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Jude was talking to Grandma Forbes after HE crashed the computer and complaining that I couldn’t fix it and said, “My mom is no techie at all; she barely knows how to run the microwave.”

Our middle baby just turned 5 today.  Levi is such a sweet, loving, adorable little boy.  He is a wonderful son and a great brother.

“One of our lady bugs is a baby.  It only has 2 dots.”

“I’m so mad at you because you told me to put one of the lady bugs outside and dad said it would freeze out there.”

“I need some new shoes because these shoes are slow and Levi keeps beating me with his shoes.”

To me at bedtime, “Why did you take your make-up off?  You could have totally worn that tomorrow.”

After working with Jude on his spelling words and multiplication facts tonight, Jude yelled out, “Stop!  Stop!  Don’t do anything!  You’re ruining my life!”

Jude hasn’t practice his ukelele all week.  I wanted him to practice for about 15 minutes.  I knew he would talk me down so I started high.  I told him I wanted him to practice ukelele for 30 minutes.  He said, “Let’s make a compromise.  You want me to practice for 30 minutes.  I want …

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“Mommy, I love you so much I don’t want you to die.  That’s going to be my quote of the day.  Write that down on the computer.”

“You make good tacos.  Mommy, can you write that down, that’s going to be my quote of the day.”