"I'm Freakin' Out!" - and other fun phrases

Dallin

• I think Dallin gets funnier and funnier every single day. I can barely keep up with all his creative thoughts and funny word usage. Other people seem to be amazed that he has such a good vocabulary and he is barely 3. It doesn't really seem that spectacular to me, but I guess I haven't really met that many 3 year olds who use the word "disrespectful" correctly on a consistent basis. LOL What a kick in the pants :)
  
• "I have brown hair mom" "No sweetheart, it's red" "No mom, it's BROWN! just like you!" "Nope, I don't think you'll be able to convince anyone it is brown" "I WANT it brown!" Poor kiddo, already wishing to drown in a sea of normalcy. I adore your red hair Dallin! I hope it never changes. I guess it must be awkward to have strangers touching your hair and pointing out the color everywhere you go.
• The kids have started telling on each other (which for now is mostly funny and makes my job a little easier most days) Today Dallin came tearing up the stairs to tell us this little tidbit.

Dallin: Kate touched the tv and turned off Mickey Mouse. Kate is in trouble. Kate is in BIG BIG BIG trouble. Kate not supposed to touch the tv. Kate is in BIG trouble (Kate comes up the stairs) There she is(points down the hall at his sister)!
Mom: Kate Alivia
Dallin: HA!
Christopher and I erupted in laughter over this one. Kate did get told not to touch the tv, but Dallin's moment of vindication was just too funny.

• "I am getting bigger everyday! I can go to work now? I go to work and Daddy stay home with Mommy" Are we raising this kid right or what!? Every day he asks at least once if he is old enough to go to work. He came up with the fact that he could work so Daddy could stay home! I was surprised, but thought it was sweet of him to be so concerned (too bad it won't last until he is ACTUALLY old enough to go to work...by then he will understand money, wants, and things!...ahh the sweetness of fleeting innocence"
  
• "Let's go to Nana's. She'll help us. Nana will save the day" Dallin has all the faith in the world in Nana and Papa to make things all better. Fortunately for him, he is usually right (it helps that his major crises are not earth-shattering issues) When I was trying to find my way to the sprinkler park for playgroup and just couldn't do it after an hour, Dallin said this when we passed nana's house on our way home. We stopped in and Nana hopped in the car and took us straight there. Hip Hip Hooray! Nana saved the day!
  
• "Grandpa lives far far away. Grandpa, you live far far away. You and Luke are far far away. Grandma is far away. The truck is far away" Dallin really misses Grandpa and Grandma K (and their truck...he LOVES that blue truck) and the Higginson family. He will often inform me (and anyone else) that they are "far far away". He will ask to call Grandpa or Grandma just to spend the whole 2 minutes telling them that they are far far away (bet that really lifts their spirits....sigh) Occasionally, Dallin will ask to go back to the brown house, but it is getting less and less and he is enjoying it here.
  
• "You figure it out mom! Good job!" Apparently, the lost for an hour sprinkler park incident really stuck with Dallin because the next time we were on our way to playgroup, he kept praising me for figuring out how to get there without getting us lost. LOL He is not like me direction wise (thank goodness) and he can already recognize how to get places and will often tell you if you made a wrong turn (and he's RIGHT!) It makes for a bit of a backseat driver for me since I am directionally challenged and get lost a lot. LOL He points out every time I have to backtrack. Sigh....maybe when he is older, I can just ask him how to get there instead of beating my head against a wall trying to figure it out myself.
• "Don't touch my hair. My mom combed it" We have really been working on personal hygiene and all of the sudden Dallin is very protective over his combed hair. He wants it to stay nice and makes no bones over telling ANYONE who thinks to touch his combed hair that I combed it that morning. LOL Funny little man.
• "I was freakin' out!" This is one of the funniest things that Dallin says. I don't think Christopher and I say this but he started using it one day when he was telling a story about a giant in his room. "There was a giant in my room, and I was FREAKIN' OUT!" LOL Since then he uses it periodically especially when he is pretending or when you startle him.
• This was Dallin's big announcement at the breakfast table the other day when he was talking about how much bigger/older he was getting.
  

