Debany, Myanna, & Ed...

While walking from home to home, Ed's mom and I have agreed to watch them as they go, just to be extra safe.

One day when I said I'd watch them on their way,

Ed remarks:

"No one has ever asked us to get in their car or take me away."

Jenn says:

"That's good! We'll just keep it that way and be extra safe."

Ed said:

"I'd do ninja moves!"

Myanna said:

"I'd kick and scream and bite!"

Debany said:

"I'd punch them in the face!"

The WHOLE way over to the other house was them talking about what they'd do if someone tried to take them away!

(And maybe some trying to one-up the other... as long as they actually do it if it happened!)

Porter : Unexpected Answers

While riding in the car, Gma begun to sing the Wonder Pets' Song...

Gma sang:

"What's gonna work??"

To which Porter replies:

"Wheels"

(Usually it's 'teamwork')

Porter : Random Thoughts

While riding in the car, out of the blue, Porter says:

"We need jet packs..."

Debany : isms

"I was comfortable over there, but you un-comf-ed my comf-ed."

Gma Debi's Storytime...

Debany Locks and the 7 Porters...

Gma Debi : Nicknames

Porter is Gma's little:

"POOP-A-DOO!"

Porter : Vocabulary

Mommy:

"Do you need to go potty?"

Porter:

"Yep-a-doo!"

Mommy:

"Did you keep your star all night?"

Porter:

"Yep-a-doo!

Mommy:

"Porter, you stayed dry all night! Do you want 2 stickers?"

Porter:

"Yep-a-doo!"

Porter : Potty Incentives

Sly Porter knows what he wants...

Gma:

"Porter, if you don't poop in your diaper, you can play a game on the computer!"

Porter poops his diaper and is stinky (this is before he was potty-trained), so Gma changes his diaper.

Porter comes up to Gma and says:

"Can I play a game now?!"

Gma says:

"No, Porter, you pooped your pants!"

Porter replies:

"No I didn't!" (because Gma just changed it!)

(LATER)

Gma:

"Porter, want to use the potty?! If you poop on the potty you can play a computer game."

Porter:

"Okay..."

So, Porter poops a teensy little terd in the potty and says:

"Can I play a game now?!"

Gma looks at him and says:

"That's it???"

Porter : Word of the Day

"mechanical"

While cleaning up, Gma goes to take a plastic cone off of Porter's arm and he says:

"No, Gma! Don't take off my mechanical arm!"

Porter : Potty Talk

Porter has been using the potty lately. He's gone pee-pee and poo-poo!

So while we sit and wait and finally hear a tinkle, we ask:

"Did you go pee-pee?!"

Porter replies:

"No! I made water!"

So today, we hear that he went pee-pee on the potty.

We ask:

"Did you make water, Porter?!"

Porter:

"No... Today, I made juice!"

Debany & Myanna : Favorites

Myanna:

"What's your favorite candy?"

Mom:

"truffles"

Debany:

"Milky way - I haven't tried it, but it sure sounds good!"

Myanna:

"The noisy kind!"

Porter : Halting Snow

We're getting ready for church when in comes Porter in a hurried rush and says:

"We can't go to church today! We can't go to church today!!"

Daddy asks: "Why not, Porter?"

Porter: "Because. (Pause) There's snow on the van!"

Daddy: "I can clean the snow off the van, Porter."

Porter: "You'll make a MESS, Daddy!"

Porter : Sharing

Porter shares some of his cookies with mom.

Mom says, "Thank you, Porter!"

Mommy expects to hear a 'you're welcome'...

but instead hears:

"You're a PIG!"

(Thanks, Porter. I mean, you're a pig, too!)

Myanna : Profound Moment

"Kids don't like to be in trouble.

That's why they don't argue with each other."

Debany : Snowman Song

Debany's new version of the snowman song:

"Once there was a snowman, snowman, snowman...

Once there was a snowman, tall, tall, tall.

And his name was Jared, Jared, Jared...

And his name was Jared...

(Silence)

And that's all."

Debany : Bellybuttons

While eating her breakfast, Debany says:

"This tastes like bellybuttons."

