Like I put in Sonia's blog, I am contemplating signing out of Facebook, which would likely mean I could not sign in again, as I changed my password, do not remember it, and used an old email address I can no longer access to create the account in the first place. Facebook is getting to be a big waste of time for me, I feel like. There is so much to do and I don't need to waste hours there. But, before I do that, I wanted to make sure I get any of Isaac's quotes on here so I have them somewhere, accessible.
November 23
Isaac: Mom, what does kid-tested mean? (From the Kix box)
Me: Hmmm, what do you think it means? What about the first part? What does kid mean?
Isaac: Child.
Me: Great! How about tested? What do you think that means?
Isaac: Um, they tested it on the kids?
Me: Okay, but what does tested mean though, not using the word tested?
Isaac: Um...so it means kids tasted it and they saw it wasn't poisonous?
October 27
(On the second grade spelling words list)
Isaac: Mama, these are really hard core words!
May 5
In the car, driving and listening to Abiyoyo.
Pete Seeger:...a foolish grin spread over his face.
Isaac: And then he took a selfie.
February 11
Me: I like how my hair is wavy under the top layer. If I could just get it to do this all the way down.
Isaac: You could braid it. Then you could take the braid out and voila!
Me: This is true.
Isaac: Yeah, like you did on London's hair.
Me: Nice point, Mr. I know more about hair than my mother. But my hair just does this, like when I let it dry, it dries wavy under the top layer. Just not all the way down the length of the hair.
Isaac: Keep it moist.
2015
October 10 - I used to call her Zonia. But I don't do that anymore. Cause Zonia is the last name of Lasagna."
September 3 - Sometimes there is a so tiny wind that a human's skin cannot feel it.
June 6 - Papa, spell "I cup"...
February 26 - Sweet little Isaac really wanted me to read the book he brought home from school yesterday. It is a Level 1 reading book and is called Wall-E Smash Trash. It appears to talk about a typical day in Wall-E's life. Disclaimer, we have not ever watched the movie Wall-E. I noticed Wall-E looked sad both at the beginning and end of the book. Shouldn't have said anything.
Me: Oh, Wall-E still looks sad here. Poor Wall-E!
Isaac: I know. He looks so sad, it almost made me cry.
(10 seconds later)
Isaac: (full on sobbing) It's SO SAD! Wall-E is all alone! He doesn't have any friends! It's just so sad..... :(
Poor little guy! I just love his sensitive little heart!
February 8 - Isaac on how there are oceans instead of the whole earth being land:
"God made rain and it pushed the sand down too much."
February 8 - Isaac picks up a book I had in the car in Spanish, opens it and reads "con" correctly.
Me: Oh yeah, I could show you how to read Spanish. It's a lot easier to read than English because there are only five vowel sounds.
Isaac, after a pause: Yeah, but English is easier for me to understand.
January 18 - A London quote.
London: I REALLY need a pickle! (as she takes a huge jar out of the fridge) I haven't had one in DAAAAYS.
Anna: Let's not eat too many pickles or you will get an overload of salt.
London: I haven't ate these in days.
January 14 - Isaac quote of the day, on the subject of younger siblings:
"First we practice on Sonia. She's a little one."
January 10 -
Isaac: Sonia's a party pooper! Sonia's a party pooper!
Me: Isaac, do you even know what a party pooper is?
Isaac: Of course! It's a person who goes to parties and poops in corners!
2014 --
December 8 - Isaac is obsessed with spelling right now. This is what I overheard this weekend:
Isaac: C-K-W-I-T... quit... I-T - S-O-N-I-A! Quit it Sonia!
Until this year I never realized how much I enjoy invented spelling.
November 9 - Mama, I tried applesauce at school with cinnamon and sugar, and guess what? I L-O-V-E applesauce! (which is amazing because he did not prior to this)
Me: What? YOU, Isaac, like applesauce? Really?
Isaac: No, I don't like applesauce, Mama. I L-O-V-E it.
