Annie, "Right now the Asian beetle is having special privileges." See the special privileges? Ha ha!
They built a special habitat for their bugs...one of which is named Rose.
Logan, "We're getting ready to release them into the wild so they can raise their young. We're going to give them a special outdoor habitat."
Jim mentioned to me that he had a salad bar for lunch at work one day. The next day we visited Jim at work and everyone was given an ice cream bar. Alex, "Dad? Is this a salad bar?"
While going through the cow barns at the fair Alex was walking hunched over to check gender. As we passed each cow he was loudly announcing his conclusion, "Girl!... Girl!... Boy!..."
One morning I asked Alex if he had eaten yet. His response, "I just had that eating thing," followed by a chomping noise. I asked what he meant and he responded, "You know, that eating thing!" Turns out he had an omelet.
Alex, "Dad? If you wore your paint pants to work would they (meaning his employer) burn you?" He meant 'fire you'.
Annie, "If you want to stay awake for most of the night you should eat a LOT of food!" Jim refuted that so Logan jumped in, "It is a known fact that if you hardly ever sleep you need to eat all the time because you use so much energy staying awake!" Ten points for the person who can guess what book we've been reading that gave them that idea...
Alex when I was throwing away a crushed waterbottle, "Take the ladybugs out first!" Me, "The ladybugs are dead." Alex, "The ladybugs are just PLAYING dead!" Me, "Ladybugs don't play dead." Alex, "Yes they do!!"
In a quiet group setting with other women (who I'd mostly just met) Abby touched my armpit and loudly asked, "Wet? Wet?"
Logan while holding the baby, "Mom, you need to clean her fat rolls."
Alex, "We're actually food." Me, "What does that mean?" Alex, "It means that we have chicken in our bodies."
Alex, "Mom, why did you fart during the prayer?!"
A while back Logan had been sneaking cough drops. In an effort to help him understand why it's a bad idea to take medicine when you don't need it we told him that it could harm his body and possibly result in drug addiction. Months later he received a bag of gummy bears for his birthday. Alex was alarmed, "Those could make you addicted to DRUGS!" The package looked similar.
Alex, "I think Laurel and Abby don't fit in the family." Me, "Why do you think that?" Alex, "Because when they're bigger it'll seem like they're still babies."
Alex was torturing his siblings and I was talking to him about it. Me, "You like to make people happy right? And you love Annie and Logan." Alex, "I love ANNIE." Me, "You love Logan too." Alex pauses to think, then, "I love Logan, but I love Annie more."
