Words of Wee Ones

Great description

2012-01-27T21:13:00.000-08:00

Buzz calls out from the bathroom that she needs help.
Mama comes in to help her.
Turns out she has diarrhea.
Mama tells her of her condition.
Buzz: Yeah, I have diawrrhea. My bum is thwrowing up.

Plea to the masses

2012-01-27T18:06:00.000-08:00

Zanzi told me she was learning about the water cycle today. She had a word written on the back of a work sheet. The word was "nomocuation." I asked her what it meant. She said it was when the water cycle, everything happens all at once.

I can't find nomocuation in the dictionary. I'm not sure if she made it up and is teasing me or if it's real.

Help a sister out, do I need to be worried?

What did she do?

2011-12-20T16:16:00.001-08:00

Overheard Buzz talking to the dog.
Buzz: Are you going to tattle? I know you can talk.

Good thing I was in the kitchen

2011-12-19T19:18:00.000-08:00

Buzz walks into the kitchen an hour after bedtime.
Mama: Hi! Did you just wake up or have you been awake the whole time?
Buzz: I'm hungry.
Buzz walks past Mama, drops her drawers, including underwear, and backs toward the trash can.

Update: When we told Buzz what she did, she was EXTREMELY upset and mad that we would "tease" her like that. She instructed us to never speak of it again.

The silliest Lily (titled by Grace)

2011-11-27T13:18:00.000-08:00

The family was having a discussion about a little neighbor boy named Matthew.
Buzz: We know a Matthew! Matthew from the scriptures!
Daddy: (sarcastically) Oh really?! Then what's his last name?
Buzz: (confidently) Matthew 22.

I guess they DO kind of look like FBI agents

2011-11-24T06:50:00.000-08:00

Daddy was teasing Buzz about who she was sitting by at Thanksgiving dinner.
Daddy: At Thanksgiving dinner you have to sit in between the missionaries.
Buzz: (whining) Nooo! (Firmly) They look like they want to kill me!

Definitely need to clarify the definition of math before she starts school

2011-11-14T08:42:00.000-08:00

Buzz and Mama are making patterns for each other and making the other person figure out comes next.
Buzz: What comes next? (Hiding the paper.)
Mama: I have no idea because I don't even know what the pattern is. Can I see the pattern?
Buzz: (Keeps hiding the paper) No (with a smirk), you just have to guess because it's math!

We too have started the early Christmas celebrations

2011-11-09T07:00:00.000-08:00

Buzz: You want to play "Dead Santa" with me Zanzi?

Why does she have it out for Oma?

2011-11-08T10:44:00.000-08:00

Zanzi: What does "prehistoric" mean?
Mama: (insert some lame, but accurate response here)
Buzz: Like Oma?

Ummmmm

2011-11-07T07:26:00.003-08:00

Buzz to Mama: I have invisible fwriends in my bedwroom. Want to see them?

Ummmmm

2011-11-07T07:26:00.001-08:00

Buzz to Mama: I have invisible fwriends in my bedwroom. Want to see them?

Need?

2011-11-04T13:43:00.001-07:00

Buzz: How do you lay an egg?
Mama: Um, I don't really know.
Buzz: ARGG! I really need to know!!

Overheard

2011-11-02T14:19:00.001-07:00

Buzz to Zanzi: (bossy voice) Equals doesn't mean "I'm going to the park."

I'm confused about the need to wait until Wednesday

2011-07-31T21:09:00.000-07:00

Just before Mama shut the door from putting Buzz to bed,
Buzz: Mama, not tomowrrow, and not the next day, but the next day, I won't yell.

I think you need new invisible friends if they can't support what you wear

2011-07-28T11:58:00.000-07:00

It's 1pm in the afternoon.
Buzz walks up to me holding a different pair of shorts than the ones she is currently wearing.
Buzz: Mom, I'm going to put these showrts on to make my invisible fwriends feel bettewr.

They're used to it by now

2011-07-17T12:58:00.000-07:00

Papa teases the girlies a lot.
Papa: Zanzi, your dad is coming soon.
Zanzi: (nonchalantly) I don't mind.