November 1 - Mama, why do you only have two childs? MOST people have three, or four childs. Your mama had four.
September 19 - You don't want to hurt people on the outside or the inside. I know how you can hurt people on the inside. If I was playing with Braelyn and some other kids said, "Stop playing with Braelyn!", that would hurt my feelings. That's hurting on the inside.
September 6 - (as we eat our continental breakfast in a room of other people)
Isaac: Mama, are you constipated??
Me: Um. No. Do you know what constipated means?
Isaac: No.
Me: (after explanation) I think you meant congested. I am a little. Are you too?
August 22 - Rabbits are little predators that eat carrots.
August 11 - Isaac does not get to watch a movie with his friends and he is very sad about this (just my rule that we don't do movies on weekdays). He says, "I wish I was never on this earth! It feels like knives are going into my eyes and my heart and my face!" This is WHY we don't watch movies during the week. The level of drama is unreal. Why the friends cannot just come outside and play I don't know.
May 10 -
Me: We need to brush our teeth.
Isaac: Ugh, I don't want to.
Me: Well, teeth are important!
Isaac: They're not the importantest thing in the world. The Easter Bunny is. And God.
April 27 - Isaac informed me that he changed Sonia's diaper for me and also that the governor steals people's money, including my own, and that once the governor stole his teacher's money. He said if the governor wants to come over for a playdate or something, he will be sure to hide his money so the governor cannot steal it.
April 12 - context: discussion about crud bumps.
Me: Sometimes stuff gets stuck in your tonsils, then it comes out as a little ball.
Isaac: That is funny!
Me: Kind of, but it's nasty and it smells bad.
Isaac: Oh, that sounds like of like a fur ball.
.....
Isaac: Mama, have you ever coughed up a fur ball?
April 11 - Mama, does the sun stink?
April 7 - They're gonna cut the trees from relaxing on the wire.
February 22 - Me: How did you like your swim lessons, Isaac?
Isaac: Good!
Me: Your teacher seems nice.
Isaac: She is soooooo nice! I think I might fall in love with her.
February 20 - Talking about pennies:
Isaac: And who's on this penny? Abraham Lincoln!
Me: Yep!
Isaac: And on this one? Abraham Lincoln again??!?
Me: Isaac, Abraham Lincoln is on every penny.
Isaac: Is your SUPERVISOR on every penny?
Me:?! My supervisor isn't Abraham Lincoln.
Isaac: Hm. Mama, can grils be president?
February 13 - Isaac brings me a penny:
Isaac: Mama, what does this say?
Me: One cent.
Isaac: No, this part.
Me: United States of America.
Isaac turns the coin over: And this guy, is he.... George Marley?
I just have to kiss this little guy!
January 26 - (London) London brings three pennies into the bathroom and sets them on the counter, so Sonia can't get them.
Me: Thank you for putting these up here so Sonia won't get them.
London: Yes, she might put them in her mouth. You remember Poompa, he had one and it got stuck in his throat and they couldn't get it out! If Sonia swallows one, she won't be able to talk very good.
January 25 - Last night, before going to sleep, Isaac says:
"Mama....Next time when I see Santa, I am going to apologize to him."
Me: Apologize? What for?
Isaac: Because I forgot to give his reindeer their snacks.... (when we went to see Santa, they had us make some reindeer snacks to sprinkle on our lawn)
Me: It's okay, I'm sure they got plenty of snacks. You can apologize if you want, but I think Santa doesn't mind.
Isaac: But I forgot, and the reindeer didn't have any food.... (very sad)
Me: Okay.
Isaac: I think I'm going to cry.
Then he silently started sobbing. I had to tell him we could write a letter to Santa tomorrow if that would make him feel better. Poor sensitive little sweet guy.
2013 -
September 14 - When I am a grown up, on the very first day, I will put on my best clothes, an dI will go find a woman to marry.
August 21 -
London: Isaac, I'm gonna get you a gun!
