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Posted by John on 12 Jan 2008 | Tagged as: heard
“What do we want to have for lunch?”
- Mama, just returned with the girls from piano lessons
“I dunno… I just had breakfast.”
- Daddy, who got a late start to the day
“Around here on Saturday, it’s ‘if you’re hungry, eat.’”
- Daddy again, in response to Mama’s look of exasperation
“Well, guess I’m gonna eat all day!”
- Amanda, speaking the truth as only a child can
Posted by John on 11 Jan 2008 | Tagged as: heard
(Daddy’s spontaneous lyricism, sung to the tune of “Spider-man”)
Mandie-moo, Mandie-moo
Does whatever a Mandie do
Makes a mess, super-sized
There’s her socks! Big surprise.
(This is as far as I got, since Shannon nearly fell out of her chair laughing so hard at the last bit.)
Posted by Shannon on 25 Oct 2007 | Tagged as: heard
[John is reading Tales of Robin Hood to the girls]
“… He stepped up to address the crowd and silence fell. When they stood silence back up again, he said in a loud voice…”
[Oh, the fun he adds to make sure they’re paying attention!]
Posted by admin on 17 Sep 2007 | Tagged as: heard
“… and what do you call it when there’s only one?”
- Mama, reviewing some basics from previous grammar lessons
“Singular!”
- Emily, smiling because she got an easy question
“And what do you call it when there’s more than one?”
- Mama, expecting another quick answer to another easy question
“… Doubular?”
- Amanda, knowing that’s not quite it, but completely unable to think of the right word
Posted by Shannon on 16 Mar 2007 | Tagged as: heard
“Mama, the brownies have sunk in the middle since you took them out of the oven! Poor little things. Maybe they’re tired. Maybe we should eat them?”
– Emily, who has had a one-track mind ever since the brownies went into the oven
Posted by John on 10 Sep 2006 | Tagged as: heard
(singing) “…promote the general welfare a-and, secure the blessings o-of liberty, to ourselves and our posterity…”
- Emily, singing the Preamble of the US Constitution to herself
“Emily? Do you know what ‘posterity’ means?”
- Daddy, sensing a teachable moment
“Uh… no.”
- Emily
“It’s those who come after us…”
- Daddy
- Emily makes a “yikes!” look…
“…like my children and my children’s children and so on.”
- Daddy, finishing his sentence and wondering what the “yikes!” look was for
“Oh… I thought someone was chasing us!”
- Emily, pointing out another meaning of “those who come after us”
Posted by John on 08 Sep 2006 | Tagged as: heard
While getting ready to watch The Wizard of Oz, we took a few moments (it’s only 13 minutes long) to watch the black-and-white silent-film version, circa 1910.
“Girls? How many years ago do you think this movie was made?”
- Daddy, thinking that the girls will be impressed when he tells them the answer of “almost 100 years ago”
“It was probably back in 1996 when they only had black-and-white TV.”
- Emily, showing an 8-year-old’s complete lack of scale (She was born in 1997!)
Posted by Shannon on 29 May 2006 | Tagged as: heard
>>flash from behind us< <
"Daddy, did you just take a picture?"
- Emily, knowing that Daddy has been very snap happy with his digital camera on this hike
>>KABOOOM< <
- The roll of thunder that started immediately after Emily asked her question
Posted by Shannon on 29 May 2006 | Tagged as: heard
“Wow, even the trash is fancy here!”
- Emily, at Biltmore estate, admiring the cast iron scrollwork around a trash can in the parking lot
Posted by Shannon on 29 May 2006 | Tagged as: heard
“Hey, we could move here– they have a Walmart!”
- Shannon, joking with John while driving through Hendersonville on vacation, continuing our casual search for the perfect place to move to in the mountains when the kids are grown
“But we don’t have enough clothes– or the cats!”
- Amanda, from the backseat, thinking maybe that’s why we’ve been doing all this driving