Catch-Up Evalyn Quotes

May 9
Clark and I are laying on the couch. Evalyn stood by the couch and held both our hands and said, "Family!"

Walking down the hallway for Evalyn's check-up when Evalyn says, "Doctor... Don't want to poke my finger...hold you momma... It's scary!"

May 10
My hemorrhoids are still really bad and it hurt a lot so I was laying on the couch. I told Evalyn I hurt. She said, "Awww, I'm sorry!" and patted my tummy.

May 15
Evalyn requested to take her vanilla wafers to nursery and told her leader, "I'm just eating" as she walked in.

May 16
I have Evalyn a bit of ice cream.
Evalyn: What happened?
Me: It's cold.
Evalyn: Tickle my mouth... yum yum yum!


Me: Bird, I am so tired. I'm struggling.
Evalyn: Struggling poops?
- Note: I wasn't on the potty. But I guess she knows me well!

May 17
Me and Evalyn singing together: Rain, rain, go away. Come again another day.
Evalyn: (somewhat sing song-y) No thank you, no thank you.


May 20
Claire just sight-read "Can't Get a Man with a Gun" on the piano and Evalyn said, "That was like NINE page!!"
Evalyn's immediate response, in a dry tone: "Two pages."
Well, I guess it does repeat a lot!

May 21
I'm pretty sure Evalyn says "Kitty Please" instead of "Pretty Please"

I sang part of Gavin's song. No words, just the notes. Evalyn said, "That's Gavin's song!"

May 26
Evalyn: Numbers!
Emily: It's Letters.
Nick: What number is it?
Evalyn: Pink!

May 30
Evalyn wanted me to wrap a rubber band around a crayon. As I did it she said, "Good tighting, mom! Good tighting!"

Evalyn is patiently waiting for her juice. In other words.... "Juice is so coming!"


June 2, 2016
We have 3 laundry baskets on our bed. Evalyn said, "Where these come from mama?"

I was looking sad. Evalyn kneeled down next to me and said, "Tell me about it."

Evalyn requested to be spun around on the chair in our room. As I'm spinning her she looks up and says, "Take the long turn, please?"

June 8
I just played the piano a little and Evalyn said, 'Great Song, mom. Great song!"

June 24
I put Evalyn on her back to get her bath ready. She began kicking her legs, saying, "I have short legs."

Me: Evalyn, your hair is, um...
Evalyn: Amazing?

Evalyn: Let's get a master plan.

June 25
The ice machine in the fridge (Keele's home in Porterville) just made a rumble. Evalyn was right next to it and said, very politely, "Yes?" She thought someone was knocking from inside.

July 28
I got Evalyn's dress on and hair done and gave her her sunglasses. Then she said, "I need my saxophone"

Got stung by a bee :(

July 29
A screw was poking through on the car shopping cat. Evalyn said, "That's too bad, mama. That's too bad."

July30
"Let's go to the HFAC. Follow me. Get your shoes on." - Randomly said to me this morning

Bird: Pants on?
Me: Try your pee first.
Bird: Sure, Mimi!

Evalyn put her amulet on my feet and said, "Take a deep breath, Mimi!"

August 1
B: Where's the water?
Me: The water?
B: The water in my hair.
Me: Oh! Well, you go to bed with it wet and when you wake up it's dry.

Went to her first musical... South Pacific.


August 2
Evalyn kept saying she couldn't pass the test as she was holding a pencil and paper.

"What's wrong mama? What's a matter?" - Bird to me this morning

Evalyn spilled some juice on accident and said, "It's hilarious mama!"

"We gota a run to do on the store."

She put part of her potty on her head, like a crown and said, "I put my costumes on!"

Bird: Are you excited for your party mimi?
Me: Yes, I'm excited!
Bird: It's coming soon, Mimi!

August 4
Evalyn is just doing some serious make believe again. In the middle of eating yogurt she found a dog, made me pet him, and is now taking him for a walk. Now she's telling me how he's wagging his tail. She says, "Be soft Mimi, be soft."

Evalyn's response when I asked where her eyebrows were: "I don't have any eyebrows. I have small eyebrows."

