I can't believe I'm starting a volume 3! Volume 2 book published for a Christmas gift in 2021.
VOLUME 3:
December 2, 2021
Gianna is our belt-it-out singing child. Sometimes, out of nowhere, she'll just break into song; usually it's in the shower, but sometimes she gifts us a song in other situations. On this particular day, she started belting out a tune by the band, We the Kingdom called "Holy Water".
As she was singing the words, she began acting it out with her body and she sang the lyrics that are supposed to be "Your forgiveness is like sweet, sweet honey on my lips" as 'Your forgiveness is like sweet, sweet honey on my hips' as she put her hands on her hips and then proceeded to smack her right hip while pushing it out.
Needless to say, I was laughing so hard.
December 8, 2021
(Micah has become an "hallway monitor" lately, but he was never hired for the job so he likes to keep us briefed on everything going on in the house.)
Gianna's dinner plate was still at the table, mostly uneaten because she was being difficult about it at dinnertime. [nothing new].
Micah: Ewwwww! Gianna's beans are all RUSTED.
Mommy/Briella {almost simultaneously}: Rusted?
Micah: YES, they're so gross and rusted.
Mommy: I think you mean, crusted?
Micah: Oh, yeah, crusted.
December 12, 2021
(listening to "Mary Did you Know" on the radio)
Briella: Mom, is that why they say MARY Christmas?
December 26, 2021
Mommy: (calling into the house): Briella, do you still want to come with me for a walk?
Briella: YES! I just need to get my ear mufflers. (ear muffs).
****same day***
[Briella and I were talking about food, food ingredients, and how she's more "advanced" in her food knowledge than most kids her age.]
Briella: What is citric acid anyway?
Mommy: [I explain it]
Briella: Well, Daddy and I saw those New York Seizure Waters (Seltzer Water) at Buehlers and they had citric acid in them. Remember the seizure waters you used to buy for Micah?
December 29, 2021
[Micah was eating black olives]
Micah: "Mmmmm! I want to put black olives all over my body so I can eat myself."
January 1, 2022
Gianna: Everyone except for me really likes those JO-LOP-peno chips. (she was pronouncing jalepeno as though it looks when reading it.)
January 4, 2022
[all 5 of us driving down the highway to drop off food to Nonna]
Micah: Dad, someday when you die I'm going to put Christmas lights in my car.
Jim: Ummm, okay...I'm really starting to get concerned with all your dying talk lately.
Micah: I want Christmas lights in my car.
Jim: Why do I need to die for you to get Christmas lights?!
Micah: Because you won't let me.
January 6, 2022
Micah: I want to marry you
Jim: You can't marry me. I'm already married to your mom.
Micah: Fine. When you die, I'll marry Mommy.
Jim: (yells down the stairs to tell Daniella the story)
Daniella: So he'll marry me AND put lights in his car when you die...good to know.
January 7, 2022
Gianna: Oh no, Mommy, you're getting old!
Mom: (a little confused by the blurting of such a statement) I am... I'm 40 now.
Mom: (a little confused by the blurting of such a statement) I am... I'm 40 now.
Gianna: No, because of *that* [as she points to the veins popping out of my hand]
Mom: Oh, that. Yep, that too.
January 8, 2022
Daniella: Awwww, I cracked my favorite tooh.
Jim: Huh?!
Daniella: I mean, my favorite glass (starring at the broken glass)
Jim: Yeah, I didn't know you had a favorite tooth!
Daniella & Jim (chuckling to each other)
Micah: [chimes in] Dad...I have a favorite tooth!
Jim: You do? What's that bud?
Micah: MY SWEET TOOTH!
January 31, 2022
Micah: "Someday when you die...or something like that, I'm going to put whiskers (his stuffed animal) in your arms to keep you warm. I'll take your arms like this [shows me his arms spread out then hugging].
February 14, 2022
I (Daniella) was busting at bedtime so I ran into the girls' bathroom to pee when Gianna walked in on me and she was trying to act like she wasn't starring at me, but she totally was so I embraced it.
Mom: Are you looking at my rear end?
Gianna: [giggling] Yes.
Mom: Watch my magic act [as I pulled up my pants without her seeing anything]
Gianna: awwww (in disappointment)
"I'm just furious over butts."
Mom: Furious?
Gianna: Yes, furious, or whatever the right word for it is.
Mom: The word is infatuated. You are silly to be infatuated with my rear end.
Gianna: It's so cute, though.
