Temple Times: November 2012

Wednesday, November 21, 2012

Holiday Ideas

Kiddie Crafts

Santa Belt Napkin Ring

http://crafts.kaboose.com/santa-napkin-rings.html

Cardboard tube

1 sheet each of red, white, and black felt

Gold chenille stem

Scissors

White craft glue

Paper Bag Reindeer

http://crafts.kaboose.com/paper-bag-reindeer.html

Brown paper lunch bag

Medium black pom-pom

Glue/scissors

Construction paper:

4 jungle bells

Red plastic milk jug lid, Glue stick, Gold paint pen

Pattern

Decorations

Photo Wreath

http://www.marthastewart.com/273148/pinup-wreath

Using wood glue, affix miniature wooden clothespins to a large (about 14”diameter) embroidery hoop. Alternate clothespins to point outward and inward, spaced 1.5 inches apart. Suspend from a ribbon, and clip your cards in place as you receive them.

Gilded Magazine Trees

http://www.marthastewart.com/269354/magazine-christmas-trees

Watch the video tutorial. It’s very simple but time consuming. But worth it as the end result is modern and lovely.

Homemade Gifts

Chocolate Dipped Spoons

http://alphamom.com/family-fun/hot-chocolate-spoons-for-your-dipping-pleasure/

Basically, melt chocolate, dip spoons, decorate, and let cool on wax paper. Package in cellophane and attach to a festive mug with your favorite instant cocoa mix for a fun gift.

Hot Chocolate on a Stick

http://www.giverslog.com/?p=3290

This is a much richer, fancier version of the dipped spoon and does not require anything other than a cup of hot milk. There are detailed instructions and several variations.

Decorative Decal Pillar Candles

http://www.marthastewart.com/how-to/decorative-decal-pillar-candles#slide_0

There are 10 free printables for the decals with matching clip art designs for the matchbox covers. Directions are fairly simple and the results are gorgeous. What a fun gift idea.

HANUKKAH CRAFTS

Paper Dreidel Game

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/crafts/hanukkah/dreidel/

Print the template on cardstock. Cut and glue it to form a box. Use a pencil or wooden dowel for the spinner. Follow the game instructions and have fun with the kids.

Hanukkah Activity Book

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/books/holiday/hannukah/dreidel/

Simply print out the pages and let your kids enjoy learning more about Hanukkah while having fun. Includes connect the dots, maze, coloring, matching.

Hanukkah Wreath

http://www.dltk-kids.com/world/jewish/mwreath.htm

Wire coat hanger

14 to 16 tp rolls

Winter color paint white paper (or craft foam, gift wrap or tinfoil)

Tape, glue, scissors

Easy Fold and Cut Star of David

Hanukkah Window Stars

http://www.marthastewart.com/276202/hanukkah-window-stars

Vellum, in gold or blue,

Micro-hole punch (for small star)

Needle and thread

Screw punch (for large star)

Large and Small Triangle Templates

Candlelit Branch and Ribbon Star of David

http://www.marthastewart.com/how-to/candlelit-branch-and-ribbon-star-of-david#slide_0

Celebrate the Festival of Lights with this manzanita-branch menorah, sprayed shimmering silver and trimmed with candles. Ribbon Star of David

Star-Punched Paper Hurricanes

http://www.marthastewart.com/272112/star-punched-paper-hurricanes

Template
Decorative paper
Hurricane vase
Large sponge
Awl, T pin, or thumbtack
Japanese hole punch
Double-sided tape

EDIBLE CRAFTS

Gumdrop Pops

http://www.marthastewart.com/273470/gumdrop-pops?backto=true

Wrap the candy pops in cellophane bags, and then attach them to gifts or slip them into stockings. Or create a holiday display: Partially fill a large glass jar with sanding sugar, and stand the figurines on flower frogs in the sparkling "snow."

Candy Trees

http://crafts.kaboose.com/candy-tree.html

Use chocolate candy for the base. Wrap green chenille around a pencil or your finger. Attach to the base. Make a paper star for the top. Cute place setting decorations.

Easy Holiday Treats from Oriental

Trading Co.

http://www.freefunchristmas.com/christmas-recipes/

Check out these adorable treats your kids will love to make and eat.

