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Kid Quote of the Week "Cha-Ching! - Zoe shouted that when Heather leaned in and gave me a kiss in the kitchen. I'm not sure what else to say. Not sure if there is anything else I can say. Labels: Kid Quote of the Week posted by Brendan | 9:33 PM | permanent link
Kid Quote of the Week If I marry a boy witch, I'm going to move into a giant pumpkin with him. Zoe, demonstrating that she is considering all options for the future. Labels: Kid Quote of the Week posted by Brendan | 4:00 PM | permanent link
Kid Quote of the Week That's like crazy late! - Ian's reaction to the idea of a kid sleeping until 8:30 in the morning Labels: Kid Quote of the Week posted by Brendan | 4:00 PM | permanent link
Kid Quote of the Week I'm playing my invisible game: "Slacker" - Zoe, making the best of a situation when the batteries ran down in her digital camera. Labels: Kid Quote of the Week posted by Brendan | 4:00 PM | permanent link
Kid Quote of the Week "You, Mrs. Crosby, and Mrs. Rodriguez are like our middle-aged cheerleaders." - Ian, providing the perfect backhanded compliment for the energetic support some of the moms provided Ian and the rest of his fifth grade basketball team. Labels: Kid Quote of the Week posted by Brendan | 4:00 PM | permanent link
Kid Quote of the Week What is my 8th favorite color? - Zoe, coming up with the craziest questions for a game show that I have ever heard Labels: Kid Quote of the Week posted by Brendan | 4:00 PM | permanent link
Kid Quote of the Week "Why did He (God) even need dinosaurs?" Emma, asking the questions I don't even know how to come up with answers to. Labels: Kid Quote of the Week posted by Brendan | 4:00 PM | permanent link
Kid Quote of the Week I like the word "Steamshovel." - Zoe, providing further proof that she will always remain a mystery to me. Labels: Kid Quote of the Week posted by Brendan | 4:00 PM | permanent link
Kid Quote of the Week "Gold, Frankenstein, and Mir" - Emma, explaining to Zoe what the Three Kings brought to the baby Jesus. Labels: Kid Quote of the Week posted by Brendan | 4:00 PM | permanent link
Kid Quote of the Week "My rocker is firmly planted on the ground!" Ian, providing the counter argument when I playfully suggested that he might be off his rocker. Labels: Kid Quote of the Week posted by Brendan | 4:00 PM | permanent link
Kid Quote of the Week "No fudgey, No Christmas" Emma, reacting to the prospect of a Christmas season where I didn't make any of my homemade fudge. Labels: Kid Quote of the Week posted by Brendan | 4:00 PM | permanent link
Kid Quote of the Week "What if Santa dies before all the Decembers come? Oh, I know, Mrs. Claus will drop off all the elves to pass out all the presents." Zoe, answering the tough questions for herself so Mom and Dad don't have to think too hard. Labels: Kid Quote of the Week posted by Brendan | 4:00 PM | permanent link
Kid Quote of the Week "Aren't all screwdrivers cordless" Ian, pointing out the inherent silliness of calling something a "cordless screwdriver" Labels: Kid Quote of the Week posted by Brendan | 4:00 PM | permanent link
Kid Quote of the Week "I wish Jesus had been born earlier in the month." Ian, lamenting the amount of time he has to wait for Christmas Day to arrive. Labels: Kid Quote of the Week posted by Brendan | 4:00 PM | permanent link
Kid Quote of the Week "Why don't the hang giant brown turkeys?" Zoe, challenging the practice of breaking out the Christmas decorations the day after Halloween Labels: Kid Quote of the Week posted by Brendan | 4:00 PM | permanent link
Kid Quote of the Week "Mommy has to make Dad a birthday cake tomorrow, If she doesn't, Dad will kick her butt." - Zoe, making up her own song to sing to Heather before bed the night before my birthday. Labels: Kid Quote of the Week posted by Brendan | 4:00 PM | permanent link
Kid Quote of the Week (Classic) "You don't give fruit snacks for Halloween!" - Ian, age 4, venting his frustration with one of our neighborhoods who he apparently didn't believe understood the rules of trick-or-treating. Labels: Kid Quote of the Week posted by Brendan | 4:00 PM | permanent link
Kid Quote of the Week "Twinkie-Town" - Ian, giving CVS a new name Labels: Kid Quote of the Week posted by Brendan | 4:00 PM | permanent link
Kid Quote of the Week "All that's good about the Irish is they invented Lucky Charms!" - Ian, proving to me that I still have a lot to teach my children. Labels: Kid Quote of the Week posted by Brendan | 4:00 PM | permanent link
