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Annie makes sure everyone around her says their blessing before they eat. 
And she always wants to lead the prayer, "Bless us, O Lord, and these thy gifts, which we are about to receive...and my brownie...through Christ our Lord. Amen"
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Oh, my...yes! 
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Donna wrote:
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Both of these stories had my kids and me cracking up today. Thanks for the laugh!
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Here's one that happened while we were under evacuation in our camper:
Chelsea and Annie were arguing over who was going to sit in my lap one night. (I don't know why they can't seem to understand that mommy has two sides!  Are they that slow? )
Garrett finally looked over at us and said in a teasingly playful voice, "Annie, are you jealous?"
Annie, stirred into anger at this point, turned on him and screamed, "No, I'm not! You're JELLO!"
Needless to say, everyone dissolved into peals of laughter. Annie, embarrassed and not understanding what we were laughing about, broke down in tears.
But she got the coveted spot on Momma's lap  and fell asleep...a very tired little girl.
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We were in church (Palm Sunday, new church first time there), the choir was singing, I am wearing a button up shirt that had the first two buttons undone. My dd, 3 at the time, is trying for what ever reason to her her hand down my shrit. The choir is still singing. I try to get her little hand back where it belongs, but she is fast. She reaches in and grabs a handful just as the choir finishes up. Silence except for my child yelling "I got mommy's boobie!"
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This morning I was baking pumpkin muffins to take to a mom who just had a new baby. The girls were in the kitchen with me and a very large bee came to our open window.
"Do bees like smoke?" my oldest asked.
"Ummm, I think smoke puts bees to sleep," I answered, "Why do you ask?"
"Oh because if bees like smoke, he came because he likes your cooking!"
(ok ok, so I *did* set the smoke alarm off two times in the last week )
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We're having a little sleepover tonight. In the middle of baking cupcakes, dipping strawberries, and slicing watermelon, I wanted to share a bit of the conversation that transpired this morning:
Chels: "Does Annie (3 yr old sister) have to be at my sleepover tonight?"
Mom: "She's your baby sister, honey. You need to include her. Don't want her to feel lonely, do you."
"Eh, I know, but...she's a sleepover that never ends..."
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amyable wrote:
"Oh because if bees like smoke, he came because he likes your cooking!"
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OK I'm starting to get a complex. Later in the afternoon after the above quote, I was making pancakes for dinner  .
The 2 year old pulls a stool over several feet away from the griddle, and says in her cute halting speech, "Mommy?...Can I... stand here...while you ...burn the pancakes?"
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.........Me too. Seems my 7yo has the answer to making me a bit younger looking...."Just take some saliva from a shrew and stick it under your skin if you want to get rid of those wrinkles."
Gee.....I wasn't even looking for a solution .
(I guess I'll be limiting his Animal Planet viewing !!)
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We go to the Latin Mass and at the beginning, when the priest sprinkles water, its call the Asperges. The choir sings," Asperges me, . . ." One day it dawned on my funny ds 7 during dinner that we were eating Asparagus and to top it off the spears make a great aspergillum (that things they fling holy water with). So, we started dinner to his blessing of green juice  and the song, "Aparagus Me. . ." 
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Kayleigh came to me asking, "Mom, what type of animal do I remind you of?" Slight pause. "And it better be a good one."
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A few days after first watching Toy Story 2 video, we were sitting down to eat dinner. As is our custom, my dh said he was going to say grace and held his hands out so that we could all hold hands. That day my dh had scribbled a name and number on his hand and when my then 4 yr. saw it he gasped, "Mommy, Daddy has an owner!"
This past week when we were going to say grace, my little 22 month old said, "alwite Daddy, I say it". So, dh decided to let her say it. She bowed her head and closed her eyes very reverently and then said, "Dear Fawder, help Mia (what she calls herself), and ummm....Twinkle Twinkle little star, how I wondaw what you awe...". When she sang through the whole song, she ended with, "in Jesus name, Amen". It was so sweet!
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I was driving along in Dh's car with Katie and Erin snoozing (or so I thought) in the back seat. The radio was softly tuned to a classic rock station and was playing "Sweet Home Alabama". Suddenly from the back, at the top of her lungs Erin begins to sing a long...
"Sweet home Mommy's Llama"
I almost drove off the road I was laughing so hard.
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This evening we were all gathered around the dinner table for a relaxing meal. We were talking a bit about the Feast of Christ the King, and I thought I would take the time to refresh their memories about Advent, mostly for the benefit of the younger ones.