Healthier Holiday Treats

Elf or Reindeer Sanwiches, Apple Ornament Snacks, and more fun, easy-to-make food for your little ones.

http://littlenummies.net/category/christmas/

Kiwi Christmas tree with tomato star and skewer trunk.

http://ediblecrafts.craftgossip.com/kiwi-tree/2009/12/13/

Snap pea Christmas tree with cheese star and pretzel trunk.

http://blog.superhealthykids.com

/2008/12/food-art-kids/

Edible Menorah

http://kidscraftzone.com/post/Edible-Menorah.aspx

Paper Plate
Plastic Knife
Foods from your Refrigerator

Candles Sticks: Pretzels, Marshmallows stacked, carrots, cold cuts rolled, noodles, pickle slices
Flames: Raisins, Orange Pieces, Sprinkles, Strawberries, Licorice, Grapes, Pepperoni
Menorah: Bananas but in half length wise, Bread, Matza, Pizza Crust,
Edible Glue: Peanut Butter, Cream Cheese Ketchup, Mustard, Icing, Honey, Yogurt

Chocolate Marshmallow Dreidel

http://www.marthastewart.com/318045/edible-chocolate-marshmallow-dreidels?backto=true&backtourl=/photogallery/favorite-hanukkah-recipes#slide_7

12 chocolate kisses

8 oz. melted semisweet chocolate

12 marshmallows

12 thin pretzel sticks

2 oz. melted white chocolate

Dip bottom of kiss in melted semisweet chocolate. Press onto marshmallow; transfer to a Refrigerate for 10 minutes on parchment-lined baking sheet. Insert 1 thin pretzel stick. Dip dreidels in chocolate,. Refrigerate until set, about 15 minutes.

Fill a resealable plastic bag with melted white chocolate; snip corner, and pipe Hebrew letters onto 3 sides of each dreidel. Refrigerate at least 5 minutes or up to 8 hours before serving.

Quote of the Day

March 3, 2013

Iz: Isn't this book interesting, Jarom? (after 2 pages)

Jarom: Yeah. Well, not as interesting as it will be in the middle of the book.

Me: That's very astute of you , Jarom.

continued conversation and eating of dinner till five minutes later Keahi pops up his head from his book and says, "Hey, did you call Jarom astute? Doesn't that mean shrewd, clever, keen? That was one of my vocabulary words last year."

Yup. Pretty sure they never taught me astute when I was 7. Or that I'd have remembered it a year after the test.

August 3, 2012

Tammy and Maile were having a discussion about girl and boy private parts--think Kindergarten Cop. But when Tam asked her what her brother, Kona, had, Maile cheerfully answered, "Peanuts!" We all busted out laughing and she didn't understand why.

May 23, 2012

Jarom: Keahi. Tell me about the girls you like.
Keahi: What?
Jarom: Tell me about the girls you like.
(I'm silently leaning in from the other room, anxious to see if my oldest son is actually into girls or not. And why is Jarom asking about it.)
Keahi: Mie.
Jarom: Correct. Who else?
Keahi: Mommy.
Jarom. Yup. Who else?
Keahi: The family.
Jarom: The whole family isn't girls.
Keahi: I know. I meant the girls in the family.

And then the conversation quickly turned to animals on a farm since tonight is Jarom's Farm Show performance at school. Good to know he doesn't have any girlfriends yet.

May 21, 2012

Jarom: Mommy, did you see my windsock fly? It was like a mini Hindenburg!
Mom: What do you know about the Hindenburg?
Jarom: Don't you know? The blur mixed with the blur and made it explode! It only took 15 seconds.
Mom: What blur are you talking about?
Jarom: Don't you know about the Hindenburg? The blur mixed with the blur and it caught on fire.
Mom: Ummm, ok.

Later I found out from Keahi and Iz that this came from an episode of Mythbusters that they watched together. I guess they were looking at a picture of it and it was really blurry so Adam was making a joke about it. I love that Jarom loves this show. But he's not necessarily retaining the important or even factual parts. The blur. Ha!

May 20,2012

Jarom: Do you know what I have?
Mom: Ummm, a good family.
Jarom: Besides that.
Mom: A nice home? A mohawk? Lots of blessings?
Jarom: What else?
Mom: I don't know.
Jarom: Laugh vision.
Mom: Err...what's that.
Jarom: It's when you look at Mie and it makes her laugh. I've got laugh vision. Do you?

November 9, 2011

"Keahi is more white man than me."

Jarom's comment when describing Keahi's hair vs. his hair. Then he kept telling Iz and me to stop laughing.

August 29, 1011

"Mommy, I just yawned after waking up, but it's not because I'm tired. It's just the interjection I use."

I love that he used the word interjection, even if he applied it to a yawn.

July 29, 2010

"Look, mommy! My penis fits through my underwear! Did my penis get older?"

Jarom: Yup, here's another way I can embarrass him in front of his friends when he gets older.

July 19, 2010

Keahi: "Hey, I got 1,583 points on this game. Is that a lot of points?"

Me: "Yes, that's a lot of points."

Keahi: "Indeed, it is."

Indeed, it is? I love his little speech mannerisms.

March 2010

Me: The golden rule means you treat people the way you want to be treated.......(extended lecture on behavior)

Jarom: Soooo, if Audrey hits me and fights me then I HAVE to fight her because that's what she wants.

