Friday Funnies 7/27/12

We were at the park and I was up on one of the towers.  I'm not particularly fond of heights, but the twins wanted me to go up with them. I was planning to go down the slide to get down, but it was blistering hot.  So, I was kinda stuck and not exactly sure how I was going to get back down. 
Grant: Mommy, just go down the steps.
Me: I'm kind of scared to go down those steps.
Grant: I will show you Mama.
 (He procedes to climb up and then back down, showing me how to do it.  Then I climbed down.)
Grant: Good job Mommy!
Carly: You saved me Bub! Thank you!
Grant: My Pleasure!  {LOVE THAT KID}

Rick: (shouting) J-E-L-L-O pudding! Mmm Mmm!
Grant: (cracks up laughing)
Elena: DADDY! (using her very best "Mommy" tone) You know you're breaking the rules!
Rick: What rules?
Elena: THE rule!
Rick: (shouting again) J-E-L-L-O pudding! Mmm Mmm!
Grant: (cracks up laughing)
Elena: DADDY! You're gonna be in big troubles!
Me: What rule is Daddy breaking?
Elena: (sly smile) You know.... (shaking her head)
Me: The rule about not talking with food in your mouth?
Elena: No...
Me: ... about using an inside voice?
Elena: You know...
We never did get her to tell us what "rule" she was talking about!  She's such a little Mommy!


Elena: {in full whine} I wanna ice cream saaaandwiiiiich....
Me: You have to eat real food first.
Elena: {whine} I don't like real fooooooood.......
Me: {mimicking her whine} ... then you can't have an ice cream saaaaandwiiiiiich...
Elena: {very serious} I ate cereal.
Me: I meant you have to eat lunch first. You need healthy food so you can grow.
Elena: I don't wanna grooooooooowwwwwww............. I wanna ice cream saaaandwiiiiich...
(40 mins and a respectively healthy lunch later)
Elena: Now can I have an ice cream sandwich?
Me: Yes you can, but there is only one so maybe we should ask Grant if he wants half of it.
Elena: No... he doesn't like ice cream sandwiches.
Me: Yes he does.  Don't you think he will be sad if he sees you eating one and he doesn't get any?
Elena: No- he wants me to eat it all!

Grant: Mommy, I like your earrings.  They're cool!
Me: Thank you Grant!  That was so nice of you to notice.
Grant: Some of your earrings are pretty, but those are cool earrings.
Me: Oh. Well thanks buddy.  That made Mommy so happy that you noticed.  Daddy never notices Mommy's jewelry.
Rick: (deadpan) Gee thanks!

                                                                                                                                                                                        Brenna: Ooh look... chicken!  I love chicken!
 (suddenly sad)  Poor chickens, but they're so good!

Friday Funnies 7/20/12

Grant: BUUURRRPPP!
Me: Bless you!
Grant: {laugh}
Elena: Mom, that's not what you say!
Me: It's not? What am I supposed to say?
Elena: You're supposed to say Excuse You!
Me: How come I can't say Bless you?
Elena: (looks at me like I'm so dumb) ...because it's not spelled right!

Grant: Don't make my hair look crazy Daddy! I want to look like a nice boy!
Rick: Ok- come over here so I can comb it for you then.
Grant: You're doing it wrong!  You're making it crazy! I don't want to be a punk rocker! I want to be a nice boy!
Me: Come here, Bub. Mommy will do it for you.
Grant: Yea, cuz Daddy doesn't do my bangs right!
Rick and Me: {Uncontrollable laughing}
Grant: I wanna see it in the mirror.  Ok- it looks good!

Friday Funnies 7-13-12

My Mom bought me a birthday cake and it had black frosting on it. We got such a chuckle out of how it dyed our teeth and tongues and even our fingers!  Now fast forward about 18 hours and we all had a nice little lesson in digestive chemistry! 
Grant: MOM!!!! I pooped.... and it's BLUE! (like Crayola Blue)

Elena: We need chips.
Me: Why?
Elena: Cuz we're having a chip party.
Grant: And we need blueberries.
Me: For what?
Grant: Cuz it's a blueberry party too.
Me: Oh, of course.  How silly of me!
....10 mins later...
Me: Why are the chips and blueberries on the floor?  Get them picked up!
G&E: (blank stare)
Me: NOW! GO!
Elena: (to Grant) What did she say?
Me:  Grrrrrrrrrrr

Friday Funnies 7/6/12

Me: Nana is here!Elena: I fink she's here cuz she wants some icecream!





