Notes From The Cupboard

 Tasha did not realize how full Quinn's phone was of saved texts about funny or memorable things the kids have done.  So this is a catch up post of our Notes from the Cupboard ... that we have not done in a LONG time.  It may be long, but remember, this is over 1 year and is part of our journal :)

June - August 2015

• “Mom what does B-R-A spell?” That spells bra. “Bra, whats a bra? Hey mom, that’s kinda like broccoli!”
   
• Gensie: “I wish I was willy da gull wif da ice powers"
  
  
• McKay: “Thank you the twins go borned and thank you mom can have another baby ... but not for a really long time"
  
  
• McKay: “Cadence and London shouldn’t you guys be in clothes?”
  
  
• Gensie: “Der choosing not da white? Choose da white smoking people”
  
  
• Tasha: "Don’t rock my chair Gens." Gensie: “I won't rock it if you say it nicely.” Tasha: "Please don’t rock my chair Gens." Gensie: “Ok”

• Gensie: "Please help us to get much much much more animals and a puppy."
  
  
• McKay: "We could spray the hose up to the sun so the sun wouldn’t be so hot"
  
  
• Gensie: “If Jesus came to our house right now would he see me making my bed?” Yes he would. “Oh I'm being next to godliness.”
  
  
• Gensie: "Lele isn’t being like Jesus cause she is squooshing me and Jesus doesn’t squoosh"
  
  
• McKay: “Oh no its too hot outside cause its just 4 oz tgrees"
  
  
• McKay: “Dad, missions are for a long time!” I know. Two years! “Is there food there? Because I will get hungry”
  
  
• How much does a mother have to put up with? Lele insists I share my floss with her while I'm using it. Then I put Mentholatum on me and her and while I am carrying her out of my bathroom she wipes her finger across my lips taking my Mentholatum with her, then wipes it on her own lips.

• Mckay wants to know if we have to be quiet now that the computer is asleep
  
  
• Mckay just announced he’s almost done with Jesus (coloring a picture)
  
  
• Gensie says the fan is turning the pages for her
  
  
• Gensie do you want to put a tshirt on so you won't get sunburned? “No I don’t need to put a tshirt on to not get sunburned because da holy ghost wiw be wif me”
  
  
• Mckay and Gensie playing playmobils: G: “dis cow is a gull, see cause it has milk” as she hold it up for him to see the udder. M: “Ya Gensie I know cause a boy just has one and it has water”

Sept - December 2015

• Lele is riding on Gensie's back. Gensie says she is going for a cannibal ride (camel ride)
  
  
• Gensie says da floor is soakin dirty.
  
  
• I was in the bathroom from just getting out of the shower and this is the report I get. Mckay comes and asks if he can come in; I say no. He then says, “Mom Avonlea is in the kitchen and she got out a cheese grater, a knife, and the thing you pick up eggs with, and let me go see what else she got out…oh no, that’s it, that’s all she got out. And now she is up on the counter with her feet in the sink and you know those things you clean the bottles with…She is brushing her teeth with it” This is my life.
  
  
• Gensie doesn’t watch Bambi any more cause his mommy dies and she willy loved her

•  Gensie said "Her bandaid killed her awee."

• Gensie's playmobil puppy is going to sleep over at McKay's house but Gensie says her puppy needs milk. She asks McKay what kind he has. He says he has "goats milk, cows milk, breast milk, and chocolate milk."

• Gensie reads the word "has" and says "It's like the song (has I have loved you.)

• Gensie says we have "2 little gull puppies crawling around our house. One of them likes to eat steam from the oatmeal."

•  McKay says "Avonlea, thank you for finding it, but uh-oh for eating it."

• I was trying to paint my nails and Gensie wants to know if I have the color sparklies and McKay wants to know if I have the color Hot Navy.

• McKay will you go help Gensie make her bed please? Mckay responded "Or I could just do all of it cause I'm gonna be a missionary so I'm gonna be serving."

• McKay says "Gensie do you want to know what I spy means?" Gensie says "Yea" He starts to tell her and she says "When I said yea, I meant no."

• McKay says "Are you your big mommy's sweetheart?" I prefer Mommy's big sweetheart.

• Gensie says to me "Why do those get big when you put your shirt on?" She was pointing at my chest. I said they're not big. She says "Why do they get fat when you put our shirt on?" (It's because I put a bra on)

• Gensie asks "Mom, do you like milk bester than water?" No. "You like water bester?"

• Gensie "Please help that you won't rain it while we are outside."

• Gensie is eating bwefkist and tells McKay "I didn't know Mommy could make such good toast. Daddy can make good toast too. He can make burned toast, and good toast, and such burned toast."

• Gensie "Mommy, is dis so happy? Daddy pinned my pants wif a pin and it's lovely. I'm so proud of Daddy taking care of me in da night."

• Gensie "Let's measure tape the twins."

