Quotes from June-August 2009

* 8/20/09 - "I need my shoes and things on my knees in case I trip." (you mean, shin guards?) first soccer season
* 8/20/09 - After playing our game of "what if we didn't have" a house, beds, etc. Tim: "And what if we didn't have Costco outside and then what?"
* 8/11/09 "Guess what Heavenly Father sent us Letters movies to learn our letters, and Heavenly Father sent Letter books to help us write letters."
* 7/23/09 "Heavenly Father doesn't want us to pop balloons."
* 7/22/09 " Wow, no diarrhea Tim, that's great!!"
* 6/20/09 - "It's Father's Day! Oh yeah, it's like Mother's Day but for dads."
* 6/10/09 Tim: "Mommy, I'm so stupid at you!" (he was very upset)

Quotes from May 2009

5/29/09 - "Daddy, your hair fell off your head and went to your armpits and belly button because you don't say your prayers."
5/25/09 Dave: We better say the blessing or your belly button will fall off. "Hey wait, our belly buttons can't fall off, they're just holes." Dave: Well then you'll grow hair under your arms.
5/20/09 Tricia: Why do you like these? "Because Transformers and Scooby Doo are what makes my heart feel happy!"
5/13/09 - Tricia: Liberty, are you an angel? "Why, she's in white skin just like me?"
5/8/09 - "My mom's underwear goes all the way up to her neck." (thanks Nathan)
5/4/09 - Tim: I don't want to get baptized. Nathan: "You have to so you can live with Jesus again. Is Heaven in the Salt Lake Temple? Because He was looking at you in the tree in the picture."
5/4/09 - "I want to sleep until Christmastime. I want to sleep until my birthday."
5/3/09 - "If you sleep for like 100 days, you'd have lots of energy. Right, right?"
5/2/09 - Daddy: How do you know Liberty is a girl? Nathan: "Because she has a big bottom." Timmy: "NO, Nathan, because she is a sweetheart!"

Quotes from April 2009

4/27/09 - FHE (Armor of God): What do we wear before going to battle? "Our pajamas? Or I mean our clothes."
4/22/09 Tricia: What do you do on Earth Day? "You do earth things, [shrug shoulders] like you make planets and stuff."
4/22/09 "In Disneyland, that's where all the princesses live."
4/17/09 - "Can you see really far with the eyes on the back of your head? What if it was really dark [in] the whole house?"
4/14/09 - "Daddy can't defeat snakes. They live in the desert caves. That's why we can't go sleep in the desert." (Fathers and Sons Campout Anxiety)
4/11/09 - Nathan, what's your strategy for the Easter egg hunt? "Get the most eggs?"
4/3/09 - "Hey Mom, my mouth doesn't feel silly anymore. My tooth and lips and tongue are awake now." (next morning after going to the dentist)

Quotes from March 2009

3/28/09 - "Mom write Nathan wants six snakes for Christmas. First it starts with 'Nathan', then 'wants'. I want ten of everything, snakes, turtles, rhinos..."

3/27/09 - Tricia: Oh my word. Nathan: "We don't say that Mommy, we only say Heavenly Father's word."

3/26/09 - Tim: "I don't want to buy a different house because I like this house."

3/23/09 - "I wanted to go to Utah for my birthday present. How many days, how many minutes does it take to get to Utah? That's where our cousins are."

3/20/09 - "Mom, you know why I am the meatball monster? Because I eat all the meatballs in the whole 'tire world!"

3/9/09 - "Can you go one hundred fast? Now, I'm the tagger because you just tagged me."

3/7/09 - "Mom, pet rocks are really cool! You don't just buy them, you make them!"

Quotes from February 2009

2/23/09 - "Well the medicine won't help me breathe under water." Tricia: When will you be under water? "When I'm eight."
2/21/09 - "Come on Michael, Google Earth is much funner than Geotrax."
2/18/09 - "Hey, Mom, you know why they call them suckers? Because they get little when you suck them."
2/13/09 - Mom: Tim, we don't whine. Nathan: "Yeah and we don't drink wine either! It will make us sick." (BOM reading this week: drunken Lamanite guards)
2/8/09 - "Scooby Doo is for fruits." (after looking at his fruit of the loom underwear tag)
2/5/09 - "Tim was King Noah, I was Tim's servant and he told me to kill Abinidi. Liberty was Abinidi and if I touched her I would die?" (Scripture role play)
2/4/09 - "Mom, are you cutting off the beard on the back of my neck?"
2/3/09 - "Can I go in my room? In your room, go to sleep. In my room, no!" (his understanding of quiet time)

Quotes from January 2009

• 1/28/09 - After Tricia had to help Dave put a lid on tupperware, Dave said, "I'm retarded." Nathan responded, "You're not retarded. I'm retarded." [watch what you say around your kids]
• 1/28/09 - Nathan's response to leftovers: "When you have something that you ate already, well, you can't have it again. We can't eat that for days!"
• 1/23/09 - "Is Barack Obama good or bad?" He's bad. "We need all the transformers to come and get him."
• 1/23/09 - "Why did Heavenly Father make me come first? Because I am older than my little brother?"
• 1/18/09 "Dad, why were you born before me?" Dave: "So I could be your dad." Nathan: "Oh yeah, that's right."
• 1/16/09 - Sitting on pedestal sink, washing his dirty feet - Tricia: Are you safe up there? "Yeah, Daddy calls me spiderman, because I cannot fall."
• 1/8/09 Nathan's commentary while watching Diego: "Why do you keep talking to us? Stop talking to us!"
• 1/5/09 "Mom, at church I learned about choosing the right. If you broke the swing and it wasn't you, that's the wrong part." "When you do something wrong, choose the right."
• 1/2/09 Nathan, after dipping and leaving several tortilla chips in salsa: "Look, it's a spicy hoe down!" Tricia: "What's a Hoe Down Nathan?" Nathan: "It's where you have cake, and violins, and juice boxes, and dancing."
• 1/1/09 Nathan's comments while hiking in the San Tan Mountains: "We have to hurry before the sun goes down, or the coyotes will eat us!" . . . "Look, Dad, a magic rock . . . there are lots of magic rocks." . . .
• 1/1/09 "Dad, I'm strong like Optimus Prime and I'm brave like BumbleBee, because I'm not afraid of anything." Dave: What about coyotes? "Uhm, I just don't want coyotes around but I'm not afraid of them."

Quotes from December

• 12/24/08 Dave: "Nathan, you're growing up way too fast." Nathan: "I know Dad, I don't want to get big. I want to stay the size I am now."
• 12/19/08 Dave: Nathan, this year we're going to ask Santa to give all your toys to kids that don't have any toys. Nathan: "Some kids don't want toys, that is why people don't have toys because they do not like them."
• 12/9 "Mom, when is your tummy going to get big again. I want another baby." Me: Not anytime soon!
• 12/7 "Dad, Heavenly Father makes black widows go away. He makes all scary things go away."
• 12/4 "Dad, to win, you have to score more points than the other guys."
• 12/4 "The Oversons are going to come back here. We need to hide when they come back."