2014 Second Quarter Quotes

Enjoy a laugh or two courtesy of Julia!

April

Kaitlin: “Why is today special?”

Julia: “Because Jesus rose from the dead!”

K: “That’s right!”

J: “I LOVE Easter! But sometimes, I don’t love Easter, I love Christmas. And sometimes I lie in the grass in the moonlight.”

Julia, referring to a strange toy from a kids’ meal: “That toy is awkward, but not TOO awkward.”

Kaitlin, referring to the photo of Julia with said toy: “This photo is awkward”

Julia: “This photo is not awkward! It’s cute!”

I will let you all be the judge as to whether I'm right or Julia is.

Referring to Julia’s new clothes:

Aaron: “It’s so nice to have matching pants again. It really brings out an outfit.”

Julia (wearing plastic trash bag like a cape): “I’m a super hero!”

Aaron: “What’s your super power?”

J: “flying” (proceeds to jump up and down)

A: “that’s an awesome power.  I wish I could fly.”

J: “Here, Daddy, take my cape”

A (taking it and jumping barely off the ground): “I can’t fly, even with the cape.  I guess the real power must come from within you, Julia”

J: “Oh, here.  I’ll poop my power out and put it inside you.”

Kaitlin: “Do you know how much I love you?”

Julia: “A lot! Do you know how much I love you?”

K: “A lot!”

J: “No, a little. I just love you a little.”

K: “That’s not a very nice thing to say.”

J: “It’s okay, baby Mommy. I just love you a little, but Daddy loves you a lot.”

 

May

Julia: “I miss Daddy! Do you miss Daddy, Mommy!”

Kaitlin: “Yes, I miss him, too.”

J: “Where’s Daddy?”

K: “He’s at work. We miss him, but he’s working hard, making sick people feel better.”

J: “And he’s taking bacon to the house, right?”

Julia: “What’s your favorite thing that Daddy bringed you?”

Kaitlin: “You.”

J: “No! That Daddy bought you at the store!”

K: “You!”

J: “No! You didn’t buy me at the store!”

K: “I didn’t? Then where did you come from?”

J: “The mean fairy godmother put magic on you. Then you reached inside your belly and found me!”

Kaitlin: “I missed you today while I was at work, Julia.”

Julia: “I missed Daddy while he was at work.”

K: “What about me, Julia? Did you miss me?”

J: “No. Just daddy.”

K: “Did you miss me a little bit?”

J: “No. Just Daddy.”

Kaitlin: “How did your pinky get cut?”
Julia: “There was a finger cut salon. And I went there, and a lady said, ‘Do you want me to cut your finger?’ and I said, ‘No!’ but she did it anyway. She cut my pinky!”

Aaron: “How did you feel about that?”

J: “Not good. I thought she was a monster! A stinker! A stinker with blueberries up her nose!”

Sarah: “We need to pray for Harvard.”

Julia: “No!”

S: “Why not?”

J: “I don’t pray for boys!”

S: “You pray for your daddy.”

J: “But I don’t pray for little boys!”

Julia, lying face down in bed, dramatically, after asking my mom for a drink of water: “Please God, please God, I need water. If you need something, ask God.”

My dad: “Of course, in the middle of mass, Julia whispered, ‘I need to go potty.’”

Kaitlin: “Oh no. Did she actually need to go?”

My dad: “Oh yeah. She came out of the bathroom and said, ‘I only made one poopy and it looked like a cotton ball!’”

Julia: “No! I said it looked like a hamburger!”

About some guy who’d talked to her in Jason’s Deli…

Julia: “That man has a weird voice.”

My mom: “I’m sorry.”

Man: “That’s okay.”

At Elizabeth’s graduation, when someone else started speaking, Julia put her hands over her ears and said..

J: “I don’t like his voice either!”

Julia, when she saw Mary-Claire coming: “Here comes the squishy legs!”

Julia, while playing dolls:

“Julia, what would you like to eat?”

“Rotten eggs, please!”

“That’s a good thing to eat!”

“I love it! Oooh, yummy!”

 

June

 

Julia: “Oh! Look! It’s the cathedral! That’s where Mary-Claire was born!!”

Kaitlin, after we all went to the senior reception for Aaron’s residency program: “Thanks for being so good tonight, Julia.”

Julia: “You’re welcome. I always am!”

Kaitlin, while in the car, after wearing sandals with heels: “My feet hurt.”
Julia: “I’ll fix them when we get home.”

Julia, playing with Aaron: “Now son, you can’t play in the playroom because I’m the cruel stepmother.”

Aaron: “Can you at least read me a bedtime story?”

J: “Okay, but it will have to be a short one.”

A: “Okay.”

J: “Once upon a time there was a family and they didn’t talk. The end.”

Gee Terri: “I have to go to the hair dresser to get my hair done.”

Julia: “I want to go with you!”

Gee: “No, you’ll stay here with Sarah. It will take too long because I have to get color put in my hair.”

Julia: “What about pink?! You like pink!”

After trying to interpret Mary-Claire….

MC: “acsdfl asldkfjalsdkfj uppet.”

Julia: “No, Mary-Claire, we don’t have a puppet.”

MC: “asldkjf alsdkjf sldkfj uppet.”

Julia: “No, Mary-Claire, I said we don’t have a puppet!

Julia, exasperated: “Sarah, do you speak babytalk?”

Stephen and Julia passed by a couple out on a walk. The man was white, the lady was Asian. Julia was pushing her toy dog in a stroller.

Stephen: “Hi!”

Couple: “Hi!”

Lady: “Oh, are you pushing your puppy in your stroller?”

Julia solemnly nodded. As soon as they had passed by (but were still likely within earshot).

Julia: “I couldn’t understand what that lady was saying! Was she speaking Spanish?”

Julia was with Jessica, and they were facetiming with a friend of Jessica’s

Julia: “I need to tell you three things. Number one: I have a leap pad. Number two: I have the instruction book to my leap pad. Number three: I have a newspaper.”