forget me not December 2015

Mac

• "Thank you, Mom.  This is so epic."
• "You know I like Finley better.  But I pet Buttercup when she walks by me.  I don't want to be rude.  Dogs have feelings, too."
• You told me about your bad dream.  "It was about a guy who had a teleporter and he kept teleporting me and he teleported me to a dragon slayer and I only had an iron sword and the dragon killed me."
• "You know how everybody, and I mean literally absolutely everybody. . ."
• Are you the oldest?  "Yes.  And the most skilled."
• Romeo: These are my treasures.  "If you're a man you call them trickets [trinkets] or odds and ends."
• Pointing out your sternum, "That's your baby six pack.  That's what I call it."
• I sent Finley in to sleep with you and you asked me "Mom why did you bring him in my room?"  I thought you would want to sleep with him.  "Oh.  I thought the Spirit told you there was going to be a break in through my window."
• you screamed out at 11:00 at night "Mom!  Poppie is hiding somewhere in this room!"
• "I have the keenest of eye sight.  I don't even really know what that means but I heard it somewhere."
• Every time you see a jet stream you think it's a rocket.  I'm going to miss it when it stops.
• To Pipsqueak "You're too cute to be mad at, annoyed with."

Romeo

• "You're the best mom ever.  Even when you make me stand in the corner you're still the best mom."
• Daddy asked you to go get something for him and as you gave it to him you said "You were saying. . ."
• At the army Christmas party Santa came in and you ran to him and gave him a hug.  You were the first in line to sit on Santa's lap.
• While watching A Charlie Brown Christmas it mentioned getting apples and oranges in their stockings.  You told me "that would be much better than candy.  I would like to get apples and oranges."
• You broke down sobbing one night because I didn't call on you to say the blessing.
• You ate dinner with your winter coat on.  Just like Papa.
• It's 15* outside and you're wearing shorts and short sleeve shirts around the house.
• I asked you to load the dishwasher and you grumbled but went to do it.  A couple minutes later you were whistling while you did your job.
• You told me Pip needed a tissue and after I wiped her nose you said "You're beautiful again, Pip!"
• Mac said he bungee jumped at his friends's house. and you asked "What does that mean?  You jumped like a bunny?"

Poppie

• "When I was zipping up my coat I punched myself in the eye."  That takes talent.
• "My scriptures are under my pillow so I can read them in my room and I have some privacy time.  Alone.  In my room."
• While listen to the Mormon Tabernacle Choir sing a song from The Messiah, "I think they just said 'Rudolph.'"
• "Mac, if you're mean to Santa he puts you on the naughty list."
• "Guess what I have in my backpack?  Lamby.  Guess why?  Because I always have good memories every day that I have her."
• "If you don't blow out the candles you're not five.  So I'm not five yet."  You were adamant that you didn't turn five until after you had blown out your candles.  At the end of the day.  Right before bed.
• Poppie, be nice.  "But I'm soon going to be 15 and be in charge."  Said on your birthday.  When you turned 5.
• You went with Daddy to choose your birthday cake from the store.  The bakery asked what you wanted them to write on it and you chose "Happy birthday to me."
• "Please bless Daddy that he will come home safely from the army and that he will have nice dreams of us."
• As you were opening presents from the army Christmas party you declared "No way I got this!"
• We heard sirens when we pulled in to the store and you asked "Where are the police?  Are they looking for me?"
• you woke me up from my nap with "Daddy and I were filling Pip's sippy in the living room and we spilled.  It was an accident."  Daddy doesn't fill sippies in the living room.  "Yeah.  He did.  He said it was an accident."  Did he clean it up?  "No.  It just spilled but we didn't clean it."
• Do you want to be a cowgirl when you grow up?  "No.  I want to be a hair doer.  Because I have hair doer stuff."
• "Today is 'church day' because I hate the word 'Sunday.'"
• Romeo said something was magic and you said "Like a magic fairy?"
• You started drumming on buckets and boxes and told me "Mom think of a song and start singing.  When you think of a song just start singing."  I started singing 'Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star.'  "No Mom.  Sing 'Adam was a Prophet.'"
• "I'm poofed.  That means I'm tired."

Pipsqueak

• I was holding you on my lap while watching a show.  You reached up and pulled my head down so we were cheek to cheek.  I stayed there for a minute then moved.  You put your other arm around my neck and pulled me back down to your cheek.
• "Knock, knock."  Who's there?  "Moo!"  You've almost got the "interrupting cow" joke down.
• "I wannew" everything.  "I wannew sippy, I wannew hold me, I wannew binky. . ."
• Are you poopy?  "No.  I fine."
• Poppie told me she loved me and you screamed "No!  I love Mommy!"
• You saw Nonnie and Papa's picture on the table and said, "I wannew hold Nonnie.  Hold Papa."
• I put pajamas on you that had snaps up the front instead of a zipper.  "Mommy.  Zipper go?"
• You've started calling me "Mama."  I kinda love it.
• You always want to zip up your pajamas.

forget me not November 2015

Mac

• I told you to put first things first and you said, "I don't have to.  My life doesn't depend on it."
• "So, like, 56% sure."
• "Okay.  That is so what I was going to say."
• "Please bless the prophets that if they have a bit of stage fright that they won't be scared so we can understand them better."
• You are always "starving like heck" and once "Romeo started kicking me like heck."

