How We REALLY Teach Language to Little Boy

Me: "Oh, brother."

Little Boy: "Daddy says that when he plays the Mario game!"

Math Quote of the Day

So, picture this. I'm on the computer, and Little Boy's at the kitchen table working on his subtraction workbook (which he's in love with, but that's another story). Then I hear a frustrated little voice:

"Uhh...I'm having a problem over here!"

Cracked me up. I had to hide my giggles, of course. Math problems are not funny. (Teehee.)

A Little Obsessed With Mater...

Me: "Little Boy, did you talk to Grandma on the phone just now?"

Little Boy: "Dad-gum right!"

[Photo by PopCulture Geek]

I Am NOT Afraid of Germs

Isaac, my dear and loving husband, insists that I'm a germaphobe. Which I'm not. I just paid attention in my Food Safety class. And...maybe I was a microbiologist in a past life. But I'm not afraid of germs. Sheesh.

So the other day, I walked past the bathroom and saw Isaac wiping off the counter. He saw that I was giving him a funny look, so he said:

"You have to wipe up the germs, or they'll start effervescing and comulgating, you know."

Isaac made up scientific words, and now we will eat him! Bahaha!

And that is how "comulgate" became our official Silly Family Word. The end.

Quote of the Day

Little Boy [to me]: "What are you giggling about, you giggle-stinker?"

181st LDS General Conference

{Note: If you have questions about LDS General Conference, go here to learn more about it, here for a link to watch or listen to it, or here to read about the history and whatnot. Or, y'know, you could ask me.}

So...General Conference. Y'know how, every time, everyone says it was the best! conference! ever!? Of course it was. Every session of conference is tailored for right now. I like that.

I could go on and on about it, but I know you don't have time for that kind of thing. (You're welcome.) So here's just two things that inspired me:

1. Orson F. Whitney was quoted by both Elder Richards (of the Seventy) and Elder Johnson (also a Seventy):

"No pain that we suffer, no trial that we experience is wasted. It ministers to our education, to the development of such qualities as patience, faith, fortitude and humility. All that we suffer and all that we endure, especially when we endure it patiently, builds up our characters, purifies our hearts, expands our souls, and makes us more tender and charitable, more worthy to be called the children of God . . . and it is through sorrow and suffering, toil and tribulation, that we gain the education that we come here to acquire and which will make us more like our Father and Mother in heaven."

I like the reminder that everything we go through is for our education--to learn to be better. And who doesn't want to be better?

2. I was really moved by what Sister Stevens (from the Primary presidency) said about beholding your little ones. She was talking about 3 Nephi 17:21-23:

"And when he had said these words, he wept, and the multitude bare record of it, and he took their little children, one by one, and blessed them, and prayed unto the Father for them. And when he had done this he wept again; And he spake unto the multitude, and said unto them: Behold your little ones."

Between having a four-year-old at home and being the Primary secretary in my ward, I spend a lot of time with little ones. It's hard to remember to really look at them and listen to them sometimes--to behold them. They can teach us just as much as we teach them, if we don't tune them out.

So what do you think? Was it the best conference ever?

Look, I went to Conference once! In October '08. Little Boy stayed home with his grandma.

Quotes of the Day

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Y'know what? I used to post Quotes of the Day once in awhile--usually cute stuff that Little Boy said. But for the last year or so, I've put most of them on Facebook instead of here. Which is fine, but posting them here makes them a LOT easier for me to find when I want to look back at them. So (for mostly my own looking-up-old-stuff benefit), here are some that made it to Facebook but not to the blog:

Me: "Remember to tell me if you need to go potty." Little Boy: "No, I don't poop anymore."
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Little Boy and Isaac are building a helicopter with Little Boy's building set.
Isaac: "D'oh! Poor design."
Little Boy: "Tartar sauce!"
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Little Boy, looking at my craft stuff: "What are those?"
Me: "Foam sheets."
Little Boy: "Phone sheep?"
Me: "...Yes."
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Isaac: "When I get hired and we're making $40,000 a year, and we have $20,000 to spend on burgers..."
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Me: "We're going to Grandma's house for Christmas, and we get to ride on an airplane to get there!"
Little Boy (confused): "Oh...did someone get us an airplane?"
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Little Boy: "I tried to read this story while you were asleep. But I didn't do a very good job."
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Little Boy: "Daddy's wrapped up like a burrito and he can't get up!"
Isaac wasn't really stuck, but that's what he told Little Boy--and Little Boy was VERY concerned.
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Kaylyn, looking out the window: "Mom, the Russians are coming."
Mom: "No, I don't have their money!"
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Me: "That's a fruit fly. They like to eat bananas."
Little Boy [as if everything in his world finally makes sense]: "Ohhhh. Flies like bananas, and I like bananas, and monkeys like bananas, too!

Sick Day!

{I had Isaac take this photo of Little Boy in his sick-bed today...okay, obviously not, but wouldn't it be funny if we really looked like that? Image from here.} Little Boy's a little sicky today--I swear, he's thrown up more in the last month than in the other four years of his entire life. ...which totally makes it sound like he's been throwing up for a month straight. Don't worry, he hasn't. He's just gotten two stomach bugs within a few weeks of each other. I'm crossing my fingers and hoping that he's better already; he was pretty active this evening. I keep explaining to him that he can't have the candy bar he wants, because we need to wait for his tummy to get better, and he keeps responding, "But I already got better all by myself! After I threw up!" Heh. Nice try, kid.

Little Boy's Favorite Christmas Ornament

I know Christmas is over, but I had to post this. It'll be a good one for me to look back on later. And laugh. So we visited Isaac's parents for the Christmas break. Isaac and his family (I was somewhere else that day, don't remember where) watched A Christmas Story while Little Boy was playing in the same room. I'm sure that 99% of the movie went over Little Boy's head, but one part stuck. And, thanks to that one part in A Christmas Story, Little Boy easily decided which ornament on his grandparents' Christmas tree is his favorite:



  Yes, that's an actual Christmas ornament. And for the rest of our vacation, we'd hear Little Boy randomly exclaim, "It's a major award!"

The Munsters...?

Me, trying to put together a Halloween playlist: "I had no idea that the Munsters theme song was such a popular cover." Isaac, who is a guitarist: "It IS! It's so fun to play!" Who knew?!

Christmas-y Quote of the Day

Me: [trying to explain brothers and sisters and parents to Little Boy, who is clearly not understanding]
 Little Boy, interrupting: "Well...but I'm a reindeer."

Quote of the Day: Hot Dogs

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Andrea: "What is that?"
Isaac: "What do you think it is?"
Andrea: "Is that a hot dog? You grated a hot dog?"
Isaac: "I wanted to see what it would taste like in a quesadilla."

Little Boy Quote of the Day

 Little Boy: "I'm gonna purple comb my brown hair!"

Quote of the Day: Two Quotes for the Price of One!

Kaylyn: "Rrrrggghh! [pause] ...that was my soul talking."


Isaac: "Hey, crumb cruncher!"
Little Boy*: "I'm not a crumb cruncher! I'm three."


*Translated from toddlerese: "I'm nah a tum tunchah! I'm fuh-lee."

Little Boy Quote of the Day

Little Boy, as I walked into the living room: "Mom! I'm gonna duuuuuuuust!"

 

Little Boy Quote of the Day

Andrea: "...because you're my boy."
Little Boy: "And you're my girl."

Freedom Quote of the Day

"True independence and freedom can only exist in doing what's right." -Brigham Young [image source]

Storybook Quote of the Day

Isaac [reading a story to Little Boy]: "A hot cloud came out of Carl's--"
Andrea: "Isaac! Read it the way it's supposed to be!"

Little Boy Quote of the Day

Andrea: "Hey, baby man." 
Little Boy: "Hey, mommy man."

Little Boy Quote of the Day

Sometimes how Little Boy says something is funnier than what he actually says.

Andrea: "Are you ready for lunch?"
Little Boy: "YEAH!"
Andrea: "Do you want some peanut butter?"
Little Boy: "YEAH!"
Andrea: "Will you bring me your plate, please?"
Little Boy: "YEAH!"
Andrea: "Where's your plate?"
Little Boy [whispering]: "I think it's over there."