Slices of Life, Vol. 17

The boys love to eat a pack of crackers (courtesy of KinderCare) on the way home from school every night. It helps hold them over until we can get home and fix supper. Recently:

Nathaniel: "Mommy, can I have another pack of crackers?"

Me: "No, buddy. You've already had enough."

Nathaniel: "No, I only had four."

Me: "Yes, you've had several. That's enough."

Nathaniel: "Mommy, FOUR is not 'several.' SEVEN is 'several.' Four is JUST FOUR."

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Nathaniel: "Nick-a-liss, can I play with your Darth Vader?"

Nicholas: "No."

Nathaniel: "Nick-a-liss, Jesus is coming alive to save us from our sins, but you'd better share ANYWAY."

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Nathaniel, upon opening a drawer in Nicholas' dresser and finding the bulb syringe:

"Hey! There's the nose-picker!!"

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Nicholas observing the magic that is pee-peeing on the potty: "I'm making rain from my penis!"

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Disconcerting and amusing at the same time:

I was fixing supper one night when Nathaniel asked if he could watch "Power Rangers" in the den until supper was ready.

Me: "Sure. You have about 10 minutes."

Nathaniel: [singing] "Celllllllebrate good times, come on!"


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Nathaniel explaining a conflict to me in the car on the way home from school:

"Mommy, Diovanni slapped me in the face today. It was, like, really hard and I twisted his, like, arm around. Then Ms. Shunta put both of us in, like, time out. But I didn't hit him first. He hit me and, like, my body didn't WANT to hurt him, but my brain MADE me do it and then my body couldn't help it!"

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Nathaniel, during one of our recent days at the pool: "Mommy, please put on my sun lotion! I don't want to get sunboined."

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I took the boys to a public restroom over the weekend that only had one potty in it. As soon as the boys saw that only one of them could go at a time:

Nathaniel: "I need to go fuhst."

Nicholas: "No, I need to go fuhst."

Nathaniel: "Well, I have to go SO BADLY."

Nicholas: "NO, I HAVE TO GO SO BAD."

Nathaniel: "Well, do you need to stand up or sit down, BECAUSE I NEED TO SIT DOWN!"



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