Kids Say the Darndest Things

I thought I should write down some of the funny/cute things the kids have started saying as of late before I forget who said what when. Hope you enjoy it as much as I do!

Dallin
Dallin has become so verbal that it is hard to keep up with his "Dallinisms" Consequently, most of these gems are from him for now.

• "Your bum is big! It is so huge!" --a special moment when Dallin walked in on me in the bathroom, pointed at my bulgy belly and bum and was laughing and giggling so hard that he could barely speak. I wanted to reply that it was because of him and his sister, but opted to just not allow him to see me in all my glory anymore. In his toddler innocence, he really wasn't trying to be rude, he was simply being honest...sigh. LOL
  
• "Smell me!" Most of you who know Dallin know that he inherited my strange behavior of smelling things and he smells EVERYTHING and I mean everything--food, dirty clothes,
  
  dog bums (see previous post). He has recently taken this to an all time high as he smells people and wants me to smell him too. LOL Oh well, what's a sniff between friends?
• "I made yellow in the potty!" Ahh the joys of potty training. As long as I remember to take him, he really does well and has relatively few accidents. He loves the color yellow, so instead of saying he peed in the potty or something normal, nope...he made yellow in the potty.
  
• "My arm hurt when you talked to baby" This is Dallin's attempt to get attention away from Kate. He feigns injury. Somehow, giving her attention physically injures him. Fascinating!
  
• "I lose" While trying to convince Dallin to play the quiet game, Uncle Willie was foiled again when Dallin gleefully piped up "I lose!" after only 2 seconds of silence.
  
• "I not filthy! I Dallin Kellogg" I told Dallin one day that he was filthy, and this was his rather clever (although to him very serious) response. He uses it any time you say "You are ___" He will always reply "I not ____. I Dallin Kellogg!" He is so sincere it is really funny. He also says his name with almost an Irish accent. All of his other words are standard American fare, but Dallin Kellogg has that Irish Brogue. LOL
  
• "I can't stop. It's in my story. Dallin scratches his butt" Ok so you have to be somewhat PBS savvy to get this one. Dallin loves the show Superwhy. The kids go into these fairy tale books and help to change the story and help the characters solve problems. The characters always have a problem because they HAVE to do what their story says until it is changed. Dallin scratches. He scratches A LOT until he bleeds. So I caught him scratching and told him to stop scratching his butt and this is the response I got--completely serious as usual. I totally started laughing but used my super mom powers to reply "Let's change the story! ZAP! Dallin STOPPED scratching his butt" It worked! YAY super mom!
  
• "You happy?" I get this question ALL THE TIME especially when I am angry with him or if he has just done something wrong and wants to know if he is in trouble. He will keep asking it over and over until you say "yes" Sometimes it makes me really mad, but I try to revert to "I am always happy to be your mom Dallin and I love you, but I don't like it when you _______ it makes me feel upset." TA DA! To which I usually get "You happy?" Grrr LOL
  

• "I slide down the slide and I fall down in the water" He will tell anyone who stops to listen to him for 5 seconds this like it JUST happened. This happened back in June. He went down a slide at 7 Peaks and splashed into the water and the lifeguard was right there and picked him up out of the water. End of story, but apparently it made a BIG impression because it is his high moment and low moment every single night at dinner STILL. When we have Sunday dinner at my mom's everyone always knows what is coming during high/low from Dallin and it is getting hard to stifle the giggles and/or act surprised. Christopher even has a joke about being a psychic at dinner time because he knows what Dallin is going to say. Poor Dallin, always in search of a good story.

• "I crying in my room and there was a fly in my room. The fly go zzzzzz" If you are lucky enough to escape the water story, then you will definitely hear this one. Again, he tells it ALL THE TIME like it JUST happened, and it happened back in June as well. He was in his room for nap and a fly was in there. He thought it was a bee and ended up huddled in the corner in his bedroom crying hysterically as the demon fly kept buzzing around him and landing on him. (Secretly, I think the fly was enjoying it). He waves his hand around when he tells this like it is flying. Sometimes he will even add that I was mad (I think he thinks that I am ALWAYS mad...at least the way he tells it). I was upset when I first came in his room because he was supposed to be sleeping. He conveniently leaves out that I immediately rescued him from the fly and gave him lots of loves when I figured out what was happening.

• "I made Mommy and Dallin!" Again with the potty training. I don't know why, but almost since he began pooping in the potty, Dallin started naming his poops. If it is a big one it is Mommy (I am so proud), the little one is always Dallin and sometimes others will get honorable mention (i.e. Daddy, Grandma, Grandpa, Nana, Papa, Kate, and Uncle Willie) You know you are truly loved and accepted by Dallin when he names a poo after you. He also gets really excited when he does a larger poop. "Wow! That's a BIG one!" Then we have to look and confirm that it is indeed a big one. He even will call out and announce toots that he did in the potty after a smile and a giggle. "Grandma! Grandma! I toot in the potty!!" What is the obsession with poop? I think he got it from Uncle Willie (who gave him the books "Everyone Poops" and "The Gas we Pass the Story of Farts" for his second birthday)

• "Uncle is the BEST" In case you can't tell, Uncle Willie is where it is at. My kids (especially Dallin) ADORE him. He is firm and makes them mind, but he is also the first one to talk to them and play with them. He is so tender and sweet. He loves them unequivocally and they KNOW it. As a mother, it makes me love my brother even more than I already do and brings a smile to my soul that my children have such a great relationship with him and have another great male role model in their lives who loves them and who they love. When Dallin was asked who was the best at everything during Sunday dinner at Nana's, he responded without hesitation. He even responded that Uncle "Lilly" was the best aunt! LOL He then repeated over and over that Uncle Willie is the best! So here is a shout out to Uncle/Aunt Willie -- YOU ROCK! We love you!
• "Baby is my best friend" Dallin says this about Kate. It is very cute, but it would be cuter if he wasn't saying it A) because he wants someone to stop giving her attention since she is HIS or B)because Kate is in trouble and Dallin is trying to run interference by telling me she shouldn't be punished or scolded. At least he cares :)
  

• "My room is the prettiest. It has dinosaurs" When asked at Sunday dinner who was the prettiest, this was Dallin's response (smart boy!). Upon being probed to name a person, he looked annoyed and repeated himself. Never...ever...come between a boy and his dinosaurs. LOL Dallin, I love you!