Romeo

• While we were watching Tangled you asked what a smolder is and I said it's a look to get someone to like you.  You followed that up with "Did Daddy do that to you?"
• I found your initials of one of my bread pans and I asked all you kids who did it.  You immediately said "Not me."
• "I wish every single day was church except for Saturday and Sunday and we went to school on those days.  Then we would learn tons at church."
• You kept wearing Pip's hoop skirt after Halloween.
• While playing a game you declared "Practice makes better."
• You told Poppie "It's not a scepter.  Do you even know what scepters are?"  No.  "Then don't talk about them."

Poppie

• "Am I a silly guinea pig?"
• "You're so crazy that you're weird and you're making me wanna throw something at you."
• your response after Pipsqueak said "hi" to some strangers- "She's just so weird about humans.  What's gotten into her?"
• "So.  Whatever."  You often end a conversation topic or a sentence with this.
• Daddy said you needed to do something and you responded with "Umm, Dad.  Can't you see I'm busy?"
• "Can you toss me the remote?  And by that it means throw."
• Daddy told Mac to eat some of your chips but you weren't having it.  "No they're mine and they're all special to me."
• "Thank you for our costumes and our clothes and our shoes and for our underwear so we can change our underwear when we need to."
• After putting on a particular sweatshirt to go play you said "I hope Leah and Soren will think I'm cute in this."
• I asked you how'd you get there so fast?  "Because I was walking so dang fast."
• "Mom, I think I'm magical.  The first time I was in that car with the red on it it started to go.  I just pushed a button and it started to go."
• "Rain, Rain go away.  Come back on another day. . .Hey, it's not working."
• While looking at a book you said "blue bowl and blue calorie."  What's a calorie? "That thing right there is a calorie."  You meant celery.  It was actually a picture of chopsticks but you thought it was celery.
• after finding the Mickey Mouse key, "We used to have a Mickey Mouse door.  It was in the basement.  It was to another world."
• "Finders take winner."  
• to Papa, "Feel better and I hope you're not old anymore!"
• "Knock knock"  Who's there? "The insterruptering cow."  After you mooed and interrupted Daddy you proudly said, "That time I did it in time."

Pipsqueak

• We tried to FaceTime with Nonnie and Papa and they didn't answer.  You were standing on the couch and kept stomping your foot saying "Papa.  Papa."
• You love singing "ashes"and spinning around and falling down.
• I was holding you and was talking to you but I looked away.  You put your hand on my cheek and turned my face back to look at you.
• You have started smiling and when we look at you you crinkle your nose.
• If I ask you what you want to wear you always choose a dress.  Then you walk over to get some "shorts" (diaper covers/bloomers).
• I told Romeo and Poppie to go stand in corners.  You went and faced the wall too even though you weren't in trouble.
• We got to go in to Poppie's speech class one day and you got to choose a treat at the end of it.  I asked you if you wanted some smarties (pretty much your favorite) and you said "No, thank you."
• Are you poopy?  "No, thank you."

forget me not October 2015

Ace

• You suggested frozen pizza for dinner and I said we didn't have one.  You told me "It's in the microwave.  Vacuum.  Hallway.  Kitchen thing.  It's in the freezer in the garage!"

Mac

• "Pick a card.  Is it an ace?"
• "I have a great idea for a password.  All the numbers 1-100 but without the commas.  But you can only go up to 68.  I tried."  This revelation came about 6:30 in the morning.
• When we asked what you wanted to be for Halloween you immediately said Santa Claus.  You knew what you wanted and never changed your mind.

That's one tough lookin' Santa

Romeo

• "What the crap were you thinking, Dad?!"
• "Daddy keeps getting the spiders and hiding them.  He hid one under my pillow!"  It was funny when you wanted to hide them for other people.
• Another time you found a spider hidden somewhere "Really, Dad?"
• During the pumpkin walk we asked you who you wanted to be your buddy?  Of course you chose Annette's 15 year old daughter and of course you held hands with her the entire time. 
• During the pumpkin walk you were also pretty offended that some of the pumpkins were designed to look like someone's backside.

Star Wars Kylo Ren (the mask was for pictures only.  he refused to wear it)

Poppie

• While watching The Princess Bride you asked "Why doesn't he just chop his head off?  Maybe because he wants to stab him in the heart."
• You brought a ladybug in the house and I told you to take it outside.  You told me "I named it so it's adopted."
• "Tricked you, tricked you now you gotta kiss me. . .on the lips."
• "Is this a short cut?" No.  "It's a long cut?"
• "I was scared.  Babycakes was scared."
• "In real life?  Not in a movie or a show or a game or a play?"
• Reading jokes at dinner Why did the grape stop in the middle of the road?  "To get run over!"
• What is a zucchini's favorite sport?  "Green!"
• I told you I was going to go get Romeo from school.  "That's fine."
• "Let's do it on the count of 7."

