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

Do you remember me?

Us driving in the car:

*silence*

Westley: “DO YOU REMEMBER ME, TEDDY??”

Teddy: “Nope.”

Posted by Mimsy, from Evie’s text

If you don’t see it, it isn’t there!

Teddy, while eating a bowl of fruit and oatmeal: “Could you feed me? And could you hide the green part (teeny bits of strawberry caps) so I don’t see it in there!”

(I was actually quite proud of him, because he ate the whole bowl even though it contained peaches and blueberries and strawberries with little bits of cap on it, all of which he doesn’t prefer.)

Posted by Mimsy

Baby, it’s cold outside!

Evie: Westley, running in from outside. “I’m FREEZIN’! COZY UP! COZY UP!”

Posted by Mimsy

At least he’s honest!

From Evie:

Me while tucking Westley in for naps: "Okay baby let's say our affirmations... I am brave..."

W: "I am brave!"

"I am strong..."

W: "I am strong!"

"I am kind..."

W: "I like to hit..."

"No. I am kind..."

W: "I like to hit.....Teddy!"

Posted by Mimsy

At the Park in the Rain

Teddy, crying hard after a particularly startling trip down a slick metal slide into a giant wet puddle (at the Mountain City park full of old-school “dangerous” play equipment):

Mimsy: “Teddy, are you hurt, or are you sad that you got wet?”

Teddy, wailing dramatically: “I’m sad that I got hurt!”

Then, a moment later, “May I have a popsicle to make me feel better?”

Posted by Mimsy

Turtling

T: “Can we go get another helicopter at the turtling?”

E: “Probably you got it at a yard sale or something…”

T: “No, we got it with Nanny turtling!”

E: “Turtling? What’s turtling?”

Mimsy: “‘Tootling’! He means ‘tootling’ with Nanny!”

Posted by Mimsy 

Going Bananas

T: “Westley, would you like a peanut butter banana or a plain banana?”

W: “I want a just plain banana. I want to cut it by my own self.”

T: “By your own self?”

W: “Yes. By my own huge self.”

Posted by Mimsy

Hiking at First Landing

Teddy: “I can’t wait to show Papa the ‘Handsome Gretl’ trail!”

Posted by Mimsy

“Mama, what is this on my finger?”

Westley, to Molly: “My Mama says this is a booger!”

Posted by Mimsy

There’s Kids Playin’ Outside!

From Evie: 

Teddy was outside playing with the neighbor kids for a few minutes before Westley realized… and I heard him saying, “Look! There’s kids playin outside! …..IS THAT MY TEDDY?!?! I NEED TO GO GET MY SHOES!!!”

Posted by Mimsy

Old MacDonald

Westley:  “Old Macdonald had a farm, EIEIO, and on dat farm he had a basketball hoop, EIEIO! With a boink boink boink boink boink…..”

Sad to Evie, posted by Mimsy