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I've been storing some of these up for awhile, so here goes, starting with the most recent:

At bedtime, me: "I love you, Silas"
Silas: "I love Momma, and Ta-ta, and Daddy, and Zoe"
Bless this child's heart, this is where bedtime prayers originate.

On skype, with my parents, after finishing a big bowl of rice and beans
Silas: "I want something else".
Grandma: "Silas, do you have a hole in your tummy?"
Silas, after giving the question some thought: "Noooo, I just have a belly button".

After starting food bribery on Friday for potty training, Silas calls m&m's, "m's-m's".

Both kids are obsessed with using hand sanitizer, and Zoe calls it "hanitizer". Now we all call it hanitizer, and frankly, I think the product should be re-named.

When Zoe started going pee-pee on the potty a few months ago, whenever she would sit down to go but couldn't she would say "it's broken" or "not working" very matter-of-factly and then hop down.

When Silas would get stuck between two pieces of furniture he would yell out, "I'm sticky!" (instead of "I'm stuck").

When Zoe would get some kind of minor injury she would make a big production of standing up and reassuring everyone, "I'm okay, I'm okay", very dramatically.

For awhile Silas referred to toenails as "feet nails". This is not a name change I endorse - it's disgusting.

Zoe's insistence on doing everything herself started with "Zoe do it, do it all by self!". This has turned into a shrieking rant, "I DO IT, I DO IT, I DO IT!".

Silas, on the other hand, says in the cutest little voice, "Help! Help me! Momma do it.".


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