Pipsqueak

• Put the binkie in your mouth.  "No.  Yours."
• You kept calling the dog's collar a "neck-yess"
• You tried to open the door to go outside and said "Door locked."  No, it's not.  "Yes.  It is."
• We have definitely entered the "terrible twos."  You have been the only one who has done it.  You are very determined and stubborn and you do not like being told that you're wrong.
• Your lisp.  It kills me every time.
• When we went on the pumpkin walk with Annette and her family you wanted "Nette" to hold you the whole time.  You reached for me once, and I held you for about two seconds before you lunged back to Nette's arms.
• On the hay ride to get pumpkins you screams "Pun-kin!" every time you saw one on the ground.  You were so excited about all the "pun-kins" both on the hay ride and once we brought ours home.

  

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  The whole crew- Santa Claus, Kylo Ren, Elsa, and Princess Sofia

  
  
  

forget me not August/Septmeber 2015

Mac

• "I'm really good at being bad then turning it around."
• Pip got hurt and we both reached out to her.  She walked right by me so you could give her a hug.
• When we went bowling your name was Wild Beast.
• On your birthday Aunt Nette asked how old you were.  You said "Nine.  No twelve because of all the years I spent in Heaven."
• "Gaze.  Like I gazed upon the sea yesterday."
• "You know how, like, I'm never scared. . ."says the boy who slept in my bed the night before because he had a nightmare.
• "Mom!  I literally just ripped a hole in the space time continuum!"
• Romeo asked you Are you thinking what I'm thinking?  "I don't know.  What are you thinking?"
• Genius World Record

Romeo

• Telling Poppie "You have boobs.  He has nipples!"
• Poppie was singing 'Old McDonald had a Farm' and was singing about a pig.  You piped in and started singing ". . . but the pig wouldn't listen so he had to kill it.  'Fine I will listen' but it was too late. . .so he had to sell his farm but no one would buy it.  Except an old lady. . .Who said 'this will be a nice home'. . . Then the zombie pig came back. . ."
• You started your Christmas list on August 12
• We were at a restaurant and they had MMA on the t.v.  You asked if it was boxing.  I said it was like boxing but they hit and kick and don't stop.  "Oh. So it's like brawling?"
• Your bowling name was Yoda and you got a strike on your very first frame.  It was the only strike anyone got.
• "I stand corrected."
• "scabenger hunt"
• Poppie was wearing some new clothes and asked you if she looked so pretty.  "Yes.  I mean no.  You look pretty but not so pretty.  Not like if you walk into school and a boy is going to fall in love with you.  Not that pretty."
• "Please bless that there won't be an earthquake or a tornado or fire."
• "Please bless that we won't be mean to people or hit or punch them."

Poppie

• Every time I say Annette you ask "you mean 'uh'-nette?"
• At scouts one day "He actually has a fat belly like Papa."
• "Oh, he's running.  How politeful."
• Mac told you he was smarter than you.  You responded with "You're smarter at being bad!"
• "Mac, wait!  Listen to me! Don't talk. . ."
• "I don't think rabbits ice skate.  I think they just skate."
• "They're called 'scare crows' 'cause when they're scared they're scared crows."
• "Romeo you're really funny.  Or should I say weird?"
• Nonnie said you got Doritos and you said "I didn't get Doritos.  I got chips."
• When we went bowling your name was Rainbow Dash.  And you won!  You beat both your brothers 82-86-90.
• You started giving high fives then turning around, putting your hands behind your back at your waist, and trying to high five again.
• While singing 'The Wise Man and the Foolish Man' you sang "The flies came up and the rains came down."
• "Mom!  A bird is dead on our roof.  Not the garage, the one with the beds."
• Romeo said "I'm a rookie" and you responded with "I'm a Ricky!"
• While poking my boob "bouncy, bouncy, bouncy"
• "Undershirts are the best." Why?  "Because.  They're the best."  Okay, then.
• Singing "He's making a list and checking it twice so forget about good behavior."
• hippopotamus= hippo-o-potomus or hippo-apotamus
• I told you my arm was asleep and you asked "So we have to be quiet?"
• "Princess Luna is so, a, butthole because she is really Sunset Shimmer and Sunset Shimmer is mean."
• After I told you "bless you" you told me "That was a sneeze-cough.  You don't have to say 'bless you' if it's a sneeze-cough."
• All you kids had balloons and Daddy told you all to give them to him.  You asked, "Even me?  Even your Babycakes?"
• You didn't want to get wet while walking to the car when it was raining so you grabbed a crumpled up sheet and put it on your head.
• I told you Come on Sweetheart.  and you said, "You  mean honey?  I'm a 'honey.'"
• After I told you to do something, "I don't understand you.  I'm a penguin."
• I went to check on you and tuck you in before I went to bed and you yelled out in your sleep "I wanna give you a hug and a squeeze and a kiss!"
• Matter-of-factly while playing Mario "Oh.  If you touch the lava you die."
• I wanted you to do something and said thanks for listening to encourage you to do what I asked.  You told me, "But I'm not listening."
• "You're so smart. . .well, usually."
• "You can eat without a mouth.  You just have to take one of your eyeballs out and then put the food in there then glue the eyeball back where it was."

