no parking.

"mommy! i just saw a sign! it had a circle with a line through it and an R in the circle that means NO ROBBERS."

pigeons.

"mommy, are pigeons the state bird of the world?"

at a party.

[overheard at a bbq saturday night]:

annie: "i've been to disney land and lego land."

emme: "i've been to juiceland!"

hollis: "well, i've been to candyland!"

thieves.

ek: "are thieves real?"
us: "yes, baby, they sure are."
ek: "oh my god! they rob!"

invisible.

emme has been talking a lot about invisibility lately (who knows where these things come from). this conversation happened this morning in the car.
ek: invisible means like when you can't see something.
hb: no it's like when you can see everything.
me: if mommy was invisible, it would look like the car was driving itself!
ek: and if poop was invisible, all you would see is stinky lines and then the car would smell bad.

barely.

ek: "i can verily see outside because of the fog!"

incognito.

i came out of the shower this evening and emme was wearing a disguise over her pajamas. p.s. it is 100 degrees outside.

me: hahaha, sweetie are you incognito?
ek: where is cognito? is that a country?

this kid.

when i was a baby.

the kids are saying some hilarious stuff these days. i want to be better about writing it all down because i know i'm going to forget/do forget so quickly.

hollis says "right now" about everything. we should really get it on video because it amuses me to no end. he says it in place of please, or in addition to it. it's not demanding, exactly, because he also uses it as verbal filler. examples: "i'm wearing this spiderman shirt because right now" or "can emme give me my spoon right now". he draws the now out so it sounds kind of like noooow in his baby voice. i love that.

the other thing the kidlets are obsessed with lately is "when i was a baby". they start with that, and then they whisper whatever random thing they think of and then lose their minds giggling at it. for example: "when i was a baby, i wanted to take off my eyeballs" and "when i was a baby, i wanted to be naked all the time". i have no idea where this comes from, and much of the talk involves nipples (potty talk is a favorite pasttime of theirs these days), but it is pretty funny.

also, hollis has been weirdly gracious in his language. this weekend in port A, he was eating breakfast and he just busted out with "thank you so much for making this delicious dinner for me, mommy". such a sweetheart. we were sitting on the beach at one point and he crawled into my lap and said "this was a really fun day mommy". i don't know where this awesomeness comes from either, but i'll take it!

breaking your fall.

ek is a monkey bar aficionado, as i think i've mentioned before. but yesterday at school, apparently she bit it on the monkey bars, because this is the conversation we had when she got home:

me: hi sweetie! how are you?
ek: mommy! i broke my fall today!
me: you did?! how did you do that?
ek: well, i broke it right here - this is my fall (gestures to her thigh).

so, be careful! you don't want your fall getting hurt...

things kids say.

ek, last night at dinner: "i can open my mouth so big, i can literally fit a grownup in it."

hollis, last night during our walk when he made me carry him instead of running: "no, i can't run. i too big. i too strong."

veggies and other randomness.

this week, hollis ate a baby carrot! and also a slice of raw bell pepper (yellow). this is exciting news in my life.

also, emme has started saying "bucks wild". i.e. "i'm going bucks wild"; "that song makes hollis bucks wild". it's my favorite.

also, how many times can we listen to uptown funk before i start hating that song? it's so catchy, but omg my kids cannot get enough of it. i also wonder if the language is a little questionable (probably intentional, but whatever), but have i mentioned they really reeaaallllyyy love it.

i'm ready for it to be warm again. and yes, i know how ridiculous that is compared to all the people basically everywhere else in the country. i get depressed and reclusive when it's cold.

icing.

when we woke up a couple days ago, there was frost on the roofs and in the grass in our neighborhood. emme walks justin out when he leaves for work every morning. she ran inside (still in pajamas):
"mommy! mommy! there's icing everywhere! there's a lot of icing on miss faye's house and a little bit of icing on the other house and even some icing in the grass."

winter.

it's ultra cold here today. for us. 25 this morning, which for my midwestern and new england friends probably isn't anything crazy. but i don't own a winter coat that fits me, so...it's cold.

emme crawled into our bed around 6 or so and i didn't even feel it because i was super sleepy from being up in the night with hollis. "mommy hold you!" at 3am.

anyway. as we were waking up sloooowly (how hard is it to get back into a weekday routine? super super hard.), she said "mommy, you know where we haven't been in a long long time? the splashy pad! we should go there after school!".

new pet.

"mommy. i want to get a wolf as a pet. but not like a big, mean grown-up wolf. just a little baby wolf."