Book Eating

We try as a family to read the scriptures every morning, which means at breakfast since that is really the only time we are all together most days. Yesterday Elliot found a Book of Mormon lying around and said, "Hey! A Book of Mormon! We eat cereal with that."

Elliot's Newest Phrase

"Hooray for everybody!"

He says it at random times, throwing his arms up in the air, with a big smile on his face.

Old Macdonald

Elliot just sang "Old Macdonald" while he was doing his puzzle, and it went like this:

"Old MacDonald had a farm, e-i-e-i-o, and on that farm he had a cow, e-i-e-i-o, with a moo-moo here and a moo-moo there, here a moo, there a moo, everywhere a moo-moo, Old MacDonald had a farm, e-i-e-i-o. Goodnight boys."

Not coincidentally, this is the last song I sing to the boys most nights.

Because why?

For the last few months, Elliot has decided that "because a fish, a long nose" is a good response to any question that involves the word "why." It doesn't matter what the question is, but the response inevitably involves a fish and a long nose. The last few weeks, to make the joke even funnier, he has decided to mix things up a bit. So now instead of always saying "because a fish a long nose" he changes the word "nose" to various animals. He also puts pauses between words for emphasis. So the following is a typical Elliot conversation/joke.

Parent: "Elliot, let's change your diaper."
Elliot: "No way!"
Parent: "Why not?"
Elliot: "Because... a fish... a long... elephant!"

It doesn't make any sense, but it sure keeps us laughing.

"Aaron's Song"

Many of you may be familiar with the Primary song "I Am A Child of God." Elliot was singing it this morning and asked me to sing along, so I did:

Elliot and Kourtney: "I am a child of God, and He has sent me here. Has given me an Earthly home, with parents..."

Elliot: "No! with Aarons!"

K: "Oh, sorry... with Aarons kind and dear."

Elliot: "Yeah."

He now calls it "Aaron's song."

Wise Words

Ben has been pulling late-nighters the last few days trying to meet upcoming deadlines. The other night Aaron woke up at about 11:30 to go to the bathroom and on his way back to his room climbed into our empty bed. I joined him after a few minutes and told Ben (who was typing away right at our heads) to move Aaron when he came to bed. A few hours later, Aaron woke up for a minute and said, "Dad, don't you think you should go to sleep? I think you're going to be really tired tomorrow."

Elliot's Contrariness

Ben, upon greeting a smiling Elliot returning from the playground: "Did you have a good time at the playground?"

Elliot: "No."

"Oh. Did you play with your friends?"
"No."
"Did you play in the sand?"
"No."
"Did you play anything at all?"
"No."
"Did you play at the playground at all?"
"No."
"Did you run?"
"No."
"Jump?"
"No."
"Hide?"
"No."
"Slide?"
"No?"
"Squat?"
"No."
"Dig?"
"No."
"Sit?"
"No."
"Um... did you have fun saying 'No' a lot?"
Elliot, with a sly smile: "Yeah..."
Ben: "Can you say 'No' right now?"
Elliot, as his smile broadens: "Yeah..."

More Aaron Quotes

Today the four of us were running around playing monster/bad guy/ hunter guy, tackling and tickling the "monster" after a sure defeat and I guess I got a little carried away because Aaron said, "Mom, stop because the monster is actually our dad."


Aaron's made-up superhero has advanced from "Packer Man" to "Meat-Packer Man." He's a guy who can pack a lot of meat, really fast.


"Nephites are called Nephites because they have a lot of knee-fights. And Helamans are heal mans because they were sick" which Aaron later explained on separate occasions that Helamans were men who could heal or who were in need of healing.


The other day while playing with the kids I said something like, "I love you guys so much. What would I do without my little boys?" To which Aaron replied, "Well, you could go to the store and get some cute little statues that look kind of like Tato and then you could take them to the park and stuff."

Yesterday at breakfast time Aaron announced, "I'm not going to eat dinner tonight because I'm fastinating."

This morning, Aaron said, "Mom, I want to marry a little girl who comes out of your tummy because I don't want to be in any other family. I just want to be in our family."

Today Aaron was burbling Elliot (who was laughing hysterically) then he said, "Hehe, Elliot is so burblish!"

Aaron's Story, transcribed by Ben (except top part, which is "how many pages it has")

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Once upon a time there was a dinosaur and the dinosaur loved to eat crocodiles and he loved it when it was summertime and loved to play in the park when it was rainy and snowy and he likes to bonk each other with balls all the time. And then he loved to eat other t-rexes. He liked to eat other t-rexes because he liked the brains of other t-rexes, so he would just eat the brains and the stomachs, and hearts, and lungs, and the tummy.

He lived in New York City when there was no humans. It was dinosaur land; it's dinosaur land, it's dinosaur land, it's dinosaur land!

The end.

Kourtney: Did you have a good dinner tonight?
Aaron: Yeah, we ate Chinese food.
K: Cool, but I think it was Thai food, from Thailand.
A: Actually mom it was Chinese food, from Chineseland.

Today Aaron told me, "I have to pass gas." He left the room, walked over to Ben, bent over, stuck his bum right next to Ben and let it rip. Where did he come up with that?

"When I grow up I want to be a solider that fights in battles, a construction worker, a firefighter, a treasure man, a guy who wears pink shirts, and a packer... or suitcase man." --Aaron