death matches and ugly shoes

Today I was cleaning out a file and found a note where I jotted down some cute things the kids had said last year. Finding these was the best part of my day today, so I'll pass them along to you for a chuckle!

Thomas, age 4: "These shoes are definitely ugly." As a four year old, definitely was one of his favorite words. After losing his own shoes, I overheard him muttering to himself when he had to wear some hand-me-down brown leather ones. For those of you who know Thomas, just imagine him saying this in his deep little gravelly voice.

Elizabeth, almost 3: "I don't stink like a puppy dog, I stink like a princess!" This is how Queeen Elizabeth corrected me when I told her we had to wash her hair because she smelled like a puppy.

"I like my other face better!" from a positively wailing Joshua (age 6), after waking up to an allergic reaction to some Halloween makeup. In this picture, his face doesn't look too bad, but it took major coaxing, smoothing, convincing, bribery...all those things we do as parents...to get him to go to school that day.

"Dad, maybe you should just leave the Band-Aids out." -Joshua was watching Tim and Uncle Michael getting pretty roughed up during a house project. Joshua said this after being sent three times to the closet for Band-Aids.

Adam, age 8: "Mom, look what I found!" Words that can strike fear into any mother's heart. This is what Adam said as he walked through the front door after school one day. "A pretty fake bird!" Indeed, he had brought home a rather large bird with striking blue and black plumage, but it was REAL! And quite dead. In fact, it was just stiff enough to make him think it was fake. That's our Adam, the boy who never met a creature he didn't like, except when it was served on his plate.

"Mom, Andrew's just crying because he got hurt in the Death Match." Adam, explaining why his cousin was outside wailing on the trampoline. Oh, thanks for the explanation. Carry on with the Death Match, then.