Good logic. Bad conclusion.

December 21, 2009

Me: On this day eight years ago daddy and I got married.

Keahi: Eight years ago?! I wasn't even born yet. I was -3 years old.

I love that he gets the concept of negative and positive numbers. He told me that his 5th gr. buddy (each kindergartner has an assigned buddy) didn't believe that he knew math so he asked him things like 2x4, 2x5, and 10x10 and was impressed that he knew all of them. I love that he loves math.

December 20, 2009

"I'm going so fast....I lapped him!"

Keahi: while eating their sandwiches in the car on the way back from church, Keahi started on his 3rd triangle while Jarom was still working on his first. You can tell he likes Mario Kart when he uses racing terms.

November 23, 2009

daddy: "Aw, crap, crap, crap."

Jarom: "Crap, crap, crap."

Keahi: "Jarom, you don't say crap, crap, crap. Only daddy says crap, crap, crap."

November 23, 2009

Keahi: "Tell me I'm good at MarioKart."

Jarom: "You're good at MarioKart."

Keahi: "Thank you."

Jarom: "You're welcome."

I had just complimented Jarom for giving Keahi a WarmFuzzy since he just told Keahi he was good at exercising. Then I guess Keahi felt he needed more WarmFuzzies and Jarom obliged him. Is it still a compliment if it's asked for?

Oct 29, 2009

daddy: "Jarom, did you put your fingers in your butt?"

Jarom: "Nooooo. I put my fingers in my bum-bum."

an elevating conversation between father and son while Jarom attempted to poop in the potty. and another example of how Jarom always corrects us on random specifics though "bum-bum" was a first. usually it's "it's not cereal----it's cinnamon puffin cereal" of something similar.

September 8, 2009

"Why is Popeye smoking? I thought he was supposed to be healthy."

Keahi: He noticed Popeye's pipe on my shirt and had to point out the contradiction of the spinach and pipe smoke.

August 23, 2009

Keahi: "Why are those people smoking? It's not healthy."

Me: "I don't know. What do you think?"

Keahi: "Ummmmm...maybe they want to look cool with smoke coming out of their mouths."

Me: "Maybe you're right."

Keahi: "Maybe they can have a fire inside their mouths and blow smoke rings or shapes and stuff."

Very astute for a 5 year old. And then he gets all excited about the smoke rings just like any other kid.

August 16, 2009

Keahi: "Mommy, can we please play the racing game? But first can you do your exercises so you can get stronger and faster? You need to get faster because I can outrun you."

Keahi loves playing mario kart on our new wii and he also loves to do the wii fit exercises with me. I think he figured if he asked to do the "healthy part" first he'd have a better shot at the racing game. And I love that he truly believes he runs faster than me. I guess I'm a good actress.

August 15, 2009

mom: "Look at that sign--hot dogs/draft beer 25 cents."

Keahi: "Hot is good. Dogs is good. Draft is good. But beer is bad. Why did you say that?"

Sometimes when we're all in the van I forget that Keahi is listening to everything Iz and I talk about.

June 8, 2009

Keahi: "I'm tired of walking. Can I go on the buggyboard now?"

me: "Keahi, you've been riding the whole way and I've been walking. Do you know how far I've walked today?"

Keahi: "About 5.3 miles."

A conversation on our way back from picking up Jarom from Joy school. I suppose I have told several people about how far I walk every Thursday while Keahi was around. He said it like yah-I-know-I've-heard-YOU-complaining-so-don't-tell-me-to-quit-whinning.

May 23, 2009

Me: "Keahi, do you know what spectacular means?"

Keahi: "Yes. It means super stupendous."

While reading a book together I thought I'd check to see if he understood a word he just read. Obviously, he had.

May 13, 2009

Keahi: "Mommy, I think all of these plants are poisonous."

Me: "Really, how do you know?"

Keahi: "Because they tasted poisonous."

Oh dear. Maybe the Botanical Gardens wasn't the best place for my kid who loves to eat the basil and mint from the herb garden. Luckily, no harm done.

April 5, 2009

"No winning for Jesus."........"Jesus is winning."

Keahi: during G.C. I made a chart with different words and a grid for him to color in a square each time it's said. We all chose the word we thought would be said most frequently. For a while, his selective hearing made it so his word was in the lead and when I pointed out a couple Of Jesuses he missed and told him to fill in the squares he angrily declared that Jesus was not going to win. But later after talking about being honest and not cheating he dutifully scored the chart and delightedly declared that Jesus is winning. If he learned nothing else from G.C. he learned that Jesus is winning.

April 3, 2009

"I don't like this broccoli. It tastes weird."

