Deep Thoughts

The following are true, unedited quotes that my children have uttered over the last couple days.
Mikayla was eating yogurt, topless. She's a little bit messy sometimes. I heard her happily exclaim, "LOOK! I have milk coming out of my boobies!!" Yes, she'd dripped yogurt onto her bare chest, making it look like she had some major leakage issues.
Aaric is apparently pondering such things as "why are were here" and I don't know, maybe instead of watching Lion King last night like I thought, he popped in The Matrix, but clearly, he's got strange things running through his head. Or rather, deep thoughts that I just don't expect to hear from a 5 year old boy. I think he talks non-stop. I'm not sure if he ever shuts up. Honestly, I've learned to tune a lot of it out. I'd go insane if he didn't. Needless to say, there's a lot of mindless "mmmhmm"'s and "oh really?"'s going on around here. I have no clue what he's talking about. I happened to hear the tail end of something today though. "... sometimes I wonder if really, all of this is just a dream." I hear him and answer, "a dream?" "Yeah, that or maybe its all not real and really, God's just playing a video game." Wow. Umm, okay...

The kids have a cousin, the dear child of my older brother. She's 6 and goes to school. She's in the first grade. Last year she learned all about fire drills and tornado drills. She lived with us for a couple months this summer (as did my older brother). She frequently held fire and tornado drills. I never paid close attention. Perhaps I should have, since this is what I heard today: "All hail tornado, all hail tornado..." You know, in that kind of brain dead chant voice? Like, maybe their brains were sucked out by the tornado and now they must worship it? So I asked them why they were saying that. I was informed, that when a tornado comes, you bow down to it and chant "all hail tornado." Really? THAT is what they're teaching them in public schools these days?? I asked that they please not worship tornadoes.
Michael says that the dear cousin is going to be the head of her own little cult someday. The other thing that she's learned in school is that activities must each have their own Area to call home. This doesn't mean that she keeps things tidy, just that everything has an Area. She'll set up Areas all over the house - it actually adds to the mess. Once, they were watching a movie, and she set up an Area for anyone who didn't want to watch the movie. It didn't matter that they ALL wanted to watch it. So, he says she's going to lead a cult, and there will be little Areas for each of her members, and they'll have their own language of "fingernail on the blackboard" typed high pitch squeals. I think he's right. I think she could do it - she's a take charge kinda gal. But at least they'll be safe if there is a tornado or fire.

Okay, other things the kids have said.
Aaric was once again droning on and on about God Knows What, and I wasn't listening, and he was supposed to be getting ready for bed and going to his room. It had something to do with Veggie Tales. Something about the Cheeseburger Song and how it is NOT a Silly Song, its a Love Song with Mr Lunt. Blah blah blah... "and I think I figured out where the French Peas come from." "Oh yeah?" "Yeah. France." "Uh, ya think?" "Yeah, because on Veggie Tales they always say that, you know? And things on Veggie Tales are true. And I've learned lots of great lessons from them." "Yeah, well the lesson you need to learn right now, is that you need to get your hiney upstairs and into bed." "Yeah, well, they should make a Veggie Tales movie about that too!" Man, oh man, I wish they would. Virtues, Smirtues, teach my kid to just get his butt in BED, Oh Mighty Tomato and Cucumber!

I've just noticed that I'm lacking in the Mikayla-isms. Its all out of balance. I've just racked my brains and can't think of anything else brilliant or funny that she said today. She did inform me that she is NOT a sweet girl, or a cute girl, or a pretty girl; not even an ugly girl... but just a GIANT girl. Oh, she did something for the first time last night though. She's seen Lion King 58,398,789 times, but last night it hit her that Simba's dad died, and boy was she sad. No tears that I saw, but you could tell she felt just awful for poor little Simba.

Oh yeah, one more. Aaric did ask me what the monkey means when he says "Look beyond what you see." I said, "well, what do you think he means?" (After all, this IS the kid who is pondering our very existence, surely he can decipher the meaning.) He said, "I think he means, [add very dramatic voice, kinda like how the blue butted monkey says it in the movie] look beyoooonnd what you seeeeeee."