Funny sayings from our kids

Jared was jumping on the trampoline outside with the kids and got tired and told the kids that he was going to get off the trampoline and rest. The kids always beg for him to stay on and jump longer but seriously, you get pretty tired jumping with the kids because they are constantly trying to get bounced by you, which essentially is them stealing your bounce from you. It gets tiring after a while. So Jared got off and said that that was all the jumping he was going to do for the night. Disappointed, the kids let him go. Later, they were running around in the yard and started playing the three little pigs. They asked me if I would be the farmer. "Sure," I said. They began, each of them, by asking me for straw, sticks, and then bricks.(Eli asked for one thousand hundred stick please. That was really cute!) Each one of the kids built their house right in front of our porch swing that Jared and I were sitting on. Then, the kids asked Jared if he would be the wolf. He said that he would and then all the kids ran to the trampoline. They moved their houses. Our kids are tricky and smart. Jared was distracted by something and hadn't noticed that the kids had relocated their houses, so when he turned and saw the kids all on the trampoline, he wasn't sure what had happened. I told Jared that he had been swindled by our children and now had to be the wolf on the tramp. "Oh man," he said, and got up. The kids said, "Daddy, you have to say Little Pig, Litt..." "I know what my lines are!" Jared grumbled in his gruff voice. They finished out the play. Lexie had to feed Eli his lines because he forgot, but in the end, Jared, the wolf, ended up jumping into the middle of the tramp or er the chimney of the little piggies brick house and burned up while the kids enjoyed getting bounced by daddy again, even though he said he wasn't going to jump any more that night. Good times, good times!
On Sundays, I try to make it to where the kids only watch church movies. They try to do all sorts of things on Sunday but we try to keep the Sabbath day as holy as we possibly can. So then, Lexie comes up to me and asks, "Mom, can we watch Teen Titans?" (Teen Titans is like Batman and Robin, and characters like that.) I say, "no." She replied, "Oh please mom, Teen Titans is a church movie, they save people's lives and kill bad people..."   (As she says the word lives, her voice got higher and she held out the word for a little while.) I said, "no." again and Lexie walked away disappointed.  I love hearing her logic sometimes, but most times, she is pretty tricky, she thinks things out and tries to get you to totally understand her logic even though it usually isn't quite right.

Jared came and sat down next to me on the couch and started chewing away at some trail mix while looking over my shoulder reading this blog post. I turned to him very kindly and said, "That chewing is kind of annoying!" He says to me..."You're annoying!" (We have a joke between each other where we rebuttal back what has been said to us. IE: "Will you stop touching me?" Then the other will quickly say, "YOU stop touching me!" It is funny and we always laugh whenever the other person does it. Hopefully this doesn't sound like we are mean to each other because we laugh whenever it happens.) Anyways, Jared's chewing in my ear now because now he knows that he is being annoying and so he is doing it on purpose now. I am going to get him back in a moment...


Jared's parents are taking our kids for the evening and so we get to go on a date. We asked the kids where we should go and what we should do and they came up with this...

Kenzie: "Go out to eat."
Lexie: "Go to the Movies!"
Kenzie:" Go to Utah!"
Lexie: " Mow the Lawn for the Lady!"
Kenzie: "Go to Disney World!"
Lexie: "Clean your teeth with a white crayon!"
Kenzie: "Go do Zumba and then go do Mommy's hair!"
Lexie:"Maker her grilled Cheese!"
Lexie:" Kiss for 15 hours!"
Kenzie:" Kiss for 60 hours!"