My favorite quote

"I just wanted to tell you that your kids are the ONLY reason I will have kids when I'm older..."
Helen. 7/24/09

Words to live by

If it is to be, it is up to me.

FANTASTIC!

Wyatt: Mommy, I have three words for you.
Me: What?
Wyatt: Fan! Tath! Tic!

Wy has taken to calling Jack "Jackie".
"Jackie? Will you play wif me?" "Jackie? Can I have a bite?" "Jackie! You are silly!"

Wyatt has decided that if an adult can punish him or a kid can thwart him, then it is only fair if he can retaliate in kind. For example:
Mommy: Wyatt! That is 3! Take 5!
Wyatt: Fine, but you can't go to a fee-atre wiff me! (You can't go to a theatre with me.) He also gives you the stink eye when he declares this punishment. If Wyatt threatens you with not being able to go to the theatre with him, you know you have made your way to the bottom of his list.

Jack was doing homework in a Highlights magazine - he was working on one of the puzzles where you identify 2 identical pictures out of 6 possible options. I told him it was sometimes easier to cross off the ones you knew were wrong. He starts crossing off pictures. I made him stop and tell me what was wrong about each picture. In an exasperated tone he let me know his reasoning for crossing off each picture. Then he suddenly said "This one is right!" and put a circle around it. I asked how he knew that truck was one of the two matching images. He looked at me and said "Mommy, you just go to the menu in the back." and he flipped to the ANSWER SECTION of the magazine. Sure enough, he had circled one of the matching trucks. I think he had looked at that puzzle before...

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