February 2009 Top Ten

10. At dinner one evening Weston put Parmesan cheese on his spaghetti for the first time. After tasting it he said disgusted, "I don't like garbage-on cheese."

9. Abby was talking to her friend, Brooke, about her good friend, Lucy, when she said, "I got to go to Lucy's funeral." Brooke looked confused until Abby immediately corrected herself saying, "I mean baptism."

8. Weston, arguing why he should be allowed to do something, said, "Do you know why I want to do this? Because I WANT TO."

7. Hayden was perusing an RC Willey add when he exclaimed, "Whoa! I never realized how much money things cost. I mean, everything is SO MUCH MONEY!"

6. I explained to Bastian that cheese gets old and hard when you leave it out and he questioned, "Would it get wrinkles in it too?"

5. Wanting to change our family vehicle (minivan) Weston said, "Next time let's get rid of our car and get a garbage truck that takes garbage."

4. Bastian was trying to find someone to play with one day. He called one friend and that friend couldn't play. He sat looking at the ward list ready to pick another friend to call when he announced his next candidate, "I'm going to call the bishop." I said, "You can't call the bishop." He said, "But I LIKE the bishop."

3. After our family returned home from a fun evening at the Woods' house Weston said, "Let's go again to the ....uh, I don't remember......the Bricks' house?"

2. We used to have two chocolate Labrador Retrievers, Toby and Turk. We found them new homes due to their chewing, digging, destroying, and pooping. The kids HATED the chore of poop collecting. One day while driving down the road Weston saw a dog and got a brilliant idea, "Let's get a Turk that doesn't poop, " he said. "They don't make those," I said smiling at his adorable idea. Later I realized my answer was wrong. They DO make those. They're called Webkinz.

1. After dinner one night Hayden said, "I predicted the future today." I asked him what he had predicted. He said there is a boy at school who is bad at thinking up insults. The two things he calls people are "poo" or "bum." Hayden said that today during lunch the boy wanted to make a trade for something in Hayden's lunch. When Hayden refused to trade, the boy went to call him a name. Hayden said to the boy, "Wait, wait, you're going to call me a poo." The boy said, "No, I was going to call you a.....fire poo." Hayden said, "Then Jacob (Hayden's friend) pointed out that he STILL called me a poo." The boy didn't like that Hayden and Jacob were right. Then Hayden said of himself, "I am good at thinking of insults. Jacob says I'm even better at annoying people, and I'm proud of that."

Since I didn't get very many wit-filled nuggets from Abby this month, I thought I would add a couple from the past.

September 2005 Abby at age 4 saw a beautiful dress at the store. She exclaimed, "That is so pretty I can't even move."

Later that same year she said about her two year old brother, Bastian, "That naughty boy keeps wrecking my life."