I asked, "What season of the liturgical year starts next Sunday?" "Advent" they all enthusiastically responded. Then turning to my 5 and 7 yo's, I asked a few more questions, such as "How do we celebrate Advent?" "What is a Jesse Tree", etc. I was explaining the order in which we light the Advent candles each week when my 7yo sort of interrupted with, "Mommy!" Assuming that she was enjoying this great time of family catechesis and had something important to add to the conversation, I turned to her and asked, "What?"
Her reply: "If you could have either really short eyelashes, or really, really, REALLY long ones, which would you choose?"
DH and I looked at each other and just cracked up. Parenthood certainly is humbling at times!
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Not as funny as some of the above posts - but our 3yo announced that he was the dragon person. When asking what he wanted to play in the Nativity play (figuring he'd go along with one of his older siblings) - maybe a sheep or an angel. He yelled - no, the dragon person.
It turns out that St. George is the dragon person as far as he is concerned.
Then at bedtime, his sister was asking for a night night kiss - which he normally gladly gives, he announced that the dragon person doesn't give kisses. Sister had to go without. But I asked - surely the dragon person gives his mommy kisses. He went back and forth on that one, but I did eventually get my night kiss.
Then the next day - he is still the dragon person. Only this time he looked at dd and said the dragon person would only give her a night night kiss if she read him a book. Everyone was laughing - the dragon person was basking in all the attention and his first attempts at bribery were turning out to be very successful. Everyone was telling him something special they did with him - do they get a night night kiss too. He promptly gave rounds of kisses and said the dragon person gives kisses sometimes.
This is scarey - at 3yo, what will he be like as a teen?
At breakfast, he wanted a hot dog (as he watched a sibling eat the last one - yes breakfast at our house has become a bit pathetic). I had an inspiration as the beginnings of a cry fest were in the making. We spoke about making presents for Jesus (sacrifice thing) and if he would cheerfully eat a hamburger instead of the hot dog we didn't have, that would be a present for baby Jesus. I sweetened the idea by asking him if he would like to help me get out the manger bed and straw so he could put a straw in. Fortunately he decided to take the step (we were all very, very proud of him as he is a hot dog fanatic and this was truely a difficult little thing). We got out the manger and straw, he heaped loads of straw in. I got him the hamberger and instead of eating it he put it in front of the manger and wanted to know when baby Jesus was going to come eat the hamburger.
Then when we spoke of waiting for Christmas, he wanted to put the manger outside so that the baby Jesus could get in sooner. He did, after various conversations, sit down and eat the hamburger. As a result, this year we will be putting out a cookie for baby Jesus on Christmas Eve.
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In our house hamburgers are called meat cookies.
Here's what I got from the 4 yo last night (after a month of coaching!), "May the souls in the faithful department rest in peace." Do you think that's next to shoes?
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Last night, after dinner, Joseph and Juliana and I made a loaf of banana bread and a loaf of pumpkin spice bread.
This afternoon, after we returned from our roller skating/blading outing, Joseph was eating a piece and I asked for a bite.
He hands me a little more than half and says, "I'm giving you the bigger piece 'cause you have a bigger mouth."  
Speaking of mouths, outta da mouths of babes...
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Okay, as I'm trying to laugh as quietly as possible so as not to awaken anyone, I'll share mine...
The boys know that "shut up" and "stupid" are some of the words we don't use in this house. I know "stupid" can be used to validly describe something and not be used for name-calling, but just to ward off any confusion, it's been banished completely. So we're at mass this summer and Father is finishing up his homily when he uses both the words "shut up" and "stupid" (quite legitimately AND very loudly) just before he finishes...as he begins to walk back across the altar my 2yos, with shocked expression and in southern drawl yells, "Same own yeeeewwww!" ("shame on you")
I could see shoulders twitching with suppressed laughter 4 and 5 rows in front of us! (Talk about wanting to hide under the pews!)
And that was the day we learned about not scolding priests...
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One more favorite from the baby books-
After a very trying week of bad behavior from my then 3yos (now 6), I decided to have a heart-to-heart before bed, trying to talk with him about better behaviors. After a few minutes I presented him with "What do you think we could do to make tomorrow a better day?"
and with a very serious little face he looked right in my eyes and answered,
"We could bake a chocolate cake."
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We sometimes get those pre-fabricated chicken patties at CostCo. Our 2yo is named Patrick but we call him Paddy.
One time I was talking to my miracle special needs 6yo Aidan in the kitchen, saying, "Tonight we're going to have chicken patties for dinner," and right away he answered, "No, we are going to have chicken aidans for dinner!"
Ah, sibling rivalry
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