Dane and I look at eachother in confusion and then Debany reminds us that 'bellybuttons' are those Werther's candies with the circle in the middle.

Debany : Ed says...

After Debany shares her drink with Myanna, Porter asks for a drink.

To which Debany replies:

"Uhhh... Porter, you have germs."

Jenn says:

"So do you, and so does Myanna..."

then Debany says:

"Yes, but I'm a girl and girls have MORE germs... that's what my friend Ed said."

Debany : Don't feel like it...

Jenn:

"Isn't Daddy amazing?! He can catch flies with his bare hands!"

Debany:

"Yeah! But I just don't feel like it."

Myanna : Indecisive

Myanna:

"What am I? B... b... b..."

Debany:

"A bunny!?"

Myanna:

"A ballerina, princess, fairy, unicorn!"

Porter : Haircut

After giving Porter a haircut...

Debany:

"He just doesn't look like Porter anymore."

Jenn:

"What does he look like?"

Debany:

"I think I'll have to name him...'Jack'."

(to Porter) "Hi, Jack!"

Porter:

"Hi, Debany!"

Dane : (as a kid)

"Oh look! Here's a cd of nursery rhymes! ... Blah, Blah Black Sheep..."

(I guess he never really liked that nursery rhyme.)

:)

Porter : Questions

Daddy:

"Porter, what was your favorite part of your day?"

Porter:

"Eating butterflies..."

Daddy:

"What did you not like today?"

Porter:

(it worked last time...)

"Eating butterflies..."

Daddy:

"What do you want to do tonight before bed?"

Porter:

(can you guess?)

"Eating butterflies!"

(We were all laughing so hard - Porter was enjoying every second!)

Porter : Grrr...

Porter:

"Grrrr... Roarrrrrr!"

Jenn:

"Wow, Porter. Doesn't that hurt?!"

Porter:

"Yeah."

Debany : Berry

While holding hands as a family and spreading out in a line

(taking up the whole road)

Debany says:

"We're bigger than a berry!!"

Debany : Sleep-singing

Debany in her sleep:

"Black sheep, black sheep, have you any wool?"

Porter : Vocabulary

"Stooley"

(Porter's word for a stool.)

Debany : Sleep-singing

Debany in her sleep:

"Old McDonald had a farm, EIEIO."

Debany : Vocabulary

Debany to Myanna:

"Tonight we get to sleep in the Royal Escume!"

Mom to Debany:

"What's an 'escume'?"

Debany to Mom:

"It's a lion's cage! And I'm the Queen of the Lions!"

Myanna : potty move-ins

--- While Playing ---

Debany:

"We need to move. Can we come and live with you?"

Myanna:

"Uhh... well, right now I'm going potty."

Debany : Blog

Debany:

"Wanna blog that?!"

(Evidently, I've said that WAY too much!)

Myanna : Dreams

Myanna:

"In my dream, we were ugly. And then an angel came and gave us bones to make us beautiful."

Debany : Educational Moment #76

Debany:

"Mom, why do boy dogs have those big things between their legs?"

Debany : Dinner

Mom:

"Why don't you like hamburger macaroni and cheese?"

Debany:

"Because I don't like the hamburger in it - it infects me."

Debany : Germs

Debany:

"Myanna, go tell mom I found some germs!"

(They ended up being 'grubs.' Those are some big germs!)

Debany : isms

"And then it'll turn all colorey-ish."

Debany : isms

"Oh, Mom! That was so much cool!"

Debany : Morning-mare

Debany woke up one morning and came in and wanted to cuddle.

She said she had a 'morning mare' because it was a bad dream she had in the morning.

(instead of night - for a nightmare.)

Debany : isms

Debany's way of describing anything big or intense:

"Super-duper"

or when it's really, really big:

"super-duper-duper-duper-duper..." etc. etc. etc.

Porter : translation

"clock-it"

Translation: 'chocolate'

Myanna & Debany : Husband Names

Myanna: "I want to name my husband... Josh."

Debany: "Myanna, you can't name your husband. They already have names... like Josh, Magaba, Spanish names..."

Debany : isms

"Mom! It's like a 'holy macra' outside!"