Garden goodness

2011-07-11T16:51:00.000-07:00

Mama is weeding in the garden.
Mama asks Buzz if she wants to help Mama weed.
Buzz: That's okay, you weed and I'll just taste the lettuce to see if it's bitter.

Zanzi comes out to the garden.
Buzz: Gwace! Do you want to twry some lettuce?!
Zanzi: Is it ripe?!

Canine Currency

2011-07-06T10:57:00.000-07:00

We are leaving the house and not taking Duncan with us.
Buzz: (Bends down and cuddles Duncan and in a very sad tone) Oooh, poowr Duncan!
Zanzi: (Matter of factly, in a correcting tone) Duncan's not poor! He has hundreds of toys!

2011-07-05T17:46:00.000-07:00

Mama: McElligot's Pool by Dr. Seuss.
Buzz: He wrote all the Dwr. Seuss books. He must be tiwred.

2011-07-03T15:52:00.000-07:00

Buzz: (Who is 4 and a half and quite sincere) Mom, can I have a cell phone that wowrks?

2011-06-19T17:53:00.000-07:00

Mama and Buzz were making soup for dinner. A few minutes later Zanzi came in the kitchen.

Buzz: Hey Zanzi! We made soup with mushrwooms in it and it MIGHT be good!

Daddy: Hey Buzz, it's time for bed.
Buzz: (cheerfully) That's okay!

So profound

2011-06-18T08:18:00.000-07:00

Daddy is talking about how the girls are so dirty that they probably need a shower instead of a bath. Buzz doesn't like that idea.

Buzz: (Very seriously) The things that arwe imporwtant to me arwe differwent than the things that arwe imporwtant to you daddy.

Zanzi is brushing her hair.

Buzz: When Zanzi is done we'wre going to have a little talk out.

FYI, Zanzi is EXTREMELY competitive

2011-06-15T15:43:00.000-07:00

Mama reads the back of the cereal box to the girls:

"The Tuesday before Lent is known as Pancake Day in England. A fun part of the day begins when the church bells ring. Then, women of the town race to the church with a skillet of pancakes. The first one to arrive wins a kiss from the bell ringer."

Zanzi: I would want to lose.

We have breakfast for dinner, so I guess it makes sense

2011-06-11T10:42:00.000-07:00

Mama: What should we have for breakfast?

Buzz: Dinnerw!

Oh the horror

2011-06-10T15:40:00.000-07:00

Zanzi is getting her clothes on after going swimming.
Mama: When you're done, there's watermelon here.
Zanzi: (tired and whining) I don't want any.
Buzz: (Horrified, her voice full of disdain and anger and her brows knit together) What do you mean?!! It's Fwruit!!!!

Hot Potato

2011-06-01T15:53:00.001-07:00

Holly (our friend): Do you want any more brothers and sisters?
Zanzi: Yes, four.
Holly: Well that makes six. Why do you need six?
Zanzi: Because you need six people to play hot potato.
Buzz: (Indignantly) NO! You can play hot potato with five people!

Payback has begun

2011-05-31T14:37:00.000-07:00

We're driving in the car.
Zanzi: (out of the blue in a "Fat Albert" voice) Isn't it nice to pretend we have a real dad?

The funny thing is, I don't check Facebook very often....

2011-05-30T19:11:00.000-07:00

Mama: What is Facebook?
Zanzi: You know that thing you always look at?
Mama: What is that?
Zanzi: When you say you are going to check your email, but you check Facebook all the time!

2011-05-29T17:58:00.000-07:00

Buzz knocks on the window.
Buzz: Excuse me wind! Don't be so fast!
(She waits a moment) Thank you-(she cuts herself off) NO! NOT SO FAST!

2011-05-25T07:18:00.000-07:00

Eating Nutella on toast...
Zanzi: When we bought the Nutella, it was new, that's why it's NEW-tella.

Just overheard the girls imagining things

2011-05-20T15:27:00.000-07:00

Zanzi: Pretend my name is Sister Awesome and your name is Sister Cool.
Buzz: Yeah....

A little later....

Buzz: Prwetend we werwe prwetty girwls...
Zanzi: NO!!! No pretty girls!

Silence please

2011-05-08T20:43:00.000-07:00

Buzz: Why is it quiet?
Zanzi: Because somebody's getting dressed!

