THE QUOTE OF THE WEEK

In our house we have something called “The Quote of the Week.” (Of course, Kate can’t talk yet, so they aren’t always quotes, they’re more like funny things my kids do or say.) Sometimes Chris and I get quotes of the week also. I’d like to share just a few recent favorites:
Chris – Okay, explanation. Chris has an obsession with food and a mega sweet tooth. When we were first married I was like, “why do you care if we’re having leftover spaghetti night, you go out into the woods and live off bugs?!?” To which Chris quickly explained that it is BECAUSE he has to go out into the woods and live off bugs that when he has a choice as to what he eats, he wants it to be good. Chris has also been known to eat an entire pan of brownies/rice-krispie treats in one evening. As our children came along a competition has emerged as to who gets to eat the last cookie, brownie, etc. So, the other night at the dinner table, Chris laid down the law and informed us that “I weigh as much as the rest of the family put together. I am therefore entitled to half of the food in the house.” Chris weighs 205 lb. We’ll let you do the math on the rest of us . . .
This is a picture of Aly and Lise getting tied up in the boat when they were bored on Sunday at Lake Powell because they couldn’t swim। They absolutely loved trying to get untied.

Aly – "Mom, I can do a crazy trick! I can stare with my eyes, not swallow, and hold still at the same time!” (believe me, for Aly, holding still is a trick।)
– Aly decided to bring her ballet slippers to church one week to “keep her feet warm.”
– We were in a Bass Pro Shop and the girls were wondering why there was a live deer inside the store. We explained to them about hunting and stuffing an animal and that the deer wasn’t real. So then Aly started pointing around the store at all the animals saying, “Look! A stuffed duck. Somebody killed a duck. Look! A stuffed wolf. Somebody killed a wolf. Look! A stuffed girl. Somebody killed a girl!” WHAT?!? Aly had pointed to the mannequin and really thought it was a stuffed girl!!

– When Analise is finished with her meal, her new thing to say is, “I’m full of it.”
– During the hurricane Lise saw me hand washing dishes and asked me, “are you giving your hands a bubble bath?”

Kate – When Kate sees something she wants she starts squawking “aye, aye”, and sounds just like the seagulls on Finding Nemo “mine, mine।”Kate decided to punish me this morning for not coming to get her out of her crib PRONTO by stripping down naked and peeing all over her sheets। This is the second time she has taken off her diaper – the last one was poopy। I’m petrified that I see a trend starting here.