Pipsqueak

• Daddy was lying down on me and you were sitting on top of him.  Daddy put my arm around him and you got mad at me.  You hit my arm until I moved it.
• I put you to bed and tucked you in then went to Poppie and got my "hug and a squeeze and a kiss."  You started saying something over and over and stood up.  I didn't know what you were saying but when I walked over to you you took out your binkie and puckered up.
• I was holding you in front of a mirror and I puckered up.  You turned to give me a kiss.  I did it again and you looked in the mirror and puckered up and said "mmmma" and kissed me over and over again.
• You love to taunt "Catch me, , , "  I love that you say it that way in stead of  "Can't catch me!"
• "You stop!"
• You refuse help with a spoon.  If I put something on your spoon you will dump it off.  You then pick up the food with your hand and put it back on your spoon.
• You held my cheeks in your hands and kissed me.
• You have a Doc McStuffins pillow.  I laid you down on the pillow and you sat up and flipped it over because Doc was upside down.  You did the same thing when Doc was facing the bed and the blank side was up.
• Candy= nan-nee
• I pulled out hot dogs to get ready for lunch and you raised your hands and said "Meee!"
• I put you down for a nap and covered you up.  You started whining and kicking your blanket off.  You sat up, threw your stuffed animals, then grabbed your soft, pink blanket and lied down so I could cover you up with the blanket you wanted.
• You started calling Daddy by his first name.  You're the only one who has done that.  If you're trying to get his attention or he's going too slow you'll call him by name.
• Daddy had something and you wanted it.  I was sitting on the couch with my legs up and Daddy told you to kiss my leg and you could have it.  You kissed my legs lots of times.  Then Daddy told you to lick my leg and you did that too.
• While walking I asked if I could hold your hand so you folded your arms so I couldn't get your hand.
• We got to church at he same time as Sister Speth.  You walked right up to her and held out your hand so you could walk into church with her.  After we sat down in church you walked up to Sister Speth and held up your hands so you could sit on her lap instead of with me.
• While riding in the car I tried to get your drink back from you.  I held out a binkie and told you I would trade you.  You said, "unh uh" then took the binkie, said "thanks," and pushed my hand away. 

forget me not June/July 2015

Ace

• being so willing to sacrifice to support us and earn some money

Mac

• You were so excited for scout camp (your first year going).  You were much less excited when you found out it was only day camp and not a week long event.
• Even after a long, very hard day when you had run out of medicine I tucked you in and gave you a kiss and you gave me a huge hug and a kiss and told me you loved me.
• When I asked you what you wanted your goal for reading to be this summer you decided on 5200  minutes.
• After watching Pip do something "That's so cute.  Look at her.  She is so cute!"
• My friend and her daughter offered to take all of you guys swimming so I could get some stuff done at the house.  When you found out I wasn't going with you guys you told me "I'm just going to cry the whole time."  You didn't cry the whole time but you did refuse to get in the water.
• Asking me "Does the category of slouching include curling up when you sleep?"
• Another time watching Pip, "Okay, that's just so cute."  I love how much you love her.
• You love puzzles.  At one point you had five going on at once. . .all over the house.
• At the end of school your teacher brought puzzles and games for you guys to play with.  You came home and told me he was going to bring a 750 piece puzzle for you the next day.  I thought it was just for you to work on at school but he brought it for you to take home.  Mr. Smith loved having you in his class.  I don't think anyone else in the class got to keep a puzzle from the teacher.
• "Pain is good.  It teaches us lessons of what we've done."
• On almost getting caught "We were like, 3.45 (said "3 point forty five") seconds away from it being too late." 
• "Are you putting what I said on facebook?"

Romeo

• You said to me one day "I can help you clean your room."  You then threw some shoes in the closet and remarked "There.  I already helped."
• After trying to get the dog in the back yard "Maybe he's not gonna go until someone shows him some respect and we're not going to do that."
• Shocked, asking Nonnie "You remember how to lock the door?!" after she locked our front door (from the inside)
• "Mom?  Do you know why Daddy watches 'The Walking Dead'?  I think so he knows how to shoot a gun.  Against bad guys."
• "This puzzle glows but it never glued before."
• "Poppie not all super heroes have capes.  Green Lantern is a super hero and he doesn't have a cape."
• "Don't try to kick me in the a-word!"
• "What are twins called that are four?"  Huh?  Quadruplets.  "If we were all the same age we would be quadruplets!"
• Telling Pip after I had gotten her dressed "Okay, now you can have freedom!"

