Quotables

Whenever he needs to answer in the affirmative, Jack says, "I do!" Sometimes that works, and sometimes it sounds funny because the right answer would be "yes" or "I am" not "I do!" He uses such funny inflections for the various reasons he says it. I need to get it on video before he grows out of it!

Hannah was playing with some tomatoes my parents brought from their garden. She lined them up by size and declared they were a family. Pointing to them in turn, she named them, "This is Albert, this is Irene, this is Alice, and this is WaterStank." Poor WaterStank. His whole family has such normal names, then they went all crazy on him.

Hannah says she's going to have three children and name them Alice, Thomas, and Ediff. At first I thought she meant "Edith" but when I asked her about it she said, "NO, E-diff." Again, the little one gets stuck with the funky names in her world. I'm not sure what that's about.

The other day I was putting sunscreen on the kids so they could go play in the baby pool in the backyard. Hannah explained to Jack that they had to get sunscreened so they wouldn't get a burn. "Sunburn is bad," she said, "but calorie burn is good!"

After a bad time at the supermarket, Hannah delivered this gem of a bedtime prayer, "Dear God, we had a very bad day. We were doing a lot of disobedience and when we were getting temptationed we cried for ice cream instead of running to Jesus. We're sorry, Lord."