Recent excerpts from T and A

I've been a neglectful blogger lately.  Life is busy!

Happy New Year, everyone!
I've been big on resolutions for the past few years, and I still am - though I haven't really had time yet to detail out what my goals will be this year.
Regarding last years goals...
I am actually quite impressed with myself as far as how I accomplished most of these things!
The one exception is the Finances part...
though we are not in any MORE debt this year than we were last, we are not in any LESS debt, either. Most of that was out of my hands, though. In fact, considering the hit we took in income this year, the fact that we didn't accumulate more debt really speaks to our money management skills!

Anyway, one goal that I know I want to make is to record more of my babies thoughts.
We have some of the most entertaining conversations. I know that in 10 years I will have forgotten how sweet and inquisitive and smart they are now, and how funny the things they say are.
So, with that in mind...

The other day Asher and I were out running errands. He had a toy jeep with him. While we were in the car he decided to put it in the mesh pocket that's attached to his carseat. He told me he was going to do that, so I asked him, "why do you want it in there?"
"because now I have it in case a pirate comes."
"in case a pirate comes? are there going to be many pirates marauding our car?"
"no. they live in boats." he says mater-of-factly.
"but," he continues, "it would be hordible if they did come here. hordible, hordible, hordible."
"why would it be so horrible?"
"because they are pirates!" he says.
Apparently he has a deep distrust of pirates. Can't say I blame him.
Also, I love the way he says "hordible"

A few weeks ago he told Tessa to "stop antagonizing me!"
We laughed about it for days!

A month or more ago Matt was talking to Tessa about cleaning up her toys. She suddenly (and very obviously) changed the subject, so Matt said "Don't change the subject!"
and Tessa answered "how about I change the predicate?"
You should have seen the mischievous gleam in this girls eye. She absolutely KNEW that saying that wouldn't get her in trouble.
So Matt asked "what's the predicate?"
And she answered "um, it's what the subject is doing?"
I'm laughing - I say "you really think she would say it and not know what it meant?"
Matt says "I just wanted to make sure. Now, pick up your toys!"

Last night on our way home from Girl Scouts Tessa saw a billboard for an upcoming Gun Show.
T "another gun show. why are there so many gun shows here?"
M "Um, I guess because a lot of people like guns here."
T "what is a gun show, anyway?"
M "Remember the Festival of Trees? We went and saw all those Christmas trees? A gun show is like that, you can go and look at all kinds of guns, but they're not on Christmas trees. People can buy guns and talk about guns and do all kinds of gun stuff, I guess. I don't know, I've never been to one."
T "i've never been either. i don't think i'd ever want to go to one."
M "Well, you might change your mind. It will just depend on what you decide you like and what your boyfriend of husband likes, and how much you like him."
T "why?"
M "Well, because I don't really have any desire to go to a gun show, but daddy might, and if he did, I'd go with him."
T "oh. well, i'm not really a girl that only likes pretty-pretty things, but I don't think i'll ever like guns enough to go to a gun show. i'm kind of like a boy sometimes, because i like boy things, like dirt. boys at school like guns, but i wouldn't go to a gun show with any of them."
M "Boys at school like guns?"
T "yeah, they play guns at recess. is that pond frozen?"
M "No, it's too warm for that now."
T "boy, this winter is already passing so fast!"
M "You think?"
T "yeah, because it will be spring in like, April, and it's already January 12!"
(I'm glad to know the next 3 months seem like nothing to my 7 year old, because Spring seems like a lifetime away to me!)
Now Asher pipes up:
A "i wanna go see that movie at the movie theater!"
M "What movie, baby?"
A "the gun movie!"
M "What gun movie?"
A "the gun movie!"
T "i think he's talking about the gun show, mom"
A "yeah, the gun show!"
M "Oh - it's not that kind of show, baby."
A "oh. well, i wanna go see a movie at the theater again."

That's it for now :)