I guess most of the meals I cook are sad then

2011-04-24T14:55:00.000-07:00

The girls were discussing "Happy Meals" from "Kings Crown" (or McDonalds to the rest of the world).
Buzz: Big kids have a sad meal. That's why they don't get toys.

She's right, all those sweets go straight to my lungs

2011-04-11T12:04:00.000-07:00

Buzz: Mom, you'wre kind of fat.
Mama: Oh really?! Where am I fat?
Buzz: (Thinks for a minute) Um, in youwr lungs.

They repeated this four times, so I am sure this is accurate

2011-04-08T06:56:00.000-07:00

Overheard Zanzi and Buzz playing church.
Zanzi: We believe...
Buzz: We believe...
Zanzi: toe...
Buzz: toe...
Zanzi: enter...
Buzz: enter...
Zanzi: and see.
Buzz: and see.

Oh dear, she's ever so right.

2011-04-07T18:56:00.000-07:00

Mama and Papa were talking with Zanzi about soccer.
Mama: So what do you do during a game?
Buzz: Focus!

Because what more could I say?

2011-04-06T20:11:00.000-07:00

Mama was talking about time: "...45 minutes"
Buzz: I didn't think thewre was a 45 minutes.
Mama: Oh really? What did you think there was?
Buzz: I thought thewre was a eight thiwrty minutes owr a thiwrty-eight minutes.
Mama: Oh.

Didn't we have this same problem with Marvelone and Zanzi a few years ago?

2011-03-30T07:11:00.000-07:00

Buzz: One time I didn't know what time it was and Marwvelone told me I had to blow my nows rweally big and I said you'rwe not the boss of me and she said yes I am.

(Marvelone was Zanzi's imaginary friend. I guess she stuck around to hang out with Buzz too.)

Girly girls really bother her. Really.

2011-03-29T11:10:00.000-07:00

Zanzi: Lily in my class holds her cup like this (holds her pinkie out) and I don't like it. It really bothers me. It makes me itch.

You're right, as a 6 year old, she probably skipped school to find a fashion show in a tiny town in Nebraska

2011-03-20T19:40:00.000-07:00

Mama and Buzz were waiting to pick up Zanzi from school. It was passed the usual time that Zanzi should have come out.
Buzz: Where's Zanzi?
Mama: I really don't know honey.
Buzz: Maybe she's at a fashion show.
(I don't even know where she learned that!)

2011-03-14T08:48:00.000-07:00

Buzz and Duncan (the dog) are in the girls' room.
Buzz: Get thee fence! Get thee fence! Duncan, do you know what get thee fence means? It means get out of hewre! Get thee fence Duncan!

2011-03-14T07:19:00.000-07:00

Mama told Buzz to go get a tissue for he nose.
Buzz looked around her room for a box of tissues but couldn't find one.
Buzz: I can't find them. I guess I'll have to call them! I'll use this dinosaur clicker to help find them.
(She gets a toy clicker and walks around the house clicking her toy while saying) Come hewre tissues! Tissues Whewre awre you? Come hewre little tissues!

Not really interested in living in that house

2011-03-06T17:29:00.001-08:00

The girls are playing.
Zanzi to Buzz: Remember, we don't have dinner on Tuesdays.

We're all made of bubble wrap

2011-03-05T09:28:00.000-08:00

Buzz popped her knuckle, then looked up, surprised, and said: "Mom, thewre was a bubble wright hewre in my fingewr and I popped it!"

Argument over a certain letter "i"

2011-03-04T15:38:00.000-08:00

Zanzi: Capital!
Buzz: Lowewrcase!
Zanzi: Capital!
Buzz: Lowewrcase!
Zanzi: Capital!
Buzz: Lowewrcase!

Let's ALL try to be a little more grateful, or, I didn't realize that was the only alternative

2011-03-01T06:14:00.000-08:00

Buzz during family prayer: We awr thankful we have tissues to blow ouwr nose so we wouldn't have to eat our boogewrs.

Evil Fence

2011-02-27T15:04:00.000-08:00

Buzz made a bad choice and she responded with, "but it was because Satan was making me do it."

Mama and Papa explained that she is really the one who chooses what she does and if Satan tries to make her so something, to say to him: "Get thee hence!"