Poppie

• You love to watch My Little Pony Rainbow Rocks.  Every morning.
• "Mom, is it a problem that one of our water guns is, um, broken?"
• "Dear Hedda Faddur, please bless that we won't be dead and that nobody with come kill us."
• After finding bubble wrap "How do you pop this?  I'm just a little kid.  I can't pop it.  I used to be able to do it but now I can't."
• "I'm smarter 'cause I have a brain!  And you're not even in charge.  Mom says she doesn't even trust you."
• After Romeo opened the car door for you, "Thank you my brother-man."
• "I undisappeared it."
• Nonnie to Poppie You're cute.  You immediately responded with "You're fat."
• I chopped my hair off and you kept telling me "Your hair is dying since you got it cut."
• "Mom, don't you dare sit on me."  Why not?  "Because you will be mean and I will be flat."
• animals=ammamals
• You were reading your scriptures by yourself one day "Now behold, the king of Hilariun died.  The king needed a new king and the Lamanites were pretending to play really, really hard."
• After exploring in the woods (the empty lot across the street from Nonnie and Papa's house), "Mom!  Look what Romeo and me found.  A shoelace!  Someone died in the woods!"
• "Mom I have the hiccups.  See?"  You then started singing "I Love to See the Temple" so I could hear your hiccups.
• You came in and told me that Romeo hit you and I responded with "okay".  You left the room and told Romeo "I told Mom, she said she's going to spank you."
• "Why does Romeo get to go outside?"  Because he's bad and he doesn't listen.  "I'm bad and I don't listen."  Go downstairs to get in the tub.  Crying, "But I'm bad.  And I don't listen!"
• Monsters Unaversary
• "Yeah, I know.  I'm really smart."
• "I wish Daddy was here so I could hold his hand."
• You asked Romeo if he wanted to play princesses he said no.  "Fine.  I'm in charge of you because I want to play princesses."
• watermelon=wallermelon 
• Romeo tried to shut you out the bedroom door and you complained "I don't want to be like Flat Stanley."
• himself=hisself
• "I put the cubbers on you." said after tucking me in.
• You were hitting your pink blanket against the wall and explained "I'm drying it off because I think a bug peed on it."
• After going potty and just peeing you wanted me to wipe and I said no.  "But I want you to wipe.  What if I go poo?  I'll go poo!"
• awesome=aweshum
• You wanted lotion so you covered yourself with Lanolin.
• After showing Romeo something "Can you do it?  That's good, Romeo.  That's good.  Now, next challenge."
• After hearing me talk about Stan Lee, "Mom, Flat Stanley's real?"
• "There's a storm coming in."
• "The sunscreen didn't work because my cheeks are touching my eyes."  (a.k.a. she's squinting)

Pip

• binky=ginkey or geekeey (said with a hard "g")
• When you go to bed you always want to hold a binky in your hand and you love to switch them around, taking the one out of your mouth and replacing it with the one you're holding."  They're all the same kind of binky.  I have no idea what the difference is.
• puppy=pup-pa
• You love to dance.  You always have one arm sticking straight across your chess and you spin around.
• When I rock you to sleep you'll relax then tense, arch your back, and scream to put up one last fight.  When it doesn't work you quickly succumb and go right to sleep.
• You are obsessed with your toes.  You inspect them at night and if there is anything between your toes you either clean them out or, most often, shove them in my face and say "owie".  If I don't respond you scream at me that you have an owie.  You can sit and inspect your toes for 20 minutes (and long after they're clean).
• You love to talk on the phone and you get so mad if you can't hold it while you're talking.
• You tried to gargle after seeing me do it once.
• I went in to your room again one night after having already put you to bed a couple of times.  I gave you a binky and told you to lie down and you plopped right down and didn't move.
• One day after getting you buckled in the car I leaned in to give you a kiss.  I kissed you a second time.  When I kissed you a third time you grabbed my neck and held me to your lips.
• You said your first prayer on June 23.  When I say it's time for family prayer you always stop what you're doing, run to the ottoman, kneel down, and fold your arms.  You're usually the first one ready for family prayer.
• pizza=pete-ta
• When I'm holding you before I put you in bed you have your head on my shoulder.  If I readjust you to lay you in my arms before I put you down you move back to sitting up in my arms with your head on my shoulder so I can't lay you down.  You know that after I lay you in my arms I'm going to put you in your bed. 
• You wanted to take a shower with me one morning so you walked into bathroom, lifted the toilet lid, and put the potty seat on.
• While we were visiting Nonnie and Papa you shared a room with Romeo and Poppie.  There were two nights when you were up talking and playing in your bed long after your brother and sister had fallen asleep.
• One night you were talking and playing in your bed.  I walked in to put you back to bed and you immediately screamed "Ginkey!" as soon as I walked through the door.
• After you saw me put a pizza in the oven (at Nonnie and Papa's) you excitedly shouted "pete-ta!" then ran over to the cupboard and got a bowl and a spoon.
• I go to tuck you in again at night and I tell you to lie down and you do.
• You said you wanted to go potty.  You sat on the potty.  For 25 minutes.  And you did nothing.
• You came up to me while I was sitting on the couch and I uncrossed my legs in anticipation of holding you on my lap.  You crossed my legs again so you could sit on me and bounce.
• We watched "Mary Poppins" one day and when you saw the dog you told him to "sit!"
• While rocking you to sleep you took your binky out of your mouth, lifted up your shirt, wiped your binky on your belly, then put it back in your mouth.
• You like to hold hands going up or down stairs.  One day you had your hands full so you gave me your index finger and we held fingers going down the stairs.
• I changed your messy diaper and asked you if it felt better.  You responded with "unh uh."  I asked if you wanted your poopy diaper back on and you nodded your head yes.
• You do not like the sprinklers and ran away from them.

