Traditions

We started a fun one this year that I had found on Pinterest.  The idea was to have a mason jar in the kitchen and when the kids said or did something funny to write it down on a strip of paper and put it in the jar.  I did pretty good for a month or two, but lost steam.  I wish I had kept up with it because we opened up the jar as part of our New Year's celebration.  We got doughnuts for breakfast and opened the jar while we ate.  It was hilarious.  We've got some funny kids y'all.  Here are some of the highlights. 

Quintin (referring to somewhere we were going):
     "That's like that place we went to in Ohio-Marvin Gardens"

While watching a sailboat motor in the channel
     Mama:That sailboat does not have its sail up so how is it moving?
    Thea and Mareea in unison: Slow

While reading a book for school
     Mama: Landon, what do they mean by "game"
     Landon: It's like deer or cantaloupe.

Gideon has a round lithium battery in his mouth
     Daddy:Take that battery out of your mouth!
     Giddy: It's not a battery!
     Daddy: Yes, it is.
     Gideon: No, it's not.  It's a hash brown!

Thea:Only 2 more days till Saturday!!!
Mama: What's on Saturday?
Thea: (Thinks for a second)  I don't know.

Thea wanted to put pink streaks in her hair
     Daddy: I don't want you to have pink streaks in your hair
     Thea: What about blue?

Mama: Landon, your shirt is on backwards.
Landon: No it's not, my head is.

While reading God's Little Boy
     Mama: God's little boy is caring...God's little boy is kind...
     Ashton: God's little boy is buff

Mama: Giddy's skinny so I'm going to do what he does and see if it helps me lose weight.  I'm going to run around, tear stuff up, be over emotional about everything...
Dan: Well, you've got that one down

Mareea: If Quintin dies we're all going to have to do his chores

Out of the blue...
Landon: Do Navy SEALS even know what mini vans are?
Mama: uhhhhh

Mama: Mareea, do you want to go to the beach tomorrow?
(a look of horror crosses her face)
Mareea: What if one of my nails gets unpainted??

Dan smiles
Thea:You need braces.  Did you know that Daddy?  Because one of your teeth sticks out. 

Mareea: I don't want to go to sleep because I always have bad dreams about Mongolians.  (I have no idea where she even heard of Mongolians)

After church
     Ashton: Why are those offering plates so slippery?  I bed they oil them or something. 

After a week of rice and beans
     Mareea: Everyone put your hands in the middle.  Now yell, "pizza!"

Everyone is in the room and Mareea looks right at Q
Mareea: Quintin, do you know where my other heel shoe is??