J: “It is such a nice, fresh and crispy day today, isn’t it, mom?” (He inhales deeply…) “Ahhhh!!! The air just smells good!”

Look at that machine. It’s for cutting corn stockings.

Hey guys, look! It’s a reserv-water!

Joseph: I’ll just sit over here. You can bring me my food–like you and daddy are my waiters.

Noah, to me: And, how is this so different?

Mommy, you know some people live past 100?

Yes.

And then they go back around to be a child again! They are a very old child though.

Mom, you know how you can tell if you are going to throw up? You dimples pull in. Like this:

(He is sick, and that hardhat will double as a bucket in case those dimples should start to pull in on the way to grandma’s.)

Joseph went to church on Easter with grandma and grandpa. Half way through: I have to go to the bathroom. (Grandpa will take you.) They go. Out by the bathroom, Joseph says, I really don’t have to go, I just needed a break.

Upon losing UNO: “I should not have trash talked…”