• McKay "Horses actually run with their real feet. But my stick horse doesn't have any feet so he is just using my feet."

• Gensie "Mommy, all my Mentholatum is coming off and it's hopping on my food."

• When McKay grows up he is NOT going to call his children "kids" because kids are baby goats.

• When McKay drinks out of a mason jar Gensie says she is drinking out of a mia jar.

January-March 2016

• McKay "Is it time for Daddy to come home? I'm just tired of being with all these girls and no boys."

• Gensie is so exciting to go down to da pictures. She is so exciting.

• Gensie "Mom, will Dad's rain washers come up again?" She meant windshield washers

• McKay said the family prayer and in it he said "Heavenly Father please help our Daddy to get a better job so we can move and get all the animals in the whole world and they will come trained." Sometimes parents have to say "Heavenly Father please answer my child's prayer" and other times we have to say "Please don't answer that prayer."

• Gensie told McKay "One day I had a pokey poop in me and I tried to poop it out but it would not come out, it just kept poking me."

• We were watching Anne of Avonlea. Quinn said to Lele "The name of this movie is Anne of Avonlea, did you know that?" Avonlea says "why dis Waway?" (Waway is how she says Lele) Later I saw her looking at the cover of the movie like she was reading it. I asked her what does it say. She said "Anne of Me."

• Gensie "Mom do you know dat all my big gulls (big girls) say I love my mommy da best? Dey do say dat. Even da ones I am wearing and even da ones dat are on Avonlea's head say it."

• McKay wants to know if I think "He is the goodest colorer I ever sawd." Perhaps we will be turning our attention to his english now that math and reading are under control.

• Gensie re-named our twins "Jaluby and Mike."

• This is how the morning is going. I get McKay lined out on math and while he is working some problems on his own I get Gensie up on the table so I can do her hair.  She wants a certain braid that is a little time consuming so while I am right in the middle of the braid Avonlea climbs up on the table, takes McKay's ruler and pencil and throws them on the floor.  He jumps right down to get them and while he is picking them up she throws his math book on the floor.  He gets everything picked up and as he is climbing back into his chair Avonlea lays across his book with her whole body.  I tell her to get off and of course she doesn't even consider obeying me.  I can't make her until I finish the braid so I tell McKay he has to just wait until I'm done.  He says "Well, I can still see these problems so I'll do them."  Then he "trys" to work some addition with Lele laying on his book. 

• I laid down with Lele to get her to take a nap. Gensie comes in a minute later so sad almost ready to cry. She says "Mommy, McKay doesn't like worms and I am so sad because worms are my favorite animal and I willy need you to teach him a lesson about liking worms cause they are my favorite animals, just worms and puppies." 

• The kids had a toy they were pretending to use as a voice prompt google search that you start by saying Ok google. I heard McKay say "Ok google, we want to know if the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles are real and if they are a true story."  

• Gensie "Google is da gwinch weal? Google said yes, he is weal."

• I said to Mckay while he was doing math that he is so smart. He said "I know, the people that made this math book cant' trick me." I said they're not trying to trick you they're trying to teach you. He said "Well, sometimes they try to trick me and they can't."

• Gensie "This is my beloved daughter"

April-June 2016

• Avonlea "Mommy come here or I will spank your bottom."

• Lele stands in front of the fan to get da hot off her.

• Gensie 'Oh no I'm bleeding." McKay asks "Gensie can I see?" She says "Ok but you might not be able to see it, it's so tiny."

• Gensie: "I want to wear my pink-a-dotted bow dress"

• Quinn was laying on the floor giving kids airplane rides on his feet.  Gensie wanted a turn, so while one of the other kids was having a turn she said, "I want them to have a down fun ride".  Meaning she wanted them to have a fun ride while coming down, so that she could have a turn.  She wasn't trying to swear:)

July-September 2016

• The kids were watching Beethoven and Avonlea wants to know if she can go in the movie and hold the puppies.

• McKay was saying how Uncle Zatl doesn't like it in Arizona and he wants to move. Gensie asks "How come he doesn't like it there?" McKay answers "Because it's a desert and there isn't very much food and water in the desert."

• I run two mornings a week. I work it around when Quinn is working from home. If he has a week where he doesn't work from home I put a gate up in the front doorway and I walk across the street to the side walk and run up and down in front of my house where I can see, hear, and talk to my kids as they all 5 wait at the gate watching me and yelling things like "Mom, you look so cute" or "Mom, you look so pretty."

• McKay "Mom, Cadence's cheeks are just like hangin from her face."

• I asked Lele "Do you like your Aunt Autumn?" She said "Yip, and my Aunt Dama and my Aunt Dwampa." 

• Avonlea and I were getting ready to go to play-date.  Avonlea says, "What park are we going to?"  I said, "I don't know".  Avonlea says, "Tell the truth Mom."