Nick wasn't able to do something he wanted to do on the PC, so he felt it necessary to lament his plight loudly to the rest of us: "I am on the WORST computer in the whole HOUSE."
Someone might be due for a little poverty education via YouTube.
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Grayson: "Nathaniel, if I fix chicken pasta, will you eat that?"
Nathaniel: "Is that one of the dishes with menorah sauce?"
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Driving down to Railroad Park the other day, a song came on the radio that I didn't recognize. Just the first few bars had played when:
Jake: "Mommy. Is this Born This Way?"
Me: "I don't know, Jake. I don't know that song."
Jake: "I tink it is."
Me: "Let's wait until it gets to the chorus, and I'll tell you." ..... "Well, YES, Jake, it IS Born This Way. I think it's Lady Gaga."
Jake: [bobbing his head] "I tott so."
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One morning while the boys were getting ready for school, I overheard the following conversation they were having in their bathroom:
Nicholas: "NATHANIEL. LOOK."
Nathaniel: "What."
Nicholas: "My penis is pointing Straight Up and I don't even know HOW." [gleefully] If I peed right now, I'd pee right in my own FACE!"
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Nathaniel: "Mommy. Did you write down my reading in my Reading Log today?"
Me: "Yes."
Nathaniel: "Well, how long did you say I read for last night?"
Me: "I put an hour and a half."
Nathaniel: "You need to change it. I'd say I read between an hour and 43 minutes and an hour and 46 minutes a night."
I DON'T KNOW WHERE HE GETS THAT ANNOYING ATTENTION TO DETAIL.
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In early February school closed early because of sleet. As we pulled out of the parking lot toward home:
Me: "Well, I didn't see THIS coming."
Nathaniel: "Didn't see WHAT coming?"
Me: "The sleet. It wasn't in the forecast."
Nathaniel: "Well. It's actually not that surprising, because according to legend, everything's going just like it was planned."
Me: "What?"
Nathaniel: "Well, Birmingham Bill saw his shadow, so that means more winter weather. And this is DEFINITELY winter weather."
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Jake may have a future in advertising. A recent teeth brushing conversation with Grayson:
Jake: "Who is this?"
Grayson: "That’s Nick’s new toothbrush." [Unlike every other toothbrush we own, it has no characters or logo on it.]
Jake: "No one is on it. Iss bwo-ken."
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The other night Grayson knocked something over in the kitchen and yelled, "DAGNABBIT!"
Nicholas: "Mommy. That's a BAD word. And so is A-S-S. And so is BINCH. And Wal-tuh has called me ALL of those things."
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Nathaniel and Nicholas were debating the terms of gift card usage in the van the other night on the way home from supper:
Nathaniel: "Nicholas. You have to use it within a year or it starts losing money. Then it won't be worth as much."
Nicholas: "Of COURSE that's not true. We can save it for more than a year and wait to spend it 'til we have more money to go with it."
Nathaniel: "I'm TELLING you, we CAN'T. It says it right here, IN BRITISH."
