Ada, are you drinking pool water?

Ada: MOM!!  Grace and Eli won’t play with me!
Me: Honey, I’m not going to make them play with you.
Ada:  Well I don’t want to play with my imaginary friend!

Me:  OK guys, we’re going to a Christmas Festival at a farm today, and a man dressed as Santa Claus will be there.  You have a very important job there…
Ada: Um… excuse me?  Santa Claus is fake.
Me: Yes, I know.  That’s what I was going to say: Your very important job is to NOT … Read the rest

Ada was picking her nose…
Me: Do you need a kleenex?
Ada: No.  Boogers.  Always boogers.

Ada: Do you smell what I smell?  I smell heaven!!
Me: That’s bacon.

Grace: Daddy, I have stretch.
Chad looks at me confused
Me: She means strep.… Read the rest

Ada: I want to be back a baby so I can have my crib again.
I just think her sentence structure is funny. 🙂

Ada: Why is your bed naked?!?
Me: I’m washing the sheets.
Ada: Oh, I LOVE it when it’s naked!  It’s so bouncy!
Oh how I wish there was another adult here with me right now!


Ada: I wish I could live at Grandma and Grandpa’s house.
Me: But I would miss you so much, and I would cry every day!
Ada: Well you can get married again and have … Read the rest

Me: Ada, don’t pull that toy’s arm.

Grace had to write a sentence using the word “serious”.

Sometimes I have a serious consequence (spelled consiqins) with my mom and dad.

My friend Myah watched Ada for me one afternoon while I was at work.
Ada:  Um, Halle’s Momma?  Could you carry me to the trampoline because I don’t want to walk in my bare feet?
Myah:  Yes, just a second.
Ada:  What are you doing?
Myah:  I’m organizing my planner.
after a minute…
Ada:  Could you hurry up?
Myah:  Hey, that was sassy.
Ada:  I don’t want you to say that to me.
So, she … Read the rest

This one’s just too good.  I couldn’t wait until Wednesday.

Me: Ada, how was school today?
Ada: Good!  I listened!!  I made a pattern: listened, didn’t listen, listened, didn’t listen, and today I listened.  So I made a pattern.
Me: Yes, you did make a pattern.  Maybe next week you can try to listen EVERY day.
Ada: Weeeeelllll…. how about Sunday.

About five minutes later…

Ada: I think one time I gotted a shot that makes me not listen.  I think that’s the problem. … Read the rest

Ada discovering the computer camera at 2 1/2

Eli’s version of the Pledge of Allegiance: with liberty and Justins for all.

Grace: This is called a fortune cookie, because it has a fortune in it.  A fortune is a fake story.

Ada: I hope my dada will be alright.
Me: Daddy’s fine, he just went to work.
Ada: NO!  He went to the doctor!
Me: No honey, he works at the hospital now.  He fixes doctor’s computers.

I was putting Ada’s tights on her…
Ada: Just a minute, I have to get my underwear out of my bottom.… Read the rest

Alright, I hate that I didn’t post a Wednesday Wit for you.  Here’s one from Ada at dinner tonight…

My girls, Grace is 3 1/2, Ada is 1

Ada: I’m not funny anymore.
Chad: Really?  Why not?
Ada: Because I’m grown up.
Chad: You are?
Ada to me: Well you’re a grown up and YOU’RE not funny.
Chad laughing: There’s a Wednesday Wit, huh?

Me: Eli….
Eli: What?
Me: Come downstairs and finish your breakfast.
Eli: What??  Grace, how does she ALWAYS know??
Grace: Because she’s smart.
And don’t you forget it!! 🙂


Ada: Why are you erasing those?
Me: Because I made a mistake.
Ada… Read the rest

Grace, 15 months

We were at Culver’s having some ice cream to celebrate Chad’s new job.
Chad: Mom’s having a turtle sundae.
Ada: There’s a turtle in there?!?

Eli was telling Rich about Chad’s new job as the “Server and Storage Specialist” at Lutheran Hospital.
Eli: My dad’s a doctor now.
Ummmm…. not quite. 


Eli walked in to find me drinking a glass of milk.
Eli: Mom, I put my finger in that glass of milk!
Gross, gross gross!!!… Read the rest