- Out of the mouth of babes: VOL XLII -

Randomly:
Harper:  "Juliette is the LUCKIEST baby ever! She has a dog, the mostest toys ever, she has three sisters, and a brother!"
Me:  "A brother?"
Harper:  "Yeah, the one that got miscarriaged. We think that was a boy, right? Well, I guess it's more like an angel brother."

While driving past a large building in the Esic neighborhood:
"I can't tell if this is a school or a church or a house or an aftercare!"

After 4 completed days of Tutus Tuus [following approximately 4 months of arguing over wardrobes]:
Harper:  "When I get older, I'm not gonna wear crop tops because I want to be like Jesus and He covered His body."
Scarlett:  "No He didnt, Hawpa!  I can see His nipples on the cwoss!"
Juliette, Harper, me: .....

Randomly:
Harper:  "Why can't we have more than one mom?"
Me:  "What do you mean?"
Harper:  "Like if we were born in the 1900s, wouldn't we be born to like five moms?"
Me: .....[#BRB, let me see if I have one mom or five...]

After checking out [with a few things] at Aldi:
"$58??!?! That's A LOT of dollars just to get groceries!" 

Randomly:
Harper:  "Why are gnomes dumb?"
Me:  "Dumb?  I didn't know they were..."
Harper:  "Well they just sit with their hats down snoozin' all day..."

Randomly:
"Did you know we know everyone? All our cousins, friends, besties, aunts, uncles, grandparents......"

While pulling up to Goodwill donation bins:
Me:  "Oh wow, that guy is donating his golf clubs!"
Harper:  "Well he looks old, he looks like he doesn't want to golf anymore."

After watching an episode of The Chosen:
"I wonder how many days it takes to write a Bible?"

 

While driving to a bridal shower: 
Me:  "Oops! I forgot my rings... Oh, well."
Harper: "Well that's no big deal, people know you're married...........since you have kids and everything."
Me: .....

Randomly:
Harper:  "If you and Dad break up, I would be SO MAD at you, because I wouldn't want to have two houses and two sets of stuff.  But people don't really break up anymore like they used to."
Me: .....

While driving home from all-inclusive seats at a Cardinals game:
Me:  "Does anybody have a tummy ache from eating a lot of junk food?"
Harper:  "Excuse me, ma'am!  I did not eat a LOT of junk food.  I just ate the popcorn...and the brownie...and the hot dog...and the nachos...and the Sprite.  So yeah, that's all I ate."
Me, Brian: .....

Randomly while driving:
"Mommy, why are all the towns like Edwardsville and Belleville and Collinsville named after Cruella [DeVil]?"

While talking about adoration:
"You know at adoration how Jesus just sits in that little circle thing?  You know that's not just like a piece of bread in there, it's actually Jesus smiling at you!"

After picking up Arabella from the groomer:
"I don't even care if she rubs her butt on me now, because all her jingleberries [dingleberries] are trimmed off!"

- Out of the mouth of babes: VOL XXXIX -

While driving somewhere:
Harper:  "Mom, when you started driving, did you use a map?"
Me:  "Yeah, and I still do, because I don't always know where I'm going!  But when I started driving, there were no maps on phones, just papers that you had to get out and read..."
Harper:  "That sounds complicated!"

 

On the way to the airport at 3:30am for a 6:15am flight:
"I think we woke up a little too early..."

While watching an episode of The Chosen:
Harper:  "Does that guy have leper-cy?"
Me:  "I don't think so..."
Harper:  "Oh.  Well I know what it means!"
Me:  "Oh really?  What?"
Harper:  "It means your skin gets all rawl [raw] and it smells gross."
Me:  .....

Randomly:
Me:  "I'm so glad you and Jules have each other! A big sister and a little sister!"
Harper:  "Yeah, but next in line there MIGHT be a boy... Because you can have babies 'til you're 40, so you  have a LONG way to go!"
Me: .....

While watching Juliette play with her monkey stuffy:
Me:  "I wonder what monkeys think about all day?"
Harper, matter-of-factly, without skipping a beat:  "They probably think about bananas."