Dallin: Today I am getting married.
Dad: Really? Who's the lucky girl.
Dallin: It's Kate.
Dad: Oh ok. Well she is a nice girl. What do you think about it Kate?
Kate: Yep.

• "Drive safely!" Since Christopher works nights, the kids make a big deal of seeing him off in the evenings and welcoming him home in the mornings. I must say this a lot because Dallin will wave and say "bye dad, drive safely! I love you!" as Kate stands by the window and waves/blows kisses and says "Bye!" LOL It is so sweet. Every morning the kids run out in whatever they are wearing (or not wearing...hmmm) and jump into Christopher's arms screaming "Dad! Dad! Dad's home" (even Kate)
• "It's just a dog dad" At dinner one night, Christopher heard the washer filling and asked "what's that?" right as a dog barked. Dallin didn't miss a beat! He looked so smug.
  
• (after putting on his sister's tiara) "Look Mom, I'm a princess! I need you to take me to the ball" Oh yes, every mother waits for the day when her son will utter these words. I'm so proud. LOL
  
• "Don't worry mom. It's just a little pee" Should that make a difference? I mean really...when you pee your pants and get it on the carpet, does it Matter if you just let out a little pee or released the flood gates? Apparently though, this is supposed to make me fine with the fact that he just wet his pants....again. He can use the bathroom, but we are really struggling with him consistently initiating when he needs to go. I won't let him sit on the nice kitchen chairs (with the cushions) if he has had an accident that day and I am starting to set the timer and make him go every hour and pee. I hope he has it down before high school.
• (as we were brushing teeth/doing hair one morning)

Mom: It is important to brush our teeth and comb our hair. We want to look nice so we can feel proud and confident about the way we look. It also keeps us healthy. (yes, I actually talk like this to the kids when we are doing mundane tasks like brushing our teeth)Heavenly Father gave us our bodies. They are a very special gift and we need to take care of them. (see how I casually slip in a gospel lesson...mom points!)
Dallin: (pauses for a moment, then looks horrified) Jesus take my body away if I no take care of it!!! Jesus take it away! (umm...ok gospel lesson backfired when confused with parenting lesson of not take care of things = mom takes them away)
Mom: (trying HARD not to laugh) No, Dallin. Jesus loves us very much and so does Heavenly Father. Heavenly Father would not take our bodies away if we don't take care of them. If we don't take care of our bodies, we can get sick and it makes Heavenly Father sad when we don't take care of our bodies since he gave them to us. ( at least his misunderstandings take some critical thinking skills)
Dallin: Oh. Ok.

• "It's somewhere" This is now the standard answer that I get whenever I ask Dallin where something is. "It's somewhere"--completely serious, non sarcastic, innocent and hopeful kind of way...thank you Dallin for all your "help"
• Dallin is discovering family relationships and how different people are related to each other and himself. It took weeks to convince him that Aunt Tammy could be Mommy to Madison and still be his Aunt Tammy. We were talking about sending a box to Aunt Carrie and this is what he came up with.
  

Dallin: I have Aunt Carrie?
Mom: Yes, Dallin. Aunt Carrie lives in California
Dallin: I want to go see Aunt Carrie.
Mom: California is really far away Dallin so we won't be able to go visit for a long time.
Dallin: Aunt Tammy turned into Aunt Carrie?
Mom: No, Dallin. Aunt Carrie is Daddy's sister. Aunt Tammy is different than Aunt Carrie.
Dallin: I want to go visit Aunt Carrie in California.
Mom: We can't right now Dallin. It is really far away.
Dallin: Just take a right and a left and go to Aunt Carrie's.
LOL If only it were that easy. I love his logic.

