Baby Madness 3: The Trilogy, Round 1

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Baby Madness 3: The Trilogy

Baby boy #3 is on his way! He is due August 1st.

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Baby Madness 3: The Trilogy

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Overheard in Primary (a new edition)

I'm back in Primary. Yay? Sometimes.

Kids are funny.

During Sharing Time (which no longer exists): "How can we show Heavenly Father that we are thankful for our clothes?"

Must have been a 7 year old, "By not taking them off!"

"Why was Jesus Baptized?"

"Cause He's the BEST!"

Yes.

Sat with Sunbeams one week: Sitting next to a little girl. She shows me a small rosette flower on her dress, "Look at my flower. Do you think it's cute?"

"Yes. It's very cute."

Same little girl has a twin sister, they couldn't sit next to each other without hug attacking each other. I sat between them for a couple minutes, then look at the  same one, she's got the saddest face. "I just need a hug!"

"Ok, I can give you a hug."

"I just miss my sister. I want her to come back!"

"Ok."

Lincolnisms XII

Yummy Tummers = Rice Crispy Treats. I get it.

Million dollar idea: "Potty World. Kids flush to go down the slide."

"Mom, gotta go pod." AKA potty.

I'm sitting on the floor folding laundry, there's a couple used dryer sheets next to me.

"Uh, mom? Do sometimes clothes shed their old skin?"

L: "Does this pasume you?"

Me: "What does pasume mean?"

L: "It means you like it more better."

Outside at my mom's house, Me: "Where's Andrew?"

L: "He's in the courtyard."

M: "Where's the courtyard?"

L: "It's on the block."

There is no courtyard on the block. Or in the neighborhood.

L: "I'm a little jealous to go on the airplane."

Me: "Jealous? We're taking you with us... Do you mean nervous?

L: "Yes. Nervous."

L: "Dad, did you put gubble gum in you?:

Matt: "I don't know what gubble gum is."

L: "Its gum that tastes so good it wants to eat your heart!"

M: "Oh, then no."

"Graysone. You better make a fart before you start!"

"Mom, when you go to your lady parties, do you have a disco ball and a DJ?"

Bad word replacements: "Heck of a mother, son on a beach!" Whoops.

L: "Mom, we need to go fast!"

Me: "How fast?"

L: "As fast as a camel on Wednesday running to a birthday party at a castle 100 miles away!"

M: ?

"Its raining, its raining! The puddles are drawering, draining." 

Watching Wonder Woman, "Whoa! She's stronger than an elephant on 3 legs!"

***HEART MELTERS***

Told him that all the stuff he has put into his play dough has ruined it, and that it needs to be thrown away. He cupped it in his hands and whispered to it, "I'm sorry I let you down play dough!" And then immediately started bawling.

Grasonian Wisdom

Diioshe = Dinosaur. Usually followed by a ROAR.

Buuooo = More

Peeww = Gun

In response to any question, "Ummmmmmm"

Aat = Lincoln

Guoko = Gecko

Bear Pooh = Winnie the Pooh

Me: "Can I help you?"

G: "Uh ugh, Beeb!"

Lincolnisms XI

"I'm only little four, I'm not big four (4 feet tall on the growth chart) yet!"

"Hey grandma, guess what! You're a doozy!"

While eating his dinner, in shock and amazement, "Dad was right, this stuff is good!" Meatloaf for dinner.

"Mom, you should make a scare crow but a scaredog." (to scare the neighbor dogs off our lawn)

"Yust" = Just

We'd been sick, L "I have two itises." Strep and ear infections.

L: "Mom, do we have the Seattle movie?"

Me: "The Seattle movie... (seriously doubting) ... Sleepless in Seattle?

L: "Yeah! Can we watch it?"

M: "Heck yeah we can!"

Later... starts singing about Prince Ali...

M: "What show is that song from?"

L: "Sleepless in Seattle."

M: (defeated) "No its not. That's Aladdin."

L: "Oh! That's the one I want to watch!"

M: "Ok. But after Sleepless in Seattle."

We watched neither.

"Mom, when I was born you should have named me Lightning."

Hanging out at nephew's baby blessing. Some girls are hangout out under a tree, Lincoln lingers near. Comes over and tells me, "Um! I was just trying to attract some ladies! To get a few more girlfriends!"

L: "Mom, every time I eat strawberries I also eat the seeds."

Me: "Yes."

L: "But, is that allowed?"

M: "Yes, yes it is."

Lots of times when he's frustrated, "Oh NUTCRACKERS!!"

Remembering things he's done, "When I was two..." Always two. A few times its been four. Never three. its like that year never happened.

Got a shovel in his CFA meal one week, got a hand rake the next time we went, "I can't wait to show this guy to my shovel! He has a new dirt friend!"

We watch Flip or Flop together sometimes. He sees the lady, "Is that Flipper?"

Cuts to the guy, "Yes. And thats Flop!"😂

L: "Well, I like Flipper cause..."

M: "Cause she's pretty?"

L: "Yes. And Flop is handsome."

😂😂😂

Mid-prayer whisper, "Mom, did Heavenly Father invent 'grabity'?"

I nod yes.

L: "Can I thank Him for 'grabity'?"

Me: "Please!"

PS 'Grabity', as explained by Lincoln: it grabs us to the Earth so we don't fall off.

"Every show needs an EAGLE!" (as he's soaring around the room)

L: "You know what I always say."

Me: "What?"

L: "A 4 people family is a pack."

M: "What's a 5 people family?"

L: "A pack."

M: "Oh, what about a 6 people family?"

L: "A HERD!"

After leaving the dentist with no cavities!

L: "Mom, I wish they celebrated with me for not having cavities."

Me: "How would you want to celebrate with them?"

L: "Well, with kazoos, and colored paper, and a ribbon cutting!"

M: "Well, ok. I think we can do that."

***HEART MELTERS***

Got into the house after driving home from my mom's, Lincoln took off his shoes and then sat down with G-Money to take off his shoes too.

Mid-prayer, paused the prayer to whisper-ask me, "Uh, mom? If I ask for my dinosaurs to become real dinosaurs will that come true?"

(we had been talking to him about asking for things in prayer, and if Heavenly Father wants us to have them too, he may help us to get them.)

Me: "Probably not buddy, but you can probably play with them tomorrow."

L: "Oh. (back to prayer) And please help me to play with my snakes and dinosaurs tomorrow."

G-Money was throwing a tantrum at the bottom of the stairs. I walked away -- it was not the first tantrum of the day. Lincoln stayed with him and tried to calm him down, helped him take his shoes off, and then helped him up the stairs.

He's started pointing things out to G-Money while we are driving. The other day it was a dog and a canal full of water and ducks.

No Shame

Here I am listening to Party In The USA (no shame, shameless, I don't even care what you think), and suddenly I'm thinking of Katniss and Peeta.

What the?

So I thought it out...

Miley Cyrus >

Liam Hemsworth >

Gale >

Hunger Games >

Katniss Everdeen >

Katniss and Peeta.

Done.