Irish Cream: Finished

Semantics- updated October 16tht

"It's a biography. How is is supposed to be interesting when it's not!?"
Zoë while explaining why she had so many pictures on her poster.
October 16, 2012

"I... don't... like... Avocado!"
"You have to eat avocado..."
"Mom--"
"if you want french fries."
"Mom, I'm not old enough!"
Veronica during dinner
September 1, 2012

"The squirrel in the McKenna's (neighbor's) house is really Alvin; he lost his voicetrack."
Miranda about the squirrel seen that doesn't talk.
September 1, 2012

"We don't eat grass, we eat dinner!"
Nica during a discussion with her sisters about food.
August 26, 2012

"Nica. Go to bed." ~Travis
"mm-hummmm, no!"
Pause.
Then in a small voice, "I'm tired."
Nica laying at the base of the stairs, refusing to go to bed.
August 13, 2012

"Don't really believe it.
This is fake crying."
Miranda after scraping her arm on the playground.
August 5, 2012

"...and thank you Heavenly Father for not making me dress up as a pioneer for pioneer day!"
Miranda during a prayer on Pioneer Day
July 24, 2102

"Nanaunt, you are going to die tomorrow, but Nana will not."
Nana asks why.
"Because Nanaunt has gray hair and you don't!"
Miranda in a conversation with my mom and my aunt.
July 2012

"I'm not sad about it, I'm MAD about it!"
Miranda after her "future husband" dumped her for her older sister.
May 16, 2012

"First you're a first grader.
Last you're a last grader!"
Miranda
March 31, 2012

"Owie... owie!"
"Where's your owie, Nica?"
"I can't find it!"
Veronica from her car seat after sitting in the van for 6 hours.
March 30, 2012

"Stuck in Bed,
Stuck in Bed.
All Fall Down!"
Overheard; Veronica from her crib upon wakening this morning.
November 27, 2011

"I was too tired, but I did it anyway"
"You must be a mother."
Travis to Holley A. (who is in fact a mother of 4)
November 25, 2011

"No! It's not a frog, it's a ribbit!"
Veronica looking at picture book of a toad in a witch's costume.
October 24, 2011

Zoë: Mmm, my gum tastes just like mint chocolate chip ice cream!
Megan: Mmm, my gum taste just like strawberry shortcake!
Miranda: My gum taste just like nothing!
The girls making comments about their "dessert" gum.
Summer 2011

"Can we go to the Mystery???"
Miranda at the zoo pointing at the spraying mist.
July 16, 2011

"I am just a little bit more tan that Megan. Just a tiny bit. Like, fish food more brown than she is."
Zoë comparing her skin tone to her little sisters.
July 14, 2011

"Do you know the name of this band?
It's Dead or Alive.
They can't decide."
Zoë while listening to "You Spin Me Round"
May 17, 2011

Taco Party
Taco Party
Taco Party
Yeah-ah-ahh
Miranda singing to "Funky Town"
May 7, 2011

Mom: All Done.
Miranda: Time to go get new ones!
upon returning the library books to the automatic check in.
May 3, 2011

"I kissed you. You're alive."
Miranda after kissing Ephraim, a little friend (boy) playing dead, on the cheek.
April 23, 2011

"ROOAAARRR!
That means be quiet!"
Miranda after her mom had a rough day and a headache... and maybe yelled a little too much to get the girls to be quiet).
December 31, 2010

"Baby!"
Veronica upon opening a compact mirror and seeing her little smiley face.
March 6, 2011

"I think we need a wedding van!"
Megan upon relfecting how we couldn't fit all our friends into our van. When asked to clarify what is a "wedding van" she described a limousine.
March 5, 2011

"Horses need to wear underwear."
Why?
"So their bums can keep them warm!"
Miranda, while discussing why the horses currently have blankets on them in the less-than-twenty-degree weather outside.
January 20, 2011

Miranda: I'M NOT LITTLE!
Travis: We aren't talking about your vocal chords.
(Miranda was complaining about little plates, which Travis explained were for little girls)
January 8, 2011

"Fe-Fi-Fo-Fum
I declare a thumb war"
Megan
December 29, 2010

"Is Handsome home?"
Miranda to her mom upon hearing her dad's voice.
(Said mom often calls her husband "Handsome" as a nickname).
December 6, 2010