forget me not May 2015

Ace

• One word- GRADUATION!!
• "You'd think old people would drive faster since they don't have as long left to live."
• You graduated with honors.  I had no idea until I saw your name in the program.  I'm not sure if you knew about it either.
• You changed one of your classes to a pass/fail because it was a general, you weren't interested in the subject, and you wanted to focus on your other classes for your final semester.  You ended up getting a 95% in that class and you thought you may have graduated with honors if that class had been factored in to your GPA.

Mac

• You are so proper in your speech.  You always say "a bit, straightaway, extremely, and literally". ("I just have a bit more" or "I'll come home straightaway." are common phrases.)
• You are always trying to have a vote and to persuade (manipulate?) your siblings to vote your way.
• You ask Daddy if he knows how to make a top.  "The spinning kind. We can make a wooden one.  It's called a dreidel."
• After I told you to find a spider and kill it, "Who votes for survival?  Survival!  Survival! [chanting]  I don't think it's fair that spiders don't get to kill us."
• You got a math award at school again this year.  We are so proud of you!  Your teacher said, "Mac has developed a number sense that keeps him at the top of the class in math chapter test scores.  He is a master with critical thinking, two step problems."
• You have started putting a lot more thought into your prayers instead of just racing through them.  It's nice to hear.
• "It's nearly done."
• "What's a quadrilateral?  Just kidding.  Of course I know."  Smarty pants.
• "Wow.  You're really good at puzzles.  Like, really good.  I'm surprised at how good you are.  I had no idea you were that good."  Thanks for the vote of confidence, Kid.
• You were emptying the dishwasher and started to feel dizzy so you left to go play basketball.
• "How did they come up with all those mythical creatures?  Nobody's imagination is that good except ADHD imaginations."
• You are very into puzzles right now.  You put together a 500 piece puzzle and a 750 piece puzzle  really quickly and you didn't get frustrated when Pip ruined the edges on one and you had to redo a lot of the puzzle.  Your teacher gave you the 750 piece puzzle but I'm pretty sure you're the only one in your class who got something from him.

Romeo

• "Come on little spider we have a surprise for you. . .it's killing you!"
• "If we get to move some place next to the Lego place can we go there if we get money?  Yippee!  I can learn to drive.  'Cause they have cars there."
• You got piña collada cotton candy and kept calling it pina colladi
• You were reading scriptures by yourself one night.  When you came to the word 'disciples' you guessed it was 'despicable.'
• Whenever you fight with Poppie you always threaten "I'm never going to play princesses with you again!"  You're usually playing princesses with her 10 minutes later.
• You are really the only kid who will try new foods.  Daddy will ask who wants to try something and you almost always volunteer even before the bribe is offered.

Poppie

• Watching everyone march in for Daddy's graduation you said, "They look like a bunch of little ants!"
• During a conference with Papa he asked you if you were going to graduate and you said yes.  He asked what you were going to graduate in and you thought for a minute then said, "Ummm, flowers."
• Computer= be cuter
• While driving in the car "Mom, you know why I don't like bumps?"  No, why?  "Because, Mom.  I don't like them."
• You kept asking if we could go to the human park (as opposed to the dog park).
• hankerchief= hanky-chif
• After grabbing an apple from the fridge you licked it and said, "Mmmm.  Fresh."
• "Mac sometimes bees mean to me."  Romeo sometimes is mean to you, too.  "No, Romeo bees mean to me a lot and sometimes."
• Daddy said you could have a brownie or cake.  "Yay!  That means I can have both."  Not 'and,' 'or'.  "Brownies and cake."  You can't have both.  Pick one.  "C'mon, Dad.  Just say 'and.'"
• Watching a Universal movie with Earth at the beginning "Look, Mom!  Earth! That's where we live!"
• Daddy and I were both trying to go to the neighbors' house but I had to do something first and I told you kids not to let him leave.  You and Romeo stood in front of the door and you said "I won't ever be your Baby Cakes or give you a hug or a squeeze again if you leave."
• "Mom!  Romeo felt a spider on his leg and now it's inside his body!"  No, it's not.  "Yes!  It just digged a hole."  As you ran back downstairs I heard you report, "Okay.  I told Mom the plan."
• At Yellowstone "If one of those buffalo come towards my window they will break my window and I would bleed and I would need a cast."
• Trying to sing 'Bingo'- "E-I-N-G-O."
• You had to go to the bathroom while we were driving around Yellowstone so we stopped at a rest area.  Daddy took you in but you came out a minute later.  You refused to go because it "smelled like Grandma."
• "Romeo, truth or dare?  I truth you to. . ."
• necklace= neck-a-less
• "There was a bug on your seat so I said 'ahchoo.'  I mean 'shoo!'"
• I asked you if you were going in the stall by yourself in a public restroom.  "Yeah but I want to lock it because if someone doesn't know I'm in here they'll come push me off the toilet."
• After Daddy telling her she was going to get spanked, "Who will be your Baby Cakes?  Will I be your Baby Cakes?"
• We found our neighbor's dog while they weren't home and you wanted to keep him.  You came up with the name "Beanie!  You know.  Like bean and the jack."
• "Oh, Mom.  I love you."
• "When I was a two year old girl I had a puppy like that but he had purple and pink. . .fur."
• "Two pairs of toast-tis" instead of two pieces of toast
• You fell asleep on the couch and as I was putting you in your bed you woke up (kind of) and asked  "Why are you doing this?"
• Your pillow case has Minnie Mouse on one side and Daisy Duck on the other.  You refuse to sleep on Minnie.  If I have Minnie facing up you always turn it over.  One night I purposefully put Minnie on top when I carried you in to bed after you fell asleep on the couch.  You woke up at some point during the night with a bad dream and flipped your pillow back over to Daisy.
• "Please bless that no one will step on cute rollie pollies and that no one will eat dogs or babies."

