Christmas treats

While eating a bear claw pastry Anna told the kids it has almond extract in it so it fasts a bit like marashino cherries.
Sam took a bite and said, "this doesn't taste like jalapeño cherries."

Pronounciation

All the kids were telling riddles around the dinner table with their cousins.
Damian: What do you call an X that just got out of the bath tub?
Answer: a Kleenex.

Sammy has trouble making the "L" sound, and he but he quickly formulated this riddle on his own...
Sam: what kind of Queen has no crown?
Answer: A Queenex (but it sounded just like Kleenex).

Crossed over the 50 mile mark

I crossed over the 50 mile mark today, one day ahead of schedule!!
This feels good.

Maria the risk taker

Maria asked "why do we have to wear our seatbelts when we have never been in an accident?"
Anna: "if we did get in a car accident you would fly out the window."
Maria, banging on the side window: "but mom, I'm hitting the window and it doesn't break."

My dad invented that

Maria has lost both her front teeth and has been enjoying all the attention that comes from missing teeth before Christmas.
Tonight her Aunt Catherine sang the "All I want for Christmas is my two front teeth" song. Maria then said: "My dad invented that song."

SIDS

Emily was telling us that the father of one of her friends died recently, really sad. But as we were talking about Joshua asked, "Did he die of sudden instant death?"

Funny Updates

I was wrestling the kids this evening before bedtime.
Maria said: you can you can't hurt me because I'm five, and you're almost dead.
Me: I'm not that old.
Maria: Yes, you're almost to the age of your death.


The other day Maria asked if we could use some of the money that we earn to buy toys. We responded with something standard like: you already have toys, and there are other things to spend money on beside toys.
So Maria said: well yeah, we need to buy food too, we couldn't live if we just had toys, toys, TOYS!

Up before the sun to play in the snow

Everybody already know that our kids are crazy-awesome...but this confirms it. They woke up at 6:30 am, and were playing in the snow by 7:00 (long before the sun rose).

Then they made tiger, bird and dinosaur footprints in the snow.

Later when getting dressed for atrium Maria said, "this would be a lot easier if I was a paper doll."

More stories

Maria was playing paper dolls with Anna and was naming all the dolls and giving them characteristics.
At one point she said, this one is named Maria, she pretends to be the mom and takes care of all the kids ...(pause) actually her mom died of cancer so she is the mom.