Happy New Year!

Conversation with Clare.

Mom: Clare, get ready, we're going to the mall with Daddy now.

Clare: But mom, Daddy is afraid of the mall.


Conversation with Alexey.

Lex: What the hell?

Mom: Lex, don't say any bad words.

Let: I no say bad words, I say what the hell.
(credit for teaching my 2 year old this language goes to Calvin who has had several bars of soap in his mouth over the break and has quit saying he** but when he says " What the....." lex is happy to fill in with the appropriate ending.)

Conversation with Dave.

Denise: So, do you want to go out tonight?

Dave, very unenthusiastically: If you want, I don't really care.

Denise: Oh.......................................

did you know today is our 10 year anniversary?

Dave, very enthusiastically: YES!! HAPPY ANNIVERSARY!! YES! WE should go out! Where do you want to go!


(in dave's defense, he had thought he would be working all day and all night on the anniversary, so we had made other plans to celebrate on another day. When he got home early from work that day, he hadn't had anniversary on his radar.)


Conversation with Calvin:

If you could have 3 wishes what would they be?

Calvin: 1. to see Santa at the North Pole. 2. a New game for my DS. (what game?) Lego Star Wars, the Complete Saga. 3. Another wii remote.

We had a fun Christmas with the kids this year...Calvin was especially excited about santa coming to bring him the one thing he wished for (the new super mario bros on wii). Even Clare was excited to have Santa come in spite of being very afraid of him still.