While getting ready for bed:
"Mom, why don't you have any real pajamas like Scarlett and me?  You just have like...junk clothes!"

While doing homework:
Harper:  "Mom!!! I finished all my minute math before the timer ticked off!"
Me:  "Wow! You must be SUPER smart."
Harper: "Yeah. I am. Well, I thunk realllly hard..."

Randomly:
Harper:  "I don't want kids.  Have you ever thought of how sloppy they are?  They draw on the walls... They throw food on the floor... They throw up sometimes... I just want to have dogs instead."
Me, silently, thinking it actually isn't a bad plan: .....

Randomly:
"If I had to marry someone out of my class, it would be _____!  He is such a nice, funny, cute, little boy!"

 

 

 

After driving past 3 police SUVs parked in the subdivision:
Harper:  "What are they doing here?"
Me: "Not sure... Maybe looking around for a weirdo."
Harper, after a long silence: "Well, maybe they're not here to catch a weirdo, maybe they're just here to see if everyone is doing good in the snow!"
Me: .....

While looking at her birth book:
"Awww, this is so cute!  When I get dogs, I'm going to make them books like these!"

Randomly:
"I know what people who don't eat meat are called! ...A veterinarian [vegetarian]!"

While driving through a hazard zone:
"MOM!  Slow down for the instruction [construction]!"

 

After coming out of bed one evening and observing a few minutes of a Netflix documentary we were watching about FLDS/polygamy:
Harper:  "..........Well, all I can say is, if Dad ever has 23 wives, I will, like, run away when I'm 12 or something."
Me:  .....

 

While driving home from school one day:
Me:  "Who do you play with a recess?"
Harper:  "Anyone who doesn't have a friend." <3

- Out of the mouth of babes: VOL XXXVII -

After listening to her whiny mom complain about still having some lost/diminished taste/smell following COVID infection in December 2021:
Harper:  "Well, you're lucky COVID didn't make you lose your talking!"
Me:  .....

 

Randomly:
Harper:  "Do you wish you would've had the other baby that died?"
Me:  "Well, not really, because then we wouldn't have had you!"
Harper:  "Yes you would've!"
Me:  .....

After Scarlett had a mini-meltdown about riding in the hot van on a 98* day:
"Scarlett, you should just be happy you aren't a homeless person that can't ever have a house or a car with air inside!"

While watching me get dressed one day:
Harper:  "Look at that BIG tummy! ...From all of us growing inside there!  Imagine if we were all in there at once and you had triplets!"
Me:  .....

Same day, while watching me get ready for bed:
Harper:  "Does every girl wear a bra to bed?"
Me:  "No."
Harper:  "Why do you?"
Me:  "It's just easier with breastfeeding, and stuff....."
Harper: "Ooooooh, I gotcha. Will your nipples stop leaking when you're like 600 years old or something?"
Me: .....

After being put to bed on an August school night before it was dark:
"Scar, did you know we're 'octurnal [nocturnal] because Mom sends us to bed in the middle of the day so we sleep all day?"

 

Randomly:
Harper:  "How old do you have to be to stop having kids?"
Me:  "I'm not sure! Maybe 40?  45?"
Harper:  "Wow!  So you have a long time left to go!  How many more kids do you think you'll have?"
Me:  "I don't know! Maybe none?"
Harper:  "I bet you'll have some more.  Because you know, the more childs you have now, the more grandchilds you'll get some day!  And then you'll have a LOT OF childs to watch!"

 

Before leaving for a shopping spree:
Harper: "Do we have an umbrella?"
Me:  "It isn't really raining that hard..."
Harper:  "But I don't want to get my hair wet, because then it will stink.  Because you know, rain water is fish pee!"
Me:  "No, it isn't..."
Harper:  "Yes, it is! Haven't you ever heard of the life cycle of a cloud?! ...We learned that in kindergarten!"

While driving through the country during November:
Me:  "Wow, the trees really lost a lot of leaves this weekend!"
Brian:  "Yeah, the wind has been ridiculous..."
Harper:  "DAD!  Don't call the wind 'ridiculous,' that's how we breathe!"
Brian: .....