Grant: Hey! I didn't get any eggs!
Me: Give me your plate and I will get you some.
Grant: No, I don't want any eggs!





Brenna: ... remember that one time that we went to that place with those people you know...?
Me: Huh?

Friday Funnies 6/29

Me: Elena, why is your shirt all wet?
Elena: {Glare} Cuz I want my binka and you said no.
Me: Honey, don't suck on your shirt. That's icky.
Elena: {Death Glare, no verbal response}
(She definitely has my ability to speak without words. LOL! If you ever get the death glare from Elena, you will know it!)


We left in the van to go borrow a friend's truck to go get a mattress.  When we returned home, we were in the truck. Grant was very concerned about the whereabouts of our van.
Grant: (after a thorough examination) Why is the van a truck now?
Rick: I needed a truck to go get the mattress.
Grant: So you made the van be a truck? (wide eyes)
Rick: (chuckle) Yep, I turned it into a truck!
Grant: (wider eyes) Cuz you said Abacadaba?
Rick: (laughing now) Yep, bub!  I did!
Grant: (with pause) Dad, can you make it be a van again?
(Rick and I both are now in silent hysterics)
Me: Yes he can!  Come on.  Let's go take a bath and Daddy will turn the truck back into a van.
(He reluctently went to get in the tub and continued to ask about the van the entire time.  When he got out, Rick was back with the van.)
Grant: Mom! Mommy! Daddy made the truck be a van again!!!
Me: Oh, thank goodness!
Grant: {Huge Smile}
I love that kid and his awesome imagination!


We were at Relay For Life a few weekends ago and there were all sorts of people.
Elena: (she spotted a baby in a stroller) Aaawww! Look at how big she's getting!
Me: (not recognizing the family or the baby, but smiling) Do you know who that is?
Elena: Nope!




The twins are always in a race to see who can get into their PJ's first after their bath!  They also can switch topics on a dime!
Elena: We gotta win 'cause only one person can win and if we don't win, we won't be da winner!
Me: Umm- yes, I realize that!
Elena: And we won't get da ribbon! (blink-- and new topic)
I have ribbons...  (looks down at her belly) ... in my belly!
Me: You do?
Elena: (pushes her belly out as far as she can) I fink I got a baby in my belly!
Me: (laughing) You do? Why do you think that?
Elena: 'Cause look at how big I can make my belly be.
Me: Well how did a baby get in your tummy?
Elena: They just crawl up in der! Then they gotta be "boringed"!  {LOVE!}

Friday Funnies

I was torturing Brenna with a very loud, very poor sing-a-long to Red Hot Chili Peppers, Under the Bridge, while we were driving in the car tonight. She thought it was hilarious that I was "going crazy" until we were driving past a friend's house and then she was mortified! I loved every second of it! 






Elena and I were face to face the other day, working on counting to 20.  As I was way over-articulating each number with her, she abruptly stopped counting and with great concern, put her fingers up to my lips and said, "I fink your teef are gonna fall out pretty soon." 




My sweet Grant has the best facial and body expressions when he is talking to us.  He makes this face that is difficult to describe except that he looks at you out of the corner of his eye and seems to have a look of humored disgust and a knowledge beyond his years.  He also does the funniest things with his body when he talks.  Hand on the jutted out hip with the opposite leg up on its toes, looking at you out of the corner of his eyes, his head turned half away from you, and this weird shape he makes with his mouth.... like I said, hard to describe really.  He's hilarious.  And now that he talks non-stop, I have a terrible habit of tuning him out. 
I could hear him rambling on and on about something while I was in the middle of changing out the laundry, getting lunch ready and chasing a wild 11 month old daycare kiddo.... when he yelled, "Mom!  Are you listenin' to me?"  And when I looked down to answer him, he was in full expression!  I cracked up laughing, stopped my 500 tasks and said, "I'm sorry. No, I wasn't listening.  What did you say?"  To which he replied..... yes, you guessed it, "Ummmm.... I forgot!"

Friday Funnies!

The twins almost always jump out of the van! When Grant jumped out the other day, instead of taking off running as usual, he just stood there.  I asked him what was wrong and he reached his arm behind him and put his hand on his back and said, "Oh man! My back went out!"  (He's fine now!)