(translation: 'holy mackerel')

Debany : isms

"Daddy, your hands are like the giant-est!"

Debany : Age & Size

"If she's older than your mom, she must be like a giant!"

(uh...)

Debany : Language

"This'll be much more different-er!"

Debany : Missing Cucumber

Debany:

"Where's my cucumber?"

Jenn:

"I don't know, Honey."

Debany:

"Oh. I think I ate it."

Debany : Mommy Long-Legs

"Are 'mommy' longlegs nice?"

(We're reading Charlotte's Web.)

Debany : Dead People

Debany:

"Look! Dead people!"

Jenn:

"You see dead people?!?"

(think '6th sense')

Debany:

"No. Just their flowers"

(Explanation: We drove past a cemetary.

Yeah, we were laughing our heads off after this conversation!)

Debany : Tired

"I think I'm going to be really tired tomorrow because I stayed up so early."

*Uh hem... I know what you're thinking. I don't let her stay up that late... honest...*

Debany & Myanna : Lava Girl

Myanna:

"I changed Debany into a 'Lava Girl'.

Debany:

"Yeah, because my lava tires and shoes just weren't working."

Myanna : Blondies

Leaving the grocery store, an elderly couple say,

"Hello, Blondies!"

Myanna says to Mommy,

"He called us 'Blondies'! That's so silly. He doesn't know how to talk yet!"

Myanna : i-'shoes'

Porter was fussy and Jenn asked him,

"Hey, Porter... What's your issues?"

(sounds like i-shoes)

To which Myanna replied,

"I have my shoes!"

Debany & Myanna : Heavenly Mother's Name

Sitting at the dinner table, Debany starts a discussion:

Debany: "Do youknow what Heavenly Father's wife's name is? Elizabeth."

Myanna: "That's not her name. It's 'Sitiara' (ie. CTR-uh)."

Debany : Lazy

While Dane and Jenn are weeding in the garden, Debany says she's thirsty.

Jenn says, "Well, why don't you go get a drink."

Then Debany says, "I can't... because I'm sitting right here!"

Myanna : Laundry Day

It's Myanna's laundry day. So before bed, we put her clothes in the washer. Myanna in her excitement says, "I'm a laundry-girl!"

Debany : Powdered Milk

When Daddy was making milk from powder, Debany says:

"Daddy, you're a farmer!"

Myanna : Baby Rabbit

In talking about the different names for animals and their babies...

Daddy asks:

"What do you call a baby rabbit?"

Myanna replies:

"A kangaroo!!"

Debany : isms

"It's 'baby materation'. You know. It's when babies do things that babies do."

Myanna : Snapping

Snaps her fingers (faintly)...

"Did you hear that?! I'm almost a grown-up!"

Myanna : Magic Pants

In speaking of Porter's new leather velcro patch for his pants,

"Those are magic pants!"

Myanna : Bumblebees

Myanna:

"That was a honey bee!"

Daddy:

"No, Honey, that was a bumblebee."

Myanna:

"Oh... so does it make 'bumble'?"

Debany : Why?

"How come I can hear things? And see things?? And feel things? I mean... why?"

Debany : Colors

"The Earth is so confusing. It has all these colors."

Debany : Beds

"When I grow up, maybe you'll keep our beds and I'll be able to show my husband where I slept when I was a kid. Wouldn't that be so funny?!"

Debany : Heaven

"I just wanna know what Heave is like. It's up in the sky??? I just want to go and see what it's like, just for a little while, and then come back."

Debany : Cutting

Mommy:

"This is how you cut your pancake with a knife. You stab it with the fork and then cut it with your knife."

Debany:

[To herself] "Stab, cut... stab, cut. Yeah! Good job, Me!"

Debany : Earplugs

"I think you need some earplugs. You know what they do? You put them in your ears and it makes it so when something is loud, it's quiet. It (earplugs) puts the 'quiet' into "Peace & Quiet".

Debany : Wiggle

"I don't like to wiggle my nose. It hurts my ears and makes me need to swallow."

Debany : Mommy Sound

When Debany was trying to talk (and get mommy to stop), she said,

"Do I hear any mommy sound?!"

Debany : Memory

Debany:

"I remember something in my head."