So Buzz has been running around the house saying "Get thee fence! Get thee fence!"

This is the play of a lifetime, literally

2011-02-24T18:32:00.000-08:00

Buzz has been talking about lollipops.
Zanzi: (really upset) Buzz, you didn't even say lollipops! You said "wollipops!"
Buzz: I haven't even leawrned all my lines yet!

I can't wait to watch those games

2011-02-22T17:10:00.000-08:00

We are signing Zanzi up for soccer (it's in the spring here....)
Zanzi: I'm really, really excited for soccer. I hope I get to be the bully. Being the bully is so much fun.

Speaking of beauty procedures while you sleep....

2011-02-21T09:15:00.000-08:00

The girls are looking at a picture of Mama and her siblings when they were little. The girls are trying to figure out who is who.

Zanzi: No, that's Mama because I recognize her big, big, big lips!

Not a miracle I'm familiar with

2011-02-18T06:23:00.001-08:00

Buzz: WOAH! Did Heavenly Fathewr paint my fingerwnails in the night?

I think the same thing every time I get dressed

2011-02-16T08:26:00.000-08:00

Buzz is throwing a fit. Mama is making her get dressed because we have preschool at our house today. Mama can hear her crying and sad mantras as she is forcing herself to get dressed in her room.
The cries evolved from: I hate getting dressed! to I hate night! (it's morning right now) to I don't want to grow up!

That's the best guidance I've ever heard.

2011-02-16T08:02:00.000-08:00

Zanzi got a tissue this morning and informed me: I am going to make a ghost booger (when a tissue covers a finger in order to pick a nose) because we learned that germs like to be treated with respect too. We learned that in guidance.

New, cuddly friends

2011-02-15T18:50:00.000-08:00

Mimi and Grandpa sent the girls a Valentine's Day card, addressed to both girls, with a five dollar bill for each girl inside. The card had a purple mermaid on the front of it.
For the last two nights, Buzz has slept with the card under her pillow and Zanzi has slept with the five dollar bill under her pillow.

Real Names

2011-02-13T16:14:00.001-08:00

Grace just informed me she doesn't want me to use Zanzi and Buzz any more. Henceforth, we will use real names. Zanzi is GRACE and Buzz is Lily.

(Titled by Zanzi) Zanzi's Dream Problem

2011-02-13T16:13:00.000-08:00

Zanzi was complaining how she didn't get enough sleep last night.
Zanzi: (whining, really upset) I didn't get enough sleep because the people were talking too loud in my dreams and they woke me up!

Pre-Valentine Lovin'

2011-02-06T08:30:00.000-08:00

Buzz made Zanzi a Valentine.
The next morning during breakfast Zanzi hugged Buzz for the Valentine, thanked her and told her she loved her.
Zanzi: (enthusiastically) I just can't stop eating I love her so much!

Then, to be honest, I don't want to know how they make doll hair

2011-02-03T16:53:00.001-08:00

Mama and Buzz are talking about her doll's hair that's probably made from plastic.
Buzz: Do you know how they make it?
Mama: Actually I don't.
Buzz: So no one will be mad at you.

Impressive geography

2011-01-28T06:15:00.000-08:00

Just overheard the girls arguing about whether their dad was in New Orleans or Egypt.
Actually, he's asleep in the next room.

Oops?

2011-01-27T11:44:00.001-08:00

Buzz: Mom, do you like wet kisses?

Mama: Um, (thinking of wet kisses from little girls,) nope.

Buzz: Oops.

I knew we had a problem with blaming, but really?

2011-01-25T09:52:00.000-08:00

Mama happened upon a big bump/scab on the top of Buzz's head.
Mama: Ooooooh, did you bonk your head? That looks like that hurt!
Buzz: (really defensive) No-oh! I think Buzz did it and just put it on my head.

New friend

2011-01-21T06:15:00.000-08:00

There is a great big black lab that lives across the street. Her name is Allie.
The girls LOVE Allie.
A few days ago they went across the street by themselves (with permission) and knocked on the neighbor's door and asked if Allie could play. They played outside with her for a while then let her into the house (unbeknownst to me) and played with her in the house for a while.
They were thoroughly disappointed when I made them take Allie home.

PHEW!

