JAMES' QUOTES

 

8/17/16 James said to Daddy, "say Caleb", so Max said "you want me to say 'Caleb'?"
"yeah, say 'Caleb'".  " ok. . . Caleeeeb!".  In his cute little voice, James said, "No, Daddy, say 'Caleb', not 'Caleeeb'!!"

8/17/16  "Daddy, look what happened to my finger."
 Does it hurt?
Yeah.
Did mommy do that by accident? 
(after a long pause where he was thinking) said, NOO, mommy didn't do that! the door hurt my finger!

11/29/16
"NOOO!. . . I don't wanna take a hayr cut"!!

11/30/16
While getting James ready for bed, I said, "ok, lets go potty".  He started fighting me, saying he didn't wanna go, reasoning, "But I already went yes ta day".  (He talks with such inflection in his voice now- everything he says is SOO cute and expressive!)

12/2/16  The boys were getting ready to go to school, and James was sad that he wasn't able to go in the care with everyone.  With a very sad voice, and sad look on his face, he said, "But I wanna ride in the Mercedes with Daddy."

12/9/16
James was being rough with Eva, and I said, "be careful, don't hurt her"  He said  but mommy, I want to squoosh her!" (I understand this feeling all too well- she is just such a cute chunky girl!)

1/11/17
While eating dinner, James was telling everyone about his day. He put up three fingers and a thumb and started pointing at each finger naming his friends. He said "Drew, Brian, James," and then with a serious, perplexed look on his face and a furrowed brow, he pointed to his thumb, and said "who's this guy?"

1/27/17
While talking to Miriam about how we are going to the Wagner's house in a couple weeks, James jumped into the conversation and said, "Wait! They have HOUSES?!" yes, we replied. He excitedly said, "Oh they have a house?!" Yes. "And Brian has a house?" yes. "And Susie has a house?!!" Miriam replied, "yeah, everyone in the whole world has a house!"

5/18/17
Eva was getting mad at James about something (I think he took a book that she wanted), so she started yanking it from him.  I said, "aw, are you fighting with James?"  And he said, "NOO, she can't fight with me NOW. . . when she is OLDER she can fight with me!"

5/30/17
I told Miriam to pick up the hat for her doll he left on the floor, and then James said, "yeah, and Daddy REALLY gets annoy" I said, what, Daddy get annoyed when stuff gets left out?" "Yeah daddy really gets annoyed with stuff all over the place

6/1/17
I was singing "Christ is Mine Forevermore" in the van, and James said, "What does forevermore mean" so I began to explain that it means always, or for the rest of your life and in heaven you will always have Jesus with you, but as I started saying "heaven", he cut me off and said, "Or maybe if you give somebody more Cheerios they might eat it.". . . .

11/25/17
Andrew got really upset because James knocked over his Tower and said real upset, " James knocked over my tower and he did it on purpose too!" and then James said real emphatically, " no not on purpose!! purpose is you get a spanking. I did it on accident."


11/27/17
" Why does everyone always love Eva? Because I love her because she's a cootie pie!"

11/28/17
We were at Nana's house and everyone woke up at about 6:30, and they were snuggling in bed with me. The light was on in the bathroom and door was locked, so James said, " daddy's working in there!" I said, " how do you know?" And he said, " because I saw his foot!"

2/1/18
James, Eva and I were getting ready to go to the church to set up for a baby shower.  He kept asking what all the stuff was for, and I kept saying, "for the baby shower".  I had a big bowl of fruit in the front of the van, and he said, "wait, are we gonna eat there?" and I said, "no, that's for the baby shower too".  He just sat there for about a minute, and then said, "can they eat in the bath?" At first, I had no idea what he was talking about.  This question seemed to come out of nowhere, so I asked him what he said again, and he repeated the same question.  It suddenly occured to me that he thought I meant a literal "baby shower".  He must have thought we were going to give a baby a shower (or bath), and thought it was strange that a baby would eat while taking a bath.

5/1/18
Andrew was reading the book, "The Giving Tree" to James, and he finished, saying "And the Tree was happy."  And then James said, with a serious look on his face, "until he (the boy) died!"

6/3/18
James was washing his hand in the church bathroom, which have automatic water spigots and then looked at me and said, with such angst in his voice, "It makes me so angry when the water turns off like that!. . . I mean, I don't say anything, but just in my head, I get so mad!"

6/10/18
"Mommy, I want to put this in the fridgerator...no, I mean the freezerator."

1/4/2019
 Bubs was talking to Eva and said, "Blippi has a vagina".  Eva laughed and said, "NOOO!. . . Flippi's a man! He has a penis AND a gina!"

5/5/19
James said, "Isn't it cute how Eva says 'bandeed'?" (instead of bandaid) Eva said, "well, how do YOU say bandeed, Mir?" Miriam said off to the side, "James, don't say that, or else she won't say it like that anymore."  She didn't want to correct her, so I said, "Eva, you say bandeed, and we say bandaid, but lots of people say things differently, like some people say tomoto instead of tomato" Eva said, "Ew, that's yucky! (that some people say tomoto)" so naturally I started singing the song, "you say tomato, I say tomato, you say bandeed, we say bandaid".  I went into the bathroom, and when I came out, James was singing, "You say Pennix, I say Penix" (For Ryan Penix.)

3/19/20
I was reading Trial and Triumph to the kids- the story of Blandina.  The more I read, the more they began to say, "Hey, this sounds just like Perpetua!" (They are very familiar with Perpetua's story because of watching the Voice of the Martyrs animation).  I got towards the end where they described her as "radiant" and a few more details that were almost identical as Perpetua, and James said with a matter-of-fact tone in his voice, "Its probably just a knock-off of Perpetua."

8/10/20

I told everyone they could pick out 2 snacks all for themselves, without sharing for our upcoming beach trip.  Some of them wanted goldfish and a pack of gummy bears, peanuts, blueberry delights, etc. Max said he wanted a pack of oreos and I said, "Oreos?  That's not really the kind of thing you wanna eat the whole thing yourself."  James quickly jumped in with his bold and authoritative voice, acting like I was crazy and said, "Yeah you do!"

12/19/22

 Everyone was arguing with dinner at dinner about if Miriam would have liked the white elephant gift with the unicorn socks and the loofah sponge and everybody was saying, " if Mom and Dad gave it to you, you would have liked it for Christmas." And then James said "Miriam if you were in heaven and God gave you that would you say it's disgusting?

1/29/24

While looking at the calendar, James said, "this is jump year, right?" I didn't quite understand what he was talking about, so I asked what he meant and he again said, "isn't this jump year?"  I started laughing and said, "oh you mean leap year?!"