Category: Quote of the Day

I was resting on the couch this afternoon when I felt a big jolt. The house then started swaying and I knew it was an earthquake. I jumped up and yelled at Aidan asking him if he was okay. His reply was, “Mommy, I didnt’ do it!” I told him I knew that he hadn’t done it and that it was an earthquake. All the while I’m talking with Aidan, I’m running up the stairs to check on the twins. They were asleep in their room taking a nap. The earthquake woke them both up, but they were able to go back to sleep. Aidan and I then went downstairs and looked up the earthquake online. It turned out to be a 5.3 (later downgraded to a 4.9) centered in Yucaipa.

I was cuddling in a chair with Aidan when he asked me how much I loved him. I told him that I loved him all the way to pluto and back. I then asked him how much he loves me. He thought about it for a while and then answered, “I love you all the way to costco and back!” For him that is a whole lot. When he really likes something, he will say I love it all the way around the neighborhood! I guess that Costco was the furthest place away he could thing of, so I take it as a great compliment.

The older kids were all playing outside, when the girls came in to tell me that Aidan was throwing toys at them. I had Aidan come in and questioned him about it. His reponse was “I wasn’t throwing things, I was playing dodge toys!”. His sisters, however, wanted no part of “dodge toys”. Where do kids come up with this stuff?