2017 Kidisms

Only a few "Kidisms" this year, darn it!  The kids are still darling and funny, but they just don't make the same types of mispronunciations or grammar mistakes that they used to.  They are getting too big, sigh...

January 2017

I will be sad the day Bree stops asking for a "Ricepy-Krispy Treat."

February 2017

The kids empty their lunchboxes after school and there is always lots left to eat, so that becomes their afternoon snack. Today, Miles, stressed, called out, "Mom! Yuck! I think some frogs or something got in my pudding and laid eggs!" (He loves vanilla and Tess loves tapioca, and I guess I got them mixed up today when I was packing lunches.) Whoops!

March 2017

Another cutie from Bree: Chicken Cordon Bleu =
"Corn, Chicken, & Blue"

May 2017

Joke from Bree:

"Knock-knock."

"Who's there?"

"Nunya."

"Nunya who?"

"Nunya of your business."

(haha! not quite there, but good try!)

July 2017

Cute Tess gave us this kidism last night as we were getting ready to watch fireworks and "God Bless the USA" was playing over the loudspeaker: Miles asked if America had ever been in a war with itself and we said yes, in the Civil War. We said it was North versus South. Then Tess piped up and said, "yep, the Yankees versus.... the Red Sox?" Hahahaha! I love it!

2016 Kidisms

This is always one of my favorite posts of the year--the "kidisms"-- things that my kids say that I want to remember.  Usually they are funny, but sometimes they are just sweet and loving and I don't want to forget them.  Unfortunately these posts are getting shorter each year, not because my kids aren't funny or sweet anymore, but I think just because they don't make as many funny mispronunciations or word mix-ups as they used to.  So, even though this post gets shorter every year, it's still a favorite.  I hope these kidisms tickle your funny bone like they did mine. :)

January 2016

When I asked Bree to put on leggings under her dress because it's cold, she replied "Mom, that's just not how I roll. End of discussion."

February 2016

After playing at the beach Bree had sand stuck all over her hands. She was stressed that they didn't come clean when she tried to brush them off. She said, "Daddy's hands look like sparkle and mine just look like zombie!" (Bryan had washed his off with water already.)

April 2016

As we have various tools and art supplies strewn about the house, Bree noticed two and suddenly said, "Pliers is the dad of scissors!" Smart (and funny!) girl! (I might add that she always pronounces scissors "Zizzors" so it was even cuter.)

Bree is starting to be interested in time, and asking what time it is. She hears me say it's "whatever" o'clock and she morphed it into "o'watch." So she'll look at my watch and say "it's 7 o'watch right now."

May 2016

Bree told me today after church, "Mom, today in primary we learned about Joseph Smith. He was killed by an angry moth." HA!

October 2016

Bree matter-of-factly told me that "toots are like the guards of your poop."

November 2016
Conversations with kids:
Miles (8):  What's a mortage?  (He didn't say "mortgage" with the silent t, he pronounced it like MORT-ich.)
me: Do you mean mortgage?  ...  Or maybe mortician? ...
Miles:  Well, what's a mortician?
me:  They work at a morgue and get dead bodies ready to be buried.
Tess (11):  Yeah, like at a creamery!
me:  No...that's where they make ice cream.
Tess:  Oh, then where do they burn bodies?...
      Ha!  My kids make me chuckle.  (Turns out Miles DID mean mortgage; he had been playing Monopoly with friends.)

2015 Kidisms

Time for the annual round-up of the "Kidisms" from my side bar.  I think I'm getting bad at remembering to write them down because this year is smaller than past years.  That, or the kids just aren't as funny anymore! ;)   (Just kidding--they are still funny!)

January 2015
Bree just told me about her dream last night... "it was about a hamburger monster. He had ketchup, and people, and lettuce in him!" Yikes!

February 2015
Uh oh... Miles came into the bathroom wearing nothing but his shirt. When I asked where his pants and undies were, he told me that Dad had just put them into the washing machine. He said he had had "a toot gone wrong." Ha!

Breeisms: "Valenz-tine Day" is when you give valenztines to your friends.
breakfast= bresskist
yesterday= lasterday

April 2015
During a playdate Bree told her friend, "My daddy is just named Daddy. But sometimes my mom calls him Bryan."

May 2015
While walking down the school hallway, Bree slipped on a spot that had recently been mopped and was still wet. When I asked her where she got hurt she said (in tears), "on the cheek... of my BUM!"