Later she said, "What happened my eyebrows? I don't have eyebrows."

Evalyn playing with playdough for the first time:
- I'm making Babette's house. We making the treasure. Putting up in the holes.
- Babette's pink house! I'm making ice cube sin there.

Bird came in to bed with me this morning like usual. She asked where dad was and then we snuggled for a bit. Then, this conversation happened:

Me: Bird, I have to go poop.
Bird: Gratulations!

I asked Bird when Clark was coming home. She said, "He come Wednesday!" I asked her a bit later and she said, "At Tuesday, Mommy. At Tuesday!" She also told me, "He's coming back sooner!" (how she says "soon")

Evalyn the doctor is putting an "ice cube" on my tummy to help it feel better.

"I'm done mom. Perfect! You look great!" - Words from my doctor Evalyn

"Need more the dentist? More dentist?"

I said "ah" for the dentist and she said, "Thank you say ah!"

"What do ya need? What do you need Mimi? What do you just need?"

She's taking the wrapper off a crayon. I said, "Oh Bird." She said, "It's just a paper mommy." That's her new thing.... To say "It's just..."

"Cantastic!"

I asked what I should make with my little piece of play dough. She said, "Popcorn."

August 6
Me: I love you.
Evalyn: I love my sandwich.

August 7
Evalyn is doing head, shoulders, knees, and toes in the bathtub.

August 8
I was staring off into space as I was drinking Powerade and Bird said, "Something ok?" It's her way of asking if everything is ok.

August 9
Evalyn just woke me up by saying, "Wake up, shine! I have a question!" I think she was saying "sunshine" because that's what Clark says.

She went to her closet and asked to have her nails painted. She said, "It's nail polish!" when I got it out.

I did her toes like on her birthday and she wiggled her fingers and said, "Fingers!" Before I finished this, she used that high-pitched play voice and said, "It's so pretty!"

"We going to the store? Cantastic!! We get some gummy worms!"

August 13
I told Evalyn she'd put her sandals on the wrong feet and she should switch them... and she did!

Evalyn was playing the piano when I said we were going to the Farmer's Market. She said she had to play first. I said she couldn't play now, but we had to go. She just said, "Ok! " very cheerfully and got her shoes on without being asked.

Evalyn just came and found me in the bathroom and said, "I'm having this cookie." I think she took a nap and learned more words when she was asleep.

August 15
One time Evalyn hugged her wipes in the morning and said she missed them (no idea when this was--- quite a while ago I assume)

August 16
I'm rocking Evalyn in her room. She's really tired. She's crying off and on because she is tired and we couldn't find Babette for a while (she ended up being in our closet). I closed my eyes briefly while I was rocking her. She said, "Wake up mama! Don't leave me to cry!"

Evalyn just woke up. I called, "Evalyn I'm in here" from my bedroom. She wandered in kinda sleepy and said, "You need my help? What you need?"

Evalyn points to the bottom infant picture of herself (grayscale----as compared to the top picture, which is just normal color) and said, "I'm not normal. I'm blue!" Then she looked at the top one and said, "I'm normal."

August 18
Evalyn saw a picture of the Geico gecko. In a scary voice she said, "It's a dragon." It was soon followed in a normal voice by, "It's a DINOSAUR!" Then she screamed and ran away.

August 19
A few of my hairs are moving because of the fan in my room. Evalyn said, "Your hair's dancing. It wants the jazz."

Auugust 20
"Babette, you need help on my closet? Okay! I'm coming! I missed you, Babette. I'm coming!" - what Evalyn said to Babetter on my phone. "Oh no Babetter. I know you talking about me . . . Oh no you crying, Babetter! Oh no you crying!"

August 22
"Plig-lick" = how Bird says "Piglet"

We're about to go through a car wash and Evalyn, remembering last time, says, "It makes a SOUND!"

