Hoildays

Asmund, about watching PBS: "Do you know what we want to watch next?"
"What?"
"Well, whatever is next!"

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"Mom, can we have hot cocoa when we get home? And know why we call it hot cocoa? French people. I am not kidding!"

Current Names

Wystan calls Asmund "Am."
Asmund calls Wystan "Wyse."
Raedan says "Amum" for Asmund.

Dragons

Wystan: My dragon is a night fury. He's always waking me up.


Me to Asmund, as he is putting a sticker on each unused envelope: "Why don't you put two stickers on each one?"
A: "Because that's a waste of stickers!"

Aliens

Asmund: "Mom, there are just too many aliens. Wystan, I'm going to the bathroom, tell me if any aliens get here."

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Me, "We'll start decorating for Christmas soon."
Asmund, "At Christmas Aunt Joy is staying with us, for, um, two years?"
(Joy, you're the first thing they think of when they think of Christmas.)

Math

Me, looking at Asmund's addition sheet, "Hey! You figured that out!" A, "No, Mom. I THINK-ED that out."

Found: Preying Mantis

W: About the preying mantis he found: "His name is Rooftop because he hangs from the ceiling. He is my friend."

Wystan walked in with the latest tenet of the bug home crawling up his arm. "Hey Mom, know what my preying mantis eats for breakfast? Baby preying mantis-ses." "Hum, are you sure?" "Yes. Him is a bad mom."

Things from Colorado

A: I don't go to sleep at night because I'm a preying mantis.


W: Pet my [imaginary] spider. He's family!


Me: "Why not color slowly? You color so fast."
A: "You don't know what I do. Coloring fast is my detail."


A, writing a postcard: "How do you write, “B__, I miss you.""


A: "I found a new friend, and now this boy is borrowing him."