Kid Quotes

Our kids are growing up with technology in ways we never even dreamed of as kids. They expect everything to be a touch screen - every TV or computer screen that isn't a touch screen seems to put them out - ew! Claire got a new game for Christmas, a Bop It. You try to follow it's commands in quick succession to get points - bop it, twist it, pull it, and the newly added "selfie it," "sing it," etc.  Penelope was verbally telling the Bop It "Turn it up Bop It!" She is used to our Amazon Echo that follows our voice commands to play music, tell her jokes, the weather, etc.. Spoiled by technology. 

Penelope says, "Butcept" instead of "except" - as in "butcept we went to that park last time." It's like she has combined the two concepts, and it seems to make sense to me too. 

On the morning of our Hiller Christmas, our second Christmas with the Hillers, I said to the kids, "Merry Hiller Christmas  everyone! Aren't we lucky to get two Christmases?!" Penelope said, "Yeah, and I wish we had two Valentines days!"

When we were in California for Christmas, Beau was excited to show off his dad's muscles and strength to Penelope. Now Erick is pretty strong, winning a bench-pressing contest in college and recently breaking a fire department record for the most pull ups wearing full turnout gear. These two four year olds are weeks apart and are a bit competitive; at least Penelope thinks everything is a contest. Beau kept asking Erick to take his shirt off and show his muscles, which hardly seemed appropriate given the holiday gathering. So finally Erick just flexed his arm and showed his biceps in his short sleeved t-shirt. Penelope shrugged, unimpressed and said, "My dad's muscles are bigger."  Beau then asked Erick to rate his own muscles - "Dad, how many are my muscles?" Unsure of the muscle rating scale, Erick said,  "How many? Um, your muscles are a 10 Beau." Erick said without hesitation, Penelope very casually said, "Mine are 20..." This kid kills me - she is all sass - sometimes she needs to tone it down, but she is so quick-witted that I often laugh when I should  lecture. 

We were recently making breakfast on a lazy Christmas break morning and Matt gave Penelope a piece of bacon. Penelope said, "I want four bacons. That's ONE." Matt started teasing her that she couldn't have any more. She said, "But I'm a bacon girl!" 

Three weeks after Christmas, Penelope is still requesting Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer for her bedtime story. She likes doing the echo portion of the song. She made a new addition to the song that makes me laugh every time. There is one part of the song that never had an echo or added phrase, "Then one foggy Christmas Eve, Santa came to say - Rudolph with your nose so bright, won't you guide my sleigh tonight?"  She started saying, "SURE!" after that line. Every other stanza had something, so why not? 

I took the kids to the big Craig Ranch park over Christmas Break and they made up a game with their new walkie talkies called hide and go seek skeleton tag. If you get tagged you turn into a skeleton, apparently. Penelope was trying to find Miles and she started dramatically sniffing the air - Sniff, Sniff sniff! She then announced, I can smell him from here!" Later she was chasing Claire and Claire was getting away. Penelope very angrily yelled, "The jokes on you Claire Bear!!" Something about the combination of her anger and the term of endearment in Claire's nickname made me chuckle. 

These kids!  I wish I could record these quotes to remember their voices and inflections.