The car wash was too scary (it wasn't for her the last time I went with just Bird during the day) so we decided Bird and I would just sit outside and watch. I held her hand but at one point she screamed and started to cry so I held her. She held on so tight. She was afraid the machine would keep coming our direction and get us. I used one of my hands to use my phone at one point but she put it back on her back. She was squeezing my shirt with her other hand and I think I felt her legs shaking. She stopped crying when I held her and we scooted back. At one point the machine squeaked and Evalyn said, "It's hilarious!" and did her slightly fake over-the-top laugh. We saw dad come out the other end with the car and all was well. We came home and I got in the tub with her (sometimes I do that cause it's easy) and got her freshly washed PJs on. Clark's baseball game is on so he's doing the putting to bed part. He can watch the game in her room on his iPad.

August 24
"Now we in shade. Let's do our leaves."

August 25
Me (to Clark): She'll go to S L E E P soon.
Clark: Yeah, in like 5min.
Evalyn: I go S L P!

Me: Evalyn, are you going to sleep too?
Bird: I don't sleep well.

Evalyn: Look! It's daddy's heart burn!
Me: Dad's blood pressure machine?
Evalyn: Dad, it's your blood pressure machine!

"They're so cute! It's beautiful!" - Evalyn, talking about strawberries

August 26
Evalyn just accidentally did a true summersault. She lay firm after and said, "Whoa. I did my balance."

Evalyn: If you're angry and you know it, drop your book.
Evalyn reading by herself: Once a time it was a girl.

"I have boogers. Help me mama. I don't want the boogers." - Bird at 3:45am. Fevered, coughing, and sleepy.

August 28
This morning Evalyn was drawing something at the foot of my bed. I moved my feet so the paper moved. Evalyn said, "Oh no! You messed up my moose!" I asked her if she was drawing a moose and she said, "No, just a smile." (She got it from the Winnie the Pooh movie)

August 29
"Please give me a shot on my leg."

August 31
Me: Evalyn, how did you sleep? Good?
Evalyn: Nope. I got a problem.

A girl on campus just opened the door for me and Evalyn. Evalyn said, "Thank you, girl!"

"3,5,4,3. I cout these letters!"

Sept 1
Evalyn was jumping on her bed and fell off. She said, "Ouch. Call the doctor."

For this picture *not pictured* she said, "I'm going to draw a note." A bit later she said, "I'm going to write a music note. It's called ABCs. That's for the ABC son1"

Sept 3
Clark: Bird, are you an adrenaline junky?
Evalyn: I'm not an adrenaline Junky! I'm just swinging!

Evalyn: Daddy, what are these?
Clark: It's special grass.
Evalyn: Special grass... for the happy birthday?

Clark: Evalyn, it's time for your nap.
Evalyn: I don't want my SLP!!
(We sometimes spell out the word "sleep" and she associated it with the word nap)

Evalyn picked up the phone and said, "I can call the poop!" As I walked in the front room I heard her say, "Hi, poop."

I tossed Evalyn's suppy cup to her. She missed. Then she said, "Good catch!"

Evalyn coughed and I asked, "Are you ok?" She replied, "Yeah, I feel fine."

Sept 4
Me: Why don't you like nursery?
Evalyn: Because I'm so nervous about nursery.... Because I'm so upset about nursery."

Me: Somebody's walking outside.
Evalyn: On their way... to cross the street?

Evalyn: I'm so excited!
Clark: Why?
Evalyn: Because it's dinner!

Clark: Evalyn, would you like a couple more M&Ms?
Evalyn: No....
Clark: No?
Evalyn: I want a lot of 'em!

September 5
Bird is building something with her blocks for me. Then she says, "You can't go in there. It's too dangerous. There's a lot of pianos in there."

While I was shopping with Evalyn earlier today, two ladies came around the corner with their shopping cart. Evalyn hugged my leg and yelled, "Girl, don't run over me!!"

Sept 6
Evalyn: Ants?
Me: Nope.
Evalyn: (Bounces up and down happily) That's the way it is!

"If you're angry and you know it, drop your book." - Evalyn's new verse.

"Once upon a time it was a girl." - Evalyn reading

Sept 7
Bird sneeded at 6:10 am (she's in bed with us). She's been awake for an hour.
Me: Bless you, love you.
Bird: Thank you... love you too, mama.

Me: No singing. Sleep.
Evalyn: Okay. I'll stop singing.

