MrsA

MrsA was telling the interns about the time that B was trying to fly and was hopping before he admitted that he couldn’t fly. B listened to the conversation and added with a laugh..

L2 (6.5yrs): Silly mama! People can’t fly without a jetpack!

L2 (6yrs): Mom, in the morning, my hand and my foot just like to go out in front of people. I call it tripping. It fills my tripping tank.

L1 (8yrs) was watching me carry a bike.

L1: Mommy, can you lift Daddy?

MrsA: I have’t tried recently.

L1: Can Daddy lift you?

MrsA: Yes, he can.

L1: Can Daddy lift a car?

MrsA: No, he can’t.

L1: Then how can he lift you?  Because you weigh more than a car!

L1 (8yrs) morosely: This evening isn’t at all the way I wanted.  I didn’t want to get tagged first and I didn’t want to shower first and I wanted to shower in a special place and… it’s just… I’m having a very rough evening!

L2 (6.5yrs) very sympathetically: It’s a broken world.  All because of Adam and Eve.

L3 (4yrs) referring to the evening’s events at our house: But, the world is not fawing apart.  No one has died.  It’s weallwy okay.

L2 (6.5yrs): If China would attack Russia, Russia would stop attacking other countries.

MrsA to MrA: We’re raising little foreign policy experts.

L2 (age 6.5): Russia spends all its time, except for meal time and sleep time, attacking other countries.

Parental units: hysterical laughter

L2: Since you’ve been working so hard, Daddy, you can have the last piece of cornbread.

L1: Except I’d like a piece. So maybe just half of it.

MrA and MrsA crack up laughing

L2: Maybe just a small piece for you.

L1: L2, just stop. Stop talking

MrA: What kind of lessons can we learn from this?

L1: I don’t know. Sharing? Because I wanted the whole piece and now I’m thinking about sharing with you.

Mrs A coming back to the van after running inside the church: Hey, what’s going on?

L3 (almost 4yrs): Nobody is dead. No house has burned down. It just… L1 took my reindeer and I’m so so mad at him.

L3 (3.5yrs): Mom, I’m sad. I don’t know what to do.

MrsA: What are you thinking about?

L3: I think I can do anything that I want to do.

MrsA: okay…

L3: But I can’t.

L3 (3.5yrs) was struggling to get his Paw Patrol set up the way he wanted.

L3: Ahhhhh!!!!!!  Mom, I can’t make Skye’s helicopter sit on top of Rubble’s bulldozer!

MrsA: I tell you the truth, L3, it’s hard to get a helicopter to balance on top of a bulldozer.

L3 (largely ignoring mommy): There. I did it.

45 seconds later…

L3: AHHHH!!!! It fell again!!!!