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“You know those toast hats?…” – Eve, 7\/21\/18<\/em><\/p>\n

Eve, opens the door and yells from the office:\u00a0 “MOM, how do you spell witches?”
\nMe: “What does it start with?”
\nEve, closes door: “Echo, how do you spell witches?” – 7\/16\/18<\/em><\/p>\n

“Mom, puberty is doing weird things to my body.” She then raised her foot up behind her and I looked, expecting to see bumps and blisters, but instead I saw a big googly eye! Stuck to the bottom of her toe! – 12\/17\/17<\/em><\/p>\n

Me: “Lex, what did you think of the movie?” (they had just watched Pee Wee’s Big Adventure)
\nLex: “It was really weird… but I just kept watching it.”
\nMe: “Yep, that about sumps up Pee Wee Herman!” – 12\/31\/16<\/em><\/p>\n

“Orion has a sombrero on tonight!” said Eve, returning from an evening dog walk. 12\/20\/16<\/em><\/p>\n

“I saw you in the library reading to the kids and you were ADORABLE!” said Eve to me on my first day of teaching. 8\/3016<\/em><\/p>\n

“I just realized I have my pants on backwards!” said Lex, at 6:19pm. 8\/29\/16<\/em><\/p>\n

Watching a very oiled up guy on an Olympics bloopers YouTube video…
\n“He looks like a Barbie, only a boy Barbie” says Eve. Alan says, “A Ken doll” and Eve replies with, “A Kindle? No, a boy Barbie.” –\u00a0Eve, 8\/23\/16<\/i><\/p>\n

“I had a growth spurt once during recess in the winter.\u00a0 Sarah and I were having one at the same time and we kept falling over on our faces.” said Eve, mid summer 2016.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cMom, I made Eve an apology penguin!\u201d said Lex, after having a fight with Eve. 6\/6\/16<\/em><\/p>\n

“Thank you for this care,” said Lex, while sick in bed. I tended to him as a mother does and he melted my heart. 4\/28\/16<\/em><\/p>\n

“I always like to argue with the rules of math,” said Eve, while discussing division with Lex. 2\/18\/16<\/em><\/p>\n

Lex: “I just realized, the bluetooth portal has binary running through it! Yeah, zeros and ones!”
\nEve: “Really? Too bad the glitchy couch doesn’t.”
\nLex: “Yeah.”
\nA conversation overheard while they were playing AnimalJam one day. 10\/2\/15<\/em><\/p>\n

“I’m only going because you threatened to threaten me!” said a very grumpy Lex. 9\/28\/15<\/em><\/p>\n

“I think I’m going to like 5th grade,” Lex says to me. I asked why and he replied, “Well, I like school supplies and 5th grade needs a lot of school supplies.” – 07\/14\/15<\/em><\/p>\n

“I like brightness. \u00a0It’s very good for my fallopian tubes,” said Eve this evening at bedtime. \u00a007\/14\/15<\/em><\/p>\n

“Eve, I don’t know what I’d do without you. \u00a0You’re not only a great sister, you’re a great person to have around.” said Lex to Eve. 11\/9\/14<\/em><\/p>\n

“I think I just invented a gravity controlled water bomb!” said Lex. 5\/19\/15<\/em><\/p>\n

“At the moment I’m narrating a conversation in my head between Google map software and a Google satellite,” Lex told me at bedtime one night. \u00a06\/30\/15<\/em><\/p>\n

Me: “Eve, why are you holding the bowl in your arms?”
\nEve: “I’m doing it the old fashioned way, like before they had counters.” – 7\/3\/15<\/em><\/p>\n

“I can’t get a wink of sleep,” Eve said to me, while practically sound asleep. 12\/19\/14<\/em><\/p>\n

Lex: “I think you should send her a thank you note.”
\nEve: “I already sent her dinosaurs!” – 10\/1\/14<\/em><\/p>\n

“I’ll get revenge on you someday!” yelled Eve to Lex, after he apparently unmade her bed and failed to remake it properly. Moments later they were laughing together again. 9\/12\/14<\/em><\/p>\n

