Author Archives: Jessica

After taking home the grand prize at the bike rodeo, Jude noted, “If there’s one things I’ve learned in my life, it’s that I always win.”

So, yesterday Jude convinced me to let him and Levi skip their last swimming lesson in the frozen water of Sandburg.  I had recently called to cancel summer lessons there and successfully negotiated myself out of the $30 cancellation fee, using the argument that I didn’t want to cancel but was being forced to cancel due …

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Jude, advocating for why I should make him a 2nd dinner at almost 11 o’clock tonight, “Sometimes I pinch myself to see if I am fat and it hurts really bad.”

While at karate my 3-1/2 year old proclaimed, “God made the karate teachers.  God made you.  God is the King!”

So, this weekend Andy and Jude went to see Avengers.  It is rated PG-13 and we hesitated about sending Jude at all.  He said it wasn’t scary at all and that the scariest movie he has ever seen is a Disney movie called Nemo.

“I hope that someday there’s something really dangerous and someone says, “Girls first.”

1. “Are those chocolate chips good for the baby?” 2. “God is making my baby right now inside your tummy.” 3. While Asher and I were gazing into each others eyes: Asher: “You have Ashers in your eyes.” Me: “You have Mommys in your eyes.” Asher: “So if you love a person, you have them …

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Asher:  “Why do you have to go to work today?” Me: “I have to go make us some more money.” Asher: “How about you go get your money and then come right back.”

Jude (8): “A super hero or one of those people that studies/digs for dinosaur bones, or the President or a guy in the army.” Levi (5): “A President.” After hearing what Jude and Asher had to say, Levi wanted to amend his answer to also be a seller and a super hero and one of those guys …

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Levi was rubbing my stomach and saying, “So the baby is swimming all around in here.”  Then he grabbed my “milkies” and asked, “What are these things?”