June 2015
Bree just came in and said that both of her feet were broken "pretendly."

Another cute Breeism (what will I do when she outgrows these? I love them and they crack me up!)... gigantic= Guy-jantic

July 2015
Tonight at dinner Bree said the prayer...it went something like this: "We are thankful for the food. Please help it be good, even though I don't want any of the sauce because I hate it, Jesus Christ, Amen."

Bree always has super sweaty little hands! Every time she holds our hand (index finger) it is swampy and sweaty. Well, she also gets the words "slippery" and "slobbery" mixed up. She tried to open a doorknob the other day and said, "I caaaan't open the door!! My hands are too slobbery!"

October 2015
Bree can say "police" and she can say "officer," but ask her to say police officer and it is always "pol-eef a-SAUCE-er."

2014 Kidisms

Here's the annual round-up of the funny things the kids have said through the year.  Most are from Bree, as she's learning more and more vocabulary with her own pronunciations that are so cute.  But Tess and Miles still give us some zingers too!  Enjoy.

January 2014

Breeisms:  already= alldurly

rhinoceros= rhine-a-ROSS-us!

Oh, the humor of a 6 yr old boy...Miles is in his room singing "the pooper man built his poop upon the rock!"

March 2014

Miles was looking at a "Cloud Cake" (which is one of the Twinkie knock-offs from when Hostess went bankrupt) and asked why it's called Cloud Cake. I explained that it was probably just because it had white, fluffy filling inside like a cloud. He paused and then said it should be called "Sugary Hot Dog" instead. Ha!

Bree's foot must've fallen asleep because she suddenly exclaimed, "Aah! I have BUGS on my feet! Bugs all over!" And she continued for several minutes about the bugs on her one foot. :)

May 2014

We were talking about poisonous spiders and whether or not a bite could actually kill you. We said that some can, but they are probably all far away in the Amazon somewhere. After a pause, Tess (in all seriousness) said, "but why on earth would anyone buy one of those spiders?" We were confused by her question and she said, "you know? On Amazon? Why would someone buy one?"

Bree tries to say "Holy Toledo!" and it comes out "Holy Tolodey!"

Bree noticed a weird stain/mark on her little potty chair while she was pottying and she was concerned (she probably wondered if it was poop or something--it was not; the plastic was just discolored there.) I told her it would not come off. She said, "but have you cleaned it?" yep. "but have you wiped it?" yep. "but have you washed it?" yep. "but have you scrubbed it?" yep. "but have you whacked it with a hammer?!" (Ah, that girl cracks me up!)

June 2014

Bree can't say "practicing" (as in practicing the piano), so it sounds like "praxi-deen." When we had a piano tuner here, she came running down the hall saying "Hey! Who is that praxi-deen??"

August 2014

Breeisms: girl= glill

thumb= flumb

comfy= cumpy

October 2014

Bree call M&Ms "enemans."

A little fuzzy on the concept...I gave Bree a tape measure to play with and I heard her say in her bedroom, "Hmm...how tall is my dresser? It's...5 minutes deep." ha!

November 2014

Bree came into our room the other morning and we could smell poopy pants.  (She is finally, finally potty trained, but she still wears a pull-up at night.)  Bryan said, “did you poop your pants?  Pooping your pants is for the birds!”  and Bree immediately replied in a disgusted voice, “yeah! and they poop on the windows!” 

Bree asked when we would put out our Christmas desharakuns.

December 2015
Breeism: automatic= automackit (She is very very concerned about public bathrooms with automackit flushers.)

2013 Kidisms

Once again, the annual round-up of the Bamatamb "Kidisms," or things my kids say that I want to remember.  Almost all of the Kidisms this year were from Bree.  She is quite the little talker.  She picks up on fun sayings and slang words (every night as we are getting her ready for bed she tells us, "I want to say 'peace out' to Miles and Tess.")  Just yesterday I overheard her saying to Bryan, "what up dog?  Hey, doggy Daddy, what up?"  She's a nut.  I think my favorite mispronunciation of hers (which I will be so sad when it's gone) is "ga-lurl" for girl.

January/February 2013

More of Bree's words:

Book= bee

Raisin= hee-nuh

Cheese= eye

Fruit leather= hah-doo

Bread= bup

Her stuffed animal cat is named "Neow Neow"

Color (like with crayons)= culley

Peekaboo= Bee-bah-bah

Orange (fruit)= owie

March 2013

Tess has been asking us a lot lately about getting her ears pierced...we're not so sure if she's ready yet. When we reminded her that her best friend (who is 8 1/2 years old) doesn't even have her ears pierced yet, Tess replied very seriously, "yeah, and do you know WHY she doesn't have her ears pierced? It's because she's not a fashionista, like me!" (ha!)

