From The Mouths of Babes

Immediately following my recent post of Natalia's funny sayings, she provided some more.

Here they are:

With the especially cold, wintery weather we've been having, Pete has been letting the car warm up before we all head out of the house. This has distressed Natalia for some reason. She keeps saying, "Daddy! Is the car running? We have to hurry before it gets away!"


My youngest brother Ryan and his girlfriend Sarah were visiting recently and had belated Christmas gifts for their nieces and nephews. Natalia and her cousin Morgan got matching pink purses, chapstick, cell phones, keys, and a wallet, complete with paper money in it. HOW COOL!

Natalia told me that her money came from California and that we needed to go there so she could use it to buy something. Apparently that state accepts fake currency. Who knew?!


The other day, when a certain young lady was supposed to be resting/napping, I heard her crying. I quickly went upstairs to see what was wrong, hoping she wouldn't wake Adam in the process, and just as I suspected she was circumventing another excuse not to remain in her room. She had big tears rolling down her cheeks as she cried, "Mommy, I don't want to eat Wilburt! I don't want to eat Wilburt!" (We will be getting a pig from our neighbor soon and she likes to feed the pigs corn when she and daddy go to buy eggs. That and she's watched Charlotte's Web recently and calls Wilbur the pig, Wilburt.) I couldn't help but laugh as she then began to giggle. (STINKER!)

FYI: that night we had sausage for dinner and there were no protestations to pork.


Natalia discovered a ten dollar bill lying on the kitchen counter the other night.

N: "Daddy, is this yours?" (as she is about to walk over and hand it to him)
Pete: "No."
N: "But it's got your picture on it."
Pete: "No, that Hamilton."
N: "Well then we should give it to him."


Natalia was coloring one day when she said to me, "Mom, Jesus is coloring a picture of me to hang on his wall so he can remember me."