L3: Mom, every now and then, I get hurt.
L1 (on swimming at Mitchell Lake): Maybe I can use a tree branch for a poodle! (Explanation: pool noodle)
While playing cars at the campsite…
L3 (very upset and yelling at his brother): No no no no no! Ahhhhhh! Don’t touch my Eagle Lake copter!
L1 (exasperated): L3, your amygdala is going off.
Overheard from L2 (6.5 yrs): You know how much fun swimming is? How much fun we had at Pastor Phil’s pool?
L3: Yeah. That’s was lots of fun!
L2: Well, reading is that much fun. Except even better.
L2 (6.5yrs): If you love a bagel, you’ll love a doughnut even more. That’s what I say. Because bagels are plain doughnuts.
I heard L3 (4 yrs) screaming in the DR in the morning. I came down to find him bucked into his booster seat (unusual) and very upset.
L1 (8yrs): Don’t worry, he just didn’t want to sit in his seat, so I put him in it and buckled him in and now he’s upset, so I brought him the “how big is your problem” calm down card. I told him he has a small problem and a big response.
L1 to L3: Now. You need a calm down tool to help you calm down. Pulls out calm down flip ring. Do you want to do an animal walk? Or draw a picture?
MrsA walked into the house this evening and L3 (4yrs) ran up to meet her with a pair of kids’ scissors.
L3: Mom, you can cut your hair with these! Proceeds to trim front hair
MrsA matter-of-factly: I was wondering when this would happen.
Summary, from L1: I started cutting their hair, but then I realized that we probably shouldn’t, so then I tried to stop it.
Apparently L1 was cutting L3’s hair and then L3 was cutting L2’s hair and his own hair too.
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.