Dallin setting up a new toy.
Mom: there are directions in the box.
Dallin: I see them. I’m probably not going to listen to them.

As we are driving home tonight “smells like teen Spirit” comes on the radio. At the end of the song it says “a denial, a denial, a denial” and Levi’s start singing “of Denali! Of Denali! Molly of Denaliiii”.

2 weeks post hip surgery. Weston: when are you going to start cooking dinner again?
Week 3- Mike takes over cooking, but mostly ordering take out. Weston: Is someone bringing us dinner tonight? 🤦‍♀️

Me: Good night Levi
Levi: Can we chat for a minute?
Me: Sure sweetie. What do you want to chat about?
Levi: Waffles.
Me: Waffles the brat cat?
Levi: No, Waffles the food.

August 22, 2018
Quote of the day-

“One thing I love about our home is that we get to have daddy as our dad.”
-Weston

It was my own fault for telling the boys that there was such a thing as diapers made for grownups, but the next time I walked away from my cart at the store, they filled it with adult diapers and laughed like banshees.

Levi: I’m still hungry for one more snack.
Mike: That’s going to be written on his tombstone.

I gave Levi a cup of cough syrup. He drinks it and says “Take THAT, cough!”

Weston has started making shapes out of his pee on the floor: "look mama, it's a helicopter!" I think this is a step backwards on the road to potty training.

2009

Have you thought about switching your kids to decaf coffee?
- our waiter tonight

2012-
Weston is a lover of words. Whenever he hears a new word he comes to me for the definition. Recently he asked me what "specific" and "terrorize" mean.  Then today he asked me what a demustardifyer is. I said "I don't think that's a word". He said "Yes it is, It's something that cleans up mustard".

Levi just referred to Grandma and Grandpa as "the grandpeople".

From 2009-
Weston: It tastes yucky mama.
Me: That's why we don't eat the outside of bananas.

Insult of the day: I hope you fart in your mouth!
-Levi

Levi: let’s play charades. what am I?
Mom:  A snail? A wet towel? Someone doing yoga?
Levi:  i’ll give you a hint. Pirates are looking for me.
Mom:  buried treasure!

Levi calls a bruise a “broo”. If you have 2, the plural would be broos or “bruise”.

Overheard: Oh, I just remembered! Mittens has DJ lessons today!
-Levi (6)
Mittens is the stuffed animal cat.

2011
Weston: Where's the book about 'mac n cheese'?
Me: What????
Weston: The book about 'mac n cheese'!
Me: The book about 'Macaroni and Cheese'?????
Weston: No, 'Mac n cheese'!
Me: *thinking really hard* Do you mean "Green Eggs and Ham"????  Weston: YES!

The trash can in the boys bathroom is full of torn pieces of unused toilet paper. According to dallin, the toilet paper "wouldn't tear in a straight line" and was therefore unusable.
From 2010

My classmates call me “the leaning tower of pancakes”!
-Levi (kindergarten)

The pelvis is my favorite bone in the body. It’s like the underwear of the skeleton. - Dallin (9)