More of Bree's words:

Muffin= muh-shee

Lotion= oash

April 2013

Still more Bree-isms:

Popsicle= paw-kull-sulls

May 2013

This is turning into all Breeisms, but she's right at that age where she's talking so much and it's all so dang cute!

Strawberry= dobby dobby

Medicine= messadin

Dinosaur= dice-a-nore

Emily= Ellamee

June 2013

Excuse me= cue meez

Eskimo kiss= eckimoiss

July 2013

Tess was going to vacuum for me and she just pulled one loop of cord off of the cord holder and then asked, "If I keep this ravelled, will it just unravel as I vacuum?" :)

August 2013

Bree knows that when her food is hot, we blow on it to cool it down...just this week she has begun generalizing that idea in such cute ways: when her flip-flop fell off and she stepped on the hot sidewalk she said, "hot! Blow on it!" and tried to blow on her foot. Then that same night in the tub, she felt the water and again said, "hot! Blow on it!" and blew toward the faucet! Ha!

When Bree hears us say that something is Miles's, she notices the 2 "z" sounds at the end of it ("MileZ-Z"), but she has taken it farther and does 3 "z" sounds with pauses in between them. So it sounds something like, "this is Miles...iz...iz!"

Bree has a backpack that she loves. It is called either "bat pat" or "skoo" (for "school"). She always asks me to "wear it on," which is a combination of "wear it" and "put it on."

October 2013

More Breeisms:

garage= gazh-razh

girl= ga-lurl

breakfast= bres-kist

December 2013

yesterday= lasterday

upside down= Ups and down!

elephant= effalunt

2012 Kidisms

Once again, here is a post of the whole year's worth of my sidebar "Kidisms"--things my kids say. Most are funny, some are very sweet, and each one is something that I never want to forget about my little kids.

January 2012
Miles told me that he loves me "one hundred and a million hearts of love!"

Bryan calls deodorant "goppo-stoppo" as a joke, so the kids call it that too. So, when Bryan brought home a box of Gobstoppers candy, the kids keep asking for "gopper-stoppers." Ha!

me: Miles, don't eat your boogers. That's gross!
Miles: I wasn't! I was just eating snot.

April 2012
At a field trip to a farm today, Miles got to ride on a horse. I told him that he was a cowboy! When he got down, he paused and then said, "So, uh....what does a horse boy do? Does he ride a cow?"

May 2012
Miles said to me today, "I'm almost a dad" and I replied, "Oh, really? How come?" He said, "because I like to tease so much!"

Miles was begging for something and said, "Please? Pretty please? With a cherry on top? And ice cream, and chocolate, and an extra brain?" ???

June 2012

Tess was mentioning that she wondered if she had more of my genes or more of Bryan's genes. Miles piped up from the back seat, "I have one of Daddy's shirts!" (He used one of Bryan's dress shirts as his graduation gown.) Ha!

Miles still has some funny mispronunciations; he's changing short vowels into long vowels: hotel is "ho-tail," canal is "ca-now-l, and treadmill is "tread-meal."

July 2012

As we were driving past Salt-Air tonight, Tess said "MOM! Look! It's a GIANT bouncy house!!"

August 2012

In the past we've caught caterpillars and watched them build cocoons and turn into moths....so the other day when Tess caught a frog and put it in that same "bug catcher" container, Miles said excitedly, "I wonder if this frog will turn into a butterfly!!"

After riding Rattlesnake Rapids at Lagoon, Miles said, "I am the SOAKEST of all!" (and he was, indeed, the soakest. :) I ended up the soakest of all from the Log Flume though!)

September 2012

Miles was playing with a football and asked me why they call the game "football." I said that they kick the ball a lot (which, really, they mostly don't kick it...they mostly throw it or run with it, but whatever...) and then Miles replied, "you know what they should call 'football?' They should call soccer 'football!'" Good idea my boy; most of the world agrees with you!

At Tess's school, I guess the kids all say when they're going to play against someone at something (i.e. tetherball) they say they're going to "verse" them. So, when it's Tess versus Daddy at our backyard tetherball pole, Tess says she is going to verse him. Weird, huh?

