Babe Phrase of the Moment

After completing a watercolour work, the Eldest Babe brings it to me.

Mama:  Wow.  Beautiful and abstract.  What is it?
The Eldest Babe:  Well actually it is ..... a Masterpiece.

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Babe Phrase of the Moment

Mama:  There is a boogie in your nose.  May I get it.

The Biggest Little / Littlest Big Babe:  Maybe it wants to live there.

Babe Phrase of the Moment

The Mama:  "You are a smart cookie"

The Eldest Babe:  "But I won't be eaten."

Babe Phrase of the Moment

"Mama, that cup is for a giant.  He was drinking coffee outside our house."

Spoken by Eldest Babe to describe the KFC bucket that someone had failed to discard.  Oh my little vegan!

BABE PHRASE OF THE MOMENT

"My favourite activity is napping."

-Eldest Babe

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"Mama, are you taking me to Halloween?  Do we have to walk there?"  

The Biggest Little Babe says as she believes it is a place, like Oz perhaps.

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While having a pretend conversation about ballet on tempeh cell phones the Papa asks if Mama could be a ballerina.

The Eldest Babe responds:

"Mama can be anything she wants to be."

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"Mama, some foolish people keep calling me on the phone.  They keep asking me if I have a dragon and I say 'No! I only bought a lion!"

- Eldest Babe's telemarketing woes

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After kicking the soccer ball once at practice:

"Well I guess I don't like soccer."

The Papa then prompted her to tell what she did like:

"Dancing.  Eating.  And Being Still."

Babe Phrase of the Moment

In the middle of The Papa's Graduation while one of the professors was going on and on and on and on, there was a silence in the auditorium and the Littlest Babe yelled this:

"Mommy I'm going to the car now." 

Babe Phrase of the Moment

"Fun is twirly slides, big trees, soft pillows and farts."

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Babe Phrase(s) of the Moment

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Eldest Babe Song:

"I take off my hands because they don't work"

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While walking with Asha (a cat), The Eldest Babe asks if Asha could introduce her to Cognac (another cat friend)

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Mama:  The Littlest Babe put juice in her spaghetti

Eldest Babe:  Uh...Why?

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Eldest Babe:

Don't be a Drag just be a Queen

We stayed at the cottage for a week this summer and I had an ongoing list entitled "Cute Things as of Recent", that I found in a pile the other day.  So I present to you these funny phrases.

Babe Phrase of the Moment

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The Littlest Babe awakes to a racket in the kitchen to find Eldest Babe.

Eldest Babe:

"Did I wake you?

Littlest Babe:

"Yes"

Eldest Babe:

"I'm sorry.  I'm collecting ice."

Littlest Babe looks and points (I'm guessing because we were asleep in bed listening) at the painted cupboards.

Eldest Babe:

"The cupboards?  Our parents painted them because they wanted to make them purple."

Babe Phrase of the Moment

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"That is glorious!  Glorious means beautiful"

spoken by the Eldest Babe when describing a suncatcher blowing in the wing

500th POST & BABE PHRASE OF THE MOMENT!!!!!

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"Hey Jude, don't make it bad.

Take a sad song and make it better.

Remember to let her into your heart.

Then you can start to make it better."

- Eldest Babe singing lullabies to get us to sleep

500th post!!! YEAH!!!
I just looked at my blog and realized that this is my 500th post.  For me this is an accomplishment, for it means that i found time within my busy day to write to, about and for my loves.  This blog is an expression of my devotion to my Babes & the Papa.  It has also served as a springboard for the sorting out of the internal chaos that accompanies motherhood.  Although my Babes come first always (I do blog only when they are completely taken care of or otherwise asleep), this blog has been a little personal project that has become a part of who i am.  


To the blogging community, thank you for allowing me to share my little piece of the world with you all.  I have acquired a view blog friends and with that I am grateful.  Mostly I am grateful to those of you who have supported this little blog since the birth of the Eldest Babe.  I hope to continue evolving the blog with the ever-happening evolution of the mess and growth of the Babes.  


I am looking forward to being more consistent with features already established and with sharing more of our crafty selves.  All in all, I look forward to sharing more of the mess.


So here is to 500 more posts, more blog friends, and love, life & laughter.


xoxox  


The Mama

BABE PHRASE OF THE MOMENT

Eldest Babe looks at me, sun gleeming in her eyes:

"Mom, you know what I love."

The Mama's question:

"What dear?"

Eldest Babe's reveal:

"You"

Uh...I think that perfection will last eternally.

BABE PHRASE OF THE MOMENT

Littlest Babe says:

"AMAZING!"

Her admiring a pair of wool felted slippers I made her

Littlest Babe also says:

"Pumpkin pie, yes please!"

Her response to me telling her that I will turn her into a pumpkin pie and nibble her.

Gotta love a little snackbox (our nickname for the Littlest babe because the Papa loves food and he is nicknamed Lunchbox)

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"Let's give this back to the Earth"

The Eldest babe explaining that she wants to return the bark that she found back to the Earth because we are done with it

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"Um...my rubber boots protect me from mud and you know....chemicals...stuff like that."

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Eldest Babe:

"You go on the top and I go on the bottom"

Littlest Babe:

"Why?"

Eldest Babe:

"Because that's the way some children are."

The eldest babe trying to explain to the littlest babe why she must go at the bottom of the cupboard they were hiding in.