Kid Quote of the Week "Move out of the way, Mr. Kissy-face." Zoe, asking me to make room for her so she could clean her dinner dishes from the table while also delivering some unsolicited commentary on her impressions of my behavior towards her mother that evening. Labels: Kid Quote of the Week posted by Brendan | 4:00 PM | permanent link
Kid Quote of the Week (Classic) "I'm not seeing enough Sleeping Beauty!" - Emma (age 3), vehemently declaring her frustration that Disney's Sleeping Beauty wastes time with the scene of Princess Aurora as a baby at the beginning of the film. Labels: Kid Quote of the Week posted by Brendan | 4:00 PM | permanent link
Kid Quote of the Week "Everything has taste - water, pennies - but pennies don't taste good" Emma, who didn't know it at the time, but was starting a conversation on why it is not a good idea to 'taste' pennies. Labels: Kid Quote of the Week posted by Brendan | 4:00 PM | permanent link
Kid Quote of the Week "Dad, they're making a limited edition Chicago Bears Gillette razor!" - Ian, enthusiastically proving that I am raising him the right way.  Labels: Kid Quote of the Week posted by Brendan | 4:00 PM | permanent link
Kid Quote of the Week "The stuff you sprayed makes my fart not smell bad" - Zoe, discovering the unexpected perk from watching Heather clean the light hanging over our kitchen table Labels: Kid Quote of the Week posted by Brendan | 4:00 PM | permanent link
Kid Quote of the Week Ian: Why do they call it the "tube"? Brendan: Because that's what a TV is, a giant tube where the picture is projected through Ian: Oh, I thought it was because of YouTube - Ian, who was shocked to learn later that YouTube has only been around for a little over four years Labels: Kid Quote of the Week posted by Brendan | 4:00 PM | permanent link
Kid Quote of the Week "Whenever I hear that bell ring I know you are coming. You're like a cow" - Emma explaining to Heather the interesting side effect of Heather wearing the necklace Emma made her. Labels: Kid Quote of the Week posted by Brendan | 4:00 PM | permanent link
Kid Quote of the Week (Classic) "The power is up your's!" - Ian, circa age 3, not quite getting Captain Planet's battle cry right. Labels: Kid Quote of the Week posted by Brendan | 4:00 PM | permanent link
Kid Quote of the Week "Dad, be funny" - Zoe walking up to me with a friend in tow, looking for me to perform on the spot. Labels: Kid Quote of the Week posted by Brendan | 4:00 PM | permanent link
Kid Quote of the Week Zoe: "Did you pay for Ian's gift?" Brendan: "No, Mom stole it from Target." Heather: "Zoe, I paid for it." Zoe: "Oh, that was a good idea." - Zoe inquiring into how we obtained Ian's birthday gift and revealing her well developed sense of right and wrong Labels: Kid Quote of the Week posted by Brendan | 4:00 PM | permanent link
Kid Quote of the Week "Zoe is a burly bear" - Ian trying to translate Heather's Pig Latin phrase "oeZay ashay urlycay airhay" Labels: Kid Quote of the Week posted by Brendan | 4:00 PM | permanent link
Kid Quote of the Week Ian: "Knock-knock" Me: "Who's there?" Ian: "Yodel-ay-ee-who . . . no, no wait . . . say 'Yodel-ay-ee-who' without the 'who'" - Ian, trying to tell me a knock-knock joke Labels: Kid Quote of the Week posted by Brendan | 4:00 PM | permanent link
Kid Quote of the Week "You do a great job of cutting the grass short" - Zoe, who can always find something to compliment you on Labels: Kid Quote of the Week posted by Brendan | 4:00 PM | permanent link
Kid Quote of the Week "Dad, can you forget that you forgot something?" - Emma, who got us started on an interesting logic discussion - at least for a 6 year-old Labels: Kid Quote of the Week posted by Brendan | 4:00 PM | permanent link
Kid Quote of the Week Zoe: "Sometimes I think Uncle Kevin created the sun." Ian: "That's crazy. If Uncle Kevin created the sun, what do you think it was like when Grandpa was a kid? Dark all the time?" - Ian and Zoe in conversation Labels: Kid Quote of the Week posted by Brendan | 4:00 PM | permanent link
Kid Quote of the Week "They should make this into a game" - Ian, while reading the booklet from Dungeons & Dragons - the Complete Animated Series DVD collection Labels: Kid Quote of the Week posted by Brendan | 4:00 PM | permanent link
Kid Quote of the Week "I love work. Work is my hobby" - Zoe, while helping stuff envelopes for Grandpa's campaign Labels: Kid Quote of the Week posted by Brendan | 4:00 PM | permanent link |
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