Hey Google

*boys just came back in from running three laps around the house*

T: “Hey google, play relaxing music.”

N: “HEY GOOGLE PLAY METAL”

Posted by Mimsy, from a family group text by EV

They Got Married Together

Z.: “I like this picture. That’s EL right there. And Papa. And Opa. And everybody. I like that beautiful dress (of O’s wedding dress). They got married together.”

Posted by Mimsy

Cleaning Up

Boys are doing a normal end of day clean up...

W: "Why do I have to live like this"

Posted by Mimsy, from EV’s family text

Pillow Talk

9:38 PM W. cuddling into bed: "Eeek!!! I'm as cold as a beaver!!"

9:44 PM I (EV) just said "Hey guys if you want to put your hand on my belly, the baby's awake..."

W: "Is the baby nocturnal?"

9:45 PM T: "Oo should we name the baby Ronald after Ronald from Nature Cat???" 💀

Posted by Mimsy, from EV’s group text 

Life Truly Is the Beat Teacher

T. and W. just spent 30 minutes cleaning their bathroom and I just heard T. go in there like “GUYS, the TOILET!!!! We JUST cleaned this!!!”

Posted by Mimsy, from EV’s family text 

The Stuffed Menagerie

Not sure exactly what's going on here, but they said it had something to do with a journey

Posted by Mimsy, from M’s family text

Mac & Not Cheese

T said “this factory food is sureeee gonna give us a tummy ache tomorrow! But it’s soooo good.” 😂

Posted by Mimsy, from EV’s family text

Porcupine? Pumpkin Pie?

A's version of N's yellow birthday is that for the last couple months he's been talking about how he wants "porky pie" for his birthday...I have no idea where he got this idea because we've never made or had anything like "porky pie", but he gets so excited every time he talks about it 😂

Posted by Mimsy, from M’s family text

Home

N. is still processing everything with his family’s move to the RV park while their “old house” is being renovated, to be rented during their cross-country expedition RV adventure beginning this summer. (Me too, bud! Me, too.)

This morning—during an early-morning conversation after a sleepover, while his older brothers still slept—N dropped these gems:

N: “I want to go back to my RV.”

Me: “oh yes, bud, you’re going back to your RV in just a few minutes, once your brothers are up. Do you like your RV?”

N: “I like Mama and Dada.” (Presumably having put together that he needed to get to the RV to get to them.)

A few minutes later, out of nowhere:

N: “Mimsy, can you fix my old house?”

Posted by Mimsy

Glad

During reading practice the other day:

Me: “Do you know what that word means, ‘pal’? It’s like a friend. Who’s your favorite pal?”

T: “Jonah.”

Me: “Yeah, Jonah is a good pal, isn’t he!”

(A few sentences later)

Me: “Do you know what that word means, ‘glad’? Means like something makes you happy, or you’re really pleased about it. What’s something that makes you glad?”

T: “Coming here.”

Me: “Coming to my house?”

T: “Yes!”

Me: “Aw, bud, that makes me glad, too!”

Posted by Mimsy 

Uno!

W: “I’m getting a little hang of the game!”

Posted by Mimsy from a Snap by Evie

Eli

Arthur “Is Eli older than me?”

Mimsy: “Well, I don’t know Eli, so I’m not sure.”

A: “Eli is 11.”

M: “Oh! Well then, yes, Eli is older than you, 

since you’re only 3.”

Posted by Mimsy

Pressing Buttons

Arthur: "Is Daddy at work wearing headphones and pressing buttons?" Pretty much, buddy 😂

Posted by Mimsy from a text from Molly

The Innkeeper

Arthur's understanding of how cars work: "Mommy, I fixed your tire! Now you can fill your tire in the gas part where the innkeeper is! "

Posted by Mimsy from a text from Molly

Yesterday

Westley: “Mama!” (screaming from the other room)

Evie: “Westley, wipe your own bummie!”

Westley: “I wiped it yesterday!”

Posted by Mimsy

Busch Gardens in a Home

Arthur was very cantankerous this morning saying, "I don't want any music." I turned on the soundtrack from The Rings of Power and he started to make a really whiney, "Nooooo" but then he stopped and got this really curious look on his face. After a moment, he gave me a wide-eyed look and said, "It sounds like Busch Gardens! It's Busch Gardens in a home!"

Posted by Mimsy from Philip’s text

Hey Osh!

“Hey osh my grampa should take you to the aquaridum! There’s underground water animals there!” -Teddy

Posted by Mimsy from Evie’s text, 8/27/22

Turtle Poop

T: "Westley imagine that you had a pool and a turtle pooped in your pool. How would you feel? Grumpy?"

Posted by Mimsy, from a text from Evie

Traffic

Us literally dead stopped on 12…

Westley: “Are we gonna hit traffic?”

Posted by Mimsy from Evie’s text

Cousins

Molly: “Say bye, cousins!”

Arthur: “Bye, chickens!!!!”

Posted by Mimsy from Evie’s text 

Mom

Teddy and Westley's conversation (I missed the beginning):

T: "Her name is Mom."

W: "Oh I think she's called Evie! Not mom."

Me: *laughing*

W: "Are you Evie?"

Me: "My real name is Evie but you call me Mama!"

W: (with a big grin) "Oh! Her name is Mama too!!!"

T: "I don't call you Mama anymore. I call you Mom now."

A text from Evie, posted byMimsy

Nicknames

From Evie

This morning’s convo:

T: we forgot to watch River dance yesterday!!! It’s a long movie.

Me: oh yeah? Did you watch that with Elsh?

W: no, Lal!!!

Me: that’s what I said; Elsh is Lal.

W: yep! And Mims is Mimsy and Pop is Papa.

From Olivia

 rRminds me of when I was trying to explain to them real name vs nickname. And then after explaining I said “so let’s practice. Is Dub your real name or nickname?” 

W: “real name!!”

Posted byMimsy

Mmmmm!

Westley just walks into the kitchen: 

"Mmm! Smells good in here!" 

(Nothing is cooking)

Posted by Mimsy from Evie’s text

No, I’m a kid!

Teddy: "Hey, mommy! Are you gonna have another baby soon?!"

Me: "What??? No! Look over there; we have a baby!"

Teddy: "Tita Molly has two babies!"

Me: "I have three babies."

Teddy: *pause* "NO I'M A BROTHER!!! I'm a KID!!!"

Posted by Mimsy from Evie’s text

Raw Bits

Me: “I bet you wish you hadn’t asked for a small bowl!”

Grampa, upon eating his first bowl of raw bits (raw oats with almond milk, banana, apples, dates, and pumpkin seeeds): “Well, you didn’t tell me it was going to be good.”

Posted by Laurie