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Quotes from my older three from years' past

Mom to Caleb, "Daddy popped that spider like he pops you, Caleb." Caleb then says, "There's a lot more to it than that." "What?" "First, he has to talk to me before I get popped, and I didn't hear him talk to the spider."
Karis' response to "what is a nomad?" : someone who's mad and doesn't "know" it.
Caleb to Karis: "Hey, why don’t we pretend we are where the Statue of Liberty is…like China."
Caleb asked if he could wear Karis’ pink watch. I said sure. He was SO excited. Doug had told him in the kitchen that the watch was on military time, so he came to me to “fix” it.” I told him that was the reason Karis didn’t want it anymore. I said, “Caleb you could have it. It’s on military time. That’s the way the army keeps time, and you’re in the army, right?” He said, “Cool! I can tell when the army starts! I actually think it’s starting right now!”
Karis to Caleb, "What does it taste like?" Caleb - "It tastes like good."
Caleb telling his sisters what came in a box in the mail, over the phone, "We got water balloons...I'll spell it ...WA-DER BA-LLOONS...and we got 'Clouds with Meatballs,' 'Beberly Hills Chihuahua' about the dog, and 'Stole Story 3.'"
Caleb has heard me talk about my friend in Arua named Pasca, then we were trying to teach him the Spock sign with the pinky/ring finger together and pointer/middle finger together. Anyway, somewhere he got it confused, and he now says, "Live long and Pasca."
On November SEVENTEENTH: Karis said, "Is it November already? It was JUST April."
One of Caleb's many crazy knock-knock jokes: Knock, knock. Who's there? ZZZzzz. ZZZ who? Gazelle!
Caleb got my nail clippers and wanted to "work" on me and said, "I'm a doctor. I basically know everything."
After borrowing a car for a week that had power windows, we got our car back. Caleb says, "Our car is awesome! Look, you can roll down the windows when the motor is off!"
What if there was a restaurant in Daddy's nose? - Karis
Mom, you always make us take baths. Can't you ever give us a break? - Karis
Daddy, will you PLEASE give me a wedgie? - Caleb
"I had real poop today," said Karis. "Do you normally have fake poop?", said Mom. "No, I mean real human poop; not sick diarrhea poop." - Karis
"I'm feeling better now, so I have to be funny. I have a lot of silliness I need to get out." - Karis after she got better from being sick.
"When we played duck, duck, goose, I said, 'hamburger, hamburger, frickin fried chicken.'" - Did you even have to guess that Karis said that?
The mountains are following us. - Caleb
Before we left, Karis wanted to invite a friend over, and I was really busy. She said, "Please, Mom, we won't bother you. We will irritate ourselves."
This morning (our first morning in Africa), Karis said, "Africa is liking me. It is a lot of fun here."
At the airport in Entebbe, waiting in a line to report my lost luggage, Caleb said, "I'm ready to be in Africa." I said, "We are in Africa." He said, "No we're not. There are no animals here."
Karis tonight told me, "I was running on the haybales, and it was so cold, but I couldn't think of the word I wanted, and I said, 'My hands are dumb.'" Love that girl!
If I drink a lot, I can pee big like Daddy. - Caleb
When I grow up, I want to move to Yoakum and be a cowgirl. But I'll need a hat, some boots, and an outfit. - Karis
Karis to Mom: When you grow up, can I have that shirt?
Caleb's response to "What kind of dinosaur are you drawing?" "A Re-Tex."
Caleb told me today he learned about a small man named Abraham who climbed up in a Zaccheus tree.
Without a shirt on, Caleb raised his hand as if asking a question. Well, he had one alright. "Mom, is there hair under there?" (he's so ready to be like his daddy).
This reminds me of Caleb who screams out, "NO HEAD," when he sees headless manequins in a store. It kind of freaks him out.
Walking by some manequin busts with wigs on, in the mall, Kylie whispered in my ear, "Do you have to get a whole new head transplant if you buy a wig?" (priceless)
Knock-knock. Who's there? Salad. Salad who? I've got tomatoes and lettuce in me. - Kylie, following her sister's example :)
Knock-knock. Who's there? Penguin. Penguin who? I'm divin' in the water. - Karis, who has no concept of how a knock-knock joke is supposed to go. She cracks me up!
I asked Caleb while we were coloring a page together, "Are you trying to stay in the lines?" He said, "I keep trying, but they keep letting me out."
Caleb came running to me on Wednesday after church and said, "Mommy, I really want to kiss you." I said, "Come on!" XX "I love it, Caleb." "I love it too, Mommy."
We were doing a family devotional when Doug asked, "What does it mean to imitate?" Kylie said, "To bug you." Doug was quick on his feet with, "No. That's "irritate"."
Caleb wanted Daddy juice (chocolate milk) one morning (which Doug usually makes for them) and I said, "I'll make you Daddy Juice." He said, "But I won't feel the 'daddy'."
"I don't know why some people celebrate Easter with the Easter bunny. The real story is better." - Kylie (Amen, sister!)
"The Easter bunny is fake-believe." - Karis
Coming home last night, Caleb said, "We need to find an armadillo so we can hit it."
"I can run as fast as a cheetah-dah." - Caleb
"Mmm! This is good cantaloupe. Did Daddy kill this?" (I'm guessing Caleb confused his snack with the antelope we've been showing him pictures of on the African savannah.)
My dad (Doc) was helping Caleb on the potty. When Caleb couldn't get anything to come out, he said, "It's not working. I think it's broken."
We were studying icicles today, and Karis said, "Yes, they go around and around." I said, "What does?" "You know. The water thing that goes around and around that we learned about?" "Oh! The water cycle? Well, this is a little different."
Karis: "Mom, there is no "U" in the alphabet." Mom: "Yes, there is, honey, S, T, U, V." Karis: "I didn't know that. So it comes before V?"
"My favorite action hero is Skue Likewalker." - Caleb
"Mom, will you dance with me?" - my sweet 3 yr old boy
"Mom, I know my verse for tonight, 'I am the resolection and the lights.'" - Karis
Tonight, along with 17 deer we saw one "ky dotie" - Caleb's version of coyote
Karis crawled in bed with Doug to snuggle, and she said, "Oh! you are so warm. I'm stealing all your heat and giving you all my cold."
"O Holy Night" came on the radio, and I was telling the kids that it was a Christmas song. I said, "See, they just said, 'This is the night of the dear Savior's birth,'" and Caleb said without missing a beat, "Where's the deer?"
I have a password to my castle. Come here and let me secret it to you. - Karis
Dad shouldn't be 37. He is so big; it seems like he should be 55 or something. - Kylie
I still don't like black and white okra. - Karis (I guess that's what she hears when I say, "blackened okra."
Let's have a parket nick nick. - Caleb (He wanted a carpet picnic for dinner)
Kiss my kissers. - Caleb
Caleb was in the pool touching Doug's chest hair and said, "What dis?" Dad said, "Hair." Then he started looking up and down b/w Doug's head and chest and grabbing his own hair. Then Caleb said, "Why that hair not there?" (pointing to the top of Doug's head)
Look! Policers! - Karis
Caleb: "Yeee, Doggie!" Mom: "Where did you hear that?" Caleb: "At school." Mom: "Where do you go to school?" Caleb: "At the party school."
Karis rubbing her eyes: "My eyes are sour."
One of Caleb's many crazy knock-knock jokes: Knock, knock. Who's there? ZZZzzz. ZZZ who? Gazelle!
Caleb got my nail clippers and wanted to "work" on me and said, "I'm a doctor. I basically know everything."
Me to Karis: What is a nomad? Karis: Someone is mad and they don't know it...

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