October 2012

Miles cracks me up...he's been watching the old cartoon "Transformers" and when it sings "more than meets the eye" he has confused the words so he walks around singing "Transformers, and the meetsy eye." I'm just waiting for him to ask me what a meetsy eye is.

November 2012

Bree is starting to say lots and lots of words. Here are a few favorites:

Jacket= jackie

Sock= hockey

Woof woof= fooh fooh

Binkie= Dah-dah (but Daddy=Daddy!)

Take this thing that I'm handing you= doo

Pretty= pippy

December 2012

Bree has a new favorite food: pistachios, which she charmingly calls "peetoes"

2011 Kidisms

Once again, here is a post of the whole year's worth of my sidebar "Kidisms"--things my kids say. Most are funny, some are very sweet, and each one is something that I never want to forget about my little kids.

January 2011
For a while now, Miles has been pronouncing "carry" as "care-you." I just recently realized that he probably does it because he's heard me say so many times, "do you want me to carry you?" So, now he'll say things like, "I need to care-you it." It's cute.

Miles' choice for the baby's name: Rock Star.

This morning Miles was asking about the flavors in his Froot Loops, by color. Tess was telling him that yellow is lemon, orange is orange, etc. When he asked what flavor green was she said "it must be pea, or maybe green pepper."

A few Tessisms: she really loves to watch the movie "The Spickable Me." (She has also called it "Inspicable Me.")

Today in the van she was writing something in her notebook and Miles was making an annoying sound. She said, "argh--when you do that noise I can't complicate!"

February 2011
Miles: "3-2-1...Blast on!"

Tonight on our way home we passed the Bountiful Temple. Tess pointed it out and we were talking about how pretty it is. Miles said, "when I'm 12, I can go there and get married to a princess."

When Miles motions for us to "come here" with his one bent index finger, he always holds his hand and finger upside down, so it kind of looks like a funny one-finger-wave. (Hard to describe, but it's cute and I want to remember it.)

Bryan read a book called "America the Beautiful" to the kids...when he asked Tess if she knew the name of the Statue of Liberty, she said "American Idol?"

March 2011
Miles, while riding in the van and listening to a CD: "This song is not silly. This song rocks. It rocks the beat. Rock on, dude."

The other day, totally out of the blue, Miles said, "Mom, I know what the SUN is...but what is a BEAM??"

Miles' favorite superheroes are SpiderMan and EnoMan. What? You've never heard of EnoMan? He's IronMan, according to Miles.

April 2011
Yesterday (Easter) I took Miles to the bathroom to make sure he would potty. After a minute I said, "did the pee-pee come?" to which he replied, "Yes! Easter pee-pee!"

How's this for disturbing? I overheard Tess playing and she said, "pretend that our Mom died...but we got her cell phone, so that's OK." (And I don't even have a cool cell phone--yikes!)

Miles, at naptime, told me "I want my blankie spread-outed."

July 2011
While listening to "Thriller" (by Michael Jackson, of course), Miles said, "why'd he say 'ow!' Did he hurt something on his body?"

Out of the blue, Miles said, "Mama, you should give me loves and smooches every day. Then I will stay little." (OH, how that melted my heart! I adore that boy.)

Tonight we had "zalagna" for dinner. (Miles)

Miles has a hard time saying "wasp." Did you know we have a "wopps nest" outside?

Miles said "I smell something weird. It smells like bugs...on top of a cookie." ???

Tess was bugging Miles, so Miles said "Knock it ... down!" (pause...pause....) "Knock it out! Tess, knock it out!" (I wonder when he'll figure out that it's supposed to be "knock it off!")

August 2011
We have a cute stray cat at our house and Tess said,
"Oh, I hope she lays kittens!"

September 2011
More Miles-isms: Pixy Stix are "pisky sticks." Color is "ka-woo."

Miles: "Bree is such a little cutie pie. She's also a cutie cake."

We saw a woman today who had one leg amputated just below the knee. Miles said "Mom! That lady is in a wheelchair, so her leg is broken.... But mom! I can't SEE her foot! How come I can't SEE it??"

Miles was looking at a book of construction vehicles and on the page with the roller he said, "look! Here's a smasher...I mean a flatter."

Neighbor kid to Tess:"That's not how you do it...Der!"
Tess: "Hellooo...it's pronounced DUH!"

November 2011
Miles calls car bumpers "hitters." On his toy cars, he'll point out "hitters" that are interesting.