Isaac: Yeah, then we can go hunt some deers together!
Clearly Bambi has had the opposite effect....
August 19 - Development of theory of mind: incomplete
Isaac's friend, Koty: Mama? (in a concerned voice) Mama?
Isaac: Koty, do you want your Mama or my Mama?
August 17 - Context: getting a kid's sandwich at Subway
Subway guy to Isaac: Hot or cold?
Isaac: Uh....just right.
August 10 -
Henri: Yes, you were born in Corvallis. And do you know where Sonia was born?
Isaac: Uh... Salem PeaceHealthspital! (Sonia was actually born at Riverbend)
August 4 - What I heard upon dropping Isaac off at school on Friday: (A little girl came over to him)
Isaac, I need to have a conversation with you. If you don't want to marry me, that's OKAY! You just need to tell me. It's okay if you don't want to marry me, but just tell me, all right?
Isaac got the deer-in-the-headlights look.
July 6 - How bout our house be's REALLY clean like Uncle Chris's?
June 6 - And the bronchiolitis and the stegosaurus were there, and another friend bronchiolitis...
May 30 - Now that Isaac can say /th/, he is really good a faking a frontal lisp. I asked, "Isaac, are you doing this just to drive me crazy??" "YES!!!!!" he gleefully replied. He can also fake s-cluster reduction if you would ever like to hear it.
May 22 - The Hulk is stronger than Thor. And you know who is stronger than the Hulk? My papa. He can wrestle the Hulk almost to the ground.
In other news, I taught Isaac how to say /th/ this morning and now he can say it at the beginning of single words after a model. I totally did not mean to do speech therapy on my four-year-old but we had a big discussion about how the superhero's name was Thor and not For, as his classmate had told him, and one thing led to another....
May 19 -
Isaac: Mama, is Sonia a boy?
Me: No, she is a girl.
Isaac: Then why does she not have long hair?
May 18 - Isaac just sat on Sonia's bottom (lightly) and she farted. Of course that is the funniest thing in the whole world to an almost-4-year-old.
April 21- Isaac "The Boss" Compaore says I could take "maybe a 30 minute nap," but "after you finish all the chores." Okay, evil stepmother son. ;P
April 19 -
Me: I've got this song stuck in my head now....
Isaac: Can I see it?
April 12 - Context: We have an ongoing ant problem. I swear there must be a nest in the wall, because they keep coming back. I do not love ants.)
Isaac: Mama, a long long time ago, my Papa and I were reading a book about reptiles and there is one with these poky things coming off that eats ants.
Me: Oh really?
Isaac: Yeah. We need to get one of them and bring it to our house and then leave.
Me: Why do we need to leave?
Isaac: Because it can bite people.
Me: Hm, I've never heard of this reptile, but it sounds like a good idea. Wait, do you mean an anteater?
Isaac: Yeah! It has a really really long tongue so it can get in the carpet to eat the ants!
Anteater, you are pre-approved for a visit to our house whenever you like. I didn't think anteaters bit people though.
April 7 - Isaac loves Sonia so much! He said this morning: "I will use my money to buy toys for Sonia!" I asked him what he thought she would like to have. "A tractor set!" he replied. "Sonia, I am going to get you a tractor set with my 3 coins!" I love this kid.
April 1 - We a four family!
March 9 - Isaac saw a picture of some hockey players: "Look, mom, it's the hockey fight!"
February 19 - This is the mama worm. She looks really... mama-lous.
When I try to go past this point, Facebook crashes. Oh well, at least we have multiple years of good laughs!
Oh wait, maybe I can pull some of it from the activity log! Let's give it a shot!
February 17 - Me: Hey look, here are some footprints. What animal do you think made these footprints. They have claws.
Isaac: Hm, it must have been a crocodile.
Me: Do you think a crocodile really came through here? (Corner of 18th and City View)
Isaac (completely serious): Yeah.
