From the Mouths of Babes

Quote Monday makes me proud

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Evie, coming out of her room about an hour after she went to bed: “I have a question. How do you count sheep?”

Aw, I felt so bad for the poor, not-tired girl!

Evie: “Zero is the biggest number.”
Me: “Well, I think zero would be the smallest number.”
Evie: “You’re forgetting about backwards world.”

::Dropping Evie off at school::
Girl 1: “Evelyn, can I play with you today?”
Girl 2: “Aw, I wanted to play with you today!”
Evie: “How about we all play together?”

What an amazing moment to witness, and what a proud moment as a father!

Trouble Monday the Injured

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Evie: “Each kid has 2 boxes of band-aids.”
Me:  “I’m glad we don’t need to use that many!”
Evie: “Yeah, then I’d be Evelyn Lois the Injured.”

Evie: “Mama, how high can you count?”
Sara: “Probably high enough that I could count for the rest of my life.”
Evie: “But then you would be counting at my wedding and that would be really funny!”

Evie: “The moon is so beautiful. It looks like a hangnail!” – Poetic.

Sara: “Can you say your full name? Are you ‘Trouble Halbach’?”
Ollie: “Trouble Halbach Evie.”

Kid knows his sister.

Quote Monday has gone soft

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Me: “Can you teach me to purl? I want to knit tonight when I’m watching football.”
Sara: “Quote!”

In case you’re worried I’ve gone soft, I’ll have you know it wasn’t all knitting…I also folded some laundry. Then, when everything went bad, I even consoled myself with a ginger beer.

You have no idea how many statements in this house are followed up by, “Quote!”, “Now there’s a quote!” or “Put that on your e-blog daddy!”

Me: “I thought I’d make some oatmeal for breakfast today.”
Evie: “Looks like we’re back to our natural habitat!”

Sara: “Who’s that actor who was in that movie where he was a violin teacher?”
Me: “No idea.”
Sara: “He’s older, black, super famous…sort of rotund?”
::me throwing out every possible suggestion::
Sara: “Never mind, I’ll find it.”
::Internet searching::
Sara: “Finding Forester!”
Me: “Wait a minute…wasn’t that Sean Connery? Your rotund black man is Sean Connery??”

The Blackest Man in America

Quote Monday Screams for Ice Cream

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Me: “You scream, I scream, we all scream for ice cream!”
::Ollie lets out a bloodcurdling shriek, all activity in the room comes to a screeching halt::
Ollie: “Ice cream!”

::Evie, looking at a family of gingerbread men::
Evie: “They must be the bacon family.”
Sara: “Why is that?”
Evie: “Because, they all look like bakers.”

I guess that was “bakin'” not “bacon”.

Me: “Roaaaar!”
Sara: “Ollie, do you want to be the lion now?”
::Me putting the lion towel on his head::
Me: “Okay, what do you say?”
Ollie: “Thank you, welcome!”

I guess he’s kind of trained on that “what do you say?” phrase.

Quote Monday tries to make you not see the dog get dead

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Barb: “Oh, is it only 7:30? 7:18? 7:15?”
Sara: “Ahh! Time is going backwards!”

(It was a timer counting down, not a clock)

::A dog runs out in the street. Anna casually drapes her arm around Evie’s face::
Evie: “What are you doing?”
Anna: “Oh, just watching out for you.”
Evie: “Are you trying to make me not see the dog get dead??”

Gotta get up pretty early in the morning to pull the wool over her eyes.

::Evie was staying up “late” for her sleepover with mommy. We were just sort of sitting in the living room and I was on the computer::
Evie, incredulous: “Is this really what you guys do when we’re sleeping??”

I think she imagined something a little more glamorous.