March Kid Quotes

Penelope- Mama, Julie is stinky.

Me- Okay, thank you.

Adaleine- It could just be stinky baby toots.

Penelope- I smelled her and it totally smelled like Julie poop.

Lillie's favorite author is Dr. Seuss. She pronounces it "Seusses" though and I can't correct her.

The kids like to ride their bikes in the driveway and road when Justin and I can go out with them to watch for cars. One weekend, we were letting them ride and one of us calls out "car" when we see one turning on to our street. 

Justin-Car!

Lillie- You mean, C-A-R.

Me- Actually, he means T-R-U-C-K.

Lillie- Oh, was it a Toyota?

Justin saw a commercial with an actress named Lillie. He told our Lillie, "Hey, her name is Lillie too." I asked him how he knew who she was (because I didn't recognize her or see a name). He said, "There's this thing I learned how to do when I was really young. It's called read." Gabrie interjects, "Hey, I know how to read!" 

Justin- What?

Gabrie- I know how to read.

Justin- WHAT?? What is this thing you're talking about?

Nathaniel- You obviously didn't learn how to hear!

Pennie- We forgot our survive water. (I have no idea)

Pennie- Gabrie accidentally hit me on purpose!

Me- It's already 3:30?! Where did the day go?! (Still getting used to that time change).

Nathaniel, as serious as can be- It's in the past.

Pennie- Can we watch a show now?

Me- No, not right now.

Pennie- Please? You can't say no to this face.

Me- Yes, I can. 

Pennie- Please? I'll do your chores for a 'momth'. I will!

Me- What are my chores?

Pennie- Your bed, your floor, your bathroom. That's it.

Addie- What about the laundry?

Pennie- Oh yeah, the laundry too. But not Daddy's. 

Addie- You don't know how to work the laundry washer.

Pennie- You just put the clothes in and some 'activator' and boom. And then you have to fold them. 

Pennie- Let me braid your hair and do a ponytail. Then you'll be all styled out.

Lillianna- Cooking is for making messes. And making yumminess.

Pennie- A marker sharpie got on me and it didn't cut me! That's good, huh? (A Sharpie 😂)

I was talking to Nathaniel about the quarantine. We don't watch the news so the kids hadn't heard anything about what's going on until we told them. 

Nathaniel- It's 'quaranteed'.

Me- No, it's 'quarantined'.

Nathaniel- No, it's quaranteed, not quarantined. That would make sense if the word was 'quarantine' but it's 'quaranty'. 

Addie- What's for dinner?

Justin- Mama made roast beef.

Addie- So we're having buffalo?

Addie- Alexa, play 'Julie, Julie, Oh Baby'. (Louie, Louie)

Pennie- Daddy, can I have some gum too?

Justin- No, you have a mint.

Pennie- I thought you were the best dad. 

Pennie- Girls, let's play Barbs!

Addie- Daddy, will you play barbies with us?

Justin- Ehhh, not today.

Addie- Daddy, you said you'd play!

Justin- I said one day!

Addie- It's been a day!

Justin- Go eat dinner.

Pennie- I need to wash my hands.

Justin- Hurry up and go wash then.

Pennie- Don't mind if I do. 

Apparently pandemics and quarantines make us a little emotional-- One day Lillie cried and cried because Gabrie kept calling Cheeto (the cat) fat. 

Lillie, crying hysterically- Mama, she won't stop calling him fat!

Me- It's okay, Lillie. Cheeto IS fat! Why does that make you so upset?

Gabrie- Yeah! Cheeto is fat!

Lillie- Mama, she won't stop!!!

Justin- Well, we were gonna go camping this weekend but it looks like they're closing Big Bend down too.

Nathaniel- How do they close outside?!

One day during "quaranty", Nathaniel and Gabriella started an impromptu States quiz together. It went a little like this:

*Nathaniel, needing a hint for Indiana*

Gabrie- It's the name of a man in a movie. 

Nathaniel- Indiana!