Keahi: it was frozen broccoli. Such a discerning palate. He dislikes all frozen vegetables except for peas--just like me. Reminds me of another fav quote: "There's something amok with this cheesecake." 50 points if you know where it's from. And a raised eyebrow if you're a guy.

March 30, 2009

overheard conversation:

Keahi: "Ouch, Jarom. Say you're sorry."

Jarom: "Sorry."

Keahi: "It's okay."

------break in talking until Jarom starts crying----

Keahi: "Sorry, Jarom. Say, 'It's okay.'"

Jarom cries some more.

Keahi: "I'm sorry, Jarom. Say, 'It's okay.'"

Jarom: "It's okay."

I guess a guilty conscience is pretty easy to salve.

March 18, 2009

Daddy: "Jarom, can I sleep on you?"

Jarom: "Ummmmmm....Yes."

Jarom: "Daddy? Say 'Can I sleep on you' again."

Daddy: "Can I sleep on you?"

Jarom: "Ummmmmm....No."

After prayer and tucking the kids in, Iz half lay on top of Jarom like he sometimes does during the song or just to snuggle before kissing him good night. Perhaps he started putting too much weight on Jarom or maybe he just realized that maybe daddy was serious and was going to stay there all night, but I love that he rescinded his permission.

March 18, 2009

Keahi: "Mommy, your breath smells like garbage. Here, smell mine."

Mommy: "Your breath smells fine. Why does mine smell bad? I just had orange juice and you just ate salami."

I'm hoping my breath smelled bad because I was crouched down to his level right beside the overfull garbage can and not because I actually smelled of rotting refuse. Keahi does have a keen nose. And, amazingly, he never has bad breath. No matter what.

March 17, 2009

Keahi: "How do you write 9,000?" (in Roman numerals)

his knowledgeable parents: "Ummmm...no idea."

Keahi: "Maybe 900 X's."

Well, that's true but wow that's a long way to write it. I had just introduced the concept of Roman numerals to him and he picked it all up quickly and can decipher IX versus XI. But then he started throwing out large numbers and we realized that we have no idea how to do any of them. Is IXM 9,000 or is it 8, 991? Do you know?

March 15, 2009

Jarom: "I need Desitin. I'm stinky."

Keahi: "Desitin doesn't help you smell nice."

And it turns out Jarom wasn't even poopy.

March 10, 2009

"Did you know the doctor hurt me?"

Jarom: Keahi's new thing is asking do-you-know questions to test our knowledge--which is sometimes lacking--and Jarom has picked up this habit. When we got back from the doctor's office, he felt the need to tell daddy about the bad doctor who gave him a shot.

March 6, 2009

Jarom: I'm super fast.

Keahi: I'm faster than that.

Mom: What's faster than super fast?

Keahi: Ummmm...extremely fast.

Feburary 7, 2009

Iz: Keahi, do you want to look like daddy when you grow up?

Keahi: (long pause) No.

Iz: Do you think daddy is handsome?

Keahi: Nnn...Yes! (with vigorous nodding)

What a silly boy. He totally knows exactly what he's doing, the little punk.

January 9, 2009

Keahi: "Mommy, are you listening to me?"

Mommy: "Mmmhmmm." (busily typing)

Keahi: "What did I say?"

Darn. He picked up on that one, huh. I then acknowledged that I wasn't really listening but that I'd give him my full attention in a couple of minutes.

January 5, 2009

Mommy: "Who's this?" (showing him a video clip of him crying at the aquarium in Chicago)

Jarom: "That's Jarom."

Mommy: "Why is he crying?"

Jarom: "He's crying because....he wants craisons."

I wasn't there for that aquarium trip so I don't know if this is accurate but it probably was since he's used to always having soy nuts and craisons on any given outing and would have been outraged if it was missing. I love that he called himself "he" and that he still remembered something like that from 2 weeks ago.

January 5, 2009

"Daddy is so strong. He's like a muscle man or something."

Keahi: after seeing a picture of Iz carrying the stroller down some stairs. I love that he used the description "muscle man" and that he's picked up our turn of phrase "or something."

December 26, 2008

"Hmmm....I can't decide what I want to eat."

Keahi: acting just like us as he carefully perused the menu--much of which was in Spanish, adding to his confusion.

December 26, 2008

Keahi: "What are valves?" (after reading a factoid blurb on the wall about pig hearts at the museum)

Iz: "They control the flow of blood in the heart."

Keahi: "But what are valves?"

Iz: "I just told you. They control the flow of blood in the heart."

Keahi: "No, what ARE they, not what do they do."

Iz: "Oh. They're flaps of skin."

Keahi: "Okay."

Sometime you really have to pay attention to exactly what Keahi is asking for. He's very precise. It was like he was telling Iz he already knew what they were for but wanted to get a mental image of it to file away in his brain.

