manners

so jonathan is standing up, making our bed, passing some SERIOUSLY loud gas.  the kids have been in bed for about 45 minutes.  out of nowhere a little voice says, "'scuse you." (cecelia)

ALREADY!!??!?

cecelia (to her brothers:) now, guys, you gotta call girls dudettes and boys dudes.

ghosts

ralph: mom?  is jesus a ghost?

ralph ran away today.  he was very upset that cecelia and lionel wouldn't give him their boxes to tape together, so he needed to just run away.  to the 'weilers.'  through the snow.  without a coat.  in socks.  he made it as far as the classic cookie before cecelia wearing a shirt, underwear, boots, and a coat, accosted him and dragged him back home: ralph!  you're GOING to come home because i'm wearing a t-shirt, underwear and a coat and mom made me come out and care!  now come ON!!!

later at tub time, he's telling a story of will's family: and his papa walt DIED in the war.  and his gramma died.  and they're ghosts.  BOTH of them!  his papa AND his gramma.
lionel: ghosts are people who died.
ralph: they're dead people.
cecelia: some people die on the toilet, like elvis.
lionel: then he fell in!

suspish

cecelia (to dad:) if there ever is something missing from my room, you can ALWAYS suspish ralph!

the bird

there was a bird stuck in the church sunday, flying around and distracting young children in the congregation.  Ralph was distracted.  he was so joyful and excited by the bird.  he had gotten in trouble and  his 'punishment' was to be held by mom FOR THE REST OF MASS.  there was a little arm being held out behind my head, i suggested he hold his hand out for the bird to land.  for the last half of mass, ralph's little finger was held up as a perch for the bird to land, if he so chose.  poor ralph.  the bird chose, instead to fly.

speaking of flying, here is an awesome link sent to me by a friend of mine.

http://www.eaglesneedapush.com/?cm_mmc=CheetahMail-_-Customers-_-01.24.11-_-EENPMovie&utm_source=CheetahMail&utm_campaign=EENPmovieCust

more lists

ralph 'needed' a list all of his own.  he decided to make a list of things he wants for his birthday.  one of the things he wanted was a game for lionel to play on the wii.
mom: but this list is for gifts for YOUR birthday.
ralph: i know.  but i want to some of my presents to lionel.
ralph: AND, mom, i want a cat that i can keep in a cage and away from cecelia in case if she's still llergic!

ralph: look mom!  i'm binnochio!!  (he puts a 'sord' up to his nose... and by sord, i mean a lincoln log roof piece.)

watching percy jackson and the olympians: the lightening theif
lionel: ANOTHER war?  i'm SICK of all these wars! (fight scenes)
ralph: and i am also.

first day back to school after christmas... whew!

today, after school, i promised the kids they could (finally!) eat the gingerbread house.  thinking they would each get a window or a door or a tree or something... lionel yells, "i call i get the roof!"  the ENTIRE thing was eaten by them: a house, a tree, a gingerbread man, and a snowman!

ralph was trying to get a piece of candy off of it and couldn't get it with his fingers...
ralph: mom!  i want to flick these things off and i can't!  can you please get me a statula?

tonight cecelia and lionel were talking about siblings-in-law.  lionel decided if he married wolf, then lainey would be his sister-in-law and he would     give lainey lots and lots and lots of sloppy kisses!
dad: do you see me giving my sisters-in-law lots of sloppy kisses
lionel: (CRACKING up!) hahahahha, yeah!  right!  like you give mollie and aunt jen kisses!
cecelia: (CRACKING UP even more!) hahahaha!  did you hear him?  he called aunt mollie just regular mollie!!  hahahahhaha... regular mollie!

cecelia was telling me about some thing in computer class today...

cecelia: and then diego came on and we call him a horror movie because the backpack and animals and trees all talk and stuff and it's like a horror movie!