Gabrie- Okay, on the L's now. I think we went to a play when we were there...about a rattlesnake?

Nathaniel- Oh! Louisana!

Gabrie- Okay, now the N's. There's eight.

Nathaniel- Oh my gosh! EIGHT??

Nathaniel needs a lot of hints. He couldn't guess Gabrie's hint so he ran to our fridge with our state magnet collection (we buy a magnet for every state we've been to). That didn't help him. 

Nathaniel- Okay, give me another hint. 

Gabrie- It's in the middle. 

Nathaniel- Okay so that means it's the bad part. North Dakota! 

(That was one, but not the one he was looking for. I accidentally gave Nebraska away.)

Gabrie- Okay, last one. It starts with a North.

Nathaniel- What else starts with a North?? (It was North Carolina).

*Rhode Island is next*

Gabrie- Its state tree is the Red Maple.

Nathaniel- That doesn't help me!

Gabrie- Okay, the capital is 'provide-ence'.

*Next was Washington*

Gabrie- The capital is Olympia.

Nathaniel- Olympia...Okay, that's definitely a Southern state. What is it... Oh! Washington! Okay, not a Southern state."

Me- Quiet down people!

Addie- Ummm we're not people. We're humans.

Since going to Big Bend wasn't an option this time, we decided to do a camp out in the backyard. After the tent was set up, Justin wanted me to get the air mattress out of the closet for him--

Justin- Go ahead and get the air mattress set up.

Me- We're not sleeping on the air mattress.

Justin- What are we gonna sleep on then?

Me- The ground!

Justin- My wife just set up the tent for me. I'm obviously not a rugged outdoors man. I'm sleeping on an air mattress. (He didn't. Because I never set it up. And then I ended up sleeping inside with the baby in a nice, cozy bed. 😂)

Addie- I fell on some sticks and have this cut on my leg, Mama. 

Me- Uh oh, are you okay?

Addie- Yeah.

*A few minutes later*

Addie- I need a band-aid.

Me- No, you don't.

Addie- Yes, I do, Mama. There's blood.

Me- It's only a tiny bit of blood.

Addie- Okay. If you want me to die...

Me- You won't die.

Addie- I could bleed to death. It's letting out too much blood.

Pennie- People DO die. But not us. 

Nathaniel- Did you use my tallow?

Justin- No, one of the girls got into it.

Nathaniel- They STUCK their finger RIGHT IN IT! Do you know how long it took me to get it perfectly flat?!

Me-Will you get her a pear please?

Gabrie- A pair of what?

Me- A pear, for Pennie.

Gabrie- Ohhh. A pear!

Pennie- Can I have the light blue cup? I don't want a sad color.

Nathaniel- Why does Samantha have such a soft meow?

Me- I dunno, you'd have to ask her.

Nathaniel- Samantha! Oh actually, I'll ask Cheeto. He spends a lot of time with her.

Nathaniel- I've seen enough sunrises.

Me- A sunrise is a wonderful thing to see though.

Nathaniel- Only the ones I saw with mountains behind it.

Justin- Which sunrises did you see with mountains behind it?

Nathaniel- UH, duh, in Colorado...where we used to live...

Justin- You mean the mountains that are in the West...

Lillie- Gardening is so fun. (We've started our first garden this year).

Nathaniel (to me)- Isn't it funny it only took a pandemic for you to want to garden.

*Talking to Nathaniel about learning how to cook*

Nathaniel- I can cook eggs.

Justin- Can you?

Nathaniel- I bet I could figure out grilled cheese.

(He explained it to us, and says the butter would go between the bread, with the cheese. Justin explained the correct way).

Nathaniel- So I wasn't that far off.

*Nathaniel entered the room, unaware of something, I forget what.*

Justin- That's cause you've been in your cave all day.

Addie- Yeah! You're a cave person!

Nathaniel- You don't even know what it's called.

Addie- Uh huh! It's called a 'pinon-neer'! They act like a cowboy!