Although this is such a long post, it's always John's favorite! And actually the only one he ever reads. Haha! Here's to looking back at the funny (and a few of the sweet) phrases our kids have said this year.
Aaron’s first knock knock joke:
Aaron: “knock, knock”
Deb: “who’s there?”
Aaron: “car.”
Deb: “car who?”
At this point, Aaron would laugh assuming that was the end of the joke. He told this joke at least once a day for a few weeks.
1-20-21
Brooke: “I’m happy today because I have a family that loves me and I don’t live in a junky house where everything’s broken.”
2-3-21
Deb: “Aaron, why did you just dump all those animal crackers on the ground? Are you going to eat them now?”
Aaron started jumping on the sofa: “Mmhmm.”
Deb: “Are you going to be like a little tiger and eat all the animal crackers up?”
Aaron: “Mmhmm.”
Brooke: “No, he’s not. He’s just a little baby.”
Aaron stopped jumping, put his hands on his chest and said: “I, baby.”
He in fact, did not eat the animal crackers but went on jumping.
2-4-21
Brooke looked at me and smiled and gave me a thumbs up. I smiled back and gave her a thumbs up as well. We did this a few times before she told me she didn’t want me to copy her. She didn’t even want me to smile since she was smiling. She literally just wanted to give me a smile and a thumbs up and have me stare at her with a straight face. Kind of the weirdest/hardest thing I did this week. Haha!
2-8-21
David: “Brooke we have to get an engine for our ship. We’re going to go to Tatooine.”
Brooke: “I just want to go to the beach.”
David: “Tatooine is basically just a giant beach.”
Brooke: “ok!”
David: “but there’s no water.”
Deb: “that’s just a desert, David.”
2-12-21
Deb reading the Valentine’s card David hand wrote her: “‘your feet are pink and they do not stink.’ Thanks David! What did you write on daddy’s?
John reading his card: “I love you.”
2-14-21
A Disney movie came on and was showing the castle with fireworks that is at the start of every movie. 2 year old Aaron gave an excited gasp and said in a high voice, “Happy day!”
2-23-21
David: “Would you rather have daddy’s job but harder, or be a farmer that has groundhogs and bunnies all over his farm.”
David’s choice: “Daddy’s job and try to get fired because I’m pretty sure you can’t get fired if you’re a farmer.”
3-1-21
Brooke sat down by Debbie and the baby in Deb’s tummy started kicking her.
Deb: “Brookie, your baby brother’s kicking you!”
Immediately, Aaron dropped the toys he was holding, ran over, and started kicking Debbie’s legs.
Deb: “Wrong baby brother, buddy.”
3-8-21
David: “When are we going to get home? I am so thirsty!”
Deb: “Just a few minutes. Want to know a secret? The water from the sink in mommy and daddy’s bathroom gets the coldest in the house.”
David: “...can I tell you a secret? Bathroom sink water is the yuckiest.”
3-13-21
Brooke saying her bedtime prayers after getting in trouble and losing her menu item (extra activity of her choice) for the night:
“Dear Heavenly Father, thank you that we had a good day, and bless that I will get my menu item back tonight...”
After about 5 seconds of silence, Debbie peeked over at her to see why she had stopped. Brooke was sitting there glaring at her.
Debbie told her to just keep going and Brooke finished her prayer before going to brush her teeth.
3-25-21
John was about to leave for work and it had lightly snowed the night before. Aaron ran over to daddy saying “No day, no day, glub, glub!!” (Snow day, snow day, glove glove!). He gave John the glove. John said thanks and when Aaron turned around, John put it back on the table. About an hour later, Aaron saw the glove he had given John and ran over to me with it. He kept saying “Daddy glub!!” And was trying to look out the window to see if John had left yet. He was sad about it so we called John and as soon as he picked up, Aaron was saying “glub, glub!” again. He was so worried daddy would be cold and wanted to make sure he was ok.
3-27-21
David had been so cranky and whiney all morning and wouldn’t stop teasing Brooke. Deb was finally fed up with it and sent him to his room for 15 minutes for him to try to restart his day. After about 5 minutes he was asking if he could come out every few minutes. Brooke was tired of it and finally went into his room and told him he could come out.
David: “Mommy is that true? Can I come out of time out?”
Deb: “No, you still have 6 more minutes.”
David: “But Brooke said I could come out!”
Deb: “If you want to do everything your sister says for the rest of the day, then sure. You can come out.”
David decided he would do everything Brooke told him to do so he could come off time out early. She tried to tell him to help her rebuild her sofa cushion fort. It only lasted for 3 minutes before David said: “Never mind. I’ll go back to my room for 6 more minutes.”
