Mahone-isms

When Mahone was 1, I used to put his hair in a faux-hawk. I called him Stud-muffin. So, if he wanted a faux-hawk, he'd bring me the gel and say "Dud-miffin!"

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Once, at age 1, he put on Lilly's fairy wings and said "Mommy, I a bug!"

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When we moved from Alabama to Utah, we drove through Texas and Arizona to get back to Utah where we were moving. Mahone was so excited when the mountains started to appear that in the back seat, he started shrieking "Big rocks! Big Rocks!!! BIG BIG ROCKS!!!!"

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When he was 2, he said his name was "Hone Fraphael" (Mahone Raphael)

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The day before Thanksgiving when Mahone was 2, we asked him what he was thankful for. His answer was "Thanksgiving, and rockets and snuggles."

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At age 2, we were at my mom's and she had lost her voice. Mahone said "You need new batteries, Ammah? I don't have batteries in MY mouth."

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Mahone went through a phase where he wouldn't answer to anything except for "Jack the pumpkin king" (Nightmare Before Christmas) and he also loved astronauts. So, once, he told us that he was "Jack Astronaut. (Say that outloud and TRY not to laugh.)

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In March of '09, I asked Mahone how he and I were the same. He said "We both have bones"

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Mahone LOVES Star Wars. When he was 3, he was being particularly naughty. I asked him what was up and he said "I'm just acting like Dark Vadar!!!"

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Once, Mahone's dad was pretending to be the emperor from Star Wars and was tickling him with his "force lightning" and Mahone said "Dad, am I a jedi like my father before me?"

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On October 4, 2009, Mahone said his bedtime prayer by himself. It went like this: "Heavenly Father, I'm thankful for this day. I'm thankful for my family and my closet and astronauts and worms. Please help me to be nice to my mom, but not nice to bad guys. I 'save' these things in the a name of jesus christ amen."

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Once, in the car, Lilly and Mahone were fighting about something and Mahone cried out "MOM! Lilly's being an antagonist again!"

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In September of 2010, Mahone was watching Currious George on Tv. When it came on, Mahone got excited and screamed "GEorge the Ape!" (who he previously called George the Monkey) and I asked why he was an Ape and Mahone said "He can't be a monkey mom- he doesn't have a tail!"

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Once, the bishop came into the primary to announce the month's theme and he said "Is everyone happy to be here?" Everyone but Mahone said "Yes"- his voice was loud and clear and he said "No- I'm not!" Then, the bishop showed a picture of the earth and Jesus was above it. Mahone said "Jesus lives above the earth in the sky and I want to live with him someday...so I'll need to get a rocket pack."

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We met my cousin David for the first time in the spring of '10, and he asked Mahone's name. He said "Superman." and my cousin said "No, your REAL name." And Mahone said "Clark Kent."

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Mahone was watching Star Wars with his dad, and the part where Jabba the Hut makes Leia a slave came on. He said "I like Leia best when she is not dressed modest." Brandon, trying to enforce our beliefs on modesty said "But she's ALSO pretty when she IS modest." Mahone said "No. No she's not. I like the things she puts on her things."

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Mahone: Mom, do you know Utah is an island?
Me: Uh...no....
Mahone: Yeah- because of the Salt Lake. people came here on boats, but got lost and went the wrong way. So now, we have Tooele.

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Mahone to Scarlet: "Keep ASKING dad until he agrees!!!"


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Mahone was wiggling around all over the place, and I asked him what he was doing. His answer: "I'm trying to make my body become even more fantastic."

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(After going pee) "Our bodies take water and turn it into gold!"

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It's Thanksgiving time. Have you heard about the sugar plums and the indians?

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I am a child of God, and so my knees are gray....

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Mom, do you want me to sing every song I know right now?

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(At Kindergarten tea where he was wearing a nametag on his superman shirt) Why is everyone calling me Mahone? Can't they see I'm super man?!

Scarlet-isms

In October of '09, we were driving, and there is a letter T on the mountain where we live for the name of the high school. I was trying to get Mahone to tell me what letter iwas and he was being defiant and would tell me, so Scarlet said "Mom?" and I said "what?" and she said "It's T MAHONE! T! Tuh-tuh-tuh!"

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In part of my mom's house, she has old record albums framed and hung on a wall. One is Dan Fogle. And Scarlet thought he was Jesus.

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Scarlet told me once that she was going to marry Jesus in the temple.

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In November of 2009, Brandon got Scarlet out of bed in the morning and she said "Watch this trick!" and then blew a raspberry and giggled. When we asked her what that was about, she said "It's a funny trick!" She was not yet 2.

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March of '10, when I wasn't looking, Scarlet took off her diaper and colored all over her private parts with red marker. I told her "Honey, we don't touch down there." she said "Yeah, but we color there, huh?"

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In June of '10, Scarlet was leaning over the pew at church talking to an older lady behind us. She said "What's your name?" the lady said "My name is Wendy!" and Scarlet looked to the older gentleman and said "Is your name Peter Pan?"

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In July of '10, I was doing Scarlet's hair and she said "Mommy you're a fairy!" and I said "Why do you say that?" and she said "Because you're putting knots in my hair!"

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In September of 2010, we went to my grandparents' anniversary, which was at a park. Scarlet refused to put her shoes on and I couldn't find them. I asked where they were, and she said "I'm saving them for later."

