The darling mispronunciations of childhood!--dear me, there's no music that can touch it; and how one grieves when it wastes away and dissolves into correctness, knowing it will never visit his bereaved ear again.
-Mark Twain

Wednesday, May 19, 2010

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Random Quotes from Different Times as I Remember Them

Leka, 5: You shouldn't watch vampire movies cause they have nightmare eyes and blood all over thier face, and are terrible ugly!

Leak, 2 (called every animal by their animal sound--saying goodbye to everything in the house as we were heading out...Said to her elephant book):
"See ya woo!"

Leka, 2 (Playing Apples to Apples w/family at Grandma & Grandpa's house...I was trying to keep my cards away from her):
Hey Chubby Butt!!
Grandma: Leka, what did you say?
Leka: (soft & meekly): chubby butt
Everyone: Cracking Up! (totally reinforcing the use of set phrase! ;)

Leka, 2 (since the above incident called baby Austin by the pet name of):
Chubby Butt (tickling chubby baby): Hey chubby butt, hey chubby butt!

Leka, 4 or 5: (Pulling the floppy onion out of an onion ring):
Who wants a slimy glow-worm?!

Austin, age 3: (Not wanting to share the computer with Leka who kept 'invading his space' as he was trying to play games--had had enough, and pushed her away from they keyboard):
How many times I told you?!

Austin, 1 (Walking around in a stinky diaper; I asked him if he needed his diaper changed):
No, I'm good!

Leka, 2 (After Austin was born her favorite game was to run over every time I changed the baby to see what colors we'd find in his diaper... When we were at one of his new-born check-ups, she looked at the nurse & said):
Yellow, the baby poopies!
(And she had a really cute, fast jabbery voice at that age--like Boo in Monster's Inc :)

Leka, 4 (Leka kind of looks like a little Chinese girl, loves Chinese things, and her favorite movie at the time was Kung-Fu Panda):
Mom, I don't live to your house
Me: You don't live to our house?
Leka: No, I'm from Chinese

Austin, 14 mo's, First Sentance:
(Looked out the windows at the cars in the driveway):
Hey, where Dada go?

Leka, 2 (adoring her new baby brother):
Baby Autin Tute, Tute!

Austin, 2 (after a close call w/a deer and skidding off the road(!):
Lightning McQueen doesn't hit deers, Lightning McQueen Jumps over deers!

Leka, 4 (As Dad & I came back from hunting):
Did you catch a deer?!

Leka, 4 (Did NOT like the dead deer hanging from the swing-set at Grandma & Grandpa's house):
Grandpa, go drop that deer in the ocean!
Grandpa: But, Leka, the ocean's a long ways away!
Leka: Well, Drive!!

Leka, 4: Austin caught a fish! But mine is bigger!
(Austin's was actually bigger--Leka's just a true angler! ;)

Austin, 3 (Caught an albino trout at 4th Res):
I like my Bino fish!

Leka, 3ish (anytime she didn't like what she was being told to do):
It's not true!!
Bu-twhy?! Cause-why?!
Mom's aren't true

Leka, 5 (Spring Break in Blanding--came down with a stomach bug & was throwing up):
I don't like being sick on my field trip :(

Austin, 3rd Birthday (Kicking myself for not getting this on camera, but when he saw the power-wheels jeep in the living room; all the way down the stairs he said):
OOOOOOAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!! MY JEEP TRUCK!!!!!!!!

Austin, 2: Trantmormer! Meet the eye!!


Leka, 4 (Taking the waverunners out for the first time that summer--was having too much fun on her first ride):
I can't believe it! I just can't believe it!

Austin, 3: I have to wear my monster truck underwear to the monster truck show!
and:
When I grow up I'm going to drive a monster truck
Calls his Gravedigger truck:
My boogie truck
(Boogie was coined by Leka--anything spooky/Halloweenish is a Boogie :)

Leka, 2 (Called her snowsuit):
snowman suit

Leka, 5 (Night Owl, extraordinaire--said about Saturday):
I'm going to stay in bed & sleep all day!

Leka & Austin, 2 & 4: CHEEESE GROMIT!

Austin, 2 (Looking at/sitting in the airplanes at the Blanding airport--Austin was instructing me):
Get in. Shut the door. Ok, turn it on.

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