Author Archives: Jessica

Jude (7) – “the emperor of France” (like his ancestor Charlemagne — no kidding) Levi (5) – “a Scientist and a doctor” Asher (3) – “a Scientist who punches people in the face” (maybe I’ll have to get him into boxing so he can live out his dream in a manner that society would find …

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I was trying to bring the vacuum cleaner up the stairs, but Andy was sitting in the middle of the stairs leading to the dark upstairs.  He was annoyed at my passing.  He was sitting there with a laptop and his Nexus and said, all irritated, “I’m trying to get the hall lights working!”  Yep, …

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He and Levi were fawning over the new dishwasher.  Jude snapped, “Levi, we can’t both do ‘ooooooooooooohs.’  You do ‘oooooooooooohs’ and I do ‘aaaaaaaaaaaaaahs.’”

Asher to me while pressing energetically on me:  “I can’t squish your body all the way down cuz it’s so big.” Jude to me:  “So, in a nice way, he’s saying you’re fat.”

Jude was talking to Grandma Forbes after HE crashed the computer and complaining that I couldn’t fix it and said, “My mom is no techie at all; she barely knows how to run the microwave.”

Our middle baby just turned 5 today.  Levi is such a sweet, loving, adorable little boy.  He is a wonderful son and a great brother.

“One of our lady bugs is a baby.  It only has 2 dots.”

“I’m so mad at you because you told me to put one of the lady bugs outside and dad said it would freeze out there.”

“I need some new shoes because these shoes are slow and Levi keeps beating me with his shoes.”

To me at bedtime, “Why did you take your make-up off?  You could have totally worn that tomorrow.”