I gave up on the staged monthly photos this year, but I couldn't give up on the funny quotes! Julia says something hilarious almost every day, so when I think of it, I try to write it down. I have them all in a running document on my computer. I always know where to find a good laugh when I need one!
January
Julia, as Barbie: “We have to get married!”
Gee Terri, as Ken: “But I don’t want to.”
Julia, as Barbie: “But the wedding cake is so delicious!”
To my dad, after not getting what she wanted.
Julia, crying: “You’re a BAD NUT!”
February
Kaitlin: “Julia, do you need to go potty?”
Julia: “No.”
Kaitlin: “Stop and think about how your body feels.”
Julia: “My body says, ‘No, Julia! You don’t go potty, Julia!
Don’t go potty!”
Julia: “Uck! This is yucky mulk.”
Kaitlin: “It’s almond milk. It’s better for you than cow milk. It
makes you stronger.”
Julia: “I don’t like it. I like to eat peanuts, not drink peanut
mulk!”
Julia [in bed]: “Daddy, what are you watching on tv?”
Aaron: “A show”
Julia: “What show?”
Aaron: “Sherlock”
Julia: “Why are you and Mommy watching a show and I’m in bed? That’s not a good deal!”
Gee Terri: “My granddaughter is a very nice girl.”
Julia: “Which one??”
Gee Terri: “My granddaughter, Julia, is a very nice girl, and my
granddaughter, Mary-Claire, is a very nice toddler.”
(Right after we came over to watch the Superbowl on a
weekend that was not a deacon weekend)
Julia: “Papa, how was your deacon weekend?”
While playing dollhouse, the Julia doll told the Mary-Claire
doll:
Julia: “You’re going for a nap, Squishy!”
Julia: “I’m not a girl! I’m a boy! I’m Jack!”
[Julia was on a kick early in the year of pretending to be a boy named Jack. She also enjoyed pretending this blow-up Minion toy was her brother, Joey, and that her doll in the red dress was her sister, Sally.]
[Julia was on a kick early in the year of pretending to be a boy named Jack. She also enjoyed pretending this blow-up Minion toy was her brother, Joey, and that her doll in the red dress was her sister, Sally.]
Julia to Gee Terri: “God took a rib out of Adam while he slept to
make Eve. Is he going to take a rib out of me?"
Gee Terri: “Did you see Fr. Joe at mass?”
Julia: “Yes, and I gave him a squishy hug. He called me princess
and I don’t like to be called princess!”
March
Julia was praying with us in the car on the way to church.
She prayed for Mary-Claire by saying, “And for Mary-Claire, my squishy, squishy
chocolate cocoa baby!” I turned to Aaron and said, “I’m not sure that chocolate
cocoa is exactly the way I’d describe her.”
Julia and my mom read Cinderella, and then Julia was having
them role play it several times. The last time, Julia changed the ending –
saying she wasn’t going to marry the prince, and that she was going to go back
home to her mom.
Gee: “But what about the mean ugly stepsisters?”
Julia: “They need
her!”
My mom fell and Julia rushed over her to comfort her. My mom
says she was sweet, but after my mom had been crying for a little bit, Julia
told her that she needed to “cope.”
Julia, to Papa: “You should kill your fat belly and
have a skinny one like mine.”
Julia: “This is Phoebe. She’s my friend from high school.”
On the way to church.
Julia: “I really, really don’t want to go to church. I want to
go to McDonald’s instead and have burgers and fries.”
Kaitlin: “But we need to go to church! We need to go see Fr. Joe
and Jesus. Jesus is our best friend and we need to go spend time with Him!”
Julia: “Jesus is NOT my friend. Let’s go see Fr. Joe at
McDonald’s instead.”
While walking to the playground nearby
Julia: “Don’t step on the crack, Mommy!”
Kaitlin: “What will happen if I do?”
Kaitlin: “What will happen if I do?”
Julia: “You’ll get pebbles on your shoe! And you’ll get sick!”
Kaitlin: “What sickness will I get?”
Julia: “Chicken pox!”
After getting undressed for the shower and seeing goosebumps
on her skin…
Julia: “I’m cold! Look, I have chicken pox!”
When we went to the bathroom at the library, a lady was
drying her hands with one of the high power air hand driers. Julia put her
hands over her ears and started screaming.
My mom, catching Julia chewing something while in the
playroom: “Julia, what are you eating?”
Julia: “My boogies.”
Gee Terri: “Eww. That’s yucky. You shouldn’t do that!”
Julia: “But they’re salty! And minty!”
My mom and Julia were playing with the Barbie plane. Julia
was the pilot, and my mom was playing the role of the girl who was going to be
a passenger on the flight.
Gee Terri: “Julia, the girl is scared to come on the flight.
Why don’t you reassure her that she shouldn’t be scared to fly?”
Julia, as the pilot: “You should be scared to fly. You can’t get on the plane.”
My mom: “Julia, what do you want for dinner.”
Julia: “Cookies!”
My mom: “You can’t just eat cookies for dinner!”
Julia: “My mom gave me
candy for lunch and it was SO GOOD.”
Later, my mom relayed the conversation to me….
Me: “I didn’t give her candy for lunch!”
My mom: “Not even a piece for dessert?”
Me: “No. No candy at all!”
My mom: “Julia, did you tell me your mom gave you candy to
try to convince me to give you cookies.”
Julia: “Yeah…”
Julia, the time she was trying to teach me how to be a total creep at playgrounds…
Julia: “Remember when we went to robot park?”
Kaitlin: “Robot park?”
Kaitlin: “Robot park?”
Julia: “Yeah, and I played with the girls?”
Kaitlin: “Oh, Lafortune Park?”
Julia: “Yeah! Robot Park.”
Kaitlin: “It’s Lafortune park.”
Julia: “When I go back to that park, I’m going to give those
girls a big hug and kiss, and you will, too.”
Kaitlin, laughing: “You can hug them, but I don’t think I will!”
Julia, seeming distressed: “But you need to! They’re my best
friends!”
Kaitlin: “Well, I don’t know them that well, so I don’t think I’ll
hug and kiss them! But you can give them a hug!”
Julia: “I’ll teach you how, Mommy. First, you put your hands on
them and give them a big, squeeze hug. Then, you put your lips on them and kiss
them softly.”
Aaron was lying on the floor playing with Julia. I bent over
to give him a few kisses. Julia rushed over, saying, “No! I’ll kiss Daddy!” and
violently tried to wipe off my kisses. Of course, not to be outdone by a
three-year-old, I kissed him again, only for Julia to repeat her wiping and
kissing. It quickly turned into a hilarious game.
Upon receiving a pope Francis Holy card
Julia: “The prayer on the back says, ‘God, help me to complete
this great, big adventure.'”
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