“Well, I guess you could say I’m an amateur car expert.” said Lex, while arguing with Eve about a car logo. 8\/12\/14<\/em><\/p>\n

“All they want is money! That’s all they care about! That’s why I want to buy things from them.” said Eve, while looking through an American Girls catalog. 3\/3\/14<\/em><\/p>\n

“I want to be a famous artist so I can make a lot of money and buy lots of cats!” said Eve. Moments later she amended it to “pets” because she wants dogs, bunnies, and hamsters too. 3\/2\/14<\/em><\/p>\n

“I’d like to take a moment to give credit to mom for this idea,” said Lex at family meeting today. 11\/23\/13<\/em><\/p>\n

“There’s an elephant and a giraffe quarrelling in there,” said Eve after letting out a very noticeable fart. 7\/15\/13<\/em><\/p>\n

“I snuck a cheese stick into the shower,” said Eve. 7\/14\/13<\/em><\/p>\n

“There are google fur holes on this peach!” said Eve. 6\/11\/13<\/em><\/p>\n

“Now in case I get bored I’ll be all prepared,” said Lex, walking into the room with two mini “carabiner” games attached to his belt loop. 4\/6\/13<\/em><\/p>\n

“Anything can happen when you’re inside a Lego head,” said Lex while his real head bounced around inside a giant Lego head. 10\/28\/12<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cWhew! I can walk pretty fast with eight pounds of pumpkin in my arms!\u201d said Lex at the apple orchard. 9\/23\/12<\/em><\/p>\n

“I hope there’s not going to be any learning on the first day of school,” said Eve the day before starting kindergarten. 8\/27\/12 <\/em><\/p>\n

“I don’t think someone could sue me because I have lots of dollars and a spinny wheel,” said Eve while playing Life. 8\/11\/12<\/em><\/p>\n

“Geez! Don’t you know your construction vehicles?!” said Lex to his friend, when his friend asked what is a digger. 5\/9\/12<\/em><\/p>\n

“I’ll do all the thinking and planning and you can find me the pieces. That will save you a little brain energy,” said Lex to his friend. 5\/9\/12<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cI think it looks just perfect, for your age,” said Eve, referring to my big yellow raincoat. 5\/7\/12<\/em><\/p>\n

“Aww… I love these flowers. [pause] I want to hug the cow poop,” said Eve, while planting freesia blubs in cow manure. 5\/6\/12<\/em><\/p>\n

“Ok Mom, let’s be quiet now so I can nurse my little baby whale,” said Eve. 4\/11\/12<\/em><\/p>\n

“You didn’t say it five hundred years ago because you weren’t born five hundred years ago, and mom was just a kid!” said Lex. 2\/13\/12<\/em><\/p>\n

“‘Love’ means ‘I love you.’ I’m describing you with love,” said Eve, when asked for an adjective in Mad Libs. 12\/29\/11<\/em><\/p>\n

“After I get done with this plaid picture I’m going to make a British flag,” said Lex, as he and Eve sat drawing picture after picture. 11\/14\/11<\/em><\/p>\n

“Is this a democracy or a dad-ocracy?!” said Alan. 11\/12\/11<\/em><\/p>\n

“When we went in the earth pool… I mean the world pool…” said Eve, telling a story about when we went in the whirlpool at the hotel. 11\/1\/11<\/em><\/p>\n

“Oh what a GREAT place to be a photographer!” said Lex, pointing his camera at an elephant in the lobby of the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. 9\/23\/11<\/em><\/p>\n

“I want to pour this sauce on my head,” said Eve, pulling a bottle of chocolate syrup from the fridge and pretending to pour. 8\/6\/11<\/em><\/p>\n

“Summer is my favorite time of year because there are so many construction trucks, and trucks are my second favorite vehicles!” said Lex while we drove through everlasting road construction. 8\/2\/11<\/em><\/p>\n

“First a bump, then a line, then a kick!” said Eve, telling herself how to write an R. 8\/2\/11<\/em><\/p>\n

