Shannanigans: December 2008

Friday, December 26, 2008

I yam what I yam

Proof that eating lots of Spinach makes you strong. So strong, in fact, that you can lift the dining table.

Christmas 2008

Christmas Eve and Christmas Day

Opening a book from Grandma and Grandpa after our Christmas Eve dinner with my family

Colby opening his book

Arranging the cookies for Santa

This is what I found on Christmas Eve. Colby did not want this pile disturbed so he wrote a sign, with help from Dad, I think, that says...

"This is my pile and your pile"

Sleeping on the floor together in Kara's room. Being able to tell them Santa doesn't come till you're asleep was a beautiful thing. Easiest bedtime I can remember for a long time!

Waiting on the stairs Christmas morning

Opening up her dress-ups

Modeling all 3 of her dress-ups at the same time

Trying out his new camera which he used all day. Unfortunately, it got taken away by the end of the day for some naughty behavior. It's true that Santa not only gives us presents but can take them away if we're not behaving, right?

Events not pictured:

Christmas Eve lunch at Applebee's with Cameron's family

Christmas brunch at our house

Christmas was especially fun this year as the kids start to get a little older and are starting to catch on (we hope) to what we are teaching them. Both Colby and Kara were able to tell us why we have Christmas and sort of why we give and get presents. I was even pleasantly surprised how still they sat and how well they listened as Cameron read the Christmas story and we lit the candles on our nativity scene on Christmas Eve. And the next day, the Curious George stuffed animal Colby got as a gift became the Baby Jesus which slept in Kara's baby crib, which she got as a gift. Of course most, or all, of the excitement was about Santa and the gifts, but I hopefully one day, it won't be -I'm sure not till they have children of their own! Cameron had to leave for work at 10:00 am on Christmas day and didn't end up making it back to Salt Lake till 12:30 am (instead of 6:00 pm) because they shut down the airport due to weather. He had to be at the airport again at 6:00 am this morning so he ended up just sleeping there. No fun for him, but at least we got him for Christmas Eve and Christmas morning!

Hope everyone had a Merry Christmas!

Thursday, December 18, 2008

Give us a ring!

For the first time since mid 2007, our home phone works as it should! So, for all of you who have attempted to call, only to be mercilessly cut off, attempting a second call, and possibly a third if you're persistent, still only to end up very annoyed, be annoyed no longer. I never thought I'd actually enjoy the sound of my phone ringing. That doesn't mean I'll always pick it up (alright, that's pretty annoying also), but at least that's my problem and not our phone's!