Before bed:
Me:  "Go scrub your teeth, we're going to the dentist tomorrow!"
Harper:  "Awwwww, man!  I HATE the dentist!  It's a dumb, ridiculous place.  And it isn't even healthy for your teeth because it makes them bleed!"
Me: .....

While talking about Twinkle Toes's return:
Harper:  "Well I don't think he'll do the same things he did this year as he did last year, because that would be STUPID..."
Scarlett:  "Yeah, that would DEFLY [definitely] be BORING..."
Brian, me: ..........

While getting in bed on Christmas Eve:
Me:  "Happy birthday, Jesus!"
Harper:  "Do you have a gift for Jesus?"
Me:  "...No, not really, do you?"
Harper: "Yes!"
Me: "What is it?"
Harper:  "Love!"

On the way to candlelight adoration at the church:
Me: "Shoot, we're running late..."
Harper:  "It's ok that we're running late, he won't get Jesus out for a while."

On the same ride to adoration:
"Now, Scarlett, remember when you're at adoration, your body has to be calm, listening, and quiet..."

Randomly: 
Harper:  "Why can't men wear jean shorts?!"
Me:  .....

- Father/Daughter Dance 2023 -

AND THEY'RE OFF!!! 8th Annual Father/Daughter Dance hosted by the local K of C's, here they come!

[^^ Pic on the right of Daddy and all his girls for funsies, even though Super J got voted out for the dance!]   

 

And btw, I enjoyed the heck out of these photos I took before the dance since I figured they'd probably be the only ones I’d get from the evening ..........[and yes, I'll go ahead and give you a spoiler that I predicted correctly!]! 

 

 

All the hairspray...

 

...all the glitter...

 

...ALL FOR DADDY!!! 

 

 

They swung by to pick up another dancing duo on the way, and I don't think I've ever seen a cuter quintet [yes, had to Google, "what do you call a group of 5 people?"]!

 

When they got home, the stories never ended!  Here are two, to name a few:

 

Scarlett: "I ate TWO big heart cookies, one sprinkle brownie, two chocolate kisses, and a bunch of M&Ms!  But I shared the M&Ms with Kate!  And that's all the junk food I ate.  I don't even ask Dad, I just go get whatever I want!" 

 

Harper:  "Yeah, Mom, that's because Dad drunk four cans of beer."

This dancing trio had the bessssst time, and I'm fairly certain that 3/3 of them are already counting down for next year!
 

- Out of the mouth of babes: VOL XXXV -

On the way home from school:
Harper:  "Mom, why did the chicken cross the road?"
Me:  "Hmmmmm, I don't know!"
Harper:  "You have to guess!"
Me:  "To get to the other side?"
Harper:  "No!  ...To lay its eggs in its nest!"
Me:  .....

Still on the way home from school, while attempting to explain everyone's last names:
Me:  "....So if you marry _____, then your last name would be _____.  Or if you marry _____, then your last name would be _____."
Harper:  "But MOMMM, I can't marry ANY of those boys in my class!"
Me:  "Why not?!"
Harper:  "Because!  They are all my age!"
Me: "Oh... Well what's wrong with that?  You planning on marrying an older boy?!"
Harper:  "Yes.  Of course!  So then they'll be really tall and can reach high things for me."
Me:  .....

As a falcon was flying by:
"WHOA!!! MOM!  I just saw a huge bald eagle fly by the side of the house!"

While getting ready for bed:
"Mom, can you wake me up tomorrow really early before you leave for work so I can get all ready and surprise Daddy?  Because he'll be busy taking care of all the other children in the morning."

While overhearing a conversation Brian and I were having in the kitchen about someone who died:
Scarlett:  "Hawpa, what does 'passed away' mean?"
Harper:  "Like...past?  Like in the olden days and stuff?  OH, passed away.  Well, actually...'passed away' is another word for DIED, because that person they're talking about went up to Heaven and died."
Scarlett:  "Oh."

 

 

While Brian was wiring up 20 remote boxes for his fireworks show:
"When will Daddy ever take a break on the 4th of July just to watch the fireworks?"