Kate Alivia

• Kate is TALKING!!! New words are appearing so many times every day I can't even keep up with them all. Here is a list (well what I can remember of individual words she says drink, hi-eeee(hi), bye-eeee(bye), no, don't, mine, sorry, my turn, some more, wash hands, up, bahn(banana), yummy, bapple (apple), boo, pee pee, see ya, pease (please), dah (thanks), ball, there!, Dallin, mom, da (dad), aunt tammy, madison, book, yep, yay, train

• "Juice" Kate is an addict. She learned this word and now brings her cup to me all the time "juice, juice juice!" If it was up to her, that would be a staple of her diet. Fortunately (for us) we don't have juice in the house often at all.
  
• "Bum bum bum bum" Kate thinks it is really funny if I sing "bum bum bum bum...bum bum bum bum bum" (I think it is from dragnet or something) while I change her diaper and she will sporadically start singing it and giggle when I join in.
• "Go Dog Go" Kate LOVES the book Go Dog Go. I think it is because she can say most of the words and she ADORES dogs. She practically chases them down the street yelling "dog dog! woof" It is funny when she gets her Go Dog Go book and starts "reading it" "Dog! Go Dog! GO GO!"
  
• Kate is still a dancin fool, and will spontaneously burst into dance with or without music if she is especially happy. At times she will even provide her own music by singing. She really loves it if I sing "She's a maniac, maniac on the floor, and she's dancin like she's never danced before". She will shake her little head and giggle and dance super fast.
  
• "eye" Kate will say eye and poke her own eyeball. LOL Sometimes if you ask her where her eye is, she will point to her ear or nose first and then giggle and point to her eye.
• "I built it" Yes, ladies and gentlemen we are entering the world of simple sentences. It is still surprising to me when our little pixie comes up and all of this spills out of her mouth. She had put two legos together and kept taking them apart and putting them together to show me what she built. Wow! Maybe we have a future engineer!
  
• " all done" and "more" We haven't really done signing with Kate like we did with Dallin--she is pretty able to get her point across anyways..lol However, she does sign all done and more to get what she wants. She will say the words too which is helpful. It is funny when she chases you around the house "mo mo mo mo" putting her fingertips together.
• "cheese" Kate will say cheese for the camera, but also she LOVES to eat it (much to Dallin's chagrin) She gets really excited on the cheese aisle at the grocery store "Cheese! Cheese!" and she will ask for it constantly at dinner. We pretty much know we can get her to eat some of anything if it has cheese on it. I think she would live on it if we let her.
• "Melmo" Kate is obsessed with all things Elmo (melmo) She will even ask to watch it by going to the tv and saying it over and over and over while pointing at the screen until you put the DVD in. Then she will quickly grab her blankie, sit down, and spread it over her lap expectantly. She also loves her Melmo dolls.
• Kate pooped in the potty!! Twice! It is a big deal. It was mostly luck on my part since it is not hard to tell when she is trying to go. She is soooo excited and proud of herself when she does it. Plus it helps that Dallin is there to make a big deal of it too.
  
• Kate can walk downstairs and upstairs by herself UPRIGHT! She uses the wall or the handrail for balance, but she is doing it--what a big girl! We have been holding her hand so she could do it for some time (even Dallin has helped hold her hand on the stairs) but she has recently started to do it on her own. She is so stubby it takes her a long time to climb up and down them. Dallin gets tickled everytime she does it "Mom! Mom! Look at Kate! She is doing it all by herself! I'm so proud of you Kate!"
• "my teeth" Kate will ask to have her teeth brushed. She will go in the bathroom and try to climb up on the counter where the toothbrushes are saying "my teeth my teeth"
• "boots" Kate has a pair of girly rain boots that she want to wear all the time. She will go get them out of her drawer and follow me around with them "Boots, mommy, boots!" and when you ask her if she wants them on, she will nod so vigorously you wonder how she is still standing. They are cute boots, but sometimes she looks awfully funny in her dress or shorts with big ol rain boots up to her knees.
  
• Kate weighs 22 pounds now (I know, such a lightweight) and is really growing up. We sure love her.

My big kids- growing up fast!