Colby and Kara Quotes

Ty walked into Kara's room as she was getting dressed. Kara told Ty to close his eyes and Ty said, "No! Eyes! Anna!" (Anna is what Ty calls Kara-March 2011)
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Ty's latest: "down-me" (at least 50 times a day. It means he wants up on his chair, down from his chair, help down the stairs, for me to pick him up, for me to put him down...), "apple-now" (means apple. He puts the word "now" at the end of almost everything), "keekoo-now" (means cookie), "donu" (sounds like donut and means candy),"no" (very emphatically and to almost everything I say), "mil" (means milk and any other liquid drink), "nee-nee" (means blankie), "daydoo" (thank-you). These are just the most popular words among his ever-growing vocabulary. He can repeat anything you tell him to repeat and he has just started combining 2 words consistently the last few weeks. (March 2011)
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Kara: "Guess what mom. I'm going to get you a really special present. For your birthday. It's at the dollor store." February 2011
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Kara: "Mom. Would you slide down a waterfall?"
Mom: "Ya, I'd slide down a waterfall. Would you slide down a waterfall?"
Kara: "Yes. Yes I would. If Jesus told me to slide down a waterfall, I would!" (August 2010)
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Kara: As we're watching TV). "Mom. Does this happen? Are people ever watching us on TV?" (July 2010)
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Colby plopped down next to me while I was in my bed reading a novel and said, "Mom, I'm reading something better than you, something that's important. It's called the Book of Mormon." (March 2010)
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Colby uses "giants" to reference anything big or of mass quantity. "Mom. Is the earth as big as a giant?" "I'm so hungry, I could eat a giant!" "If I eat a lot of brocolli, I'll grow as big as a giant." (February 2010)
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Kara: "Guess what I want for dinner when it's my birthday... Rotten noodles!" After a little probing, we figured out she meant ramen noodles. (February 2010)
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A few Colby and Kara-isms as of late:
canora (granola-Kara), bazeum (museum- Colby), bestructions (instructions- Kara), prastic (practice- Colby), cownaforneeuh (California- Kara), my throw-up hurts (my throat hurts- Kara), That possed can't be happened! (That's not supposed to happen- Kara), stellacove (telescope- Kara) July 2009-January 2010
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Kara: "If I got in trouble and a fireman came to our house, would you be sad?" (Janaury 2010)
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Mom: "Tomorrow, I'm going with Dad to a place called Las Vegas."
Colby: "Are things lost in lost Vegas?" (December 2009)
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Kara: "Santa is so funny! His elves builded my underwear too big!" (December 2009)
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Since Halloween, Kara thinks that we should dress up for every holiday. Today she said, "Mom. Do you know what I want to be for next Christmas? Naked!" (December 2009)
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Kara: "I had a dream about exercise monsters. And Jesus helped them into the pool. Exercise monsters like the pool because they have short fingernails and short heads." (October 2009)
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Kara: (During Sacrament Meeting, after she asked me if she could play at Nathan's house after church and I said no). "Ya! Now! Let me!" (October 2009)
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Kara: "If Colby makes me mad again, I'll tell Jesus to cut off his head." (October 2009)
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Kara: (In a 15-year-old valley girl voice) "Oh my gos. That is so freaky cute, mom!" (October 2009)
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Colby: (After hours of waiting outside for the ice cream truck to drive by our house) "Do you think Jesus knows when the ice cream man will come?" (September 2009)
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Kara: "I love chips. They're my favorite vegetable." (August 2009)
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Kara to mom: "You're not my even special friend anymore!"
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After looking into Ty's ear Colby said, "Look mom. There's a hole in Ty's ear."
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Most frequently used quotes in our house:
"That's not even fair!"
"That's going to take forever!"
"You're in awful trouble!" (March 2009)
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Colby: "Mom. Now we need to make you on that thing we play golf (creating the playing characters on the Wii) and we need to make you fat." (March 2009)
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Colby: "Mom. I'm going to make a machine that looks like that white thing in the office (fan) that goes like this (rapidly spinning his finger around) that is so ginormous and I will put it in the backyard and it will blow all of our dog poop into the other backyards." (February 2009)
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When asked why Kara keeps coming into our room in the middle of the night to sleep in our bed, she replied, "because there are witches in my room. And they have guns and they will shoot me." (February 2009)
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Kara: "Mom, why are you feakin out?" (January 2009)
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Kara's prayer tonight: "Heavenly Father. Thank you mom could come home. Thank you finger come home. Bread come home. Cow come home. Dad come home. Amen." (January 2009)
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Kara: "Mommy, hold my horawse (horse). He's so sad."
Mom: "Why is he so sad?"
Kara: "Um...he REALLY don't like my shirt." (December 2008)
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Colby and I were playing the "I'm thinking of something green" game. I said I was thinking of something white and when Colby couldn't guess it, I told him the answer was teeth. He said, "Teeth aren't white, mom." I replied, "They aren't? What color are they (dreading the answer I knew was coming). "They're the color of...um...honey. Yah, yellow. Like the color of honey." (October 2008)
