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waiting in line for me at the store, emmit confides in micah,  MOM MAKES US DRIVE CRAZY! RIGHT, DAD?   translation: I drive them both crazy now  ;)

friday cupcakes

gramee came up with this project to do with emmit. (we told her he LOVES to help out in the kitchen.) she figured it would be a 2 day event; baking the cupcakes one day and frosting them the next. well... emmit sat so patiently through the baking AND cooling of the cakes that she didn't have the heart to enforce the plan. so... it took them ALL day to make, frost, and decorate these beauties. gramee's famous (last) words: thank goodness we only did half the recipe  (>‿◠)

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hey, dad- why you gotta towel in your pocket? are you washing windows??

famous words X

you can take the kid out of the city but you can't take the city out of the kid:

HEY, UNCLE TONY- HOW DO YOU FIND YOUR WAY HOME WITHOUT ALL THE LIGHTS???

making breakfast

(famous words)

I WANT SCRAMBLED EGGS FOR BREAKFAST. we don't have any eggs. WHAT DO WE HAVE FOR BREAKFAST? cereal. I DON'T WANT CEREAL. I'M GOING TO MAKE MY OWN BREAKFAST.

ingredients: flour, sugar, water, froot loops. I cooked it up and finished it with marshmallows and chocolate syrup. emmit made us taste it and... it really wasn't THAT bad :)

tennis pro

we bought tennis rackets, on sale, this weekend for the whole family, emmit has been asking to play tennis for 3 days now. (it has been raining.) finally, today, we were able to take the rackets for a test drive. emmit declared: THIS IS THE MOST FUN I NEVER HAD

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At the park. Ice cream truck rolls by, kids go running. Emmit is fascinated. Comes over to me: I NEED TO LEAVE TO GO GET SOMETHING FROM THAT TRUCK. What's in that truck? I DON'T KNOW BUT I NEED IT.


Monday 2p

famous words 101

MOMMY, LOOK! IT'S WARM OUTSIDE.  how do you know? (it's not even sunny out)  THE TREES AREN'T SHAKING.


Sunday, April 1, 2012  9:30a

jabber jaw

matter-of-fact

ET: Dad, I really want to know how to drive.


MT: If you knew how to drive, where would you drive to?


ET: I'd drive to go get cupcakes.

use your:

"mom, what's the IMAGINATION?"

conversation with a 3yo

UK: what does mommy do at work?
ET: she combs people's hair
UK: what does daddy do at work?
ET: he has an office and he looks at a computer and he walks around!
The kid is spot on!!!!

famous words

Last Friday night, we went out for pizza. Micah had picked ET up from daycare and then to the salon to collect me before going to D'Agastino's. (Emmit had lots of M &M's waiting for mommy to get off work.) When we got to the restaurant, Emmit quieted down and we figured he was just tired from the day/week. He asked to sit with Daddy so Micah picked him up and he laid his head on Daddy's shoulder. 2 seconds later, Emmit threw-up all over Micah. (Thank heavens it was NOT me!! I am a vomit-phobe!!!) Micah takes him into the bathroom, cleans him up, takes both their shirts off, we go home. Little bought of Diarrea after that and we're all in the clear. I check in with ET Saturday morning and ask, "Do you feel better?" "Yeah!" YUCKY! "What's yucky?" I ask. I SPIT YUCKY!

famous words by emily

This past weekend, up in the Dells, Eva tells me a a story about what happened in the middle of the night in a room with no windows:


emily: mommy?
eva: emily, go to bed. i love you...
emily: i'm not ON the bed!


emily and eva were sharing a bed...

yo gabba gabba

this is YO GABBA GABBA. it is emmit's favorite show. it is truly a hipster's child show. i'm not hip enough to get it. micah sure loves it though. and the hipster joke is that muno, the red character, is really a penis. TONIGHT AT DINNER: service is terrible. l.o.n.g. wait for. food. good thing for crayons. emmit says, "mommy, draw elephant!" ha. "daddy, go gabba gabba!" micah draws muno and then asks, "who is this?" PENIS! (you knew that was coming.) 

famous words of a 2 year old

emmit and i went shopping today.  i had him in the stroller for hours.  after a few mild tantrums and a lot of, "i wan ou!"s; in the midst of it all, emmit bargains,  I WAN DOWN, MOMMY!  I WAN'NA RUN AWAY!

famous words of a 2 year old

YES! It's FINALLY here! I have my own 2 year old to get the good nonsense!


so we go to breakfast the other day and we're getting ready to leave. 2 cops sit at the table next to us sporting a full uniform, guns and all.  i get emmit out of his seat and i tell him to wait for mommy. (i had to grab our stuff and double check we haven't left anything behind.) emmit is enthralled at the sight of these cops. as his feet want to wander his eyes are fixated on one of their guns. we are no more than a foot or two from them and he asks me, almost with a sneer,  WHAT'S THIS GUY, MOMMY? WHAT'S THIS GUY? 

famous words by julia

now that julia is 2 1/2, this category is all hers:


It is late and everyone is getting ready to say goodbye.  Julia is trying to get a word in edgewise, "Guys!  I smell something yummy!"  Katie jumps in to correct her,  "Oh, honey.  You mean yucky.  Daddy just got out of the bathroom."

more famous words from a 2 year old

Eva and I were getting ready to leave for the baby shower. In order to keep it simple, Eva says to Emily, "I need to run an errand." Emily accepts this but replies, "Are you coming back?"

famous words of a 2 year old

Gramma and Emily were hanging out together a few weeks ago. Emily asks Gramma, "Is that your boob?" Gramma responds, "Yes." Emily mulls over this then quickly interjects, "Why is it down there?"