• Not really a quote, but a side note. Dallin has decided recently that he does not like cheese! How could this happen? He used to LOVE cheese...ate so much of it I wondered how he could keep going. We all love cheese! Why? Oh sorrow! Where has the love for cheese gone? So now he won't eat anything cheese touches. Maybe next week the love for cheese will return and be replaced with something more normal like a hatred of lima beans or something. One can only hope...I am personally hoping for peas myself, but I try to stay impartial.
• Dallin is a real sweetheart and LOVES earning stickers on his reward chart to watch movies. He is especially good at helping take out the trash and switching over the laundry. Also, his latest obsession is Jack and the Bean stalk. Consequently, everything is a beanstalk, everything CAN be climbed, and everything MUST be chopped down to keep the giant away. Yes...we have had many time outs thanks to Jack!
  

Kate

• Kate does not have as many "quotes" since she is not yet as verbal, but she is growing so very quickly. She is now 16 mo old and is showing more and more spunk and personality everyday.
  
• She dances all the time whenever there is music. It used to be more of a high stepping stomp to the beat, but not it is one arm in the arm and running/dancing in big circles. She usually giggles so much she falls over.
  
• Kate LOVES to sing and you can often catch her singing "If You're Happy and You Know It" to herself in her room and especially on car trips (the trip to Texas had many hours of "happiness") You can tell when she is singing it not because of the WORDS but because she does all the little actions (clapping, stomping, hooray, even putting her fingers on her cheeks for the face will surely show it) I am hoping to get a video of her singing this song soon. She will also try and mimic any other songs and actions you care to sing with her. Dallin will usually help her with the words. It is really sweet.
  
• "Bye" Kate will say bye and wave whenever we leave anywhere. She will frequently either give kisses or throw kisses as well. She is such a girly girl! She has a BIG TIME southern drawl when she says it to so it sounds more like (Bah yeee) I do not know how she picked that up before we even moved , but there is is.
  
• "No" This is her favorite word to say. She says it all the time (which is funny because Dallin NEVER said it until he was much much older) She holds her lips in such a perfect tight little "o" when she says it and it is so short and almost staccato. I have even caught her practicing this word in her room and holding her lips just right so you can see her little lines framing her mouth when she makes the "o". She cracks me up.
  She also likes the word "don't" which is usally accompanied by vigorous shaking of the head but is not as much fun to say as "no"
• Kate nods and shakes her head. Sometimes it is so vigorous that she knocks herself over. She will also sign "more" and "all done".
  
• "Sorry" Kate was in timeout and when it was over, I asked her to tell me sorry. I began signing it to her so she could sign it back. She sat back in the chair, folded her arms politely in her lap, looked me straight in the eye and said "sorry" crystal clear! I think my mouth dropped open and Christopher (who had been watching in the living room) began laughing his head off. I had to try hard not to get excited since she was actually in trouble, but WOW!
  
• "Cheese!" and "puppy" New words keep spilling out of Kate daily now. She said "cheese" the other day for a picture and repeated "puppy" to me when she was playing with her dog toy. They are crystal clear, but almost never repeated so you have to be there to get it.
• "Don't Touch! No!" Papa was over at our house installing ceiling fans and the kids kept touching the pieces, picking up the fan blades, etc. We kept repeating "no, don't touch" so the kids went and sat down by the blades (Dallin informed us they weren't touching them). Then Kate took one finger and touched it and said "Don't Touch! No!" and shook her head vehemently. She kept doing this over and over (touching it EVERY time of course). It was really funny and hard to tell her to knock it off. What a smarty!
  
• "Elm! Elm!" Kate has entered the Elmo ("Elm") phase. She loves to help around the house and put stickers on her little chart so that she can watch it. Every time she puts a sticker on she says "Elm! Elm!" and she will run up to the TV and point at it and repeat it over and over until I explain (AGAIN) that she does not have enough stickers to pick a movie yet, she needs __ more
• Kate LOVES feeling pretty and having her hair done. She will pick out dresses for herself to wear and will actually come to me and sit still while I do her hair! I can't believe it! I remember complaining something awful, but she seems to just LOVE it. She will also dress up in pretend jewelry, shoes, anything. I laugh because she is so over the top girly. If you tell her how pretty she is , she will just beam!
  
• Kate is the biggest whiner of them all. It is starting to get a little better, but for a while it was nonstop whining all day long. It got to where I could almost tune it out like background noise. I found myself saying "Would you like cheese with that whine?" almost constantly. She did not think this was as funny as I did.
  
• Kate gives lots of kisses. She will blow kisses and just give them out pretty freely these days. She pulls her lips into a fish face pucker and gets a really good little kissy noise "smack". It is really adorable. Sometimes she will put her hand on top of her lips and do it to "throw" a kiss. She will give daddy kisses every morning when we put him to bed. Precious girl.