Pipsqueak

• I found some size 2 diapers that we had forgotten about and they fit you perfectly.  You are so tiny!
• One week you stood in the aisle at church.  The YW president was looking at you ('cause you're so cute!) and you stared her down, stomped your foot, and scowled at her trying to get her to stop looking at you.
• When Daddy first turned your car seat around you drove around waving and saying "bye" to every car.
• You came in to cuddle with me one morning and when you heard a car drive down the street you started waving.
• I went in to the bathroom one day and left the door open.  You followed me in and said "bath?  Bath?"
• You say my name so well but when you want to be held or want something you shout/whine "Mommy" to whoever you're talking to.
• I ask you for a kiss and if you tell me "no" I kiss you tons and ask again.  Now a lot of times when I ask for a kiss you say no and smile.  Eventually I wear you down and you give me a kiss. 
• You got goosebumps and didn't know what they were.  You showed them to me and I rubbed them to warm you up.  Even though they disappeared you pointed again and said "owie."
• When I hold you before putting you in bed you wrap your left arm around my neck and hold tight.
• I asked you for a kiss and you moved your cheek to my lips.

forget me not April 2015

Ace

• I don't particularly like peanut butter.  You know this.  One morning after getting Pipsqueak situated with breakfast you came to cuddle.  I told you  "Don't go eat peanut m & ms and then come back and cuddle," which you had just done.  You then let out a huge sigh and breathed peanut butter nastiness in my face.  Someone may have thought this was a sigh of exasperation.  I am not that person.
• This semester!  The last three weeks getting home at 9:00 was an early night.  The last two weeks you were out until 10:00-10:30.  The last week of finals you stayed until the library closed every night.  I don't think you got home before 12:30 any of those nights.

Mac

• You were the only person in your class to pass off your addition, subtraction, and multiplication math facts at the February parent/teacher conferences.
• You were so nice trying to encourage your brother to learn to tie his shoes.  You told him "If you do it I'll give you a dollar. Even if it's not tight."
• A girl that we take home from school saw a boy walking home and said he was a crybaby.  You stood up for him and said, "That's good that he is.  Because he's just being himself and that's who he is."
• One night you sat next to me before we read scriptures.  I told Poppie to come sit by me and you said "No I want to."  That never happens.
• One day in the family prayer "Please bless Daddy to make enough money that when we go to the store we will have enough left over."
• One Saturday morning you gathered princesses and baby toys and told me "I'll take care of the little kids so you can go back to bed."
• I then overheard you on the baby monitor say to Daddy ". . .I'm really the only one, huh? Well, except for Mom.  Unless it's early in the morning and she's grumpy.  She's not really a morning person, huh?"
• During scriptures one night Poppie read two verses then Romeo was in a mood and not reading his verse.  I got fed up and told everyone to go to bed.  You told me "I want to finish Romeo's verse.  I'll read it."
• Crazy bath hair.

• You did awesome at your first pinewood derby race.  Your car won almost all its heats.  It started losing after a little bit but you noticed that a nail was slightly out of place and you pushed it back in and won everything after that.  You were a great winner and a good sport when you weren't coming in first place.  I'm so proud of you!