2011-01-20T15:03:00.000-08:00

We are sitting at dinner.
Zanzi: (Full of awe) (Someone in her kindergarten class) gets an allowance!
Buzz: What's an allowance?
Zanzi: I have no idea.

Well, um, no.

2011-01-19T10:54:00.001-08:00

Buzz: Mom, I took all the skin off this almond. Now it's a peanut.

I don't know what game she's referring to, but it's obviously serious

2011-01-04T20:24:00.000-08:00

The whole family is driving along in the car. Mama and Papa are having a conversation. Out of the blue, Zanzi interrupts and says to Papa,
Zanai: (with conviction) You're outta the game Dad, you're outta the game.

Well, then I'll wear it more often

2010-12-27T12:43:00.001-08:00

Zanzi: When you smile it looks so beautiful on you.

Well, that guilt trip backfired

2010-12-24T13:07:00.000-08:00

Buzz: (whining) I'm tiwred of picking up.
Mama: I wonder if Santa is tired of delivering presents.
Buzz: (really sassy) Well, that's good 'cuz ouwr twree is filled with pwresents, and we don't need any mowre.

She wasn't even TRYING to be metaphorical!

2010-12-22T08:12:00.000-08:00

Buzz and Zanzi had turned the couch into a jungle gym/playground.
Buzz was explaining to me how the slide worked.
Buzz: ...then if you get tiwerd you can just sit herw and take a wrest and look at Baby Jesus! (and she points to the the nativity scene right next to the couch.)

Identity Crisis much? Are you trying to tell us something?

2010-12-18T11:49:00.000-08:00

Papa and Buzz are driving past Zanzi's school:
Buzz: Look Daddy, it is Zanzi's school!
Papa: Yep and in two years, you will be there like Zanzi
Buzz: I will be if fwost grade
Papa: How about Kindergarten, lady
Buzz: Yeah, then I will be a big bwothuu
Papa: How about a big sister?
Buzz: No, I think I want to be a big bwothuu

So that was Peter Pan's secret: no tonsillectomy

2010-12-14T14:39:00.000-08:00

Buzz is having her tonsils removed in a few weeks. She has been EXTREMELY apprehensive about the process, but I felt like things had changed this morning. We had a consultation with the ear/nose/throat doctor who I felt had won Buzz over because he told her he had found a baby great horned owl this summer and built a wooden platform for it to live on and fed it raw meat until it flew away in the fall. Buzz listened to the story, raptured and then was much more at ease about the whole process. (Or so I thought.)
5 hours later....
Mama: You're going to have your tonsils removed in a couple of weeks.
Buzz: NOOOOO!
Mama: What's wrong? What are you worried about?
Buzz: (whining and very worried) I don't want to grow up!

Oh sweet innocent wonders

2010-12-11T07:12:00.000-08:00

Zanzi is talking about which children at school go to the speech therapist.
Zanzi: Aish goes too but I can understand her (She was telling us about someone she couldn't understand).
Mama: Well, maybe Aish goes because she speaks a different language at home. She might not speak English with her parents. You could ask her sometime if she speaks English or Hindu with her parents.
Zanzi: Yeah, I'll ask her if she speaks regly (regular) language at home.
Mama: Well, ask her instead if she speaks English because her language to her is regular. Regular for her is whatever language she grew up speaking.
Zanzi: Does she cry regly at home?
Mama: Everyone cries the same, no matter what language you speak.

So much for sticking up for you!

2010-12-08T06:59:00.000-08:00

(Miss Roth is Zanzi's student teacher in her kindergarten class)
Buzz: Miss Woth
Zanzi:: Miss Ra-Roth!
Buzz: I said that!
Zanzi: No, you said, Miss Woth!
Mama: Honey, she's doing the best she can.
Buzz: No I'm not!

Baby+animals=perfect combination for Buzz

2010-12-06T06:16:00.000-08:00

Mama: You love anything to do with baby Jesus birth, don't you?
Buzz: (smiling sweetly) Yeah.
Mama: What makes you love it so much?
Buzz: (in earnest sincerity) Because it has a baby and a donkey and cow!

