Kid Quotes

If Henry wants you to stop walking or stop doing something he says "PAUSE!" 

The kids used their Easter money and allowance to buy these huge pillows that have storage inside them for a matching blanket. We have a cupcake, a castle and a shark (the blanket goes into the shark’s mouth, for example). Miles’s pillow was missing the blanket, which we knew when we bought it.  Penelope excitedly said, “Miles, you could store other things in there! Like baby carrots!” 

Two missing teeth - Penelope and Miles lost them within hours of each other

At church during the closing prayer, Henry kept hitting my arm over and over to get my attention, saying, "MomMomMomMom!" The man saying the prayer has a long beard, and it was even longer that day - he hadn't trimmed it in awhile. I finally whispered, "What?!" and Henry said, “Mom, mom, mom! It’s Jesus!” He was so excited! 

We took Henry's pacifier away cold turkey, after the dentist at Penelope's appointment asked to see his teeth (he had a pacifier in his mouth during her appointment). His top and bottom teeth don't touch... and that was all I needed to hear to get serious about taking it away. The first night we let him stay up really late to make sure he was nice and tired. I told him he was a big boy now, and didn't need pacifiers. He cried for two hours saying over and over, "I'm not a big boy, I'm a baby! I'm not a big boy! I'm a baby!" It was the saddest little chant ever! I had kept one pacifier in reserve and I wish I hadn't, because I kept thinking about giving it to him, but we held strong. The next day he asked for it again and we tried a different angle - other babies needed his pacifiers and he was helping them by giving them away. He said, "Like baby polar bears?" Um, sure kiddo. He didn't cry that night, but crashed on the couch while we watched TV. The next day he asked again - "Mom, where are my pacifiers?" I told him the other babies needed them and they were gone. He said, "Oh, like baby alligators?" I think there is a children's book idea in there somewhere... can't you just picture cute little baby polar bears sucking on pacifiers!

He's thinking, "Mom, you're gonna kill these plants"

I asked Henry if he was hungry, and what would he like to eat? Henry said, “Tomatoes." Who is this kid?

Penelope to Miles, “STOP mim-itading me!" That's a two for one word, I like it.

Penelope couldn’t find the bucket out in the backyard that we use to fill up water for Oogway, our desert tortoise. She went out by the tortoise habitat and she came back inside the house and said, “Mom, it’s N-O-T there!”