November 14, 2008

Mommy: "Do you know how old you are, Jarom?"

Jarom: "I'm older."

Mommy: "Yes, but you're 2 years old. Can you say that?"

Jarom: "I'm.... (mumble, mumble..)"

Daddy: "Say I'm 2 years old."

Jarom: "I'm.......one thousand!"

November 4, 2008

"Hey, don't do that to MY mommy!"

Keahi: his defense of me when one of his friends kept banging his head against me.

October 26, 2008

"But she hardly even knows him!"

Michael: a 10 year old boy's outraged response to Mahana and Johnny Lingo getting into a canoe for their honeymoon. I love that he sees it from her prespective.

October 19, 2008

"It does not taste bad."

Keahi: after picking his nose and eating it, we told him how gross that was and sarcastically asked how his feast tasted. Apparently, not bad.

October 18, 2008

"My tummy feels like the stomach walls are crashing together and something large is trying to get through."

Keahi: his elaboration on my asking how he felt when he said his belly hurt. Love the detail.

October 15, 2008

"Can you imagine a black hole that big, mommy?"

Keahi: while reading to me from one of his science books about the monster black hole in the middle of the galaxy called Sagitarius A, he paused to interject this question to me. Just as if he were the parent and me the child.

October 12, 2008

"Flowers can be for boys, too, if they're giving them to their moms."

Keahi: he and Iz were having a discussion about which girly things to remove from his girly purple bike I just got for him. At first he'd wanted all the stickers with bees and flowers off, but then decided the one on the chain disc could stay since it also had stripes which are for boys. When Iz pointed out that it still had flowers on it Keahi--ever the quick thinker--justified his choice.

October 3, 2008

Keahi: Mommy, my throat is a little sore.

Mom: Oh, well it's not good to have ice cream when your throat is sore.

Keahi: Ummmm, it's feeling a bit better now.

October 3, 2008

Mom: Look at the pretty hat mosaics on the subway wall.

Keahi: Yes, that's because we're in ManHATtan.

Ever the punner.

October 2, 2008

"May I have a tiny little bit please?"

Jarom: after throwing his soup on the ground he lost dessert privileges but after this sweet plea he got a tiny little bit of a bite.

October 2, 2008

mom: Jarom's what's wrong?

Jarom: Keahi took away my tigger shooooooees!

I keep thinking that Jarom is so behind where Keahi was at this age but then he surprises me and gets all articulate.

September 28, 2008

Me: "I had 2 people tell me I looked really nice today. I think it's the new boots." (my attempt to justify my $30 splurge on knee high leather boots)

Iz: "Oh.....you look nice today, honey. I guess I really shouldn't be the third person though huh."

I wasn't fishing for a compliment or anything. But it was pretty funny that he was third in line noticing me.

September 23, 2008

"This is a picture of Sassa (sah-suh) the shark and that's the bow on her head because bows make girls look pretty."

Keahi: explaining one of his drawings to me. I can see how his interaction with girls has changed recently. Now pink is a girly color and blue is for boys. But he still maintains his love of pink and says that people can like all different colors.

September 18, 2008

Mommy: "What's that a picture of?"

Keahi: "It's the big bang. And then it goes all the way back to the big crunch. It sucks the universe in to the big crunch."

He really loves those astronomy books.

September 18, 2008

Mommy: "He's in a meeting."

Keahi: "What's a meeting?"

Mommy: "When a group of people meet together to discuss something important."

Keahi: "We are a group of people and we're together and eating dinner is important so we are having a meeting."

September 18, 2008

"Please bless every living thing that they can find food. Please bless the sharks that they can have a good time swimming and getting fish...."

Keahi: his thoughtful prayer at dinner. At night he blesses every living thing to sleep well too. I'm not sure how this works for the poor fish, though.

September 15, 2008

"Jack lives in a tall building just like ours. But it is not a lovely color. Green is a lovely color."

Keahi: We walked along side one of his Pre-K classmates on our way to the park and said goodbye at their building which apparently is not as 'lovely' as ours. That's my masculine boy. Oh and he also told me after our walk that he and Jack are now best friends....really close friends....they made friends.....but not a made up friend because he already has a made up friend: Hannah.

September 12, 2008

"This isn't cutting. It's fringing."

Keahi: when I picked him up from school his teacher handed me a paper that said "I'm learning how to cut" with one side mostly neatly cut into at regular inervals. So when I commented to Keahi that it was cool he got to practice his cutting he corrected me. He remembered how when he first started using scissors and I'd only let him make short cuts along the side of a paper that I said it was like a fringe of a cowboy outfit.

September 9, 2008

"Capital and lower case B."

Jarom: while we were doing starfall.com I asked him what letter this was and he responded so accurately it was adorable. It's not like he knows them real well or anything; we've only just started. But it's cool to see him interested and paying attention to what I'm teaching him.

