Kids

Sometimes it feels like I'm surrounded by kids. Fortunately I kinda like them. I ONLY have 3 kids myself (as a mormon this is a pretty small amount), but I also work with kids. I've worked 4 12 hour shifts in the last 5 days, all at the pediatric hospital. When I am not at work I am with my own kids. Even at church I work with the little kids. Some kids are brats, and seriously, that is just annoying. But kids are also freaking awesome. They are hilarious. They are sweet. They are kind. They are sensitive and intuitive. They are inquisitive. They are so open to love and to learning. Really is there anything more beautiful?

My own 3 send me on roller coasters daily of wanting to lock myself in a room and hide in a closet to just loving being in their presence and enjoying the sweet moments with them. They each have a wonderful unique personality that I just love. My older two say some of the funniest things. I started writing them down in my phone last year because I think it will be fun being able to look back at some of the great things they came up with in these beautiful years of their lives. Here is what I have in my phone so far:

Kid Quotes:

5/2013

Mom: Oakley why don't you change your Jammie's, those ones smell like pee.

Oakley: sniff "No they don't"

Mom: yeah they do, smell the bum

Oakley: "oh. Yeah they do"

Ethan: "Ew Oakley I don't want to smell your peepee butt!"

Oakley: that's okay. I'll just turn the other way

5/26/2013

Oakley "Mom, I really want a nice tiger someday"

6/5/13

Oakley as she walks into the house "Mom, the house smells like your armpit"

8/9/13

Oakley: "Mom I'm just talking to my friends on the phone. I'm in high school and just talking to my friends. One is sick."

9/5/2013

Oakley: "mom one of my sisters is a hobo. My sister has a brother named Jake and he looks like a bulldog". She was completely serious.

10/21/13

Talking with the kids about how people make their own choices, good or bad and Oakley says:

"yeah, and some people choose to speak Spanish."

12/13

I am chewing Oakley out for how messy her room is. She responds "mom, it's called organized chaos".

12/22/13

Oakley, sitting in church sniffs and says "Mom, what does Santa smell like?"

2/2014

I asked the kids what we should do for dad as a surprise when he comes home from his Skywest interview. Oakley on the way home from school gets excited and says "I know what we can get dad mom! We can buy him a new bigger gun so he can shoot the cats!"

3/16/2014

Ethan asks me "Why do moms have boobs?" I say "Well, so we can feed our babies I guess". He says "and why else? For decoration?" Me: "haha yeah that too".

5/15/2014

I asked Oakley if I looked okay in what I was wearing. She replied "oh mom you look fabulous."

She graduated from kindergarten and told me "this is the best day ever" "I can't believe I did that"

6/30/2014

After swimming all day at the Arizona Grand Resort, Ethan runs up and says "give me some water! I don't want to get diabetes!"

I believe he meant dehydrated.

8/10/14

Oakley says: "I love you mom. I just want to rip your head off and hug it."

I asked her why she wants to rip my head off as that's not very nice and she said "then it's just easier to hold and hug"

9/2014

I asked Ethan if he would put some books away for me. He said:

"Yeah I can do that. I can just put the princess book in my room so I can read it to Oakley and Summer. That's my job... To make girls happy."

10/3/14

I told the kids that grown ups don't always know everything after Oakley told me I should know her school schedule because I'm a grown up and Ethan says "Yeah Oakley, nobody knows everything. Not even Siri."