January 2012

January 2012, 5 years, 5 months

When we were at Grandma and Grandpa’s for Christmas:

The boys just get up every day and play the Wii and control people and are lazy--they aren't doing anything!  Its stressful to me.

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I want to put some shoes in the basement--in case we have a tornado and everything is gone, at least I'll still have some shoes!

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Please help Melania to grow up fast so she can be like me...and help her to... (don’t remember.)

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January 4

I think its rude to nurse at the table.

A: Why?

E: I don't know, its hard to explain.

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January 6

E: Mom, did you know that when I'm with Rossi he whispers and asks me to marry him when I get older?

A: He does?  What do you say?

E: I say maybe when we're older.

Mom you have such brilliance ideas.  I wish I had your brain.  I wish we could share brains.  But your brain is too big for my head, and it would be  (hands braced, face made) EWW!!  Yucky!  (Tapping at her own head.)  How would we get it into my head anyway?  I wish we shared minds.  You have such brilliant ideas.

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Jill was leaving at 3:00. Apparently Ellie thought she should stay longer.
Well that's kind of rude!

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...and help us not die before you want us to...and help us to everything we should.

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I didn’t write down the exact thing but  she was talking to me after seeing my Dad do something fast.

Your dad is fast

January 25

E: You aren't my parents, Heavenly Father and Heavenly Mother are.

(I laugh)

E: Seriously!  You're just my babysitters!  You didn't nurse me, it was Heavenly Mother!

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So we talk in a special voice called "the Melania voice".  Jake was walking up the stairs and slipped into the Melania voice without actually holding her.  Ells turned around in joy:

E: Hi!  (Pause....normal voice)  Oh!  I thought you were Melania!

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(Notes that I wrote but didn't finish, not sure what they mean but can’t bring myself to delete them.)

-My dad beat you up

-Rossi, marriage
-You still look like a prince!