Sept 8
I just taped a rhythm on Evalyn's arm and she said, "Don't sing on me."

I asked Evalyn where Heavenly Father lives. She said, "Where Jesus goes?" Then I asked where Jesus lives and she said, "On the temple."

Sept 9
Evalyn: I don't love you. I'm picking my nose.
(Said to me after I said I loved her."

Evalyn just told me not to eat a donut "because it's Sunday."

"Don't put water on your shoulder! That's not the point!" - What Evalyn said when I dumped water on my shoulder and it was supposed to be "food."

"Let's go to the moon."

Evalyn: Can you help us?
Me: Who are you talking to?
Evalyn: To the speaker!

(I think she was talking to the loudspeaker in a store, or perhaps the speaker in our car)

September 11

Me: How did you sleep Evalyn?
Evalyn: Not very well.

Sept 12
"Goodnight, mama. I love you so much!" - Evalyn as she was going down for a nap. A few moments later she weakly said, "I need Babette." As soon as she had Babette, she was out.

"I like this. I really love you mama." - Evalyn, as I cuddled with her in the rocking chair before bed.

"Mama, I need to go in your tummy."

Sept 15
Me: What are you thinking about?
Bird: Nothing. I'm not thinking about anything.

Evalyn playing with her new toy food, "I like to cook this popcorn and I don't care!"
(She sang "I don't care"-- part of the "Jimmy crack corn and I don't care" song...."

Sept 16
Evalyn just came running down the hallway to me in the bathroom. She was holding a REAL egg and said, "It's an egg."

The song "Footloose" comes on the radio. Evalyn listens for a while then says, "This is cool, mama."

Clark gave Evalyn a blue chip. She said, "That's unusual."

"We're not quite there yet. Almost, almost!"

Sept 17
Evalyn: Daddy, there's a weed on the ground. We have to get it.
Clark: We can leave it. Well spotted though!
Evalyn: Evalyn: It was well-spotted, dady.

"I like talking.... so much!"

Sept 18
Evalyn just looked in my mouth with one of her doctor tools and said, "Your tongue is very long, sometimes."

"Where's my board chocolate?" --- I think she meant to say, "Where's chalk for the chalkboard?"

"How's my much? It's great. I have syrup and ketchip. Everything I want. And salsa.... SALSA!? I don't like salsa." - Evalyn playing with her toy food

"You want a potato spice?" - what Evalyn just called a pear

"Ticky the skooky monster!"

Sept 19
Clark: I'll say the prayer.
Evalyn: Let me say it.

(Evalyn is making some noise)
Me: Evalyn, what are you doing?

"I didn't toot. It's still in there, see?"

Evalyn: I'm on the bed. I'm not having problems.

Evalyn likes to cuddle and talk with me before bed: "Let's talk! Ask me questions!"

Sept 20
"I touched a bug popper!" (grasshopper)

I flopped down on the couch after diapering Evalyn. My heart rate is going up quite high while even doing simple tasks because of pregnancy.
Me (to Evalyn ): I don't feel well.
Evalyn: You need daddy?.. You ARE happy and stuff.... (pats me). You'll be fine."

Sept 22
Me: Where's Jesus:
Evalyn: He's at the temple. He's listening to music.

"Long live the queen." - What Evalyn randomly said at lunch today

September 23
"One little cat is standing on the sandwich." - Evalyn in the back seat, for no apparent reason

Clark: I can't beep the horn. It will make people upset.
Evalyn: And sad?

September 25
Evalyn: (holding out a blue M&M) It's an orange one. Can you get messy?
Me: Yeah.
Evalyn then feeds me the M&M

Me: I'll keep your cup on my mat. When you want it just let me know.
Evalyn: I'm knowing!!!

Sept 26
Me: It's the cadenza.
Evalyn: What's denza means?

Evalyn: Did you hear my toot?
Me: No, I didn't.
Evalyn: Awm you missed.

"Long live the queen." - What Evalyn randomly said at lunch today

Sept 27
"That's daddy's pillow. Can I get it? That's where he LAYS."