“I’m a ballerina, you’re a ballerman,” said Eve to Lex. 7\/14\/11<\/em><\/p>\n

“Phones really are amazing things. You can talk to people more than a mile away!” said Lex. 6\/6\/11<\/em><\/p>\n

“I like all my art to look beautiful,” said Lex while working on a take-home art project. 4\/13\/11<\/em><\/p>\n

“That dude has a lot of falafels!” said Lex, 4\/1\/11<\/em><\/p>\n

“I still feel hungry,” I sang, wandering around the kitchen, opening cabinets,<\/em> “What should I eat?”
\n“Nothing, because your belly will hurt,” Eve sang back. <\/em>
\nShe takes good care of me. – 3\/28\/11<\/em><\/p>\n

“Her strong daddy muscles put her in there,” said Eve to me, explaining how her “baby” (doggy) got “in her belly” (under her shirt). 1\/14\/11<\/em><\/p>\n

“Let’s play hop scotch.\u00a0 If there’s one, you hop.\u00a0 If there’s two, you scotch.” said Eve, as we walked down a stone walkway.\u00a0 1\/3\/11<\/em><\/p>\n

“I want to be a toy when I grow up. And have a pumpkin head. And you can make me into a shoe.” said Eve. 12\/3\/10<\/em><\/p>\n

“You know what is warmer than the shower? Your hugs.” said Lex. 10\/28\/10<\/em><\/p>\n

“I wish the toilet was in the kitchen,” said Lex, moments after I told him he could not bring his snack to the bathroom with him. 10\/16\/10 <\/em><\/p>\n

“The reading skills are just flying into Eve!” – Lex 10\/3\/10<\/em><\/p>\n

“Pi\u00f1atas are my favorite part of life,” – Lex, while discussing yesterday’s party. 10\/3\/10<\/em><\/p>\n

“Vanna is an awesome girl because she knows all<\/em> her letters!” said Eve as she watched Wheel of Fortune with us. 9\/3\/10<\/em><\/p>\n

“It’s a good thing I saved a lot of money in my piggy bank so I can help him buy a new car,” said Lex when he heard that Alan needed to replace the Saturn. 9\/2\/10<\/em><\/p>\n

Eve: “Goodbye Goober”
\nCousin Dan: “Goodbye Teapot”
\nHe called her teapot because she wanted to be called teapot. Why? Who knows why when Eve is involved. 7\/8\/10<\/em><\/p>\n

“I think I hear the noise of pumping pistons!” said Lex as we walked near a railroad track. 7\/20\/10<\/em><\/p>\n

Eve: “How can you eat food when you’re sick?”
\nLex: “The usual way, Eve.”
\n7\/12\/10<\/em><\/p>\n

“See that pile of brown over there? That’s my mom!” says Eve. 7\/3\/10<\/em><\/p>\n

“Mom, guess what?! I’m going to try a new shirt tomorrow. It’s just like my black shirt only it’s brown,” says Lex. 6\/12\/10<\/em><\/p>\n

“When I get older I’m going to do gross things and you should say ‘oh girls!'” says Eve. 6\/7\/10<\/em><\/p>\n

“These three things all have this and that and the other thing,” said Eve, trying to tell me that the three snack bags all have twist-ties. 4\/29\/10<\/em><\/p>\n

“Why is nobody eating him?” said Eve, referring to the turkey we were watching cross the road. 4\/26\/10<\/em><\/p>\n

“Let me slobber on your belly,” said Eve to me during a family belly zerbert fest :) We were teaching the kids. 4\/17\/10<\/em><\/p>\n

“Let’s lick each other all over,” said Lex in the tub while they were pretending to be cats. 3\/30\/10<\/em><\/p>\n

“I call my grandpa Quackfreid!” said Eve in the car, cracking us all up! 3\/13\/10<\/em><\/p>\n

“Nobody can ever throw up in offices! So be careful with your lungs,” said Eve. 2\/21\/10<\/em><\/p>\n