During tithing settlement, the bishop asked Zoë if she was ready to be baptized. Miranda chimed in, "I've been bathtized! Lots of times.
In the bathtub!"
November 28, 2010

Dad: You must be related to Jack.
Miranda: No I not! I'm not a boy!
November 25, 2010

"Mooo-uuummm! You got hanitizer!?!
~Miranda commenting on the hand sanitizer in the picnic back (that has been there for weeks).
August 31, 2010

"OK. Here are the rules. The only rule is no cheating... And, you can go swimming in the deep end, but no drowing-- it is 9 feet deep!"
~Zoë explaining how to play the new game with her friends at the pool.
August 18, 2010

"What?! They don't have a table of continents!"
Zoë upon looking through her new book.
July 7, 2010

"A horse and a carriage is called a boogie"
Megan while driving through Amish country
June 30, 2010

"Mmmm, apple pits! Can we have some, mom?"
Megan at the grocery store looking at dried apricots
June 18, 2010

"You don't have to like me,
to be your sister."
Zoë to Megan when her little sister didn't want to play the game being dictated and Megan voiced her opinion about her dislike.
June 13, 2010

"Mama? Are you shushing your boobies?"
Zoë, on her mom spraying on deodorant
Spring 2005

"Stop it off!"
Miranda, asking somebody to quit talking.
June 2010

"Your necklace likes exercise."
Miranda while swinging the pinecone pendant on her Aunt Becky's necklace
June 4, 2010

"MMmmma-ma-ma-ma"
Veronica when she's upset or wants to be picked up
"Dthadt-datht-datht"
Veronica when she's happy
May 2010

"And... it's not good to break your leg for nuthin'"
Megan in response to Zoë saying that once upon a time she wanted to break her leg so she could sit in a wheel chair, but maybe that wasn't such a great idea.
May 3, 2010

"Lion! You can't taste my baby sister!"
Miranda, to the lion at the zoo
April 21, 2010

"What the hat!?!?"
Miranda
January 2010

Nadine: Be quiet, Zoë!
Miranda: Zoë? Be quiet!
Nadine: No, Miranda, you're not the boss.
Miranda: Zoë, you're not the boss.
April 18, 2010

Nadine: They will give you some medicine so it will feel like a dream.
Megan: I feel like that every day!
April 13, 2010

"I need some frosting, too."
Miranda while we put toothpaste on our brushes.
April 8, 2010

"Look! A Runny Babbit!"
Miranda upon sighting a large (6-foot) lawn rabbit in blue.
Easter, April 2010

Travis: Hey! Get outta there! Those are my Peeps!
Miranda: I want to share with you.
Easter, April 2010

Nadine to Miranda: It's no wonder you always say "I don't know" first. You've been saying "why" since you were eighteen months old.
Miranda: Why?
Nadine: I don't know; why do you always say "why"?
Miranda: I don't know.
April 2010

"I want to be a dentist...
so I can pull teeth out and get money from the tooth fairy."
Megan
March 2010

"Uh, oh!
He's going to get a splinter."
Megan, watching a video about barefoot runners,
a new Nature science article.
February 2010

"Maahh-aaahh-uhmmmm!
My snowman is going to melt!"
Miranda wanting her snowman made from bread dough out of the oven.
January 2010

Nadine: She took off her... (pause)
Miranda: Pajamas.
Travis: (laughing) Wow, a two-year-old finishing your sentences!
January 2010

"Bad Man! He's not very nice!"
Miranda while watching "MachoMan" (from WWF) on YouTube.
January 2010

Zoë: Dad, what's bigger than a whale?
Mom: Nothing's bigger than a whale
Travis: A bigger whale
Megan: I know what's bigger than a whale! The Sky.
January 2010

"That's my dad saying the prayer!"
~Miranda, noticing half way through the prayer that it was Travis giving the invocation during Sacrament meeting at church.
January 2010

"Mom, you are Veronica's cup!"
~Megan as we were gathering water bottles for our picnic.
December 2009

"Miranda! stop poking me! OWWW!"
"Sorry, Megan... I'm giving you a shot."
December 2009

"Mmm, it smells like a princess.
I smell like a Princess!"
~Megan, her pink Disney Princess lip gloss
December 2009

"I want some lips on!"
~Miranda, asking for some lipstick
December 2009

"Don't worry! I'll tease him for you, Zoë!"
Megan to her big sister when she was complaining about how Brother Carrier teases her and she doesn't like it.
October 2009

"No! Megan. No baby kisses!"