February 22, 2022
(Micah and I were talking at bedtime about putting his stinky pajamas--that smelled like boy parts--into the dirty hamper instead of on the floor which lead to...)
Micah: And Gianna and Briella need to put their dirty pajamas into the dirty hamper because they smell like their lady parts, right?
Mom: More like sweat these days, but sure.
Micah: Mommy, I've never seen your lady parts.
Mom: (gasp, chuckle, deep breath) That's how it's supposed to be and how it's going to stay (as I'm still chuckling).
Micah: Is it because it's BIG?
Mom: (uncontrollable laughter) Ummm,...it's time for bed now!
February 23, 2022
Jim and I were talking on the phone and I turned off the car and it switched from bluetooth to my iPhone, but it was playing a weird song in the background that I don't own in my music library. I clicked on my iMusic app and the song up on the cue wasn't the song so I said to Jim...
Daniella: There must be *interception* because I am hearing a song on my phone that I don't even own.
Jim: Interception? (laughing) You mean, interference? An interception is in football.
Me: repeating the sentence back and shaking my head. Yep, I intercepted that football.
March 13, 2022
Gianna has been asking more in depth questions lately (why questions). Today's question was,
"If God has always been here before anyone or anything then who made the grass? And how did he arrive here already walking?"
March 14, 2022
At dinnertime Gianna asked Mom, "Was it black & white when you were a kid?"
Me: Was what black & white?
Gianna: The TV
Did you have color when you were a kid?
Mom: Yes, there was color on my TV. TV was not black and white when I was a kid.
Briella: Yes, it was black and white. I've seen your home videos.
Me: I promise you that it was in color, but it's just not a vibrant as the color on tv nowadays. ("HD")
When Micah prays he likes to equate each of us to something in his life. Usually I'm the sun or the moon of his heart, but tonight Micah said, "And, Mommy,...she's the QUEEN of my heart."
March 29, 2022
(Micah at bedtime)
Micah: I don't want you to die...waaaait...if you die then I become an orphan.
Mom: Lord willing, that won't happen anytime soon.
Micah: Buuuuut, I could get married...
to Paige.
I'm going to marry Paige.
April 9, 2022
Gianna and I were talking about our heavenly bodies looking different and she was asking me some hard questions about if she would look the same in heaven as she does now.
I told her that I wasn’t sure about that, and she asked me if she got cut by a knife if it would bleed and I said I didn’t think there would be knives in heaven to cut her, but *if* she were to get cut, her heavenly body wouldn’t feel pain or bleed. She quickly interjected and with excitement said: “No one will have to use the bathroom or ever be constipated either!”
Me: Okay ??....
April 10, 2022
Gianna isn't always "good" at reciprocating verbal feelings when they're spoken to her and so this is why this moment meant a LOT to me and I wanted to document it. I was laying with her in bed for goodnights, like I always do, and out of nowhere she looks at me, takes me into her embrace and tells me: "Mommy, I'd be lost without you."
Needless to say, I had tears streaming down my face.
**she did this again on August 20, 2022** telling me, "Mommy, you mean everything to me."
(more tears...)
May 13, 2022
Gianna has always loved opening up the advertisement mailers that we get and she excitedly ran up on the back porch asking me if she could open it. I said yes. She saw the ANTONIO's pizza flyer and said, "Yum! Ann-toe-teenos pizza looks so good. Can we get ANN-TOE-TEENOS" pizza sometime soon, Mom?"
May 16, 2022
Micah: Do you know what it’s called when your eyes are open while you are asleep and you’re dreaming? Mom: What's that?
Micah: Day dreaming.
June 25, 2022
On the drive to Hinkley Spillway the day before, Micah exclaimed in the car, "I gave my heart to Jesus last night!" I could hardly drive as I had tears in my eyes. He went on to tell me/sisters that he woke up and said, "I love you, Lord." :-)
Gianna: I gave my heart to Jesus too! And last year Briella was BATHtized. (baptized)
The next morning he was awake first with Daniella and he was doing his dishwasher job when he told her, "Oh, I gave my other heart to Jesus last night."
Mom: Your other heart? So, you know that your heart has 4 chambers, huh?
Micah: Yes, Mrs. Hugus taught me that.
Micah: Tomorrow I'm going to give him my 3rd heart.
***a few minutes later after Mom made him some eggs that he was eating***
Micah: Mom, Did you know eggs are made of pigs?
