Kid Quotes

Henry says "Yes!" to everything, and I'm not sure why I love that, other than the fact most kids would say, Ok, or Sure, or something less formal. I say, do you want some cucumbers (one of his favs, next to tomatoes) and he will say, "Yes, mom. I want some cucumbers. Yes." I give them to him, and he says, "Thank you, Mom!" with this little up beat tone and an emphasis on Mom. It's adorable. Please keep being so polite Henry.

Penelope is ever so dramatic and she also sheds the largest tears I've ever seen. When she cries, I say it's like the scene in Alice in Wonderland where her tears fill up the room with water. Huge drops appear on her shirt and it looks like it's raining outside. She had her special unicorn pillow pet in the car on our road trip to CA and somehow Miles got something on it and she was very upset. She started crying her huge tears and said, "My beautiful pillow! You've ruined it!" All of her things are beautiful.

Penelope got a math problem right and I said, "Good job P! Penelope said, "Don’t thank me, thank my fingers!"

I painted Penelope's nails and she was super excited with one hand pink and one hand purple. But then later in the day she came to me, held up her nails and very seriously said, "Bad concept!" I said, what, why? She said, "I might not get to have painted nails at school!" Bad concept? Who is this kid?

Penelope was feeling sick and said if she stood up she might throw up. Very seriously she said, “I don’t like where this is heading!” She later threw up so... she was right.

We were listening to the song Flesh and Bone by The Killers and the chorus says, "So what are you made of?" From the back seat, instead of "flesh and bone," Miles sings, "75 percent water!!"

Henry at bedtime, "But my eyelids are not tired!”

We drove past Centennial Hospital and I said, "Henry- that’s the hospital where you were born!" He said, "Did you find me there?"

Henry has been staying with a friend the past few weeks while I go to work. She said when he sees me drive up, he says, "Yay! I get to go back to my family!” She thought it was funny since he didn't say something like  - Yay, Mom! He is quite articulate sometimes. Other times, I have no idea what he is saying.