“Mommy, you are my very best friend,” says Eve, often. 2\/10<\/em><\/p>\n

“Whoa! Doggie DID NOT<\/em> like that loud noise!” said Lex, moments after our car got bumped on a snowy night. 2\/16\/10 <\/em><\/p>\n

“Look Eve, the country!” said Lex as we drove through upstate NY. 2\/13\/10<\/em><\/p>\n

“Mommy, you are my best friend,” said Eve. 1\/27\/10
\n<\/em>
\nLex: “When were dinosaurs alive?”
\nTessa: “Millions of years ago.”
\nLex: pause… “You mean in 2001?”
\n1\/5\/10<\/em><\/p>\n

“Don’t unbutton my belly!” said Eve, covering her belly button.\u00a0 12\/29\/09<\/em><\/p>\n

Tessa: “Maybe we could pick up Panera Bread for dinner.”
\nEve: “Panera Bread!? Panera Bread’s house is too heavy for my hands!” she says, holding her hands up as if she were supporting something very heavy. 10\/03\/09<\/em><\/p>\n

“There’s teeny tiny little poop rocks in my potty!” said Eve, peering into her potty. 9\/9\/09<\/em><\/p>\n

“Ouch!\u00a0 My pants fell into my poop hole!,” said Lex.\u00a0 8\/31\/09<\/em><\/p>\n

“Look at me when I’m building you, coffee pot,” said Eve, while building a “coffee pot” out of building blocks. 8\/28\/09<\/em><\/p>\n

“I hurt my two-head,” said Eve, pointing to a big red bump on her forehead.\u00a0 8\/22\/09<\/em><\/p>\n

“DO OP NOPEN!” says Eve, trying to say “do not open!” a line from a show. She says it with such gusto we can’t help but laugh. 01\/09<\/span><\/p>\n

“When it’s nighttime, the sun is shining on the other side of the world,” said Lex as we drove at night. 12\/29\/08<\/span><\/p>\n

“I’m blinking colorful airplanes on the ceiling!” says Lex. 12\/12\/08<\/span><\/p>\n

“Mom, you’re a silly creature!” says Lex, as I’m sweeping the floor. 11\/02\/08<\/span><\/p>\n

“Baby! Woof!” says Eve, pointing to a cute baby in public. 10\/28\/08<\/span><\/p>\n

“Self, self!” says Eve, all the time!!<\/span><\/p>\n

“We can eat planets of dried soup,” says Lex, telling me what he wanted for breakfast. 10\/12\/08<\/span><\/p>\n

“It’s a birthday party!” says Lex, as we stuff all people-like toys we can find into a block tower. 9\/18\/08<\/span><\/p>\n

“Dad, did you see that poop?” he says referring to the load in the diaper I just removed.
\n“Yep,” I reply.
\n“It’s like a castle!”
\n– Lex 2008-08-23<\/span><\/p>\n

“I would not want to share a birthday with a dinosaur.” – Lex, entirely out of context, while sitting at the kitchen table. Sadly, I imagine we all do. 2008-08-14<\/span><\/p>\n

“The dogs are ok!” – Lex, referring to Doggie and Snoopy Dog, who were “sleeping” in the blanket tunnel he created for them. 08\/13\/08<\/span><\/p>\n

“Mom, I think there’s no steering wheel in the back for me. We need to go to the steering wheel store and get me a steering wheel.” – Lex 07\/09\/08<\/span><\/p>\n

“Remember when we went outside and it was my party?” [me: yes, what was your favorite part?] “Daddy got me some milk.” – Lex 06\/28\/08<\/span><\/p>\n

“Mom, thank you for coming to the meeting with me. I really needed you.” – Lex, in regards to the WW meeting we attended earlier today. 06\/24\/08<\/span><\/p>\n

“I think I need to put doggie in the belly carrier.” – Lex, as he wrapped doggie in his baby blanket and neatly tucked it around himself. 06\/01\/08<\/span><\/p>\n

“I’m trying to take a picture of my poopy butt!” – Lex, bare naked, standing on a stack of stools and trying to climb up onto the bathroom counter.<\/span> 05\/26\/08<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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