Dude, you should've been there!!

Joel: One time, I wanted cherries for breakfast, but mom said, "no, we don't have any cherries."


After Daddy won his second Scrabble game out of two, Joel suggested they play team Scrabble.
Mom: Huh? What's that?
Joel: You like, add two people's scores together.
Mom: Oh! We should do that!
Joel: Yeah, that way, there's less losers!!


Unfortunately, these quotes are the kind where you had to have been there. The first one still cracks me up when I think of it. :P

--Sarah

Hmmm....

Jessica plays a big, deep version of "Mary Had a Little Lamb" on the piano. Marck (singing loudly and terribly out of tune): "Mary had a gigantic lamb whose fleece was white as a....a....YETI or something...."

One day after swim team:

Matt: "You ahve a Reatta sweatshirt??"

Marck: "Yeah, I made it myself."

Me: "So you have heard about Marck's Reatta possession/obsession, Matt?"

Matt: "Yes, I have."

Rachel J: "What is Reatta?  Is that a brand of clothes?"

Randomly at a Radical Wednesday:

"For some weird reason I like fighting with people...I just....like it."  ~Matt

Recommended by my mother:

"At least I know there are people in this world who are more stupid than me."  ~Jessica (moi).

Joel Gets Hit By A Pitch

Joel verbalized what he was thinking when he got hit by a pitch today. He's standing in the batters box waiting for the first pitch. As the ball comes way low and inside he thinks to himself in a 1/2 laughing voice, "Wow, that's a bad pitch." Then in a voice very similar to Farkas's toady*, he whispers a long "Ow".

It reminded me of a cartoon that makes Sarah and me laugh.


* From the movie Christmas Story. Farkas and his toady start trading licks to the arm until finally the toady whispers "Ow. Man!" and starts rubbing his injury.

The long awaited... and the basketballs.

Matt was trying to dissolve Nathan's shoelace:
Matt: I don't have my fabric dessolver!
Joel: Here, you can use mine.
Matt: Oh! Thanks. *sprays imaginary container*
Nathan: Ha! It didn't work! My shoelace is still here!
Joel: Woops!! That's not fabric dessolver! It's insta-cheese!! *sprays it in his mouth*
Nathan: Joel, you're not allowed to have any more insta-cheese.
Joel: *is devastated*
Matt: Balogna, however....
Joel: Ohh! I can have a sandwich! Insta-balogna, insta-cheese--
Matt: No! No more insta-cheese!
Joel: Ok, fine! Insta-bagel, insta-mayo, and insta-egg!! .....*makes chicken sound*...oh wait..... that's chicken.

During a Hawks Middle School game, a player from the other team falls out of bounds, and the ref blows his whistle...
*pause*
Isaac: He's out!!
Ref: ...That was a good call.
Isaac: *Pause* Thank you!

Nathan P. rode with us to the basketball games today...

Talking about recent injuries:
Nathan: what did you do to your pinkie?
David: I smashed it on the Ping Pong table going for the ball.
Nathan: Ouch.
Joel: yeah, it's been blue like that for like a month.
Nathan: I hit my hand on [something] the other day.
David: Ooo. That doesn't look bad.
Nathan: no, it wasn't that bad.
Joel: I smashed my big toe with a rock!

As we drove past a car lot:
Joel: *gasp* cool car. ... *gasp* cool car. ... *gasp* cool car.
David: Cool balloons....

Then Joel was talking about how he was going to make and sell cars when he grows up:
Joel: I'll use all my money and make one car. Then I'll sell it, and use that money to make two cars...
David: That won't work.
Joel: yeah it will.
Me: As long as you keep making the cars nicer...
Joel: I'll have to start out with hotwheels. Then move up to remote controlled cars... Then regular cars.
Nathan: And then cars that work.
Joel: yeah! Cars that run.
Nathan: Cars that have tires.
Joel: Cars that have steering wheels!!
Nathan: Your cars before are just nothing but the frame. No engine or anything.
Joel: And I have to stand up, 'cause there's no seats! To get them to go, I have to take them to the top of a hill.....
Nathan: I can see you, standing in the frame of a car with no steering wheel or tires, on the top of a hill... then give it a push and down you go! Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa-- then you hit a tree.

--Sarah

A lot from Marck and a little from Matt...

While I was getting my various morning vitamins out of their containers...

Marck:  "Can you get me an oregano oil capsule while you are getting one?"

Me:  "No, get one yourself."

Marck:  "But - but - but - but -but -but -but - but - rear end - but - but - but....."

As we were all trying to get down from the H's tree house:

Matt:  "Don't insult me when I'm on a swinging ladder!"

Marck was doing his Bible study while I was sorting laundry...

Marck (reading from the study text):  "What is your first impression of Saul?" (to himself):  "Hm.....Saul....Paul...."

Me:  "What book are you reading?"

Marck:  "First Samuel."

Me:  "That isn't the same Saul that becomes Paul, you know."

Marck:  "It isn't?  You mean there are two Sauls in the Bible and I don't know anybody named Saul???"

Me:  "Well, yeah."

Marck:  "I am going to name one of my kids Saul.  And another one Paul.  And when I have a girl I will name her Mall because that is her favorite place to go.  I have a fat kid and name him Ball because he will be round like one.  Then there will be Tall because he is tall.  I'll have two clumsy kids and name one Fall and the other Wall because he'll be like you and always be running into things.  And the baby's name will be Small."

The Dancing Dead

Sounds like the name of a band or something.

It's another quote heard while driving somewhere. We were recently invited to a dance/party and my boys were remarking on their distaste for the activity (dancing, not partying).

David: I wouldn't be caught dead dancing.
Joel: I wouldn't be caught dancing if I was dead.

Isn't that interesting. Both statements essentially mean the same thing, but the latter one appears ridiculous.

A few quotes that have been waiting...

While watching “The Greatest Game Ever Played” (a golf movie):
Daddy: Well, he HAS to make it, because otherwise they wouldn’t have made a movie about it.
Sarah: Nevertheless, here we are, wondering whether he’ll make it or not.

Alec: Joel, are you mad at me 'cause I killed you?
Joel: No, not really.

Marck: Jessica!!
Jessica: Yes?
Marck: ... I forgot.
A few minutes later...
Marck: Jessica!
Jessica: Yes....?
Marck: I remembered! Do you want to play flashlight tag?

~Lizzie