December 2011
Miles: "Mom, do you actually HOP when you're in the shower?"

In the Zone...

I've heard the joke that once you have 3 kids, you have to switch from playing man-to-man defense in favor of zone defense, now that you're outnumbered.  I always thought that was a funny analogy, and today I saw this illustration to go along with it.  Yep, that's Team Terry now.  But I love it.

Dinner Conversation

Tonight at dinner the kids were asking about how the baby is going to come out.  Before I could even really answer (thankfully), Tess said, "Hey, do they ever just cut it out of your stomach?"  So we started talking about c-sections and I mentioned some friends of hers who were born that way.  Miles asked if they ever cut the baby (specifically, what would happen if the doctor cut the baby's arm off.)  Then Tess said that you'd have to just get a new baby.  The conversation was beginning to de-rail so I said, "the baby is fine.  It's pretty protected in there."  And Tess quickly replied, "by what?  Force field?"

I love it.

And here's a recent picture of me...some people who don't see me often requested one, so here ya go! (I'm 33 1/2 weeks along in this photo.)

April

Here are a few pictures from April.  The first set is from April Fools' Day, when Tess wore crazy clothes and had crazy hair as a joke.  Then, there's Miles after he put on his jammie shorts, both legs in one side.  He came waddling out, saying something was wrong...but he couldn't for the life of him figure out what it was!

We had a great Easter.  We dyed eggs in the morning, church in the afternoon (and I thought the kids looked so great in their new Easter duds), and then dinner and Easter Egg Hunt at gma & gpa Terry's house.  It was a lot of fun!  Here's a funny kidism from Miles yesterday:  I took him to the bathroom to make sure he would potty.  After a minute I said, "did the pee-pee come?" to which he replied, "Yes! Easter pee-pee!"

Beautiful fruit trees in bloom!

Action shot!

Tess with her cousin and buddy Adrienne

"Mom, Help!"

This morning I was in the kids' bathroom, fixing Tess's hair for school.  Miles was finishing breakfast and I heard him drag the bar stool over to the kitchen sink to wash his hands off.  (I try to encourage him to use the bathroom sink, because it's shorter and there's a stool always there, at the ready...but lately he really likes to wash off in the kitchen sink.)  Anyway, I heard a thud and I could tell that he had knocked the stool over.  I figured he'd just pick it up and then come in his room to get dressed, but I heard a "Mom, help!"  I told him to hold on, because I was right in the middle of a braid.  Again, he yelled "mom, help! ...I'm stuck!" 

I came into the kitchen and had my good laugh for the day:

Knock knock!

Tess is in the "knock-knock joke" phase. (And so, by default, Miles is in the phase too.) It's the phase that I think every parent dreads and despises.  There just aren't very many funny knock-knock jokes, and a five-year-old just doesn't get the concept most of the time.  Typical made-up knock-knock jokes go something like this:  Knock, knock.  Who's there?  Octopus.  Octopus who?  Ha ha--I'm really a zebra!    You know what I mean; they don't make sense, they're not funny, and as a parent you just try to give a little courtesy laugh or a "you're silly!" to make your kids feel better about their budding senses of humor.

So anyway, driving in the van usually turns into knock-knock joke time.  I play along, just because, what else am I gonna do?  Today, however, was a knock-knock joke that actually made me laugh out loud.  Here goes:

Tess (to me):  Knock knock.
Miles:  Who's there?
Tess (to Miles:)  No, I want Mommy to answer!
Miles:  Mommy to answer who?
Me: laughing....

Bags on Heads

Oh, Miles makes me laugh.  Conversations with him are usually pretty funny.  Whenever we go grocery shopping I let him get one of the free kids' cookies from the bakery.  It helps keep him happy and occupied while I shop.  Today after loading the groceries in the van, I got in and Miles said, "Mom, why do they have bags on their heads?"  (I pause, while I'm trying to figure out what the heck he's talking about....finally, lightbulb!...) "Oh!  You mean the ladies who give you the cookies?....Those are called hairnets; they keep the hair out of the food." 

"What are the weird napkins on the cookies?"
"They are pieces of wax paper, so they don't get germs on the cookies when they hand them to you."

Now Miles has the big pause while the wheels are turning...

"Mom, I want to have some wax papers.  And I want you to have a bag on your head."

2010 Kidisms

Once again, I've been posting the funny things my kids say (the "kidisms") on the sidebar of the blog, but I want to keep them all together as a post too.  So, here they are!

