Odan's prayer

About to eat lunch,

O: "And please bless that all of the spiders in the Earth will be killed."

I did explain to him what would happen if there were no spiders, but he didn't seem to care. I felt exactly the same way when I was his age.

Hard Work

O: "Mom, I hate doing hard work."

M: "Why?"

O: "Cause when you clean up you just pick stuff up and put it away. But what if you forgot where it goes?"

M: "Then you find a place for it."

O: "I will choose under the bunk bed."

Read my lips

O: "Mom, read my lips."

I stare at him as he stands perfectly still, mouth closed.

M: "What do they say?"

O: "I don't know, I asked you. So what do they say?"

China

As we are eating lunch, Odan brings this up out of the blue,

O: "I thought China was just a bunch of dirt and stuff."

M: "Why did you think that?"

O: "Cause Mulan lives there, and why does it look like a bunch of sand and stuff? Why?"

I'm so happy

Sitting in the kitchen eating lunch...

O: "Mom, I'm so happy we are real."

Married

D: "Well I'm going to marry Lucas when I grow up."

O: "In the Temple?"

D: "Yes."

O: "Okay cause if you don't get married in the Temple then you will get divorced."

Going IN to Wendy's

O: "Mom, remember that time we went IN to Wendy's to eat? That was the happiest day ever!"

M: "Really? Why?"

O: "Just because!"

No more talking

Odan comes into our bedroom two hours after bedtime for the umpteenth time and begins to talk when I cut him off,

M: "Odan, no more talking!"

Then Kendall interrupts and says,

K: "Hon, let him talk."

O: "Um...I just wanted to say I love you. That's all."

He closes our door and goes to his bed in tears. (Worst mom moment!)

Am I speaking Spanish?

Odan runs into my room excitedly and asks,

O: "Mom, am I speaking Spanish? Eva espanola."

M: "Wow Odan."

O: "Well, am I speaking another language?"

M: "I don't know, but it sounds good."

I have been growing

O: "Mom, I have been growing for 5 years."

M: "Uh-huh."

O: "Wait, when I was growing in your belly how old was I? Negative zero?"

Home Alone

O: "Once I was left home alone."

M: "No you weren't."

O: "Uh-huh! Let me tell you all about it. Once upon a time, I was alone at home. And I could do whatever I wanted."

Snowflake

O: "One time I saw a snowflake on someone and guess how beautiful it was?"

M: "How beautiful?"

O: "40,000!"

A kid forever

O: "I wish there were no adults in the whole Earth!"

M: "Odan, you are going to be an adult one day. Do you wish you weren't on the Earth?"

O: "I wish I could stay a kid forever."

Outer Space

O: "Dad! Does outer space really never end?"

K: "Nope, it never ends."

O: "When I'm an astronaut, I want to go to other galaxies!"

Figure skating

I turned on some pairs figure skating this weekend. Odan walks in and starts to watch it with me,

O: "Is this a sport?"

M: "Yep."

O: "Whoa. How can a man be strong enough to throw a wife?" (slight pause) "Twice!"

Stop singing!

When Odan was a lot younger he didn't like it when I would sing. He would tell me over and over,

O: "Stop singing!"

Sometimes he would get mad and yell it. I always laughed because every time it would sound like he was saying, "stop sinning!"

Booger Juice

O: "Mom, 'booger juice' is just snot."

Poison Ivy

King was reading Odan a Batman book in their blanket fort. I over heard these comments,

O: "Look, there's Poison Ivy. She's pretty."

K: "Yeah she is."

O: "Why would you want to fight a pretty girl?"

K: "I don't know."

Get to work

I had put the kids to bed and had a pile of laundry to fold and a pile of bills to go through. Odan was trying to get me to lay with him, so I explained all of the work I was going to do. He understood and I went into my room with a bowl of cereal and turned on the tv (I needed 10 minutes before I took on these tasks).

About 2 minutes later Odan appears in my door about to say something when he notices I am not doing any of the tasks I had mentioned. He gives me a disapproving look and says,

O: "Mom! Get to work!"

I wish I was born before you

Odan was not wanting to go to bed and kept coming out of his room to 'tell me something'.

O: "Mom, I wish I was born before you."

M: "Why?"

O: "Because I want to be the dad. And do you know what I will never do when I'm a dad? Work late."

Cute children

Driving down the street.

O: "Aw, those are cute children."

M: "Where?"

O: "No, no, no - in the song." He makes a high pitched voice and sings, "It's always a good time."

There's a restaurant

O: "There's a restaurant called 'Chuck-a-Rama', it's the bestest restaurant ever!"

Biting Ghosts

O: "Guess what happens when you bite ghosts?"

M: "What?"

O: "They go 'aaahhhh'!"

M: "How do you know?"

O: "King told me."