Nursery Home

Elizabeth, age 5.5, is a great singer. yesterday I overheard her singing "I Am a Child of God."

"I am a child of God, and He has sent me here. Has given me a nursery home, with parents kind and dear."

Playing house

I overhead this conversation between Sam, age 5, and Katie, age 4 while they were playing house (the girl's idea):

Sam: ding-a-ling (holding up "phone" to his ear)

Katie: yes dear? (answering her own "phone")

Sam: I've been thinking about it and I decided we should get married.

Katie: We already are married.

Sam: Oh.... never mind. Good-bye.

Careful, Santa!

Daddy: (after being silly with H-girl) There's a square on our ceiling.
Mom: It's called a patch job.
Daddy: Did someone put a hole in our ceiling?
H (turning 5): Maybe it was Santa!

China

Taylor, age 7, "Hey, Dad! There's a lot of things made in China."

Santa?

H's been learning about what's real and what's pretend this past year. Just out of curiosity the other week, I asked her

Mom: H, is Santa real or pretend?

H: Real.

Um, okay, I won't mess with that one.

Christmas Tree

H-girl (4.5): Mom, can you help me stand the Christmas tree back up?

If you say please

Dad was trying to convince Elizabeth, 5, to eat her dinner.

"If you don't start eating, I'm going to take you into bed."

Elizabeth, "I will, if you say please."

Marriage

Elizabeth, age 5, "But, I really want to marry Dominick. When I'm his age."
(Dominick is 8)

Baby Hungry, Anyone?

By way of preface, I am a single mother. Elliana (5 1/2) and I were sitting at the table on a Sunday afternoon eating, when she asked me what we were going to do for the rest of the day. I replied that I didn't have any specific plans, and asked what she wanted to do. She answered, "I think you should go out and get a husband!" At the fit of hysterical laughter that ensued on my part, she gave a vicious scowl. "It's not funny! I want a sister!"

Moths

BriAnne, age 19, "Hey Dad, I found out where the moths in the house are coming from, they're in my cereal bowl!"

How mommies and daddies marry

Katie (4): How do mommies and daddies get married?

Mommy: Well in lots of different ways. Your mommy and daddy went to the temple and got married by a sealer.

Katie: We're we (meaning her siblings and her) at your wedding?

Mommy: No, you were with Heavenly Father in heaven still.

Katie: In a headstone?

Mommy: No.

Katie: In Heavenly Father's tummy?

Mommy: No. Just in heaven.

Katie: In the sky?

Mommy: Maybe. Some people think that is where heaven is.

Katie: Then we were in your tummy?

Mommy: Yes, a while afterward.

Funny

Elizabeth, age 5, "You're funny as a pig!"

Vicious

Elizabeth, age 5, "You're a nice nana today."

Millika, age 5, "She's always nice. She's your Nana."

Elizabeth, "Nu uh, sometimes, she can be vicious!"

Nana, "Do you know what that word means?"

Elizabeth. "No."

Parents say funny things, too

Allison (21):

I'm pretty good at doing the daily things- about 3 times a week.

I'm creative about 6 days a week, give or take 5.

Family

Nathan, age 7, "I wish I was a Merman, then I wouldn't have to live with an annoying family."

Princess

Mom: You are such a little princess!

Katie (4): No, I'm not a princess! I don't have a ponytail in my hair.

Guilty!

Elliana: Is "M" a vowel?

Mom: No.

Elliana: Is it an innocent?

Kissing

The kids are on the trampoline with a friend, playing with water balloons.They have been twisting them to get heads.

Dominick, 8, "I have a face, and I want to kiss a snowman!"

I can cook

Mom, "That's disgusting!"

Nathan, age 7, "Don't worry, I'll make more."

Strange thought combo

Mom was racing to where BriAnne, 19, was bit by a snake. As she was driving, she handed Benson, 17, the phone and told him to call 911.

Nathan, age 7, "BriAnne got bit by a snake, and Mom got cupcakes!"