Mom: No, I didn't because eggs come from chickens.
Micah: Oh. Hmmm
August 24, 2022
Briella was called home by the school nurse on the 2nd morning of her first full week of school. On the drive home I asked her if a particular teacher was teaching a special class.
Briella: "No, she's not going to teach that class until the 3rd TRIMESTER." (**semester**)
August 27, 2022
Briella to Jim: "I hope Joe Biden gets IMPACTED"
Jim: You mean, impeached?
September 5, 2022
(while eating at Papa & Nonna's house for Uncle Nick's 40th birthday)
Briella: I'm loving this fruit!
Mom: You are eating it more than the cake.
Briella: I know. I'm a fruit ah-dickt. (instead of saying it as: "add-ict").
September 8, 2022
(Daniella was talking to Gianna about bringing a book to school and apparently she said it all wrong using the word "breakfast". Daniella and the kids were laughing.)
Daniella: What is going on with my brain these days? I say everything so wrong and jumbled up.
Micah: What's wrong, did you get invesia?
Daniella: Invesia huh?
Micah: Yes, invesia is when you hit your head and you can't remember things.
Daniella: Wow, I'm impressed you know that.
September 9, 2022
(while at Blue Herron Brewery)
Briella [to Jim] Why don't you order a bigger drink?
Jim: Because your Mom and I aren't drinkers.
Micah: I AM! I'M A DRINKER!
September 13, 2022
[Daniella to Micah]
Daniella: C'mon Micah, come for a bike ride with us. You'll regret it forever if you don't.
Micah: Don't say "forever", Mom. You always tell us not to say "forever."
Briella: It's "never", Micah. Mommy says not to say "never".
(This is in reference to saying definitive things like: "You always____" and/or "You never___")
September 21, 2022
(Mom praying with Micah at bedtime)
..."and I pray he will always love you for his whole life. Amen."
Micah: Mommy, remember that one time I said I (whispers the word:) hated God?
Me: Yes, I do and I remember how sad you felt after you said it.
Micah: Yeah...
[slight pause of thought]
God hears my prayers. I prayed Gianna's egg would have a hole in it...and it did! A big pothole. Mine was all crunched up.
Me: So you wanted hers to be broken too?
Micah: Yes.
Me: I'm sure you felt bad after praying for that, didn't you?
Micah: Nope, not at all.
Me: Oh, Micah...
October 15, 2022
Gianna: Mommy, it's sad you won't be around when I'm 50 because you'll be 120.
Mommy: 120?! I'll be 83.
Gianna: Oh, good. What about when I'm 80, though? You'll be 120 then.
Mommy: Sure, I guess I will be close enough.
October 15, 2022
(Mom joking around with Micah at the dinner table about being an animal).
[very seriously Micah says]: But we are animals. My teacher told me so.
Mommy: Oh, you're close. You're thinking of 'Mammals'.
Micah: NOOOOOO. Animals.
December 11, 2022
(sitting at the dinner table)
Micah: I don't like to eat piñatas.
Mommy: You don't like to eat piñatas?!
Briella: empanadas?
Micah: Yeah, whatever they're called. Those things Ms. Armita made. I don't like to eat them.
December 14, 2022
(Watching Dolly Parton's Christmas movie and the Dad was getting baptized)
Micah: “I want to get bath-tized…just with floaties.”
December 31, 2022
Micah: How many are coming tonight?
Mom: Ummm...(counting in my head, but I think Micah thought I didn't understand his question)...
Micah: You know...I mean, how many *customers* are coming tonight?
January 2, 2023
(Micah wanted to watch Gianna play Nintendo and I was trying to stick up for him that he'd be quiet)
Micah: Yes, I'll be quiet! I'll be as quiet as a mouse...or as a turtle? However you say it...I'll be quiet, I promise!
January 3, 2023
Mom was working at Granger and Jim was home with the kids. They were playing Nintendo together.
Micah to Briella: "You're cheating. Cheaters don't frostbite."
Gianna: Prosper?
Micah: Yeah...prosper.
January 5, 2023
(talking about a student smelling badly of cigarette smoke when Micah interrupted)
Micah: What is smoking?
Mom: Um,...well...basically, it's a bad habit. A very bad habit.
[Micah interrupts again, with inquisitive seriousness]
Micah: Like pooping?
Mom: Well, pooping isn't a habit, it's a bodily function.
Micah: Oh.
January 6, 2023
Micah: "I'm sorry if this sounds mean to say, but I need to learn how to cut my food before you die."