A little singin' for your Sunday afternoon

2010-12-05T15:39:00.000-08:00

I will take that as a compliment to my cooking

2010-12-05T15:22:00.001-08:00

Just OH.
Daddy: I'm going to cut up some tomatoes and cucumbers. What should we dip them in?
Zanzi: (Enthusiastically) Enchilada sauce!

Um, okay?

2010-12-02T07:26:00.000-08:00

Mama is in her bedroom with the door closed. The girlies are playing in the living room.
Zanzi: (Tattle-yelling) MO-OM! Buzz kicked me-e!
Mama doesn't respond.
Buzz: (Tattle-yelling) MO-OM! Zanzi tattled on me-e!

That darn bike is out of shape!

2010-11-27T12:01:00.000-08:00

Mama, Zanzi, Buzz, & Duncan had all gone on a very long walk/bike ride. We were nearing the end of our ride and Mama could tell that Buzz was really running out of steam.
Mama to Buzz: Are you getting tired?
Buzz: No, my bike is just getting tiwred.

Apparently we have started a new exclusive church

2010-11-25T07:09:00.000-08:00

Buzz singing: I belong to the churwch of Jesus Christ of latterw day merwmaids!

Animal approval

2010-11-24T08:58:00.000-08:00

I just found this. I never posted it, but I think it was from June 2009.

Buzz: Can I be a piwate? (pirate)
Mama: Sure.
Buzz: Can you be my mom?
Mama: Sure.
Buzz licks Mama's cheek.

I know they're listening, now I just need to clarify proteins

2010-11-21T07:24:00.000-08:00

Buzz and Zanzi are playing restaurant.
Zanzi: (placing her order) I would like a peanut butter and jelly sandwich.
Buzz: (Hand on hip, head cocked to one side) Well, I would welly like to put some pwotein in it.
Zanzi: Well, why don't you put some lettuce in it?
Buzz: (Cheerfully satisfied) Okay!

SCHOOL LUNCHES, you've ruined my child from ever enjoying junk food!

2010-11-18T16:40:00.000-08:00

Mama felt like junk food for dinner. So Mama made fish sticks and tater tots. Zanzi was hungry and thought Mama wasn't making any dinner. Mama told Zanzi to go look in the oven to see that dinner was being made.
Zanzi comes back after looking in the oven.
Zanzi: (whining & upset) When I just look at those things in the oven I get sick to my stomach!

Update, she just said it again, however replacing "look" with "thinking about." I know what I am going to hang from the ceiling for decorations in future Halloweens.

I want to go to a party with her friends

2010-11-13T11:51:00.001-08:00

Zanzi just asked me to spell the following names for some characters she was drawing: Callie, Jacob, Queen, Lightning, and Awesome.

Looks like we need to watch Star Wars again

2010-11-07T14:36:00.000-08:00

Daddy asked who thought Duncan (our dog) was the devil.
Zazni raised her hand.
Mama: What's the devil?
Zanzi: I saw it on Star Wars but I forgot.

The great big leopard in the sky

2010-10-17T14:08:00.000-07:00

Mama is having a conversation with girls about diversity and different characteristics that people can possess.
Mama: Even though we are all different, we are all special. Do you know why?
Buzz: Because Heavenly Father blessed us!
Mama: That's right, because we are all Heavenly Father's special children.
Zanzi: That's right! He's our leopard and we're His sheep!

Nose is an intricate part of gender apparently

2010-10-13T09:15:00.000-07:00

Buzz: (muffled)....boy-girl?
Zanzi: What's a boy-girl? Oh, a boy-girl! (knowingly) A boy-girl doesn't have a nose.

Pledge Stew

2010-10-11T11:57:00.000-07:00

Overheard while Buzz was coloring:
I love mommy and daddy and duncan and to the wepublic (republic) I love mommy and daddy;

Oh the honesty of wee ones

2010-10-02T07:04:00.000-07:00

Mama ran a 5K race this morning.
Zanzi: How fast did you run?
Mama: I think I did pretty good, especially since I haven't run for a while.
Zanzi: (enthusiastically) That's good!! You need some exercise!!

Anyone know where I can get some huge sheets of saran wrap?

2010-09-27T18:27:00.000-07:00

In a phone call with daddy:

Zanzi: Daddy guess what?
Daddy: What?
Zanzi: Ya know what I want to be for Halloween?
Daddy: What?
Zanzi: I am going to be a glass of water tipping over for Halloween!!!