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If Kara really wants to be persuasive, she will follow a request or command with, "my daddy be so mad." For example, if she is trying to tell me to not touch her sleeping baby, she'll say, "Don't touch my baby, she sleeping. My daddy be so mad. Don't touch my baby." The wrath of Cameron is pretty scary so I usually obey when I hear that threat.
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Kara's latest phrase of choice is "booby head." She calls Colby a booby head at least 10 times a day and "I want my daddy" was once quickly followed by, "daddy booby head." I am proud to say she has not yet labeled me a booby head.
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(At the check-out stand in Albertsons. I lifted Colby out of the cart...)
Colby: "I thought you were going to put me up there so she could buy me!" (June 2008)
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(While looking at the bird's nest outside our window...)
Dad: "Where did the mommy robin go?"
Colby: "Probably to the store to buy more eggs." (June 2008)*****
(After the kids got into the hot car and part of the hot seat belt touched Kara's leg, resulting in her crying...)
Colby: "I was brave. Kara, you forgot to be brave. Do you know what brave means? It means you are so so good and brave." (June 2008)
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Kara: "Mom yook (look)! A bug. It kill me!" (June 2008)
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A few Karaisms: Holdee=hold me or hold anything in my hands, bi bu=big jump (June 2008)
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For lunch we were having hamburgers with sesame seed buns. I looked over and saw Colby picking off all the sesame seeds and putting them in a pile. When I asked what he was doing he said, "I'm saving the seeds so I can plant them so that we'll have hamburger trees." (May 2008)
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"Mom, I was a really really freakin' good boy at the store. Can I have my treat now?" (April 2008)
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"I don't want to put pumpkins in my bed. That would bug me up." (April 2008)
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A few Colbyisms: last night=anything in the past, a little long time=forever, hot pie=pot pie, man guy=bad guy, nomiss=imaginary name, smashmallows=marshmallows (April 2008)
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Kara is really into tatlling lately. When I found her in the kitchen with 2 decks of cards scattered across the floor, she pointed to the mess while jabbering something that ended in "Grandpa." Poor Grandpa is getting blamed for messes now.
I heard Kara calling/whining for me and when I went to get her she said, "Colby. I mad!" with the angriest look ever. It was so hilarious to hear that come out of her mouth. (April 2008)
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In Colby's prayer last night, he said, "thank you for President Monson," (much to my pleasure since I had been drilling him all day long) and then surprisingly threw in another thank you for "President Uchtdorf." (April 2008)
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"If my peepee broke off I couldn't go pee and I would have to hold it forever." (March 2008)
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This is during my attempt to discipline Colby after I watched him kick Kara in the stomach at the library- hence another reason I am loving age 3 so much...)
Mom: "Colby, when we get home, you have to go to time-out for kicking your sister. I don't like it when you kick your sister."
Colby: "Then I'll just kick you."
Mom: "What did you say? You don't talk to me that way."
Colby: "I'll just kick you a lot and a lot."
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"Mom, do you know what zero means? It means that mom and dad doesn't give you nofing." (March 2008)
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"Mom, let's get out of the cold or else my hair will fly away. And then I'll have no hair!" (January 2008)
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"Mom, you're getting big." (January 2008- Let's just hope he was referring to my getting big by eating my vegetables rather than all those holiday treats...)
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(At Walmart as Colby was picking out Kara's Christmas present. He was deciding between a Snow White doll or a Snow White dress-up...)Colby: "Maybe we should get the doll for Kara and the dress-up for me." (December 2007)
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During lunch after I burped...)Colby: (between giggles) "Ew mom, that's 'gusting!" (October 2007)
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(While riding in the car at night...)Colby: "Dad, turn on the light."Dad: "I can't."Colby: "Yes you can. Just reach one arm and turn it on. That's a good idea."Dad: (jokingly) "No, that's a bad idea."Colby: "Then do the bad idea."(October 2007)
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Colby was tearing up bits of toilet paper and leaving trails of it on my floor. I was very irritated after telling him several times to stop and throw the bits of paper away.ME: (in a very stern and kinda mean voice) "Colby- Throw the the toilet paper away now!"COLBY: "I will! You be patient! (August 2007)
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At Snowbird Ski Resort, we were looking at the mountains around us and Colby was wondering why they didn't have snow on them. He said, "Mom, I want to go up in the sky and get the snow down." (July 2007)
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Colby's lyrics for "I'll prepare myself when I am young" (I Love to See the Temple) are, "I'll prepare myself and num num num." (July 2007)
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As we were having a FHE on tithing, Colby was asked what we should give Heavenly Father when we have some money. His response: "Watermelon." (July 2007)
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SETTING: A nice, polite family dinner.COLBY: "Belch."MOM: "Colby, please say excuse me."COLBY: "I can't."MOM: "Why can't you say excuse me?"COLBY: "I don't have time." (July 2007)
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Candy, I've been missin you." as he gazed at a candybar he pulled out at the checkout line in Albertsons. (June 2007)

Friday, December 26, 2008

I yam what I yam

Christmas 2008

Tuesday, December 23, 2008

Merry Christmas!

Thursday, December 18, 2008

Give us a ring!

Friday, December 05, 2008

Curious

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