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When we found out that our new baby is a boy, we told our children, and then at bedtime, we asked Scarlet what her happy thought was and she said "cute baby girls!" and when we asked what her sad thought was, she said "Baby brothers!!"

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"And it came to pass that the man with the yellow hat came, and Jesus cried mightily that George should STOP FEEDING THE ANIMALS..."

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"Mommy, hurry and get me a bandaid! My owie is leaking."

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Scarlet: Lilly, do you know what "service" is?
Lilly: Yes...
Scarlet: Go put these (shoes) in my room.

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Brandon: What part of NO don't you understand?
Scarlet: The "O" part.

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I'm the three year oldest girl!!!!!

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Scarlet: (while taking care of her baby doll with a doctors kit) My baby is sick.
Me: Awwww. What's the matter?
Scarlet: She's crazy.

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Mom, they should call it a uni-HORN, not a uni-CORN. It has one HORN on it's head, not a CORN!!!

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(Book of mormon stories) "Elmo was rebellious in his stinking liverty...."

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Singing "No Woman No Cry" by Bob Marley- "I remember when we used to sit...in the elephant guard at French town."

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Mom, I had a bad dream last night- An egg cracked and the yolk was pink instead of yellow and it had a tooth in it. Then I turned my pink piggy pillow pet into a monkey pillow pet instead. But I'm getting braver about it.

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Mom, can we go play at Edward Scissorhands' house today?

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In Beauty and the beast where the woman takes off her hat and wig and she's actually bald, Scarlet says "Mom, she's wearing dress up hair!"

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Mom! Mahone and Lilly are tattling on me!!!

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Do you know what a daughter is? It's a girl-son.

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Me: Where did you get that glitter?

Scarlet: Oh, it's just fairy dust falling off me as I fly.

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Lilly-isms.

January 2008:
(while putting Lilly to bed)
me: Do you know you're a good girl?
L: Yes.
M: Do you know I love you?
L: Yes.
M. Are you a princess?
L: No, I'm a pirate princess!!!

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I went to hug her one night, and she smiled really big and said BOOOOBS!!!! and I was like "what?!" and she said "I like to hug 'em!"

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Once, Brandon put Lilly to bed and later asked me if I had read her her chameleon book, about a chameleon who changes colors, and I said no, why. He said "Because she just told me she wants to be a different color."

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Once, Brandon told Lilly she was so cute he could eat her up. She looked horrified and said "But then I'd be gone!!!"

March of 2008
We were talking about the Easter bunny and how he was going to bring her a basket of goodies and Lilly got this look on her face like she had just figured something out and said "He has a car!?"

April of 2008
Just before Lilly's 3rd birthday, she would tell people that she was "2 for now."

May of 2008
In may, we moved from Alabama to Utah, and we stopped to see some friends in Texas. We walked into a room to see Lilly and Brandon (the little boy who lives there, and who is Lilly's "boyfriend") laying in bed and watching a movie. I said "Are you guys friends?" and Lilly said "Yes, we're sleeping together."

March of 2009
When we drive to preschool, which takes 45 minutes, we would talk about everything, and sometimes the conversation would end up about Jesus. So, once I told Lilly that when Jesus came again in the Millennium, he would be our leader, and Lilly said "But when we're at preschool, Miss Wendi is the leader."

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Likewise, once, on the way to preschool, Lilly asked me to sing a song I didn't know, and I said "I don't know everything Miss Wendi says." and Lilly said "She SAYS don't put your hands in your mouth, and don't play with your shoes because they're not toys!!"

July of 2009
Brandon (Lilly's little boyfriend from Texas) came to Utah with his family to visit, and he had a birthday here. We went to his party, and in the meantime, we heard Lilly and Brandon talking while they were holding hands. The conversation went like this:
L: Brandon, I love you.
B: I love you too, Lilly.
L: What do you want to be when you grow up?
B: A super-doctor-surgeon-dentist-astronaut-rock star-hero.
L: Okay. I think that will make enough to support our family.

August of 2009
Once, Lilly tried to interrupt a conversation that Brandon (her dad) and i were having. We told her not to interrupt, and she got really upset and started crying and said "I-AM-NOT-A-VOLCANO!!!!"

June of 2010
One Sunday, Lilly was eating a sky blue sucker, and she looked at me and said "mom! I think that sky must taste like cotton candy!"

July of 2010
One morning, Brandon woke up cranky, and Lilly brought him a rock, and said "Daddy, this rock has Lilly magic in it, and it will help you not be cranky. And if you're still cranky, let me know and I'll find you a bigger rock."

Me: No one is perfect.
Lilly: Brandon and Jesus are perfect.
Me: Brandon's not perfect either, Lilly.
Lilly: Really? I was pretty sure he is.

Lilly: "Mom, Zarah has a mommy and a daddy tooth."
Translation: Lilly's friend, Zarah, from school, lost two teeth and now has adult teeth in their place.

2011

At Halloween: "Happy Samhain!" / "Happy Celtic New Year!" (At every door.)

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Mom, are you going to put the laundry away sometimes this school year?

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Any time Lilly sees something "old" or a scene from a past time in a movie: "Mom, is this 'back in the day'?"

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(While reading a Book of Mormon comic book) Hey!!! They had Flip Flops back in the day?!!!"