Debany : Energy

Jenn:

"Debany, where did you get all this energy?!"

Debany:

"God gave it to me."

Debany : Language

"Myanna, stop 'grumbolucking!'"

(Your guess is as good as mine!)

Debany : Children

"We're having a discussion on my children.

You know, the 3 boys and 3 girls I'm going to have.

And they're going to learn to dance together - because I'm going to teach them."

Porter : word of Day

"Ornery"

(yes, he actually said it - ask Gma Gilson!)

Debany : Innocence

Jenn:

"You're not looking hard enough! I've seen it in your drawer.

What are you going to give me if I go up there and get it for you?"

Debany:

"A happy face?!"

Debany : Cherry

"I wonder what life would be like if everything was red - and I lived in a cherry."

Myanna : isms

"Earth Quirk"

(EARTHQUAKE)

Debany : isms

"What happens if a 'tomato' comes?"

(TORNADO)

Debany : Eyes

Debany told Mommy:

"Mommy, hold still and keep your eyes open..."

Debany puts here eye as close to Jenn's eye as possible.

"Tssss... Still can't see your spirit."

Debany : isms

"Open Sesame Street!"

Debany : Sore Throats

Everybody's been sick with sore throats.

Here's Debany's reasoning:

"My throat gets dirty and I have to clear my throat to clean it out."

Debany : Marriage

"I have a bunny that I'm married to. He lives in the bathtub."

Debany : Pooh's Tea Pot

"I'm a little honey pot, short and stout.

Here is my bottom, here is my spout.

When I get all filled up, I don't know.

Tip me over and ho, heave, ho."

(I'm a Little Tea Pot -- Winnie the Pooh style)

Myanna : Word of the Day

EXCEPT

Debany : Speech

"Sanny Antonio"

Debany : When I Grow Up...

"Mom, I want to be a tooth fairy when I grow up."

Debany : Fairy Tale

"It's like I have a fairy tale inside of me! Inside are my feelings - to be little."

Debany : Spirits

"How does Heavenly Father send us our spirits?

They probably come down really slow like this (hand visual) and come through our heads and then into our stomachs. -- But we can't poop them out."

Debany : Quiet Time

Debany and Jenn are sick.

Still, Debany wanted to clean the bathroom. Just because.

Jenn said that it was quiet time and that after quiet time Debany will have more energy to clean the bathroom and will feel better, too.

Jenn asks, "Does that make sense?"

Debany answers, "Of course it makes sense! If it doesn't make sense, you'd have to...

wash the dishes!!"

Debany : Resurrection

In Primary, Debany and Becca (a friend) were picked to explain about the Resurrection (how we live after we die).

Debany then explains that we get perfect, young, and beautiful bodies...

"like when we're mommies and daddies."

All the adults look at me and I just wipe my forehead.

I have no idea where that came from!

Debany : Primary Songs

In Primary, they sang the song, 'Head, Shoulders, Knees, and Toes.'

Debany bent down to touch her toes and bonked her cheek on a chair in front of her.

She had to go out of Primary for a few minutes to calm down because it really hurt.

Later on, the primary chorister asks the group what they want to sing.

The 'Head, Shoulders, Knees, and Toes' song was requested.

Immediately, Debany raised her hand and then says,

"That song hurts me."

Luckily, they chose another song.

:)

Debany : 'Diane'

Our friend Diane came to our house.

Debany didn't realize that her name is not Anne,

So I emphasized to her,

"Di-ane... Di-ane."

Then she says,

"Mom, it sounds like she's 'dying'."

Debany : Sick

"No kid wants to stay sick, so that's why we have moms."

Debany : Baptism

So, Debany's friend is getting baptized tomorrow.

Debany's so excited...

"Tomorrow morning? At the church?

... But there's no rivers there!"

Next item of discussion - baptismal fonts.

Debany : isms

"Tomorrow I think I'll different my choice up."

Debany : Virus

I woke up one morning and as I rubbed my eyes, there was Debany at the side of my bed.

And she says,

"Mom, you look like a virus."

Debany's Word of the Day

Undoubtedly

"I undoubtedly think you guys are teasing me."