Miranda, while holding Veronica, swatting away Megan who was giving her new baby sister sweet kisses on her head.

August 2009

"She has a wig, just like Miranda!"

Zoë while holding Veronica and noticing how much dark hair she had.

August 2009

"I'm the Fairy Queen and Jack is my son, the good bad guy."
Megan telling us what she and her cousin Jack were playing together.
July 2009

Travis: Tell me a story, Zoë.
Megan: I can tell you one, dad! Once upon a time there were three boys...(pause)
Zoë: There's chocolate in the middle!
Megan: ...and they married princesses. But they had to kill the bad dragons first, the ones that wanted to kill the princesses.
(Zoë was sucking on a tootsie pop).
June 2009

"Daddy? Are you a good husband?... I think you are...You go to work. And, you married mommy."
~Megan
2009

"Zoë isn't a buddy! She's a girl; she's a Cutie!"
~Megan
2009

"It is Spring oustide. I don't have to wear a coat. Yay!!"
~Megan, while stepping outside to a sunny day with a temp of 70.
2009

"I don't want to play with my sisters! (pause)
I wish I had a twin!" (door slam)
~Zoë on playing with her sisters (not neighbor friends) after school.
2009

"What's dat!? What's dat!? Pwaat Pwaat Pwaat"
~Miranda talking to the ducks
2009

"I need to exercise, but I can't.
"I don't have any en-gee"
~Megan
2009

"Mama! I-wanna-deh-ow"
~Miranda when she woke up in the morning.
(Translation= Mama, I wanna get out)
2009

"I'm not a dumb boy! "
~Megan pretending to talk to Nana on the phone.
2009

"You need to have a Mommy-Daddy date!"
Zoë on a daddy-daughter date.
2009

"Let's play house.
"I'm the mom.
"I need to take a rest."
~Zoë
2009

Megan, from her bed- still awake late at night:
Dad? Will you close my door?
I want to be scared!
2009

Megan: I don't like carrots.
Mom: Yes, you do! You eat them all the time.
Megan: No. I don't like them any more. I liked them when I was Zoë's age.
Dad: What do you mean? You're not her age.
Zoë: Yes, she is! I was one, I was two, I was three like she is now.
2009

"Red means stop. Green means go. Yellow? Uh Oh"
~Megan, relating the meaning of traffic lights.
2008

"Oh, Wow!"
~Miranda, her birthday balloon in the shape of a cupcake.
2008

"I'll take her, Mom!"
~Megan when Zoë stated during sacrament meeting that she needed to go to the bathroom.
2008

"Mmmm, tastes like breakfast!"
~Megan with her first bite of a rice crispy treat
2008

"If you guys would be quiet you could hear it, too!"
~Zoë while attempting to watch a movie in the same room as parents and grandparents during a Notre Dame football game.
2008

"Uh Oh"
~Miranda while getting her diaper changed.
2008

"Underwear on your head? That's not a good idea."
~Megan.
2008

"I will never be a Grandma.
I will be a Nana!"
~Zoë
2008

"My Dad is funny at me."
~Megan
2008

"I think my throw is not going to come up"
~Megan while feeling nauseated.
2008

Nadine: Didn't I call it? I said it seemed like rain
"Mom, how did you call the rain?"
~Zoë
2008

"That's just not good for me."
~Zoë, giving up a toy to a friend.
2008

"We can share my Sundae... just don't take big bites"
~Zoë
2008

"If Pirates don't find anything on the beach, they spit!"
~Zoë
2008

Friday, November 6, 2009

Finished

Hurrah!

I finally finished the Halloween pictures. All the photos are posted on this web page. You can scroll to the Halloween pictures on the left hand side.

We had a blast! And, I'm ready to throw away the GOBS of candy we have... it's just too tempting for me.

1 comments:

claudia said...: I am with the "vegetables", I'd rather nap than go trick-or-treating...The train for the neighborhood looks like so much fun. Thanks for posting all the pictures, it makes us seem closer.; November 11, 2009 at 6:40 PM

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Friday, November 6, 2009

Finished

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