"Can you get my earrings on? I need those."
(For the record, her ears aren't pierced and she doesn't have earrings--- I don't remember the situation here)

Clark: Say by to mom!
Evalyn: Where you going?
Me: the RB
Evalyn: Oh, goodness, that sounds funny!

October 3
"There's a grass popper in the tub." - Evalyn's word for grass hopper... although there wasn't a grass hopper in the tub

October 7
"They give you a shot and then a bandaid. That's nice of the doctor."

"Mommy, can we go outside again please? Of course we can?"

"The drawing walls" -- She kept saying this and I gave her a weird look because I didn't understand so then she said, "Drawing pen" and I figured out she wanted to draw on the chalkboard.

"I'm gonna color you. Your name's starting with O."

October 9
"Daddy! Wherever you are, come in!" - I think she was going for, "Come out, come out wherever you are! "

Evalyn used the potty a few times today. One time, she ran out to the front room and asked if I could say "gratulations" for her.

I lost 3 pounds today, unable to keep fluids down due to a flue. Evalyn is getting very stir crazy being inside all day.

Oct 10
"Thank you for this day. Thank you....Hyrum. Amen."  - What Evalyn said on her own when I said it was time for prayers. It was followed by her asking me, "You proud of me?"

Evalyn said we couldn't go to Costco because we're in bed. I said we could go later, to which she replied, "When the day is new." It was shortly followed by, "Goodnight, mama." I replied with 'goodnight; and she said, "Thank you." The good night/ thank you pattern then repeated itself again. As we were "cuddling and talking" for a while, she put her arms around my beck and said, "You're my sister. You're my sister momm!" We'd talking about Claire being a sister I believe, but it was cute to have her call me her sister.

Chatting before bedtime is one of my most absolute favorite things. I said, "Time for prayers" and said said, "For Jesus!"

Making waffles from scratch this morning. Bird and I are feeling great. My class was cancelled. Clark may have thrown up twice yesterday but he's thrown up twice this morning and this time it's the real deal, what I had yesterday.

Tried the splinter again. She's too traumatized. Clark and I are unable to hold her still. She just kicked and screamed, got all sweaty and not breathy for 10 minutes. Got part of it poked pretty good with a pin so that's good. It's kinda deep. Our next plan is to try when she's asleep. After that we will ask a third adult to told her down. It's hard because it's right on the joint of her middle finger. Her hands get so sweaty plus she can easily close her hand. She's got a second, smaller splinter at the base of her thumb. We're pretty sure that one will just fall out.

Evalyn burped and Clark said, "Good burp." Evalyn responded with, "Sometimes people gotta burp."

Evalyn just tried to toot because I did.


October 11
Evalyn just asked if I was done with my gummies then took both my and her trash to the trash can.

Evalyn saw something had fallen on the floor at Target today. She said. "Oh no" and put it back up. Then she noticed a little makeup carrier was crooked in it's spot. She went and straightened it. She periodically comments on how clean the front room and kitchen are.

Evalyn heard a particularly long run down the piano. She's been ringing her triangle but stopped and looked at me and said, "Whoa."

I just flushed the potty and Evalyn said, "Congratulations! I'm so proud of you!"
October 12
Evalyn just said we can't turn off the song as we pulled into our parking lot because had to listen to the cadenza. She even said, "Here's the cadenza" right before it started.

October 13
Clark was in Evalyn's room putting her to bed. As I walked by I asked, "Did you get the toothbrush?" Clark responded in the affirmative and Evalyn said, "No hurry, mom." That means "don't worry."

Clark: Daddy's sick.
Evalyn: From the sour cream?

(No one had any sour cream....?)

October 14
"Are you happy? Are you having a long day? Are you ok?"- Bird caring for her mom

October 16
Me: I really like being your mom.
Evalyn: I really like to be your Evalyn.

"I love keeping care of you."

"I got pretzels. Say, 'Pretty Cool!'"

Evalyn is in her room at her restaurant saying, "Mommy, come here. Come join me!"

Clark: We're going to church.
Evalyn: Can I go with you? Can I take my potty? I have to pee first.

Evalyn is on her potty eating an apple. I tell her, from the front room, to lift her dress up before she sits down and she responds with, "Don't worry. I'm keeping my apple safe."