4-2-21
Brooke and David wanted to keep a bug as a pet so they found a plastic jar and had Deb poke holes in the lid. They found a worm while Deb was weeding the garden and put it in the jar with dirt. They named it Wormy and gave it a leaf and a stick for toys. They also found a few rolly polly’s they put in for a few days. They would let the worm out to play for a bit in the backyard before returning it to the jar. After about a week and a half, they let it go.
4-7-21
Julia came up to spend the night and when the kids woke up in the morning she told David, Brookie and Aaron, "I had a dream last night that Grandma Grimes signed me up for a Disney Art class with all the contestants from American Idol."
Brookie: "I had a dream that there was a dancing sock in my room that got sucked up by the heater."
David: "I had a dream that we all had pumpkin heads and then all the pumpkins got smashed by a helicopter."
4-17-21
David’s school friend Jackson got hit with a rock on accident and was scared because it was bleeding. David wanted to help him feel better and told him that your head has the most blood in it of your whole body so he didn’t need to worry about losing some.
5-6-21
Deb had to feed baby Zachary and accidentally left the candy bucket out when the kids were choosing one as a prize for something. Deb realized about 10 minutes later but Brooke and Aaron had already eaten many more than the one they were supposed to have.
A little while later Brooke said: “Mommy, I have some candies under my pillow that are mine so don’t take them!”
Deb: “How many do you have?”
Brooke: “One, two... three!”
Turns out she had also taken some of David’s candy from his drawer and hidden it under her pillow as well.
5-12-21
David: “Can leopards eat you?”
Deb: “yeah. All the animals here (at the zoo) are wild animals so if you saw them in the wild you’d need to leave them alone. Even some of the ones that don’t seem dangerous could be.”
David: “like bunnies.”
Deb was about to say no but immediately thought of the Monty Python bunny... “kinda...”
5-15-21
Aaron pointing at a baby gorilla at the zoo: “baby monkey zacky!”
5-15-21
Aaron (age 2) was still hungry after bed time and went into the kitchen to find a snack. He found some hamburger buns and butter on the table. He buttered the inside of the hamburger bun, put the halves back together, and ate the whole thing like a hamburger.
5-18-21
Brooke: “I’m bored. Mommy, do you want to go outside or stay in the house and be bored forever?”
5-20-21
David: “I can’t wait until daddy retires so he can play Minecraft with me.”
5-21-21
Brooke wanted to wear her princess dress to the store when Deb had to get groceries. Brooke kept telling people that she is “a real princess”. On our way back to the car, she saw an older grandpa aged man walking in and she stopped to tell him that she’s a Princess. She didn’t stop talking however and was telling him random things about being a princess when a car drove by. Immediately, the man said, “Oh! Wave at the car! Princesses wave!” She turned around to wave at the car while the man rushed into the store saying, “princesses wave!”
5-24-21
David while watching a Memorial Day tribute song by the tabernacle choir about the battle of Normandy.
“Wow! We should go there!!... to try to find an old tire!”
5-30-21
Aaron woke up and came into mommy’s room singing “Happy to you!” (his way of singing “happy birthday”)
Deb: “Are you singing happy birthday?”
Aaron: “Oh. Yes.”
Deb: “Who’s birthday is it?”
Aaron: “Um, cupcakes.”
Deb: “Oh, you just want cupcakes?”
Aaron: “Yes.”
6-17-21
Brooke while we were driving home from camping: "When are we going to get home so I can take a tub because camping makes me a dirty gill (girl)!"
7-17-21
Brooke while praying: "Heavenly father do you want to hear a joke? Knock knock...
(Long pause) so... Do you want to hear a joke? Knock knock... Spaghetti volcano. Spaghetti volcano who? Oh no! It erupted! Now we have to eat it!"
After that Brooke laughed and then ended her prayer.
7-23-21
Deb was making dinner but stopped for a minute to check on the kids. They were all in the front yard together and she found Aaron like this…
8-25-21
Deb was shopping at market square with Brooke, Aaron, and Zack. Brooke was super sad because she lost a feather she was holding. The feather was so small Deb didn't even know she was holding one. They looked for a minute but had to move on. Deb told Brooke that maybe they could come back to check again after they finished shopping. Then, about 20 minutes later, Brooke lost a tiny rock she had been holding. Once again, it was a speck of a rock that Deb didn't even know she had. She was even more sad after this and threw a bit of a fit while Deb was trying to check out at the grocery store. The only way for Deb to calm Brooke down was to tell her they could go to a worker at customer service and ask him to call us if he sees the feather or rock. The man at the desk looked to be in his late forties. He walked around the store for a minute to look for the feather and rock before coming back and giving Brooke and Aaron each a candy bar to help them feel better. On the way to the car, Brooke opened the chocolate bar and started eating it with tears still streaming down her face. Aaron opened his and finished more than half of it before getting out of the parking lot.