September 9, 2008

Keahi: "Mommy, when are we going back to Hawaii?"

mom: "Not for a long time.

Keahi: "What month?"

mom: "I have no idea, honey. It's going to be a while."

Keahi: "But we have to get on a plane when Popo misses us."

No matter where we live or for how long, Popo's house remains home for him. He's very careful about it. This is not our house. We actually live in popo;s house. He calls this "the place we're living in right now."

September 9, 2008

"On Saturdays we can watch shows and in the case of hurricanes we can have hot chocolate."

Keahi: his response to me telling him no shows this morning. Where did he get the phrase "in the case of" from?

September 7, 2008

"Mommy, where's Jarom? He's nowhere to be found!"

Keahi: Jarom was hiding up on Keahi's bunk bed while Keahi zoomed through the house looking for him. Seriously, though, where does he get these phrases? He used "nowhere to be found" several times today.

September 3, 2008

"Madagascar is the largest island off the coast of Africa. It has rainy parts and lots of drier parts with lots of monkeys..."

Keahi: his atypical (though not for him) response to his PreK walking partner's comment that he'd seen the movie "Madagascar." Poor kid must have wanted to talk about the characters he loves and all he got was an earful about the island.

September 2, 2008

"Bear right: Prospect Park West. Then turn left: 2nd st."

Keahi: on the way home from the park he decided to be my personal GPS. So sweet.

August 29, 2008

"High brow potty talk."

Arron Hieatt: when you get a med student and a guy from the health department the talk tends to get biological and technical but it's still basically potty talk.

August 25, 2008

"Why is he going on this street, mommy? We always go on Eastern Parkway. It's much faster than this."

Keahi: we took a car service from our old place to our new one and the driver took a different route than we'd done in the past. No cabby's putting one past him.

July 31, 2008

Keahi: "Mommy there's dirt on my water bottle."

Mom: "It's from the beach. We need to wash it out."

Keahi: "No, it's ON the bottle not IN the bottle so you need to wash it OFF not OUT."

Hmmmm. Future lawyer, you think?

July 30, 2008

"Water fall out."

Jarom: I asked him if he was going to pee while he was straddling the potty and he looked up at me and solemnly announced this gem of a description. Note: he didn't actually pee until he was put into the tub....followed by other deposits as well.

July 29, 2008

"Help us be kind to one zero."

Jarom: While saying the prayer by repeating each word one at a time that daddy says, he has started anticipating words like now he knows that Father comes after Heavenly and a couple others. This time when Iz was about to say "another" Jarom piped in with zero. We continued the prayer and only after did we realize that it made sense to Jarom since the preceding words had been 2, 1.

July 13, 2008

Keahi: "What are you doing, mommy?

Mom: "I'm cleaning up my mess.

Keahi: "Why did you make a mess?"

Mom: "I made a mistake."

Keahi: "Why did you make a mistake?"

Mom: "Everyone makes mistakes sometimes. Do you make mistakes?"

Keahi: "Yes."

Mom: "Well, I make mistakes, too. Everyone does. It just happens."

Keahi: "Jesus doesn't make mistakes. Heavenly Father doesn't make mistakes."

Mom: "Sigh. You're right."

Keahi: "So everyone doesn't make mistakes. See, you made a mistake saying everyone makes mistakes."

I think we've got a budding lawyer on our hands here.

July 12, 2008

Keahi: "Giant jellyfish crush slime!"

Daddy: "Really? What kind of slime?"

Keahi: "Real slime!"

Then he showed us the magazine where he learned this interesting fact. It said, "The jellies crush, slime, and poison valuable fish in the nets." So we had to explain the importance of commas. I think it made more sense to him afterwards but wasn't nearly as fun as the idea of crushing slime.

July 9, 2008

"When the hurricane hits the house it will be smashed to smithereens!"

Keahi: He was asking me about hurricanes and if it was stronger than a tornado and tons of other questions and then he dropped that word. When I asked him where he'd learned smithereens from, he told me it was from Thomas and Friends. After I told Iz about it, he said he wished he had as much confidence to use new words as Keahi does.

July 3, 2008

Keahi: "I won! What do you say mommy?"

Mom: "Congratulations!"

Keahi: "Yes!"

I guess I've drilled it into him pretty well that the appropriate thing to do when someone wins is to congratulate him/her. Well, at least he remembered.

June 15, 2008

"Dinosaurs are extinct, mommy. . .but cats are not extinct. I have a Keoni cat. He is orange."

Keahi: I love the way his mind tansitions from one thing to another. At least he understands the word extinct.

June 12, 2008

"Jarom, don't spit. That's what flies do to food."