"I want to sing row row row your boat gently down the stream. Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily life is but a dream." - Evalyn not realizing song titles aren't all of the lyrics

October 17
Evalyn made me blow the grocery store a kiss goodbye.

She also told me "Congratulations" when I peed.

"It's a dog hero." - What Evalyn said when she saw a picture of a dog with a cape on a magazine

October 18
Evalyn asked me to come sit in the kitchen with her because she kitchen was "so clean."

"It's sunny and cloudy."

October 19
Evalyn is cleaning up her room with Clark. After a while Clark asked if she was eating her pretzels (real ones in her room) and she said, "I'm eating my pretzels. I'm a little busy."

Evalyn is going around singing her made-up "Witches are nice" song.

October 20
Evalyn can't decide if she should call her toy uke a violin, guitar, lady (ukelele), or viola. (She's used each of these names this morning. So, she just said it's her "instrument," just to cover all grounds.

Evalyn: Can I watch this?
Me: No.
Evalyn: (Very positively) Okay, let's do that! It's a good idea! (= how Evalyn will often respond to me saying "no")

October 21
Evalyn pointed to a man on a DVD and asked who it was. I said it was Joseph Smith. She asked about him and I said he was a prophet. She thought a bit and said he prayed and asked why. I told her he wanted to find the true church. She said, "The true church? Because he lost it?" Then she said, "Jesus will help him find a Prophet."

October 22
Evalyn just asked if I could make her fly. I told her I couldn't because I was tired. She said, "Because you're pregnancy?"

Just pulled out of the driveway and Evalyn said, "Are we there yet?"

October 23
"My toe is crying"

October 28
Evalyn wanted one of the suckers they give out at the register at the grocery store. She was nervous to ask but the worker got the picture and gave her one. Walking to our car, Evalyn said rather sadly, "I didn't say please" and then said it again as she was sitting in her car seat.

"Let's talk about food. Let's talk about pizza and turtles."

October 29
Evalyn getting confused: Old MacDonald had a farm and Bingo was his name-o.

Clark to Evalyn: Stay in the kitchen until you finish your juice.
Evalyn: Okay, I'll stay along with that.

"I don't have a baby in my belly. I just have a tummy."

October 30
Evalyn has a hole in her backpack. She said, "You need to fix it with noodles and bread." She was going for "needle and thread."


November 1
Evalyn walked up to a female student on campus and said, "Here's an ice cream cone" then handed her an imaginary ice cream cone and said it was orange.

"Dear Heavenly Father, thank you for this day. Thank you for mommy and daddy to sleep. Thank you for me to sleep. Thank you Evalyn to sleep. In the name of Jesus Christ, amen." - Evalyn's first perfectly said prayer all by herself

Clark: Have you had enough tickles?
Bird: Yeah
C: For the day?
B: Yeah
C: For the week?
B: Yeah
C: For the month?
B: For the hour
C: So, at 5:00 I can tickle you?
B: Yeah

I'm dropping off Clark and Bird at the HFAC. Bird says to me, "Don't go!" (to the RB for work). Clark assures her with, "I'm going to stay with you." (He takes her to a sitter while he attends class). Then Bird says, "I'm going to lost everybody."

"This is gonna get me 20 minutes to get me done homeworking." (I believe she was looking at the clock on our desk as she was writing something)

November 2
Bird: Say "screams are sad."
Me: Screams are sad
Bird: No, screams are happy
(Then, she screams!)

November 4
Evalyn came up with a saltine cracker in her hand then said, "Watch me do a lotta noise" and then bit her cracker.

November 5
"Toots feel good."

November 8
Evalyn still thinking voting is called floating.

"Are you doing to go float?"
"Can I float?"

Evalyn has some dried on banana on her arm. So, she sings about it: "The arm on the bus goes I eat bananas..."

November 9
I just told Evalyn the word "coupons" and she'd been calling them that but then had a moment where she forgot and called them "cucumbers"

The first thing Evalyn said when she woke up from her nap...

Evalyn: Did Father... *looks at temple picture of me and Clark in her room*... You're friends! Did Father make you married?
Me: Who's Father?
Evalyn: Jesus Father!