8-25-21
Deb: "I just checked and your school is giving free lunch to everyone for the school year."
David: "Really?! For the whole year?! We must've done really good with our laps for lions."
Laps for lions is the school fundraiser David's school does every year.
8-30-21
David got home a little later than normal from school and Deb had been worried.
Deb: "why are you late today buddy? I was worried about you."
David: "I was walking with my friends and you know how sometimes we like to chit chat."
9-1-21
David: "Mom do you remember when I was first getting nightmares?"
Deb: "yeah?..."
David: "It was at grandma and grandpa's and minnie and daisy started haunting my dreams..."
9-3-21
David: "Dad? Who is Joe Mama? All the kids at school keep talking about Joe Mama."
9-3-21
Brooke drew this picture at church on the back of a receipt. It is "Mommy holding baby Zacky". She even added Deb's earrings and bun and Zack's binkie.
September 2021
David just asked Deb if he and Julia would be watching tackle football or flag football at the next byu game. Deb told him tackle and he said, "I like watching tackle" and whispered, "but I don't like playing it."
9-14-21
We had dinner with Grandma Cail on her birthday and Brooke said, "This is so fancy it's like we're going to a ball!"
We were eating on Aunt Shirley's real plates (not plastic) that had pretty flower designs on them.
Later, when we were leaving, Brooke ran back into the house to tell Grandma and Aunt Shirley one more thing. She said, "Next time we come we're going to have to just sit and talk because this time we didn't sit and talk enough and I have a lot more I want to tell you!"
9-15-21
Brooke: "Mom, I have to tell you. Do you know where poop goes? It goes to a sad, lonely place where no one will ever see it again."
It turns out John had told her this the night before when she was asking him questions instead of going to sleep.
9-30-21
Brooke while playing never have I ever with Deb: "I have never said this: I want nothing!"
10-2-21
When Debbie was done talking with Great Grandma Grimes on the phone, Grandma said, "I love you honey, bye!"
Two year old Aaron turned to Debbie and said, "Haha! She called you honey."
The rest of the day he and Debbie would say to each other, "I love you honey!" And Aaron would giggle.
10-4-21
Julia found a picture of Brooke and David when Brooke was 1.
Julia: "Look! This is a picture of you and David when you were little!"
Brooke: *long pause* "I was a boy?!"
Brooke thought she was a boy because her hair was so short.
10-18-21
Brooke: "Henley, everyone has magic. It's just in your heart."
10-25-21
Deb: "Who put all the pencils and crayons and a Barbie in the chocolate milk jug?"
Two year old Aaron: "Oh. Sorry mom, I didn't mean to..." *pauses for a few seconds while Deb’s still looking at him* "I love you."
Aaron then walked over and gave Debbie a hug.
11-6-21
David: "I ate a healthier toast today mom!"
Deb: "oh. What kind of toast?"
David: butter toast."
Deb: "...ok."
Technically not wrong....
11-10-21
One morning Zack was playing on the floor and Debbie bent over to give him a toy. Aaron ran up behind her and spanked her and then ran laughing down the hallway yelling, "your bum hurt!"
11-17-21
Brooke: “I don't think I'm going to play soccer again. It's just not my game.”
Julia: “What is your game then?”
Brooke: “Wrestling. I've always been really good at that.”
12-6-21
Aaron: “Mom, can we make pie soup? I've never tried it.”
12-11-21
Deb made microwave nachos for lunch. The kids had just eaten the cheese off the chips the last time so Deb only made them a half plate each.
Brooke: “Mom some day I want to grow up to be a mommy like you so I can eat a lot of food! Like look at your plate. You can eat as much as you want and whatever you want, whenever you want!”
Deb: “Well, if you finish that, we can always get you more.”
12-13-21
Brooke: “Mom, I made a present for you in school but it’s a surprise. No peeking or else you’re grounded for all of Christmas!”
12-17-21
Brooke while standing in line with John and Julia for the Slinky Dog roller coaster in Disney World: “I’m glad we took this holiday. I needed this vacation just so I can sit and chill.”
12-21-21
Brooke: “Yeah, I’m a roller coaster gill.” (her way of saying girl)
12-23-21
Ever since Zack was about six months old, whenever he would get frustrated or really wanted something, he would clench his fists very tightly and grit his teeth (gums) together.
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