At Scarlett's birthday as she was unboxing a shiny new [knock-off] American Girl doll:
"I want an American Girl doll like Scarlett because every time I play now I just feel like I always have to take care of littler baby dolls."

 

As Juliette was screaming her head off while we were getting gas:
"Juliette!  You just need to wait a little bit more patiently, ok?  Because we need to get gas, or else we'll have to get a tow truck to take us home!"

A few months after the Winter Olympics finished:
Harper:  "Are you going to be in the Olympics when you grow up, Scarlett?"
Scarlett:  "Yeah.  Are you?"
Harper:  "Yeah.  What are you gonna do?"
Scarlett:  "I'm gonna do 'dat ting [thing] where they go around 'da cones.  And tap dance!"
Harper:  "Oh!  That's nice!  I'm gonna do gymnastics!  I think it will be nice to win a medal for the United States."
Scarlett:  "Yeah. Pob-ee [probably] so."

While unknowingly walking into the bathroom where an unnamed family member was going #2:
Harper:  *shout yelling* "POO! IT SMELLS LIKE POOP IN HERE!"

After spending the afternoon at her friend's house:
Harper:  "Mom, what's my trouble name?"
Me:  "Your what?"
Harper:  "Like the name you're supposed to use for me when I get in trouble!"

Randomly:
"Mom, has your period ever bleeded?"

On the way home from school:
Harper:  "It was so hot at school today that my legs turned red!  .....And you're probably about to start getting sunburns!"
Me:  "Oh, yeah?  Why?"
Harper:  "Because!  You're always trying to get a suntan and instead you get a sunburn!"
Me:  .....

After passing a homeless woman and her three kids at a stoplight in town:
"Why would she stand there and ask us for food when she could just ask a farmer for one of his tomatoes or something?"

One evening as we were watching a Disney movie:
Harper:  "Ok, Juliette, let me tell you a story.  Once there was two parents who loved to look at their phones and sleep a lot."
Brian:  "That sounds like your parents!"
Harper:  "Yeah!  I'm telling her a story about you two nut jobs!"
Brian, me:  .....

- Out of the mouth of babes: VOL XXXI -

After watching Cheaper by the Dozen:
Harper:  "Mom, can someone in real life actually have 12 kids?"
Me:  "Yes."
Harper:  "Well, I think I only want 8 kids..."

At dinner:
Me:  "What are you learning about in religion class this week?"
Harper:  "Ummmm, we're learning about two sisters and this guy."
Me:  .....

Randomly:
Harper:  "Mom, I know what L.O.L. means!"
Me:  "Oh yeah?"
Harper:  "Yeah, it means, 'SHOUT. OUT. LOUD!'"
Me:  .....

While looking at our honeymoon picture on my nightstand:
"Mom, you look younger in this picture than you do right now..."

 

On the way to Mass:
Harper:  "Will people end?  Like will all the people on the world die some day?  Or will people just keep growing more and more and more?"
Brian, me:  .....

 

 

One evening before bed:
Me:  "Harper, put your puzzles away."
Harper:  "I can't find the boxes."
Me:  "Ok, then I'll throw them away."
Harper:  "I hate your rules.  They're so disgusting."
Me:  .....

 

Randomly:
"Mom, are you 21 or 23?"

While driving home from the grocery store:
Harper:  "Mom, why did the chicken cross the road?"
Me:  "Hmmm...I don't know?"
Harper:  "Well you have to guess!"
Me:  "To get to the other side?"
Harper:  "No.  To lay it's eggs in it's nest!"
Me:  .....

While celebrating our anniversary and looking at our wedding photos inside SLU College Church:
"Look!  A castle is in the background!"

During Juliette's tummy time:
"I can't believe Juliette can hold her head up all by herself when she is only 3 months old!  ...Because that must be really hard for a person who is only zero years old!"

Randomly:
Harper:  "Our elf is part of our family, right?!"
Me:  "Yes, I guess so..."
Harper:  "Yeah, because he was borned from you!"
Me:  .....

