Jessa - Let's see!

June:

• Me: Jessa, why did you poop in your underwear?  Jessa: Because, my poop is stinky.

• At the Bees game Lincoln says, "Jessa you're so cute." She hits him and yells, "I NOT CUTE! I THIRSTY!" 

July:

• Jessa's prayer: Thank you we will eat dinner and have Oreo. Clean house and have candy. Go poop and have candy.

• Friend: Ana, who's your favorite princess?  Ana: Jessa!

• Me: Did you see Jessa's black eye?  Jessa: No. I have blue eyes, actually.

• Asked Jessa if she wanted a piece of cake and she said, "I'll eat elk steak outside."

September:

• Me:Lincoln, why are you so messy? Lincoln: because I'm a KID!

• Lincoln says - look, I'm lifting weights! I'm a China man!

• Making dinner with Jessa, I said-this is a mommy part. She replied-I'm kind of a mommy.  Then I gave Wyatt a baby biscuit and she said- want one of those! I said-they're for babies. She replied-I'm kind of a baby.

October:

• Jessa singing: a Z O O O n 1 2 n O Z Z a O O O!  Me:what is this song? Jessa: the alphabet!

• We saw a bunch of Halloween decor at the store and Jessa started to shout, "easter! Easter! Easter!"

• Ana says excitedly : mom! The bees game and the Planetarium are on the same planet!

• Watching star wars, Jessa sees chewbacca and says, "Oh there's a lion!"

• For Ana's birthday we all said our favorite thing about her. Jessa's : she has red hair. (Ana is very blond)

• Lincoln says - maybe I could chop off my leg and be Legolas for Halloween.

November:

• Jessa:can I try this?  Me: no. You're too big. Jessa: OK. I won't..... Be big.

• Who needs drunk friends to have conversations that don't make sense? Not me:  Me:guess who's awake. Jessa: not me. I'm cleaning.  Me: what are you cleaning?  Jessa: my stool. It's all clean and cuddly. Just like peg + cat.

• I told Lincoln he'd have to clean his room today if he wants to go to his grandparent's house this weekend. So, this afternoon Jessa said she wants to clean his room for him. Sweetest thing ever? NO! She wants to clean his room so he CAN'T earn an opportunity to go.

• Jessa: I love turds! Ana: turds? What's a turd? Lincoln: a turd is a crazy person.

December:

• I pride myself on being able to find things that others can't find, so my hubby called me "Google."

• Jessa says- look mom, my sweater has pockets! Now I don't have to use my underwear holes!

• Christmas 2013 - Jessa opened a gift and I said, "it's your very own make-up set!" and Ana said, "did you get a make-up set for us?"

Lincoln, age 5

Playing 21 questions, Lincoln established that I was thinking of something you wear. I prompted him to ask me questions about where you wear (meaning what part of your body) this item, and he said, "Do you wear it on the tramp?"

Jessa, age 2

Me:  Jessa, why did you poop in your underwear?
Jessa (in a weird, bubble-in-your-throat kind of voice):  Because, my poop is stinky!

Lincoln, age 6 talking to Ana, age 4

Lincoln and Ana were having a conversation about a vacation we took to California, and Lincoln said, "California is WORLDS away from here!"