November 10
Me: Where's Evalyn? Are you Evalyn?
Bird: Yes, I'm Evalyn. I'm Evalyn Keele.

Clark: Do you love mama?
Bird: Yeah!
Clark: How much do you love her?
Bird: Two and a half!

- Either she was referring to her age somehow, or possibly talking about the TV show Mr. Rogers where they things like, "See you in 2 and a half" and it doesn't really have any meaning other than to show a unit of time

Evalyn just got up from her nap and went to the front room: "I'm eating chocolate cookies. They're special to us. They're good for our tummies."

Clark takes Evalyn home two blocks from the babysitter's on Tuesdays... on his motorcycle. Today on the motorcycle she said, "Can you make my tummy go fast?" (I think she likes butterflies in her stomach)

November 11
Evalyn got busted because she crumbled up bread on the floor in the front room. It expedited the move to her bed for nap time. When she got in bed she said, "What about cleaning? Cleaning is special and allowed."

November 14
"I'm going to hold your hand. I don't want to get lost because I'm your favorite." - in the grocery store parking lot

"The driver on the bus says no more ducks.... The farmer on the bus says yes, yes ducks." - Verses by Evalyn

November 15
Me: Listen.... Aw, I didn't toot.
Bird: You will try again.

"It's a fire truck." - What Evalyn just said in her sleep.

"Dear Heavenly Father, thank you for this day. Thank you for Hyrum. Thank you for mamma and Daddy. In the name of Jesus Chris, amen." - Evalyn's prayer, all on her own. Then she said a separate prayer minus the 'Dear Heavenly Father' part where she said, "Thank you for mamma can play with me. Amen."

"I'm going to pee in my diaper and you're going to pee in your pants."

Evalyn started crying so I asked her what happened and she said, "I ate my tongue."

"This is my mom. She is pregnancy." - How Evalyn introduced me to Clark's friend today.

November 16
"Bees try to work to give us honey. Is that amazing?"

November 17
"Ask me how my toes are doing."

Me: Evalyn, wake up.
Bird: No.  (said simply, pleasantly, and matter of fact)

November 18
Evalyn wanted to hold Gavin's hand when we walked to the car instead of mine.

November 19
"I love Hyrum because he's my favorite little guy."

"I like to poop my food out."

November 21
I just asked Evalyn what she wanted to be when she grew up and she said, "I don't want to be anything when I grow up."

Evalyn wants Claire to feel better because "She's my best friend."

Evalyn requested we take her rocking chair in blanket in me and Clark's room so she could sing Clark so sleep. She ended up not singing and cried a bit because she was tired.

November 22
Claire, Evalyn, and I were in the front room. Evalyn had brought out her box of instruments. I was given a drumstick and began taping the couch. Evalyn told me, "Say 1 2 3 I play the couch!"

"My hair's getting a little crazy because of my dancing skills."
- We tell Bird she has good dancing skills sometimes -

I just gave Evalyn some books in her bed for nap time. She's tired so she whined about there being too many and said she didn't want them. I took them away and she said, "No, I need them because they are expensive to me." (I think 'expensive' and 'special' are becoming interchangeable) -- mom and dad get upset when she uses 'expensive' things so therefore they must be special or important

Evalyn pointed to the rainbow on her shirt and said, "Is that indigo?" I think they use 'indigo' in one of the YouTube kids songs she's watched before

November 23
Clark told Evalyn it's snowing right now (it is). She said very happily, "My presents are here!" Well, I guess we have been saying her presents will come when it starts snowing....

Evalyn was driving her bike....
Me: One-handed driving! Nice!
Bird: I know, mom. I know!

(Wasn't said in a rude way.... said in a "thank you" sort of way)

November 25
Me: Evalyn, you're such a cute little girl.
Bird: That's my job!
Me: What?
Bird: It's the way it is!

November 26
"Watch me poke my eyes"

Evalyn said the Christmas tree needed to go to bed. She brought it a blanket and said, "Here you go little guy" and then brought it a pillow too.

