I told the kids they could watch TV after they cleaned up the playroom.
Ezra: Next time, know what I'm going to tell Mommy?
Jude: What?
Ezra: I'm gonna say, "Mommy, clean up the playroom."
Jude: Yeah. Good.
Friday, February 20, 2015
Trying to explain the adoption to the kids.
Me:...so Mama's always been your mom just like me, but now, legally, she's as much your mom as I am.
Jude: So Mama not go to work anymore?
Jude: What's a treadmill?
Me: They're the machines people are running on in there. See, the belt moves in a loop so you have to keep running to stay in the same place.
Jude: If you don't keep up, it make you flat?
Wednesday, February 18, 2015
Jude: Ezra, you're my best big brother.
Ezra: I'm your only big brother, Jude.
Jude: You're my best, only big brother.
Ezra: Can I have some of your orange, Mommy? I mean Jude?
Mommy: You can get your own Jude. I mean orange.
Monday, February 16, 2015
Jude, on wearing a bowtie: This makes me feel like I know stuff.
Thursday, February 5, 2015
Ezra: Zach, guess what? Tomorrow's my mom's birthday.
Zach: Tomorrow's your mom's birthday?
Jude: Yeah. DUH.
Jude: Mommy. Mommy. Mommy. Mommy. Mommy.
Me: What?
Jude: Mommy, when I'm a grown-up, you think I have a baby?
Me: You can if you want to.
Jude: I want to.
Jude: Will it hurt when it make the hole and come out?
Sunday, February 1, 2015
Jude: What are you doing?
Me: I'm putting hot sauce in the trash can so if Sammy tries to get into it again it'll stop him.
Jude: It kill him?