I foresee some serious commitment in role playing

2010-09-24T16:02:00.000-07:00

Buzz decided to play hide and go seek with her doll.
Buzz took her doll, went and hid it, then went and counted.
Then I heard: "Ready or not, here I come!"
Buzz proceeded to search the house for her doll.
Then she came to me and said: "Do you know where my doll is hiding?"
To which I answered: "She is where you hid her!"
Apparently, that was a great clue, because she then 'found' her doll and then happily brought it to me: "Look, I found my doll!"

Pretty sure that means you DON'T like

2010-09-21T20:35:00.000-07:00

Zanzi: Pepperoni pizza is good but with no pepperoni on it.

Yes my dear, i announced your arrival

2010-09-15T18:29:00.000-07:00

Zanzi: How did my teacher know who I was?
Mama: What do you mean?
Zanzi: On the first day of school, when I got to school, my name was already on my locker! Did you write her a letter and tell her who I was?

I guess my tummy doesn't sleep

2010-09-14T12:14:00.000-07:00

It's 1:15 in the afternoon and Buzz hasn't had lunch yet.
Mama: You're still not hungry yet?
Buzz: No. My tummy's just sleeping.

Maybe we need to take a break from Oregon Trail history

2010-09-09T18:31:00.000-07:00

Buzz: My baby's name is beautiful. I knew it was the right name because my sister had a baby and it's name is beautiful. I had a boy baby but it died because of the coyotes and then we moved and there are no coyotes here.

I can't even remember the last time I actually burned toast either

2010-09-08T18:36:00.001-07:00

We read a book about a scientist that invented things and you had probably heard about her because you probably had one of her inventions in your home, like unburnable toast. The girls loved the scientist and the book.

A week after we had returned this book to the library:

Zanzi: We use burnable toast, don't we?

Buzz loves Liv Hansen (go ahead, google her)

2010-09-06T21:07:00.000-07:00

Grandma and Buzz are watching a video about making a caterpillar cake.
Grandma: They sure are putting a lot of icing on that cake!
Buzz: (knowingly) It's just a crumb coat.

I'm down with that

2010-09-04T15:33:00.000-07:00

Mama walks into the room.
Buzz is lounging on a chair talking on an old cell phone.
Mama: Who are you talking to?
Buzz: My boyfriend.
Mama: (quite surprised) Really?! Who's your boyfriend?
Buzz: Oh, he's a toy.
She walks over to the toys and holds up Woody from Toy Story.

If only we all had this attitude

2010-09-04T07:43:00.000-07:00

Buzz wakes me up and with a sweet little smile on her face and such earnestness says:
When I open my eyes it's magic Mama!

2010-09-02T15:50:00.000-07:00

We had bought sandals at the store for Buzz. We were going back to the store to look at the same sandals for Zanzi. Buzz wanted Zanzi to pick the same color as Buzz so they could match. Zanzi hadn't yet decided if she wanted to match or not.
Zanzi: (matter of fact tone to Buzz)...and if I pick another color that's my size, please don't cry or be mad or sad, I just have my own opinion. (with a shoulder shrug)

Slacker kindergarten teacher

2010-08-30T07:17:00.000-07:00

Zanzi goes to all day kindergarten. It's hard. It's a lot of work. She still is getting used to it.
This morning she was having a hard time wanting to go to school.
Zanzi: (whining and upset) But Mom, I have to do all the work! The kids do all the work and the teacher doesn't even do anything! The teacher needs to work too! It's not fair!

(BTW Zanzi has an AMAZING kindergarten teacher who was Nebraska teacher of the year a few years ago. You can check out what they do here: Zanzi's Kindergarten Class )

I've always known she doesn't like carbonation, but this really clarifies the extent of her hatred

2010-08-28T17:46:00.000-07:00

Zanzi walks into the room.
Zanzi: (disgusted) Ewww! What's that smell?! It smells like pooh or something burnt.
Mama (confused) I don't know, I don't smell it.
Mama holds out her glass of root beer for Zanzi to smell.
Zanzi (cheerfully pleased with herself for figuring it out) OH! It's THAT!