 Romeo

• "I'm going to live with you forever."
• "Just because you're Daddy's 'Baby Cakes' doesn't mean you can do whatever you want!"
• You don't say it anymore but you used to call a computer a "be-cuter."  I miss it.
• You told your teachers we are moving.  You even wrote a note to me telling me "I need to give Miss Micnel (McNeil) a note saying I'm moveing or moveing to a difnt house and not liveing here."  I don't know where this came from.  Daddy hasn't even graduated yet.
• Poppie complained "Romeo hit-ted me!"  You followed this statement up with "That's because she keeps calling me 'Sweetie!'"
• You are so loving and sweet.  My cousin teaches fifth grade at your school and you look for her.  When you find her you always run up to her and give her a huge hug.
• You love your baby sister and are thrilled any time you can get her undivided attention.
  
  
  
  

Poppie

• "I fink." You fink?  "Yes.  I fink  Fink is a word."
• On taking a nap, "Okay but I'm warning you, I won't like it."
• After falling, "Mom, sometimes brownies make owies feel better so can I have some?"
• You did not want to ride the pony at Baby Animal Days but then you loved it and didn't have anyone walking next to you.
• "Mom yes we are going to live with you forever and even when we're dead.  We're going to be angels."
• You have started growling when you're frustrated.  It's equal parts funny, cute, and annoying.
• The boys were talking about death one day in the car and you got concerned and asked what would happen to you all when we died.  I told you we would be watching over you and you asked "Will Jesus be watching over the kids before their parents die?"  Yes.  Yes He will.
• One night at bedtime, "Awww.  I forgot to play the big computer today."
• Calling out "jumping goose!" every time you jumped to pop bubbles one day.
• "Can we go to the mall if I promise to get my ears pierced?"
• "She just touched me with her little germ hands!"
• As we got in the car after running errands you told me matter-of-factly "Mom.  Kids who were good in the store get a movie" as you opened the dvd player and got in your seat.
• You asked where we were going and when I told you we were going to the dollar store you immediately and excitedly said "to get me a dollar?" 
• I sang "Adam was a Prophet" (aka "Follow the Prophet") and ended with "...he knows the way."  You chimed in with "(singing) back home.  Always sing 'he knows the way back home,' Mom because Jesus know the way. . .when we are lost."
• I told you one night that you could have something tomorrow.  You woke up the next day, remembered, and said "Mom said I could have one tomorrow."  Mac told her it's not tomorrow.  You responded with "Today is tomorrow day!"
• "Mom do you know what makes your secrets?  The brains."
• "Mom when I was a little girl I pet-ted a eagle [seagull] and before it flew away it bit me.  But it was just Shayla [her cousin] in a costume.  Okay.  "No, Mom.  For real."
• Yelling me as I sprayed the ants "Mom.  I like ants.  Don't spray them!"
• milk= milka-milka  I'm disappointed this has recently stopped.
• Crows= scarecrows "because they scare the other birds" and "because when the people are out they just fly away.  That's why they're scarecrows."
• Fabulous= fabalus
• "Eenie, meenie, minie, moe.  Catch a tiger by his tail.  My mom says to let him go and you are not it!"
• When you get in the car you lean out the door and yell "All aboard the choo choo train!"
• "Mom look what I can do."  That's so cool!  (with attitude) "I know, Mom."
• "Mom what are boy kids called when they're babies?" Boys.  "No.  Girls are called 'Sweetie' and 'Honey.' What are boys?"
• You love sidewalk chalk.
• And you got into your brother's lubrication powder for his pinewood derby car.

Pip

• You have started looking sheepish or embarrassed if we catch you doing something.  Hopefully I'll get a picture of your expressions.
• When you had pneumonia you did such a good job taking your medicine.  The first dose was a little iffy but after that you were a champ.
• I gave you some medicine at bedtime for teething.  I got it all measured in the cup and squatted down to give it to you.  You waddled over with your mouth open and your tongue sticking out.
• Your big sister told you "no" one day.  You stood there and stomped your foot then walked over to where your sister was, stood next to her, and stomped your foot repeatedly in protest and frustration.
• If you don't get what you want you will sit on the floor and kick your legs back and forth/in and out and will refuse to get up or move.  Sometimes you'll lie down on the floor and kick your feet to prove your point even more.
• Daddy has been studying super late and usually you kids don't get to see him except in the morning before he goes to school.  You cried out in your sleep one night after Daddy had gotten home late.  I went in to give you a love and a binkie and to put you back to bed.  You heard Daddy say something and freaked out.  You refused to go back to bed until Daddy came in to hold you.
• You are 18 1/2 months old and wearing a 9-12 month dress.  You looked like Shirley Temple

• You watched puppy videos on YouTube one day and told the dog in the video to sit.
• One day Poppie said "let's go jump on my bed!" and you took off running for the bedroom.
• You get hurt and run over to me, bow your head so I can give you a kiss, then waddle off.
• I was putting lotion on you after a bath and asked if you were ready and you shouted "Go!"  I didn't even know you knew that word.
• You were brushing crumbs off the couch.  I grabbed a big crumb and moved it.  You screamed "Mine!  Mine!" until I put it in your mouth.
• When I sit on the rocking chair you come over and want to be picked up.  When I set you down next to me you start rocking back and forth trying to rock the chair.
• You love to put your hands on the dog's back or bum then follow him around in circles.