{hands full of happiness}: Ten Things

The Darndest Things

C (Explaining to Eli and Si school fire drills): You have to go outside, and you can't talk, because, if you open your mouth, you will get fire in it.

Silas (at the Costco fountain pop machines): I want BEER!!!

Me (while dousing the hot dogs in ketchup): What? Did you say you wanted beer?

Silas: Yes.

Me: It's called ROOT beer, Silas. We don't drink beer. (Loud enough for all to be assured that my 4 year old doesn't drink beer.)

Silas: I call it BEER!

Silas: Mum, you got borned some really awesome kids!

Jared: Silas, come here.
Silas: Me no Silas, me Si-la-guy!

Silas (pointing to bone on the side of his ankle): Mommy, rock. in. my. foot.
Me: It's not a rock, it's a bone.
Silas (incredible distressed): Oh no! Mommy, BONE in my foot!

Silas (when the sun went behind a cloud and the room got darker): Mommy, dark?
Me: Ya, the sun just went behind a cloud.
Silas, very sad: Mommy, me miss da sun.

Silas (At 1:30 in the morning after he has been sleeping terrible due to a stuffed nose): Uh oh
Me: What, is your nose broken?
Silas: Yup, two them broken.

Me (at dinner time): Eli, have you been wearing your t-shirt on backwards all day.
Eli (without skipping a beat): No, but I've been wearing my underpants on backwards all day.

Eli (the first time he sat in his brand new, ridiculously expensive but totally safe car seat): It's like way comfortabler. It's like a pile of clouds I'm sitting on.

Eli: I know why the world turns. It's because the sun is so hot, and the world is a guy, and it doesn't like being so hot, so it turns around all the time to cool off.

Eli: You know that stuff in your eye? It's Jell-o, and it can see stuff. I know, because I touched it.

Eli: There's a skeleton inside my body that talks to me and tells me all the things that are good.

Me: Eli, pull up your underpants, it's not polite to walk around with a bare bum.
Eli: I don't have a bare bum, mum.
Me: What exactly would you call it?
Eli: A person bum.

Eli: Mum, will you button my pants and pull up my...um... bug?

Eli: Silas is such a little "Duke-ter." Me: What's a Duke-ter, Eli. Eli: Someone who eats all the 'Mo' so I can't have any.

Eli: Why is there toilet paper all over the yard. Me: 'Cause dumb teenagers didn't bother to find out if Auntie Phoebe was home or not, and now we have to clean it up. Eli: Grandma's going to be really mad. Let's eat them alive: crush their bones and drink their blood. (I promise, I don't know where he got that one.)

Eli (when I was wearing a dress that kind of makes me look preggers): Mommy, your 'mo' looks ugly when you have sisters in your tummy.

08 March 2010

Ten Things

Many blogs I read randomly do lists of 'ten things...' I like the idea, so here's my first list. I'll keep it simple:

Ten things you may not know about me:

1. One of my biggest insecurities is my name. Jenny is the 6th most common name in America. Ever! I have this great fear that people will meet me, but because my name is Jenny, they will promptly forget me. I hate calling people that don't know me well, or don't know my last name, because I always feel I have to explain exactly which 'Jenny' I am. It's awkward, trust me.

2. I love to write and edit essays. Yup, boring old school papers. I will jump at the chance to proofread any college student's work. Sometimes I write essays on topics I'm researching just for my own personal pleasure. Need an essay on my thoughts on birth? I've got one. How about one on First Nations literature? Got one of those too. I LOVE essays.

3. I've made my own saddle. It's true, a real, full blown, western, horseback riding saddle. It's one of my greatest accomplishments. (Adrienne will laugh, because the reason you may not know this is because I have never ridden in the saddle that I made. I've already got two other saddles, and only one horse I ride, so I don't want to make the one I made dirty for no reason at all!)

4. We use family cloth.

5. I dream of one day living on a sustainable farm. I want a big ol' garden in the summer, and greenhouses in the winter. I want dairy goats for milk, and cows and chickens for meat and eggs. I want to learn how to spin so I can have sheep and make sweaters from their wool. I can't wait!

6. I LOVE rollercosters.

7. My dream vehicle is a truck. A big truck. One that can haul horses all over the country side.

8. If I could change anything about my body, it would probably be my toes. If you know my toes, you know what I'm talking about.

9. I tandem nurse my boys.

10. The first night I was reacquainted with Jared after I got home from college and he was back from his mission I wrote in my journal, "Tonight I hung out with Dave Lancaster. He is roommates with Jared Wiebe, who I knew from the youth dances. Jared wants to be a lawyer. I think I will marry him."