Peeking In On Our Family: Look At That Gal!!

Friday, April 24, 2009

Look At That Gal!!

Maggie-"Mom, I need a gal."
Me- "What are you talking about?"
Maggie- "You know, a gal of milk?"

Maggie has been working with measures of capacity. Yesterday I whipped out a quart jar, a gallon of milk, a dry measuring cup, and a 2 liter pop bottle to compare English measures with the metric system. I guess I have never heard any of my other kids refer to the measurements by their abbreviations!

2 comments:

Mrs. Cox said...: I love to abbreviate when I talk! She is my kind of gal!; April 24, 2009 at 3:02 PM
mrsbooklove said...: my 9 year old does that. talks in abbreviations. it especially drives me crazy when he just uses the first initials of everything he's talking about! crazy.; April 24, 2009 at 7:08 PM

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Child Chatter

"You need to measure me with a tape measure. Maggie said I am even bigger than a garden gnome." (Micah, October 2011)
"Jesus is the Holy." (Micah, January 2011, holding his Bible high.)
"I think we are in Richard and Anna's valley." (Micah, October 2010)
"Micah, we can't drink 7-Up." (Glory thought that you had to be 7 and UP to drink the pop.)
Glory knew better than to say "no" to me. Instead, she wrote "no" across her math page when I told her to do her clocks. And then she erased it and wrote "ok". (October 2010)
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"I hate those octopus-es!" (Micah, May 2010)
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"I love cute-cumbers." (Glory, May 2010)
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"Are we in our village?" (Glory, as we pulled into our neighborhood, Jauary 2010).
"I want to read Serious George." (Glory, requesting a Curious George story again.)
"I almost passed-over!" (Ellie says this instead of "passed out" when being dramatic.)
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"There is bird diarrhea on my window!" (Glory, riding in the back of the Suburban for the first time)
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"You're a bad Christian!" (Glory, May 2009. Her version of "I hate you???!")
"Mo-mee!" (Micah, saying my name, with an indignant pre-teen attitude.)
"Hmmm, let's see." (Micah, 24 months)
"We all agree. We need a short bus." (Ellie-being the voice for kids who want a new vehicle.)
"What, do you want me to be POOR?" (Maggie, sobbing, when I took her piggy bank to help her close it.)
"I can't read when my toenails are long!" (Maggie, 2.2.2009)
"I love you, Mommy. Yesterday I said I hated you when I was in the bathroom." (Glory, 2.4.2009)
"Mom, chillax-ilate is like sooo 2008!" (Ellie, 2.1.2009)
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