2011:
“NO tickle-face. Daddy is TOO scratchy.”
M: “I shaved! My face is not scratchy.”
“Your NECK is scratchy.”
Me to mike: “I’m going to go over and check him for poop.”
R: “Mamma, go back there and eat your lunch!”
“Get the hat with the crossbones and the hat with the yellow-diamond-blue-diamond-red-diamond!” (Pirates hat and Steelers hat.)
“I bumped my Noggin with the cup.”
In the Mt. Auburn Hospital ER waiting room: “Daddy, I’m racing my Nasty Cars!”
M: “You mean, NASCARs…”
R: “Yeah, my nasty cars!”
“I’m Naked Boy playing baseball.”
“It’s not the spiky pillow, it’s the norom one.”
“Rohan has brown chul. Mamma has black chul. Daddy has chul like Tessa. Dimmi has gray chul. Dadan has… ektu bit of chul.”
“Don’t come near!”
“Don’t say no!”
“That could be an idea!” (when he thinks of something he wants to do.)
“Do the hokey pokey and you turn yourself around;
That’s what it’s all about! Doodlebug-doodlebug!
I like to say Doodlebug at the end.”
“I’m your little doodlebug. I’m daddy’s little doodlebug.”
“Tessa, you wanna ankh with me?” (holding sidewalk chalk.)
“Today, we watched the funny cars race. It was Great Fun!”
“I will eat more, I will get bigger, then I will play football.”
“This is the blanket-snake! I LOVE this!” (about the striped afghan)
“This is a special crib for this noke and the bad noke. Two babies in the crib. Like Asha and Thomas. They are at Dimmi’s house. Sometimes I live at Dimmir bari Yerxa Road
“I race the motorcycle on your no-hair part.” (about Daddy’s side as opposed to chest/stomach.)
“I like to pick flowers. I give them to Mamma and Daddy sometimes. I’m not dogs! Dogs don’t want flowers!”
Mike: “Dogs might eat the flowers.”
R: “Oh, yuck.”
“I could give this flower to Tessa. She could love it.”
“This guy fell down! Poor little noke.”
“I liked the part where the frog played the guitar, sitting on that wood.” [first time watching Muppet Movie.]
“What are you likh-ing, Mamma?”
Mike: “I don’t know that song. I’ll have to look it up on YouTube.”
R: “MY tube??”
“Uhhhh, Daddeeeee…( I’m ‘tending to cry.)”
“I want to shun that gaan.” (about God Bless America
“Daddy, you could dress up as a peddler, with caps on your head. You would be a Handsome Boy.” [demonstrating pile of caps]
“Quite incredible!” (about jumping over pile of pillows)
2012:
“It’s NOT time for dinner. It’s time for racing.”
Me: “The cars are hungry.’
R” “No they’re NOT. They’re hungry for racing.”
R” “No they’re NOT. They’re hungry for racing.”
“Daddy, you need to shave. You have Whiskers.”
“Maybe Santa’s pups could make it.” (meaning elves.)
“What happens when you put cars in the dryer? They turn into Hot Wheels cars.”
“Is this an animal?” grabbing Uma’s feet.
"My skeleton is rattling around inside my body."
"My skeleton is rattling around inside my body."
“Daddy, my naked is the same as your naked! We’re ALL naked!”
“The Washington Capitals are sleeping with the Boston Bruins.”
“If you cut off all your hair, you’ll look like Dadan.”
“I don’t want to go to preschool, I want to go to a Mojar Jaiga!”
“Bridger and me went fishing, and we caught a great white shark.” [one of many Bridger Tall Tales.]
R: “Can we have a new baby?”
Me: “No.”
R: “We could borrow one!”
Me: “We could visit Owen’s new baby.”
R: “Yeah, and bring it home and put it in your belly.”
“Come on, Daddy, let’s go for a Nailed swim!” (about the beach in Ocean City NJ)
“This is the running-water.” (describing the water before a wave breaking)
“If Uma saw this scary movie she would one hundred cry.”
“I had ELEVEN pee!”
“If Mamma went to Daddy’s work and Daddy went to Mamma’s work, it would be so silly.”
“We definitely can’t buy a Real Gun.”
"I'm making this fort 'shnug' for Uma."
"I'm making this fort 'shnug' for Uma."
“I don’t want to see ANY ankylosaurus.”
“These firefighters did a big big dushtumi. They didn’t slide down the pole.”
"This is a mousie in the picture. I think Uma will love it."
"This is a mousie in the picture. I think Uma will love it."
(sniff) “This house smells like cat food AND dog food!” (after I made slow-cooked bbq ribs.)
"We made whooped cream, and then it turned into cupcakes."
"My stomach feels like something's crumpled up inside it."
"We made whooped cream, and then it turned into cupcakes."
"My stomach feels like something's crumpled up inside it."
"This nutcracker is not scary because he doesn't have a sword."
(to Aisha, recounting the holidays) "We went to Nana and Papa's house and Dimmi and Dadan's house and made a 'splosion and Uncle Justin drank the 'splosion!"
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