Keahi: after reading tons of insect books and going to Animal Grossology at Bishop Museum, it was inevitable that it would affect his daily life. Now everything is related to bugs.

June 12, 2008

Mommy: "Keahi, look at my eyes. . .Keahi, focus. . .Keahi, what color are mommy's

eyes?"

Keahi: "I see white and black."

Mommy: "My eyes are brown."

Keahi: "But the center is black. . .AND I SEE LOTS OF KEAHIS!!"

Great. Now I've lost track of what we were supposed to be talking about.

June 6, 2008

"Mommy, when I'm a grown up I can eat treats whenever I want."

Keahi: he just randomly dropped this jewel after quiet reading time. I guess he's been fantasizing about all the things he'll do when he grows up. Maybe I should cut back on all the treats I eat.

May 16, 2008

"It's not a stick. It's a lumber thingy."

Keahi: at the playground some older kids were playing with a 1x4 and then Keahi decided to play with it too. When we told him he wasn't allowed to play with sticks on the play structure he so accurately informed us on its proper name.

May 13, 2008

"But we DO sit in the basket. Mommy, this sign is wrong."

Keahi: While riding in a shopping cart, he read the instructions and warnings written on the seat part. When confronted with a discrepancy between what it said we were not supposed to do and what we actually do, he decided it must be the sign that was wrong. I wonder how far this perspective will extend into other things. I guess it doesn't help that we don't obey the speed limit signs. So I guess we have the same attitude.

May 10, 2008

"But that sign said DO NOT PASS and we already passed it. Why did we pass it, mommy?"

Keahi: On the road to town, he noticed this sign for the first time. He's usually quick to point out discrepancies between rules and behavior, especially in order to push his own boundaries: e.g. The sign No Bicycles on the sidewalk to Foodland does not prohibit him from riding his tricycle. But in this case, I explained to him the sign meant no passing around cars ahead of you in this area.

May 1, 2008

"Jarom looks like an anteater with a licorice mouth!"

Keahi: after the doctor's visit I had given them each a piece of red vines licorice and Jarom downed his pretty quick, leaving the last inch hanging out of his mouth. I love the associations Keahi makes.

March 13, 2008

"This is the police department. Ma'am, has your child been playing with the telephone? Please watch your child, ma'am."

Doh! Bad mother. I rest my eyes for one minute and Jarom's grabbing the phone and pressing numbers. The phone began to ring as soon as I had him hang up and when Keahi handed me the phone I figured it would be mom or Mariko or someone innocuous. But when I heard that disgruntled male voice, I had to curse my luck. Of all the numbers to press--redial or random numbers that would result in the automated operator's message--it had to be 911.

March 10, 2008

"We don't thank God for monsters."

Keahi: during FHE--the scripture was THOU SHALT THANK THE LORD THY GOD IN ALL THINGS. This was his smart reply to daddy's explanation that we should thank God for everything all the time.

March 1, 2008

Daddy: "Keahi you don't need your pajamas in town. It's going to be sunny and hot."

Keahi: "It will be cold, too."

Daddy: "Keahi, it can't be hot and cold at the same time."

Keahi: "It will be cold inside the buildings."

Sometimes with a smart kid you just can't win an argument. You just throw your hands in the air and give up.

Feb. 20, 2008

"I don't want to go to the Big Island because of the volcano...when the ash falls on us there will only be bones...like Pompeii."

Keahi: when Iz was talking about visiting grandma and pa he was at first excited about the volcano and then strangely changed his mind. when he told me why I had to turn to Iz to find out where this came from. About 3 weeks ago they had read a little about volcanoes at the library. Hmmm...I think his reading habits are going to have unforseen side-effects.

Feb. 19, 2008

"I see sea of froth!"

Keahi: on the way home along BYUH sidewalk, Keahi got off his bike to show me something he poetically referred to as a sea of froth--white dandelion puffs.

Feb. 8, 2008

"Jarom is a mammal. He's a messy mammal."

Keahi: During breakfast today, Keahi started talking about mammals. When I turned the conversation to something else he informed me he wasn't done talking about mammals. He then proceeded to describe which animals were or were not mammals and why (he was mostly right--however I think dogs do breathe air and pretty sure octopuses/octopi do not) and then threw in this very Keahi-like joke.

Feb. 8, 2008

mom: "Sometimes daddy is silly."

Keahi: "But uncle Kervin is always silly."

I think Keahi made this leap because the day before Kervin called and when Keahi answered and asked who he'd like to talk to Kervin said Get me the ugly one. I was standing next to Keahi to prompt him in good phone ettiquette and heard him say What? a couple of times before I took the receiver. Of course, Kervin thought it was great that Keahi thought I was the ugly one. Afterwards, Keahi asked me why uncle Kervin said that and I told him he was just being silly.