February 14 - Why I love preschoolers:
This morning, I went into Isaac's classroom. I was reading a book to some kids, and holding Sonia on my shoulder. Two kids were listening, two were interacting with Sonia. Line in the book: "The clock struck seven, his real name was Kevin.."
Preschoolers: "Wait, his name is really Kevin?" (referring to Sonia)
Me: "Haha, no, the mouse in the story. I guess his name is Kevin."
Preschoolers (completely ignoring that information): to Sonia "Hi Kevin!" x 25
February 7 - Because there is no such thing as a day without a good Isaac quote...
Isaac is aware that he is half Bissa. I thought it was time to make him more aware of his other ethnic background.
Me: Isaac, did you know that on Mama's side there are a lot of different ethnicities? My grandmas and grandpas came from many different places. So I am Portuguese, Swiss, Italian, Irish, German, Norwegian and Swedish. That's what's in my background."
Isaac: "That's in your backyard?" (puzzled look)
Discussion postponed.
February 5 - Evidence that they can eventually learn. Isaac was singing around the house on Sunday morning: "I will not rub my mama's tummy until my hands are much..more..gooder! I will not rub my mama's tummy until my hands are much warmer!"
February 2 - Me: I'm going to a baby shower. And I have to take Sonia.
Isaac: Is Sonia going to take a shower?
January 30 - Isaac this morning on his dreams: I was dreaming about London...but then my dream wanted to dream about bad monsters. So I gave my bad dream a timeout from dreaming that."
January 30 - (context: Isaac is eating hotdogs, I am eating grapefruit)
Isaac: You can make sausages from many kinds of meat.
Me: That is true. What kind of meat do you think these sausages are made from?
Isaac: Um... cantaloupe!
Me: (What? Is he talking about the grapefruit?) Hm... no, grapefruit doesn't come from cantaloupe. It is its own fruit.
Isaac: No, cantaloupe is an animal!
Me: Isaac, cantaloupe is a fruit.
Isaac: Cantaloupe is an animal on the TV.
Me: Oh, ANTelope?
Isaac: Yeah, antelope.
Me: No, sweetheart, I don't think your hot dog is made of antelope. Maybe turkey.
January 25 - Me: I think she does food science (talking to my dad)
Isaac: Does she speak food?
January 13 - I was explaining to Isaac what a merchant was. Then he asked: "Is Papa a merchant?"
Me: Well, no. Well, I guess kind of. He does buy and sell things, in a way.
Isaac: Are you a merchant too?
Me: No, I'm more like a teacher. Definitely not a merchant though.
Isaac: You not a teacher! You just a mommy!
January 6 - Me: Boompa likes bissap (hibiscus drink) a lot.
Isaac: Boompa doesn't speak bissap (he means "Bissa", the language). Mama doesn't speak bissap either.
Papa: I speak Bissa.
Isaac: And I speak half bissap.
2012-
December 17 - Isaac and Henri don't like chocolate. (This has since changed, by the way, at least for Isaac.) Case in point:
Isaac: She (baby Sonia) smells like chocolate.
Me: Yes, she just smells so good, doesn't she?
Isaac: No. She smells like chocolate.
December 14 - So, on the way home, Isaac and I were having a conversation about different cities. I asked, "Where does Uncle Greggy live?"
Isaac: "Portland!"
Isaac: "We have been to Portland."
Me: "That's right, we have. Let me think, what did we do last time we went there?"
Isaac: "Me and Uncle Greggy, we had all the fun we could have!"
December 14 - "There are so many KALE (hail) at our house!"
December 11 - "I'm gonna snickerdoodle through this" (I think he meant sneak)
" I'm going to chuckle the chair back over here" (push)
December 5 - Mama, take me to gymnastics and leave me there.
November 22 - (about Sonia, while sleeping): She is thinking about me. But I am already here.
November 11 - A ladder is a tool you use for climbing.
October 27 - Me: Isaac, who is in the presidential race? Who's running? Do you know?
