Corrie's 5th birthday

Corrie quotes

(while coloring at the table)
"I wish I could invent things!   I would invent a machine that could clean my room.... one that would enjoy that sort of thing."

(leaving the donut shop)
"Oh, I WISH I lived there..."

"We didn't see any horses or cows"
It's cold outside; they're probably inside.
"Maybe they went South!  or maybe they went to... the beach?  or... the desert? It's always hot in the desert."

Leftover quote from Christmas:
"Mom, I don't remember when Jesus was born."
Huh?
"Well, Christmas is supposed to be when you remember Jesus being born...and I can't even remember that!"

Mary quotes!
Do you want some toast? 
(Mary lifts her cup)
"Toast!"

Corrie quotes

Carrie: "Corrie, when you grow up and have babies I hope they ask you LOTS of questions..."
Corrie: "Why??"

getting home from church...

Corrie: "Mom, you know how we always have carrots and potatoes and stuff for lunch?"

(yeah..?)

"Do you think maybe we could have something DIFFERENT for lunch today?"

Corrie asked if she could pray for mom last night when she was sick.   

"OK, Dear God...."

"Wait -  I'm gonna pray to Jesus, cause he's faster!"

Corrie quotes

Hey you know what? Tomorrow we're going over to Isaac's house to swim in the CAT pool!" 
[dad] What? you mean a little pool they wash their cats in?
"I dunno - Mom do they wash their cats in their pool?"
[mom] No, it's a KIDDIE pool ..for little kids, not a KITTY pool.

"You know how big the Earth is? ......  Well, the Earth is big and I love you as big as it is."

"I had a really good dream last night!"
oh, what was it about?
"I don't know, I missed out."

Corrie quotes

[at Steak 'n Shake drive through]

"Steak n Shake is open even at nighttime when it gets dark??"
Yep. They're open allll the time, even in the middle of the night when you're asleep.
(long pause)
"Wow...that's awesome!"

(later at the drive through window)
"I wish I could have a sliding window..."

(Corrie picking her nose)
Corrie, don't pick your nose.
"But I'm not picking my nose, I'm just feeling the bones inside my nose"

the girls

In case you missed it on Facebook or my photo blog, I took some pics of the girls in their homemade dresses the other night. Carrie made Mary's blue dress and her mom made Corrie's. Here's one photo, and the rest are at brianpowell.info

Here are a few more from Easter at the Petersons:

Corrie quote bonanza

This week has been a gold mine :)

"I think the little tennis's are coming out of the snails!"
(you mean 'tenticles'??) 
"Yeah, those!"

If you know Ronald Jenkees, you'll enjoy this one.
Original lyrics: 'My cash, my jewels, my car, it aint no thang'
Corrie's lyrics, out of the blue, in the bath tonight:
"My cats, my jewelries, my car away no bang"

[making french toast]
"You know what I wanna be when I'm all grown up?"
(what?)
"I wanna be a DOCTOR for little babies and pets and stuff"
(really?)
"yeah, just like Dr. Maguire, but with a different face.."

Corrie quota

We've been lazy with the collecting of quotes from Corrie, and consequently have forgotten many of them.  Here are a couple to get us started up again:

"I'm going to be a cowboy!  ... Oh no, I mean I'm gonna be a cowGIRL!"

(realizing I had a big Adam's apple)
"Dad, it looks like you have a big bubble!"

Corrie quips

"Hey dad guess what.."
(chicken butt?)
"What?"
(chicken butt?)
"No, not chicken butt - something else!"


"Can you help me put on my backpack?"
(where you goin?)
"to Bethlehem!  because I have lots of things to show baby Jesus."
(well tell him I said hi)
...
running laps around the house
...
"I'm not there yet, it takes a long long time"

Feeling... stripe-y?

Corrie picks out her clothes!

more Cor(rie)

"Hey dad, Look - I'm getting in this diaper box!"
(what?)
"I saw Mary do it, and I thought I could do it. Look, I fit!"

(Corrie, why are all the crayons on the floor?)
"...So we can PICK them!"

(Aunt Betsy is going to have another baby.)
"But she already has Livy!"
(I know! Now she will have TWO babies.)
"OH! I know one can be for me and one can be for Betsy!"

(hands mom the phone)
"here mom, it's Bingabaska Bingo"
(who's that?)
"it's a lady."

Corrie stories

You know what I want when I grow up and be a doctor??"
(what?)
"I want to have LOTS of kids!"
(really? how many?)
"A hundred!"
(A hundred?? What will you do with all those kids?)
"Well I will get them lots and lots of chairs, and some kids will sit in a little circle,
and more kids will sit in the next circle behind them, and the next circle and the next..
and they will ALL have a chair!"


[at Applebee's]
"This place is decorated very pretty... It's like a PALACE!"

Corrie quotes

[mom putting her in the carseat]
"You know what, Mom?  Sometimes I like Dad."

[mom] Corrie, we don't say things like that in this house.
"But whose house CAN we say that in??"

"You know what, Mommy?  Stinky is brown and looks like chocolate chips..."

Corrie quotes to kick off your weekend

"look at this ring!"  (toy ring)
"I got it for my wedding some day..."

"Yeah, but I don't like sugar ALL the time, I just want sugar once a day"

(playing doctor)
"And I can fix your paper cuts, your microwave cuts, your..."

(sock monkey)
"My monkey likes to play on the slide and the swing and the MONKEY bars!"

Corrie quotes cont'd

"Yeah, and when I get older I can be a baby-mommy and have babies in my tummy.."

Sticking her head in the thomas train dvd case  "I'm a DVD!"

(giving a kiss) "That was a JUICY one, Mommy!"
Why?
"Because I have juice on my mouth."

Quoth the Corrie:

Corrie, did you wash your hands?
"Yes"
Just now?  When did you wash your hands?
"When I went to the potty.."
And when was that?
"Umm...... a couple of days ago"


"Where are you going, Mommy?"
Daddy and I are going on a date!
"Oh! Like to McDonalds??"

"Do you know what, Mommy?"
What?
"I wish my bottom could go like this [moves to one side of toilet seat],  and like this [to the other side], and like this [to the back]..."
Well honey, one day your bottom will be big enough.
"Yeah, like yours!"

Corrie quotes - holiday edition

(after realizing we had to go back to our house...because we live there)
"Maybe we could just move our house next to gramma and grampa's!  So then I wouldn't have to be in the car and eat snacks."

"Dear Lord, Thank you for sending baby Jesus in the stable and help us to have a good Christmas and help us feel better in our bodies and..."

"Hey Mommy?"   ('Yes..')
"Nevermind, I just lost the question in my head."

Christmas cuties

Corrie quotes - Christmas editions

"I'm having a really bored day today, because I really want to eat all of the candy canes that are decorations on the tree, and watch my vi-de-os, and do whatever I want for my BUSINESS...."

"I like sugar, a lot!"

"I wish I was an ordamint hanging from the tree!"   *hugs tree*

Corrie scenes