January 2010
Anytime we say "oops" Miles says "oop-ee-doop."

Miles: "yeeaaaahhhh..."

Miles: "No. Wannoo." (as in "No, I don't want to.")

Tess calls icicles "ice-popsicles."

February 2010
Me: We're having Super Bowl Food for dinner tonight. Tess: But what are you going to PUT in the bowl?

Funny Miles mispronunciations: mung=milk. WhahAREnooee?=What are you doing?

Bryan to Tess: Why?
Tess: I don't know! I'm not Mom; I don't know everything!

March 2010
I love when Miles sings "Mary had a Yiddo Yam."

While we are driving, Miles loves looking for "backaball hoopts." (basketball hoops)

When we say "O-key, dokey" Miles replies, "gokey, gokey!"

Tess, upset that she only had 2 helpings of Teddy Grahams: But Mom, I only had 2 "mores."

Tess learned the words "incorrect" and "correct" from WordGirl on TV. The next day she said she wanted to ask me some questions to see if I was "incorrect" or "outcorrect."

April 2010
Miles calls his cousin Brooklyn "Muck-gun."

When Tess rides the motorcycle with Daddy, she loves to pull a “wheeler.”

Tess just said to me, sternly, "well, if you could peel your eyes from the computer screen for six weekends!" (I'm not quite sure what she meant, but I'm guessing she'd like some attention??)

Miles LOVES basketballs, (and any other kind of ball too, but especially basketballs). He has a shirt with a basketball and wants to wear it every single day. Every morning when I get him dressed, he says "backaball on my yut??" (basketball on my shirt?)

May 2010
I was folding laundry when Tess came over and wanted to help. I was folding our undies. Tess picked up a pair of Bryan's and said, "oh, look! These ones have a pocket!"

After being frustrated with the kids (while helping me cook), I wrote something that we needed on the grocery list. When Tess saw me, she said, "are you writing that you want new kids?"

Tess told Bryan "we have to wash my hair twice because of the air conditioner." (We just started using conditioner on her hair.)

Miles has a ball with Spiderman on it, and he appropriately calls it his "Spiderman ball." But now he has a kite with Spiderman on it, and it is called his "Spiderman ball kite."

June 2010
I was pushing Miles on the swing at the park and he kept repeating the words, "Mom, you head under wing!" I finally realized he wanted me to give him an "underdog" (with my head under the swing!)

July 2010
Tess was practicing counting to 10 in Spanish. She was stuck on nine ("nueve") and so I tried to give her a clue and prompted, "nu...?" She replied "Jersey??"

Anytime Miles wants a lot of something, it's "a whole pile." Just this morning he asked me for "a whole pile of milk."

Variations on the blend "TR," by Miles: TRuck=Buck, choo choo TRain=choo choo Main, dumpTRuck=dumpKuck, TRailer=Kailer, and my favorite of all: TRainTRack=MainKack!

August 2010
I've told Tess that all moms, dads, and teachers have eyes in the backs of their heads. She's always very concerned about mine...today when I pulled my hair up into a big clip, she said, "won't that scratch the eyes in the back of your head?"

While camping this week, we were looking at stars. Miles' favorite was the "Big Zipper."

During dinner tonight Tess suddenly blurted out, "my favorite princess is Hocapontas!"

September 2010
I love to hear Miles say "nursery." It's "noo-fee." Ahh, I will be sad when his speech gets clearer.... I'll no longer hear "I need a mink, Mom" and other such cuties.

October 2010
More Miles-isms: "I'll wait until it 'cool downs'."

When I was feeling sick he said, "I will feel you better!"

A rooster says "Cock-a-cock-a-doo!"

He's going to be a "magon" for Halloween (dragon.)

Me: Miles, let's go change your diaper. You have stinky buns.
Miles: I DON'T have stinky buns! I just have POOP!

November 2010
When things take too long for Miles' short attention span, he says it's taking "for longer!" (And his speech is "foh yonga!") This morning, he was waiting for the 7:00 on his clock and we heard him yell, "The 7 is taking foh yonga and yonga and yonga!!"

Bryan is growing a goatee, and he has about 2 days growth. Today at church, Miles said, "Dad, you have grass on your face!"

December 2010
Tess's class sang "I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas" for the school sing-along, and it was very cute. She knows every word and sings very well. At one point it says that a hippo is a vegetarian, so I asked her if she knew what that was. She said, "yep--it's a doctor who takes care of animals!"

