Mary and the moon

The moon is Mary's new best friend :)

The last couple of nights were clear with a full moon, so I took the girls outside to see the moon just above the trees.  You could see your shadow.

Now, Mary runs up to me and says 'Noom!?'   'I go??'

We go outside to see the 'noom', she points and says 'up-a-tree!'  (the moon was just above the trees). When we go back inside I tell her to say 'goodnight, moon'.   She says "nigh'nigh....I love you, bye!"

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"

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"

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 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."

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 quotes

"Johnny! You need a grown-up!" (to our cat crossing the road)

"And When I'm 16 I will reach the ceiling... yeah.. and when I'm 18 I will drive a car!"

(talking about playing at Chick-Fil-A lunch)
"And there were these two boys there and I was scared"
('Why were you scared?')
"Because they were huge!"

Corrie quotes

"Maybe after the store we can get a guinea pig!"

(near the candy corn jar) "Mommy, you better keep an eye on me!"

(feeling grandpa's shaved face) "Grandpa, your hair got shorter..."

(putting stickers all over her balloon)  "I'm just making my balloon all sparkly for Christmas!"

Corrie weekend quotes

"See this big yellow leaf? I'm going to take it back outside.."
[you don't have to go outside Corrie; why don't you just put it in the trash?]
"But I think the other leaves will miss him!"

[when mom and dad were leaving for a dinner date]
"Oooohh I don't think I've ever gone on a date before!"

[out of nowhere, at dinner, after dad's long day of ultimate frisbee]
"I think I smell you, Dad!"

Corrie's weekend edition

[getting close to a bee, after mom said not to scream when they come close] "Hello. I don't like you."

[emerging from a pile of pillows] "I'm a butterfly coming out of the chrysalis!"
(where did you learn that word??) "from America"

Cousin Oliver: "Grandmas are useful!"

and the Corrie says:

(what's 5 plus 1?)
"100!"
(no, silly, that's not 100)
"99!?"

[walking around the house with toy stroller]
I'm pretending to be a person and saying, "hello."

[after a Starlight mint]
Look mom, I'm breathing peppermint air out of my nose.

Did you see him mom?
(who, president Obama?)
Yeah, and he has lots of flags in his house...

and a random quote from the Curious George video:
"well, sometimes girls and monkeys think alike!"

Corrie quotes to start your week off right

Some really good ones, but they all seem to need context now...

[talking in the morning about drinking lots of water for a cold]
"Yeah, and the water washes out all the boogers out of your mouth that you ate!"

[playing piano]
"Hey dad, do you want to watch how my fingers go??"

[after dimming the lights and listening to them hum]
"The light is grumbling.."
[turning them back up]
"There, I made him feel better!"

[sitting in silence at lunch]
"Are YOU thinking what I'M thinking?!]