On the way home from school:
"Mommy, I told this to my teacher today:  Maybe they chose Mary for Jesus because he was born on Christmas and her name means Christmas too, you know like, 'Mary [Merry] Christmas!'"

Before visiting Santa:
Harper:  "Mom, does Santa have a wife?"
Me:  "Yes, her name is Mrs. Claus."
Harper:  "Ohhhhh, I remember, the old lady with the white bun!"

 

 

During Christmas break:
"You know what the worst thing about going back to school after Christmas is?  It's that Juliette loves me so much and I have so much love to give her and I will never get to see her while I'm at school every day..."

 

After driving by 3 flashing police cars that were encircling a car at Target:
Brian:  "Ohhhh, look at those police, they caught some bad guys!  Prob Marv and Harry!"
Harper:  "Who's Barb and Larry?"

 

 

- Out of the mouth of babes: VOL XXVII -

While looking me up and down after a shower [as I'm 35w pregnant]:
"Mom, you are really skinny...but your belly is HUGE!"

While narrowing down baby names to the final two choices:
Scarlett:  "Well GUYS, 'da problem isssssss:  I don't yike [like] 'dat name!!!"
Harper:  "Well Scarlett, the real problem is:  we don't even know if the baby is a girl or a boy and we just need one name for each that we like.  And maybe we can just decide when the baby comes home what we should name it."

Randomly:
"I hope I have 8 kids!  ...Or maybe 3 kids."

While watching a car drive past our front window at 8:55pm on a school night:
"Who on EARTH would be driving right now???"

Randomly:
"I wish viruses couldn't be real and they were just in fairy tales." 

Randomly [as I'm 37w pregnant]:
Harper:  "So anyway, when you go to the hospital, how do they sew your vagina back together?"
Me:  .....

While watching Juliette nurse:
Harper:  "So why can't God make babies be able to drink out of bottles instead of boobs?"
Me:  "Well they can drink out of both, but it's easier for Mommy to feed her this way instead of pumping the milk and then washing a bottle..."
Harper:  "Well, I like holding her better than watching other people hold her.  So probably you should use the pump."

The next day, while watching Juliette nurse again:
Harper:  "OH MY GOSH, it's like she's biting your whole nipple off!"
Me:  "Yeah..."
Harper:  "Has Juliette ever been feeded by another baby's mommy?"
Me:  "No."
Harper:  "Well what would she think if she was?"
Scarlett:  "WELL HAWPIE, you are just gonna have to ask her when she's olda [older]!"

 

 

 

While discussing the new Children's Stewardship program from our church:
Me:  "So every weekend, we'll take one of these envelopes and put some money in it and you can walk it up to the front and put it in the collection basket."
Harper:  "Well I am NOT doing that, because I need to save my money for other things, not take it to church to pay for God."
Me:  .....

As Juliette is screaming her head off during Friday night movie night:
"Well THIS is sure distracting to have a baby in the house..."

While looking at her color-changing mood bracelet shortly after a scratching/screaming fight with Scarlett:
Harper:  "MY BRACELET IS PURPLE, SO I'M HAPPY."
Brian:  .....

While holding Juliette:
"You look like you aren't even alive because you're sooooo little!"

While on a walk through the nature trails in town:
"Why is this place so animal-y?"

Midway through a game of Jenga on the living room rug:
Harper:  "Well this is nice you can sit on the ground now and get up easily, Mom!"
Me:  .....

While snuggling Juliette:
Me:  "So what do you like the best about Juliette?"
Harper:  "Ummm.....just how she loves me!"

 

 

 

- Out of the mouth of babes: VOL XXV -

Randomly:
"Mommy, am I a grown-up?"

After visiting a local farm:
"Can animals be married?"

 

 

Randomly:
"Can you imagine having FOUR kids if that baby before me didn't die?"

 

While watching Dumbo:
"I wish we had a baby elephant as a pet, because they are sooo cute!  They really are a lot of work, though..."

 

While driving through the local college campus:
Me:  "Do you think you'll go here some day for college?"
Harper:  "No, I don't think so, because honestly I already learned everything at my school, you know."