The Holidays

We had a great Thanksgiving this year.  We were with the Jensens this time, at my dad's house, and it was wonderful to visit, eat ourselves sick, and play games, as always.  The really exciting part for me this year was telling our family the happy news that we're having a new little critter next June!  We let Tess spill the news to Gramma & Grampa Terry and we let Miles spill the news to Papa and family.  Miles doesn't seem to understand or care that there will be a new baby, but Tess is really thrilled and talks about it all the time!  Today we were decorating the tree and she made sure to put a baby-rattle out as part of the Christmas decorations.  I am due on June 16, 2011 and I'm so excited!  I've been pretty sick this time around; sicker than with the other two for sure.  And, what they say is true about your belly "popping out" much sooner with 2nd or 3rd babies...I'm about ready to break out the maternity clothes already, and I'm only 3 months along!

Here are some photos of the kids decorating the tree this morning...

 

 

 I'd like to call special attention to the lower left-hand side of the tree.  Notice, if you will, the beautiful arrangement of decorations that I like to call "the red blob."  That is the handiwork of our sweet 2-year-old helper.  I think there are 15+ ornaments on about 2 single branches.  Now there is a battle going on within me...the proud mom who thinks her baby boy is darling versus the anal perfectionist who looks at the red blob and cringes.  I think the proud mom will win out this year.

More Miles...

OK...I had to write about another funny thing that Miles did yesterday.  I let Tess & him pick a piece of Halloween candy and he chose Laffy Taffy.  Bryan was opening it, and a little chunk fell on the floor, so Miles quickly picked it up and began eating it.  He looked really upset and said, "It's not even chompy!"  I took that to mean that he was frustrated that it was soft--maybe he expected it to be hard, like a sucker?  So, I offered him a sucker instead.  He kept chewing on the Laffy Taffy for a minute and then, stressed, said, "Mom, this candy is GOSS!" (gross).  I told him to just come and spit it in the garbage can.  When he came over, I watched him spit it out....and it was a chunk of Laffy Taffy WRAPPER!  No wonder it was "goss" and "not chompy!"  Ha!

Miles...

This kid cracks me up. 

1- He got a cut on the tip of his finger yesterday, so he has the "double-bandaid," and he is constantly giving us all the bird. 

2- This morning he was saying the first and last names of everyone in our family (and middle names if he knew them.)  When he got to himself, he got confused and blurted out "Mom, I can't REMEMBER!!  What IS my name?"

3- Yesterday we had a funny experience:  In the mornings during breakfast we always read the newspaper...Tess asks for the weather page because she can easily "read" the pictures of clouds, sun, rain, etc.  Miles always gets the sports section because he loves to see the pictures of the people in action with their footballs, basketballs, soccerballs, etc.  Well, I didn't realize the impact this was having on him until we were watching TV yesterday afternoon and a commercial came on with Montel Williams as the spokesperson.  Miles looked carefully at Montel, then turned to me and said, "Hey!  That guy's a basketball player!"  It was so funny, but also pretty sad that the only black people Miles ever sees are on the sports page.  Only here in Utah....

Conversation with a 2-year-old

Today we walked Tess to school, and on the way back home, Miles & I saw two boys in their driveway saying goodbye to their dad as he drove to work. 

Miles: they are saying "goodbye, Bryan!"
Me:  No, their daddy's name is not Bryan.  It's Ed.
Miles:  Oh!  Head?  Like Head, Shoulders, Knees & Toes!
Me:  No, Ed.  It's short for Edward.
Miles:  Oh!  Short for head-bird?  There's a bird on his head!  Ha, ha!
Me:  Sure, Miles.

Wice Nguh-nguhs Kees

Miles is a very cute little talker. His speech is pretty hard to understand sometimes, but he really is getting better every day. I love how expressive he is with his inflections on words; it's very fun to listen to him. This morning I just had to record him saying "wice nguh-nguhs kees."

And that's how Miles got to have Rice Krispy treats for breakfast!

Budding Music Critic...

This morning Miles was hanging out in the kitchen, playing with play-dough while I did some baking.  We were listening to the radio and he was giving his commentary...several times during Bryan Adams' old song "Summer of '69" he said "this a PITTY song!"  (a pretty song.)  Then later, during Nirvana's "Smells like Teen Spirit" he shouted loudly, "I LOVE this song!"