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!”
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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!”
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: “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.”
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