 

 

 

At dinner:
Harper:  "I can't decide if I'm going to do swimming when I get older or gymnastics!"
Me:  "You can do both!"
Harper:  "No, Mom... I'm talking about which one I'd do in the Olympics!"

While watching the hurdlers' interview during the Olympics:
"Why are they sweating?  They didn't run THAT far..."

While watching more Olympics:
Harper:  "When I get a boyfriend, I'm gonna ask him to cut his armpit hairs off."
Me:  "Oh you don't like armpit hair?"
Harper:  "No!  It's totally disgusting!"

After a shower one night:
Harper:  "Mom, do they have to see your belly and vagina at the hospital when the baby comes out?"
Me:  "Not sure." ..... 

 

One Saturday morning:
Me:  "After this game of Uno, do you want to go downstairs with me and find the box of baby blankets so we can wash some up for the baby?"
Harper:  "No, not really, because it will probably just spit up on them.  Why can't you just glue the baby's mouth shut or something?"
Me:  .....

 

While watching The Bachelorette:
Harper:  "Mom, quit pausing the show!"
Me:  "Well this isn't really a show for kids."
Harper:  "Why isn't it a show for kids?"
Scarlett:  "BECAUSE, Hawpie... Kids can't have boyfwiends!"

 

 

While watching 101 Dalmatians:
Harper:  "Do dogs only have babies if they get married first?"
Me:  "I'm not sure.  I don't really think dogs get married..."
Harper:  "Well they CAN, if there's one girl and one boy."
Me:  "Oh..........yeah maybe so..."

After school:
"____ [boy she's friends with] is about as tall as Scarlett, but he SAYS he's 7...  But he only goes up to about my chin, anyway..."

Inside Aldi, loudly [as I'm 36w pregnant]:
"OH, do we need to buy more alcohol?  You know the one you always like and runned out of?"

Randomly:
Harper: "Are you going to keep the baby or give it away?"
Me:  "Keep it!!! Why?  Do you want to give it away?"
Harper:  "No, well I was just wondering since you already have two childs who don't really listen a lot."

- Out of the mouth of babes: VOL XXIII -

While feeling the baby kick/flip/roll:
"Is it doing gymnastics in there?  So NOW I'm starting to think this baby is a boy, because boys are wild.  It's probably about to get worn out!"

 

After watching me scream/batting at a spider coming down from the sky:
Harper:  "Mom!  DON'T. KILL. GOD'S. CREATURES!!!"
Scarlett:  "Yeah, if you kill God's cwea-shurs, a bug will DIE and 'dat would be wheely [really], wheely bad."

After passing a cemetery on the way to church:
Harper:  "Are there 100 people in Heaven and 165 people on land?"
Brian:  "4 billion people on land."
Harper:  "4 billion??!  Then I would say that's 100 + 100 + one million...  Right, Mommy?"

Randomly:
"Mommy, does God have His ears pierced?"

During bathtime after being at a friend's pool all day:
Harper:  "Sissy, you have to get your hair washed when we get out of the bath because it's full of chlorine!"
Scarlett: "What is coh-ween?"
Harper:  "Well it's stuff in the pool, because pool water gets in people's privates and then it comes back out and then the chlorine gets all the germs out."
Scarlett:  "Oh..."

 

 

 

While actively arching her back way out:
"You know what you should do so people know you have a baby?  Your should put your back like this so your tummy looks bigger and people think it's a baby!"

 

While assessing my sunburn:
"Mom, next time you should just put three coats of sunscreen on because you're never going to have a tan like me." 

Randomly [as I'm 28w pregnant]:
"I bet the baby is getting tired of being in there!" 

While watching me get out of the shower [at 29w pregnant]:
"MOM!  Your wrinkles [stretch marks] are getting huge!"

While driving home from Schnucks [at 30w pregnant]:
Harper:  "Anyway, are you allowed to drive a car when you're prag-nant?"
Me:  .....

