The Barneys: Bedtime Whispering

Wednesday, May 7, 2014

Bedtime Whispering

After saying goodnight to the girls and closing their door, I paused to listen. I wondered if one of them would get out of bed for a drink or the bathroom, or if Pyper would call out that she needed her blue binky as well as her green one.

It was quiet.
Then, Claire's voice: "Summer, what's two?"
Summer: "What's two?"
Claire: "Yeah, what's two?"
Summer: "Two plus two equals four. But two is just two. . . . Do you want to know what three plus three is?"
Claire: "Yeah."

I'm okay with that bedtime whispering.

3 comments:

Mark said...: Oh the wisdom of childhood!; May 12, 2014 at 2:00 PM
Josh and Rach said...: So sweet! I love that all 3 girls are in the room together. :); May 15, 2014 at 8:08 PM
Mark said...: There is probably more truth spoken in that simple conversation than many discussions that occur in the world!; June 20, 2014 at 12:32 PM

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Favorite Quotes

Posted 2013

Summer, seeing my arm peeling from a sunburn: "Why is it doing that?" Me: "Well, when you sunburn, you just tan. But when I get sunburned, it kills my skin, and then peels off." Summer, worried: "Are you getting very, very old now?" (now in tears) "I don't want you to die!"

Looking in the dishwasher: "I thought there was a black leaf in there, but it's just a craisin!"

Posted approx. 2011-2012

"Heavenly Father, Thanks for I stay in my bed."

Summer, typing away on the computer: "I'm trying to check my oatmeal." (email)

Me to Rhett: "Killer french toast, hun." Summer in shock: "Daddy! You killed her french toast?!?"

During the kissing scene in "Gnomeo and Juliet": "Look--they're kissing. Why are their eyes closed? . . . Maybe there's a lot of sun in their eyes."

After I gave her a piece of cheese: "You're a big girl for sharing, Mom."

Looking out the window: "Mom, please tell the grown ups outside I'll be right back."

Booking it to the toilet: "Mom, it's slidey with socks on."

Jumping on her bed: "Mom, you want to jump with me? It could be fun."

Talking to dad in the morning: "What you doin'?" --- "Getting ready for work." --- "But if you weave, I'll be sad."

"I'm not big. I'm just Summer!"

After waking up in the morning and realizing Dad was gone: "Mom, where's dad?" --- "He's at work." --- "Why?" --- "Because he has to get money for us." --- (Pointing to our change drawer) "But we have money right there!"

"Summer, why do you keep unplugging the TV?" Summer: "Because it's tempted to turn it back on. It's tempted, mom. So I unplug it."

Favorite Quotes

Posted 2013:

"I wish my head was in my mouth so I could see what my tongue was doing."

Rhett, after putting the girls to bed, then having to go down to their room again to tell them to stop talking: "I don't want to hear one more word out of here." Claire, innocently, and just asking to clarify, "How many words, dad?"

Claire told me she had "something" in her underwear. I asked her if she had an accident. She said, "No. I had a tooter and poop came out. Shooted right in there."

Me: "Stick your finger in your ear and see if you can get some of that ear wax out." Claire: "Nooooo. Because we have to lick it and that's how we wash it."

Posted 2012:

Claire: "No fry, baby. No fry." (Don't cry)

Claire, looking at her reflection in the oven glass: "Ook! Ook!" --- "Who is it, Claire?" --- "Nummer! Nummer!"

Things You Get to Say When You're a Parent that You Wouldn't Say Otherwise

"Just sit there until you find your shirt."
"Don't eat my hair."
"Because that's just the way he is. Some people only have one eye." (regarding a minion from "Despicable Me.")
After Claire pooped in the bathtub: "I keep thinking to myself--"Is that broccoli? Or poop? . . . This is like a horror movie."
"She stuck the key in What?!?"
"There's a buggy!" (aka bug)
"Stop eating things out of the garbage!"
"Please don't eat the chapstick."
"Hey! Don't sit on the cheese!"
"You're shirt's on upside down." (Not backwards or inside out, but, yes, upside down)