Out of the mouths of babes--November

11/1--Whitney totally made up for her anti-mom note last month. I found this envelope on my bed tonight.

She's off the naughty list.

11/3--Whit's obsession with Disney characters is growing up. I think she has graduated from princesses (although she hasn't given them up completely). Using her dreamiest voice today, she said, "Hannah Montana is the greatest star on earth."

What's next? Pirates of the Caribbean?

11/5--Brandon talks like an educated adult. It cracks me up. Two examples from today:

We were listening to an audio book in the car. One of the characters said, "Mom, she's torturing me!" Brandon corrected it, "No, she's antagonizing him."

He saw a Lego set in a magazine that he has never seen in a store. He said, "That Lego set in the Toys R Us catalog is as phony as a three-dollar bill!" Who talks like that?

11/5--Follow-up on the boy who has a crush on Whitney: I guess his mom volunteers in their classroom. This afternoon, Whit said, "Since Isaiah's Mom was in our room today, I wrote down my phone number on a piece of paper and gave it to her. You know, so we could have a play date."

11/11--Whit was adding lines to the children's book, I love you as much....
Here's what she said, "I love you as much as a lion loves his babies. I love you as much as Zeus loves Hades."

Future poet?

11/15--Whit at the dinner table: "Garbage trucks are so lucky. They come and take the trash away and I never see it again."
B: "Why is THAT lucky?"
Whit, after pondering for a minute: "Well, I guess I'm lucky because the trash is gone."

11/17--Brandon's in third grade. He has started asking me school questions that stump me. Thank goodness for Google. I can just look up the answers. (What did OUR parents do?) Today he asked, "Mom, is the point at the end of a cone a vertex?" Just wait till he's in high school, huh?

If we're rotating at .76 miles per hour, how long
many revolutions will we complete before we
all fall down?

11/22--Brandon was reading a little bio on NFL player Julius Peppers and decided, "Mom, I'm just like Julius Peppers! Neither of us likes mayo or mustard and we both like iPhones."

I can barely tell the difference.

Poor Caroline got the shaft this month. I didn't take any good pics of her. Here are the three best ones.

Not sure where she came up with this pose.

She looked SO cute in this dress Grandma Cuca
got her, but did NOT want her pic taken before church.

Trimming the tree