After pulling up to the lake to go boating with Grammy and Papa:
Harper:  "Oh my goshhhhhh, look how big the sea is!"
Grammy Resa:  "Yes, isn't it nice?"
Harper:  "Yes. And I've got my binoculars and my camera AND my goggles, just in case I see a turtle or something..."

 

While driving down the interstate during the day:
Scarlett:  "Why does all 'dose cars have 'dere yites [lights] on?"
Harper:  "Well let me tell you one thing, girl:  it's because the sun is reflecting off their lights and making them look bright but they're not actually on.  And THEN when they turn into another lane they have to put their turn lights on so other people know where they're going."
Scarlett:  "Oh."

While dragging her into the last T-ball game:
Me:  "Did you not like T-ball too much this year?"
Harper:  "No...  But I did like hitting the ball!  And playing with the dirt, is all what I liked..."

After getting her ears pierced:
Me:  "Did it hurt?"
Harper:  "Yes!  Well it doesn't hurt THAT bad, it just feels like a red ant bit you."

While driving home after a thunderstorm:
"I was just wondering if you can climb a rainbow?"

- Out of the mouth of babes: VOL XX -

While driving by a cemetery:
Me:  "Those are called headstones, and there's the building where you go inside to pick out a headstone for the grave."
Harper:  "So some day you pick that out for your family?"
Me:  "Yes."
Harper:  "So some day Scarlett and me will have to pick that out for you?"
Me:  "Yes.  But we might all four die together sometime, you just never know..."
Harper:  "Soooo, I'm guessing Scarlett and me will last longer.  'Cause we aren't as old as you guys, so we'll definitely last a lot longer."

While passing a Mazda convertible:
"Look, a real race car!"

Scream/shouted on the drive home from Grammy and Papa's as Scarlett was wailing that her water spilled:
"SCARLETT! REMEMBER THAT GRAMMY GAVE YOU THREE M&M'S TO NOT FUSS ANYMORE TODAY?  REMEMBER, SCARLETT??!?!"

After finding out she was going to be a big sister -- again!:
"Well, how do you know there's a baby in your tummy, anyway?  And how did the baby get there, anyway?"

Stomp/reporting into the master bathroom one evening after I asked her to "watch" Scarlett while I took a quick shower:
"Daddy took Sissy outside.  I told him NOT to get her dirty because she just had a bath.  And I don't know if she has shoes or bug spray on or not!"

While looking at photos of 6-week fetuses on Google:
"Well, that kind of looks more like a dinosaur to me." 

 

 

Randomly:
"Remember when we were at Mexico [La Casa, lol] and Sissy dropped her fork on the floor three times?! That was so crazy, but I was thinking we should go back to Mexico sometime!"

At the conclusion of an adorable song about Jesus:
Me:  "Did you learn that song in music class at school?"
Harper:  "Nope!  No singing at school with COVID because little spit germs come out of your mouth and spread the virus to other people.  So we just have to do music papers all year and just listen to songs and stuff, not really a lot of stuff to do that's really much music..."

At dinner:
"Do babies ever come out of your mouth, or only your tummy or vagina?"

At same said dinner ^^, as Scarlett was demanding to be spoon-fed:
Brian:  "Scarlett, when the new baby comes, I'm gonna have to feed the baby and you're gonna have to feed yourself!"
Harper:  "...Well DAD, you have two hands, you know..."

After lunch:
Me:  "Man, my stomach hurts..."
Harper:  "I bet it's because the baby is in there and he's so heavy that he's pulling your stomach down to your legs."

 

While driving by the Arch:
"Daddy!  Remember you said some day you would take me up in an alligator [elevator] to get to the top of that cross [Arch]?"

 

 

After getting out of bed for the fifth time one evening:
Me:  "Harper, get back in bed right now or you're losing your TV time after school tomorrow!"
Harper:  "Knock knock, who's there?.....BRIDGET MAD PANTS."

 

After pulling out of McDonald's drive-thru for a RARE treat:
"Well you KNOW, Mom, you shouldn't be feeding the baby that junk food..."

 

Randomly:
"If I lose my first tooth during the day, I'm gonna get a little bit of toothpaste and clean it off so the Tooth Fairy will think it's nice!"