Kindergarten student: Can you put my keychain back on my book bag?  I got it at church.
Me: Which church do you go to?
Student: The one where Jesus was born.
You win.

Eli: What part does Doris Day play in “The Sound of Music”?
Me: She’s not in that.
Eli: Sandy Duncan?
Me: No…how do you know about Sandy Duncan?
Eli: Scooby Doo Meets Sandy Duncan.

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Ada: I don’t really like hero shows.  Like Superman.  I wouldn’t call Superman.  I just have my parents to help me.
Chad: Well what if I was Superman?  Would you call me?
Ada: Hmmmm….I’ll have to think about that one.
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Chad made a fart sound with his mouth…
Chad: Did you hear mom?  Oh my goodness!
Ada: Nuh-uh, mom would NEVER fart like that.  But I would.  I have!
There’s no parenting in a situation like that, just lots of laughing.

Chad found a hidden stash of popcorn in Grace’s room, then later…
Grace: I need a drink of water.  There’s something stuck in my throat.
Chad: Like popcorn?
Silence….
Grace: Probably.

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Ada: I wish I was Twilight Sparkle from My Little Pony.
Chad: So you would eat hay?
Ada: No.  Dad….
Chad: Would you poop in the street?
Ada: DAD!  No!  Ugh… Dang it.

Me: Eli, do you think you can find something to do that won’t get you in trouble? (after a long talk about terrorizing his sisters)
Eli: I don’t know….probably not.

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I’ve been alone with Ada this week…

Ada: I wish Grace and I were twins.  Then we would have the same birthday, the same color eyes, dress the same, and wear the same headdresses.
Me: What’s a headdress? (curious if she actually knew)
Ada: It’s a dress.
Me: Oh.
Ada: Wait, wait, wait.  It’s what you wear in your hair.

After shopping at Target for her 7 1/2 birthday party since I can’t get my act together for a Christmas-time party
Ada: I think I should try this out.
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Chad and the kids were watching The Muppet Movie, and Miss Piggy was singing “Never Before”
Grace: She needs to work on that ending.

Ada: What are you watching?
Me: Jimmy Fallon.  The grown-ups just talk.
Ada: That’s boring.

Ada: I don’t want to be selfish, I WAS already baptized.

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Ada: I saw an angel-winged monkey dressed like a janitor!  You do not see that every day.
(on the cover of Oz: The Great and Powerful)

Ada: What’s that Chinese chicken called again?
Me: Mongolian beef?
Ada: Yeah!  Can you make that tomorrow night?

Reading the nutrition label on her cereal the morning after vomiting…
Ada: I feel like I haven’t been eating enough fiber.  Maybe that’s why I got sick.

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Ada: I didn’t know women could ride motorcycles, especially grandmas!  But I just saw…a old lady…riding a motorcycle.

Grace: Eli, gross!
Eli: What?  I ate a donut fast today.  And when I eat fast I get burpy.

Eli: I need to let out some urine.
And with that I called Chad to meet me at the second grocery store on my list of errands to take the boy home.

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Eli: Eww, what’s that smell?
Grace: It smells like gas.  Not fart gas, but car gas.

Chad: Keep your boogers in your nose.

Chad and the kids were laughing and having a great time as he was teaching them the “proper way” to assemble a dog pile on our bed.  Until…
Chad: There is no farting in a dog pile!

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