Oh, the things they do say!

The children are doing great at school!  Separating them has turned out to be a terrific decision!  In addition, we started a class at the SC Children's Theatre last week and will pick up with swimming lessons this week!  They are growing up so fast!  In the meantime, I'll leave you with some funny things I have heard recently!  They are just so matter-of-fact and confident in everything they say - whether it is in the right context or not.  And their imaginations and logic just continue to amaze me!

Bonner-Lingo

• Bonner: Mommy, this chip is shaped like a piece of pizza. 
• Me: It is, Bonner.  Do you like pizza?
• Bonner: No m'am.  But Abby likes pizza.
• Me: Oh, really, Abby likes pizza.  When did she try it?
• Bonner: Shashzi gave her some and she said it was delicious.  But Shashzi doesn't like it so I don't like it!

• The kids were piling up leaves in their little stand-up water table.  
• Bonner:  This is our garden for our little animals, mommy.
• Me: Your garden is beautiful
• Bonner: It's going to look even more beautiful with dirt.  I love dirt!

• We went to the apple orchard with friends.  As we were getting out of the car, I had this conversation.
• Me: Bonner, are you bringing Abby to the apple orchard?
• Bonner: No, m'am, she's already been before.
• Me: Oh, really!  When did she go?
• Bonner: My shashzi took her a long time ago!
• A bug flew in front of her playing outside one day and about the same time she sneezed.  She said, "That bug made me sneeze.  I mus be allergic to bugs!"
• When picking her up from school one day, she got in the car and answered the question "How was your day, Bonner?" with "I'm so excited!  It was a great day at school and we learned that Adam and Eve made a bad choice."
•  "Mommy, do you know what disciples are?  They are God's helpers!"
• After having a rough start one morning, Bonner lost the privilege to watch TV.  Later in the day, after improving the attitude, she asked me, "Now that I am calm & beautiful, can I earn back my TV?"
• We were listening to songs in the car and Bonner said, "Do you know why I love this song?  Because Shashzi has it on her phone!"
• "Shashzi listens to that on her iPad!"
• After a day at the beach, the children got into the bathtub.  I said, "We were in alot of different types of water today.  Can you name some of them?"
• Bonner: Saltwater then chlorine water then clean water
• Me: That's terrific!
• She thought about it for another second and then said, "And clean off water" (in reference to the outdoor shower)
• Ian: And we were near potty water (when he went to the bathroom)
• After making a huge mess one day, I said, "You two have a lot of cleaning up to do!"  Bonner quickly replied, "But not today!"
• Ian put on my sunglasses one day and Bonner said, "You are a pretty dude!"

Ianisms

• "That's Bonner calling me, mommy.  I'll be right back."
• Me: Ian, what do you want for breakfast?
• Ian: I want the same thing as you.
• Me: Okay, I'm going to have a granola bar.
• Ian: I want to have a GORILLA bar, too!
• This was an exchange between Ian and Bonner:
• Bonner: I like it to be hot so I can wear short sleeves.  I don't like to wear long sleeves.
• Ian to Bonner: But your dress is so pretty!
• Ian to me: I thought that would cheer her up!

•  We turned on the Olympics one day and synchronized swimming was on.  Ian very nonchalantly said, "I have done that before at my castle!"  The lady sitting next to us just laughed!
• "I have something more funner than Jake to play with!"
• And to prove that the child actually dreams about Toy Story, he woke up to go to the bathroom in the middle of the night.  He woke me up and as we were walking to the bathroom, he said, "Mommy, do you know that we do not have the hang glider that Woody uses in Toy Story.  We need to buy that!"
• I wanted to go to the library one day so I mentioned that to the children.
• Ian: Oh, I want to go to the library, too! Remember that is where we bought that Olivia we lost.
• Me: Ian, that wasn't the library, that was Barnes & Noble.
• Ian: Oh, yeh, I want to go to Barnes & Noble.