Sweetness...

Our Baby Tert's (nearly age 2) vocabulary is all his own. He "talks" constantly, but most of it is still babble. Every now and then we'll decipher a phrase with his older brother's assistance. For the longest time he was saying, "Ora byab yab! Ora byab yab!" We finally realized that he was telling people that his dog, "Cora is a black lab." :)

He also mixes up the funniest religious phrases. For a while he was saying "amen." Then he decided that it was much more interesting to say "ready, aim, fire!"

After a 14 hour sick day with the kids, I indulged in a brief rest on the couch. I explained to Tert, "Mommy needs to go to sleep now." He came over to me so tenderly, placed a kiss on my cheek and said, "God byess you!"

As usual, Rus wins the prize for the most hilarious quotes...

Watching my step aerobic DVD he observed, "Mom, that exercise lady WANTS to be ugly."

"Breathing apparatus keeps firemen from getting asthma."


"Look!! I'm getting bigger than my yegs!"

"Mom, guess what? My little brother isn't a baby anymore. He's my buddy!"

"I'm standing on my flip toes."

"Cora, do you know what? I love you!"

"I don't need a wife, Mom - JUST YOU... You'll be my mom FOREVER."