(after I showed him, helped him, and encouraged him to cut up his own waffle.)
[while eating popcorn during watching Karate Kid]
Micah: "I can't swallow popcorn so welly"
{while in the basement}
Micah: "Hey everybody, let's turn off the lights.
Briella: Okay!
Micah: And, Mom, I'll chi-thing that light up there (it's a pull string light).
Briella & Mom: [chuckling]
January 18, 2023
Mom to kids: So, did your Daddy tell you that Uncle Tom's wedding is on a Friday?
Briella: No. Why is that bad? What's the date?
Mom: Well, because we both would have to take off of work and the drive there is almost 7 hours so we'd have to leave the day before. I don't know the date. I think it's May 25th or 26th.
Briella: Oh, good, because if it were Friday the 14th that would be bad. Friday the 14th is a bad day.
(My guess is that because last Friday was a "Friday the 13th" that someone at school told her it was a bad day.)
April 10, 2023
For some reason Daddy was asking Micah what he would miss about me if I died.
Micah said, "I'd miss her hair. Oh, and her face. I'd miss her face."
April 15, 2023
Gianna asked me if her blonde streak would go grey when she got older.
Me: That's a great question. It might not, actually.
Gianna: It's too bad you'll never know. You'll already be dead when I go grey.
June 2, 2023
Mom and the kids got out of the house for our first summer excursion to get Mom's Telluride fixed so she made a day of it going to Chick-fil-A, Costco, and Mitchell's. While we were at Chick-fil-A we noticed there was something new: an electronic garbage opener screen. I jokingly told the kids that there were Oompa Loompa's in there. I didn't think they'd believe me,...but...Micah did. As we were leaving he said, "I really wanted to see an Oompa Loompa. Are they really in there?"
June 11, 2023
Gianna and Micah were being exceptionally loud, obnoxious, and argumentative in a car ride home so they were both given quiet time in their bedrooms upon arrival to home. Micah went straight to his room and Gianna argued with the notion that she was required time in her room.
Gianna: "How much time do I have to have in my room? It shouldn't be the same as Micah! We aren't the same weight!"
August 11, 2023
Gianna was asking Mom about heaven, what we'll eat, what we'll wear, where will we go to the bathroom, and such questions.
Mom's answer: "I'm pretty sure the Bible tells us we'll have heavenly bodies so I don't think we'll be worrying about clothes or using the bathroom."
**before she could finish her entire thought**...
Micah: I hope we can go to the bathroom! I want to be able to poop in heaven. It feels so good to go poop!
September 15, 2023
Mom was driving the kids to school and Micah exclaimed: "Look at how soggy it is. You can see it! It's called soggy, right? Well, maybe that's not the word, [Briella and Gianna giggling a little and saying: "foggy" as he says]...but I don't care. I like the word soggy."
September 17, 2023
Briella is almost 12, but still remains uninhibited to use the bathroom with the door open or to purposely not flush the toilet, as she thinks of it as a "show-and-tell". On this one occasion, she left her deposit for show and tell and Micah was the lucky looker. Upon seeing her toilet present, Micah yelled out: "Oh, Briella! Gross. You didn't flush."
Briella: I know. I wanted you to see it.
Micah: Gianna! Gianna, come see it. It's huge. It's in all kinds of pieces.
Briella: Gianna you have to see it.
Gianna: NO WAY! No, I'm not going to go look at that SHAGGY poop. I don't like looking at shaggy poops. [as she is flinging her arm in the arm in a disgusted gesture].
October 2, 2023
As we were driving to Jim's birthday dinner at Public Square 17, Micah, Briella, and Gianna were doing their typical comedic banter about nonsense. Once I began hearing private part words, Mom interjected and said "That's not appropriate to talk about your boy parts. You can't say things like that, especially at school or around friends. Okay?"
Micah: BUT IT'S TRUE! IT DOES GET BIG.
Briella and Gianna [busting up laughing] IT DOES?!
Micah: Yes, it does. It gets big when I get scared. Especially when Daddy scares me.
Jim: [looking at Daniella, holding back laughter] MICAH! THAT'S ENOUGH, we don't say talk about our private parts.
Micah: See, right there, it just got big because Daddy just scared me.
October 6, 2023
While watching an episode of Full House (Jesse's 10 yr class reunion)
Micah: I don't think I want to marry a girl with boobs like that. Her boobies are weird!