Feb. 7, 2008

"I AM already asleep."

Keahi: while driving home from the doctor's, Israel looked back and asked Keahi if he was falling asleep. Keahi smiled with his eyes closed and responded with this jewel. When Iz commented that he's such a commedian Keahi quickly denied it with his funny pronounciation I need to record sometime before we break him of it: "No, I'm naohht."

Feb. 2, 2008

"Mommy, you look like an octagon......because you have straight sides."

Keahi: he made this observation during dinner while pointing at my shoulders after practicing with his scissors by cutting out shapes. I think he might have misheard me when I said an octagon has eight sides. Or possibly I look like a big circle with straight sides.

Jan. 25, 2008

"18 dollars!"

Keahi: while reading from his children's bible about King Solomon and when God asks him what he wants, I asked Keahi what he would say. His answer was immediate and decided. Then when we continued the story and he learned that Solomon asked for wisdom, he sagely announced that Solomon made a good choice because being foolish is bad.

Jan. 24, 2008

"I smell your germs!"

Keahi: Iz was trying to convince Keahi to eat his breakfast and poor Keahi got a whiff of daddy's breath. Then when threatened with more germy breath, Keahi capitulated and agreed to eat his breakfast.

Jan. 22, 2008

"It doesn't matter what you say, I'm telling you what reality is. This is reality...."

Israel: having an argument with Keahi outside Subway in which Iz was explaining why we couldn't eat at Pizza Hut without the VIP card and Keahi insisted we didn't need a car because it was right there. Something about watching him instruct our 3 year old son about reality struck me as hilarious and I started coughing/laughing and tearing up because of both.

Jan. 21, 2008

"Daddy is much fatter than mommy.....that's what you said, daddy!"

Keahi: his response to daddy saying, "yep, i'm getting fat," and our subsequent scolding of his rude comment. This is how misquoting gets people into trouble.

Jan. 18, 2008

"May I have some more sand, God?"

Keahi: at TVA playground he was playing in the sand by the swings. And then he proceeded to have his own private conversation with God. This request was followed immiately by "God says, yes, mommy!" So the next time he argues with me will he play the God is on my side card? Hmmmmm.

Jan. 17, 2008

"Jarom's crumbsy, mommy! Like clumsy but crumbsy."

Keahi: We were eating crackers and Jarom was covered with crumbs. And so begins a lifetime of punny jokes. Israel's legacy lives on.

Nov. 26, 2007

"President W. Bush!"

Keahi: Israel was talking and mentioned Pres. Bush and Keahi chimmed in to remind daddy about the important W. in his name. Not actually sure where he even picked that up. Then this week at GAP, his teachers related to me how Keahi talked about the president and where he lives. They didn't mention it but I'd bet Keahi also talked about Pres. Hinkley and where he lives, too.

Nov. 11, 2007

"Mommy, why does that man only have one leg?"

Keahi: he's done this a few times actually--a lot of people in Grenada have diabetes and as a result there are a lot of people missing a limb or two. You gotta love the honest, innocent, loud remarks kids make.

Nov. 9, 2007

"I want the tasty, milk-flavored milk."

Keahi: we recently purchased a gallon of real-liquid-not-powdered whole milk that expired today. As stated above, Keahi is not a fan of milk so we give him postum and sometimes brown (can't really call it chocolate with the tiny amount in it) milk to get some needed calcium, protien and fat in him. But today we proved that the power of suggestion is not a myth. After building up this fancy bottled milk we gave him a taste and he loved it. When he asked if it had a special flavor in it we told him it was milk-flavored. And so he requested more tasty, milk-flavored milk. Halelujah.

Nov. 5, 2007

"Pah, pah, pah!"

Jarom: this can mean one of three things: popcorn, popsicle, or postum. Jarom's first food word was his excited pahs--sometimes with the ending p sound--after his first taste of my spicy popcorn snack. Then he quickly started using the same sound everytime Keahi got a popsicle for desert. And now he has been introduced to the wonderful world of postum and he can't get enough of it. (we give Keahi postum milk because we're trying to fatten him up and he doesn't like regular milk--and of course Jarom wants everything Keahi gets)

Oct. 30, 2007

"Were you just joking?"

Keahi: Once when I didn't want to repeat myself I said it didn't matter because I was just joking. Ever since then after his 3rd huh? and I don't want to say it again Keahi smiles and asks, "Were you just joking?" and we leave it at that.

Oct. 26, 2007

"What's a bonkey?"

Keahi: while writing donkey he accidentally wrote the d backwards and then thought the word bonkey was hillarious.

"Good news moves at the speed of time."

Michael Scott--The Office S04E05

Oct. 25, 2007

"Oooh, look at the wonderful full moon!"

Keahi after Grenadian Thanksgiving dinner at the Hill's.

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