ISMS

So over the years, Jeremy and I have always laughed about the silly things our kids say, we call them -isms, such as "Oh my gosh, I got a new Abbyism today."
Anyway, since I haven't written any of them down, I know I've lost a lot of them in my scrambled brain, but the more recent ones that I can remember, I will write here.
I am hoping this can be an ongoing post, if I can figure out blogging and if our children continue cracking me up, but we'll see...

Hannah: as I changed baby Drew's diaper, it became apparent that we haven't seen any little boys naked in our house because she said, "Look mom, he has a tail."

Annie: A few weeks ago, we were sitting down as a family to dinner. Annie and Hannah sit next to each other across the table from me and Jeremy. For some reason, Annie was mad at Hannah and stood up and was absolutely wailing on her. We scolded her and the sternly told her to SIT DOWN! She, without skipping a beat or a hit on Hannah, responded: I can't. I hitting Hannah. So how do you get mad at your kid when you are hysterically laughing. For weeks now, we've all been saying, "I can't I hitting Hannah".

Jake: During our family prayers, I will sometimes ask a blessing to be on our local church leaders, such as our bishop and stake pres. Well one night we were watching "Flicka" which is about mustangs. In the movie they refer to the mustangs as "loco horses". Jake asked me, "what does 'loco' mean?" I told him in Spanish it means crazy. He said, "so we pray for our crazy church leaders?"

Abby: This is an oldie, but a goodie. When Abby was only about 3 years old, I used to help her with her prayers. I'd whisper the prayer to her using the word "I" thinking Abby would repeat back to me the words exactly as I said them to her. So when I'd say, "help me to have good dreams", she should have said "help me to have good dreams" but instead she'd say "help my mommy to have good dreams"... get it? But my favorite was when Grandma and Grandpa Platt were staying at our house one weekend, and I helped Abby pray that night. I whispered, "thank you that Grandpa and Grandma could come over and play with me." so of course she said, "thank you that Grandma and Grandpa could come over and play with my mommy." So innocent, but very funny.

Karrie: Only because I have learned to laugh at myself, can I post this one. It was my dumbest moment of my life and I am so grateful that I have a husband that didn't kill me and is easy going. So on our way up to Bear Lake, Idaho this summer - I was driving - we were north of Flagstaff by about 40 minutes when I swore I saw a sign that said "Road construction: USE 160". about a mile later, we came to the 160 and all the cars in front of me were turning, so I followed suit, thinking it was a detour - hence the sign, USE 160. About a mile into our drive we hit some killer construction. We were stopped for about 20 minutes, and I kept thinking to myself, "this is the better alternative to staying on our straight road north to Paige?" But I was patient as we continued through a ton of construction through the rez and I think through Tuba City and all sorts of reservation towns. Kind of a two hour inconvenience, but I didn't think much more about it until our way home. I saw the same sign as when we were headed up, but this time I read it more clearly, it said "Road construction US 160" not USE 160.