Isaac: Uncle Mikey!
October 18 - Isaac: What's a stepmother?
Me: A mother who is not your biological mother.
Isaac: Are you my magical mama?
October 3 - Isaac: Big brothers go to high school. But sisters don't go to high school.
Me: Oh really?? (Thinking, hm, what is this kid going to say?)
Isaac: Yeah. Sisters go to college.
September 24 -
Isaac: I like this hanitizer.
Me: Oh, the hand santizer?
Isaac: Yeah, the hand... hanitizer.
August 27 - Discovery of the day: Isaac can peel garlic cloves with amazing dexterity. YES.
August 22 - "I hode under the blanket."
August 9 - Nana: Isaac, would you like a little hamburger?
Isaac: No thanks, I choose life.
August 4 -
Papa: Do you want to stay at the park? We could pick you up tomorrow morning.
Isaac: No, I want to come home. I want to be with good people who take care of me.
August 2 - Isaac: Nana, can I have some strawberry milk?
Nana: Yes, in just a few minutes.
A few minutes later, after no strawberry milk has been presented.
Isaac: Gina's mom, can I have some strawberry milk?
June 18 - Me: It is so fun to dress you, London, because Isaac doesn't get to wear dresses.
Isaac: Yeah, I'm too big for dresses.
Me: Well, usually boys don't wear dresses, sweetheart.
Isaac: Yeah, boys don't wear dresses. They wear princess pants.
June 5 - Isaac got up by himself to use the restroom last night!
May 27 - I'm a big floss (sloth). I move very fast! I'm a floss with poky fingernails.
April 30 - Mama, when I grow up, I want you to show me how to go to college.
April 26 - Isaac's comment on our garden this past weekend: "The dandelions will not let our garden go away from them."
April 11 - Papa: You need to keep your food on the table because God made it and he will be mad if you throw it away.
Isaac: God made food? But I don't like food.
March 4 - Isaac's word substitution of the week: "floss" for "sloth"
January 22 - The story of a true Oregonian: The sun peeks out from behind the clouds, or maybe just shines through less clouds, as we walk out of Fred Meyer (with our reusable shopping bag, of course). Isaac buries his face in my skirt and complains, "MAMA! IT'S TOO BRIGHT! IT'S HURTING MY EYES!"
January 21 - Isaac on milk in a bottle: "It keeps the tears from coming out."
2011-
December 9 - (context: I'm cleaning out my wallet)
Isaac: Mama, what's this for? (gift card to Pottery Barn, where we have never been)
Me: Oh, that's for Pottery Barn.
Isaac: Oh, I used to go to Pottery Barn!
November 29 - Mama, our house needs some songs!
November 20 - The sweetest checker lady every at Fred Meyer gave Isaac his own little bag for his broccoli tonight. He was beside himself with happiness.
November 16 - Me: Isaac, why did you want to buy a cookie if you didn't want to eat it?
-long pause -
Isaac: I just wanna look at it.
November 1 - Isaac: Mama, you can have a turn when I'm done (eating a sucker).
My thought: Nice embedded adverbial clause, Isaac, but no thanks.
September 7 - Isaac: Papa, where are you from?
Papa: I'm from Africa. Where are you from?
Isaac: Um... I'm from Fred Meyer!
August 27 - Mama, you're a big elephant. Papa, you're Cinderella.
June 24 - Isaac stepped in dog poop for the first time. It was just awful.
May 23 - Today Isaac astounded his pediatrician at his well-child check by correctly responding to the question, "Where is your philtrum?"
May 13 - Isaac and I saw a beaver for the first time yesterday! It was so cute!
March 19 - London got baptized!
February 25 - coalescence + book on fire trucks = plenty of laughs and a good evening.
2010-
July 10 - Pool party au naturel! For 14 months or younger only....
2009-
November 12 - Isaac just started reduplicated babbling today! (uhdaedaedae and aegaegaegae)