In her nightly prayers, Evalyn usually blesses each member of our family individually so they can sleep well, but tonight she said, "Bless daddy for he can sleep but he's at the baseball game and he will come home and see me." (Clark got a last-minute ticket to BYU's football game tonight)

One of Evalyn's excuses for not staying in bed.... "But I need to get homework done. I need to get homework done. Can I have your charger for a project? Can I have it for a second?"

more excuses....

"I'll be really careful with your charger. It's really expensive to you and daddy and me. It's a toy."

more excuses.....

"I like spices because it's yummy for my little tummy." I mentioned to her something about bay leaves and she said, "I like bay leaves." -- Bird talking about something she doesn't exactly have knowledge of. A conversation starter to stay out of bed.

November 27
Bird: Mom, am I a homie?
Me: Are you?
Bird: What's a homie?

Evalyn pulled out a white crayon and began using it during church today. Then she looked at me and said, "Sometimes this is a hard crayong."

November 28
Evalyn was convinced it snowed outside because we decorated the Christmas tree inside.

November 29
"Can ants melt?"

November 30
"I say yes cause you say no."  Bird  to me

"It's a wreath . . . It's a DONUT" - Evalyn experiencing a very large revelation about the wreath on our door today

I gave Evalyn a kiss this morning. She replied, "Thank you for the kiss, but I don't need a kiss right now."

December 1
"Alligator, guys!" - How Evalyn just said goodbye to some people (I think she was going for "see ya later, alligator")

"The trees are NAKED"! - Evalyn commenting on the lack of leaves on the trees

December 3
"When Santa doesn't come, it's not going to be Christmas."

December 5
Me: The bathroom is just occupied right now. It's not really closed.
Bird: I don't want it to be occupied.

A baby is crying in the waiting room and Evalyn said, "The baby don't wanna have a check-up."

December 6
Bird was coughing while eating bread in the back seat of the car. I turned the music off and asked if she was okay. She replied, "Not yet. I'm coughing . . . Turn the music on. That will feel me better."

Bird: (sung) Happy Birthday Dear momma....
Me: That's me!
Bird: Are you a deer?
(pause)
Bird: (sung) Happy birthday, deer......

December 7
"Don't kiss my when I'm counting my muscles." (or maybe she said "knuckles")

December 9
"Thank you for Jesus can come here and save me so I don't run away." - part of Bird's prayer tonight

Bird threw her up on the ground a second time and then this conversation happened-

Bird: Get it!
Me: I'm not getting it because you threw it. You need to get it yourself.
Bird: Get it!
Me: That's rude.
Bird: Please! .... That's not rude.

December 11
"You're adorable, dad" -- then she told me to say her dress was adorable.

December 12
It's getting tricky to go from sitting/laying to standing. I told Bird she should go to my bed and I'd be there (I was laying on the couch in the front room because I'd gotten light headed and was getting strength to stand up). She got half way down the hall then ran back and said, "Let me give you a hand!" She put out her hand and said, "Bee ho! Bee ho!" That's how she says, "Heave, ho!" (She learned 'heave ho' from the Winnie the Pooh movie).

Bird gave clark a colored pipe cleaner. She told him to wave it and say, "Go team" ..... "for your team can win!"

I got donuts on the way home from WIC today. One was basically an old fashioned donut but in bar form. Clark, speaking to Evalyn, said, "A brick of pastry! Can you say 'a brick of pastry'?" Evalyn responded with, "A brick of pastry. How strange."

December 13
Me: You've got so many boogers! What are we gonna do with you?
Bird: I don't know. Wash me!

Evalyn showed me one of the Nativity figurines. I didn't get a close look but thought it was a wise man so that's what I told her it was. She said, "NO! It's a flyer!" Sure enough, it was an angel.

Evalyn is using one of the less-breakable Nativity sets to play doctor. She has a "queen doctor" (Wise Man) who is using their "stethoscope." (Thanks Mr. Rogers for teaching her doctor words). She says she's "playing Baby Jesus."

I asked Evalyn if she wanted to share some applesauce with me. She said, "I don't want applesauce because it makes my tummy go round and round . . . I don't care for applesauce."

December 16
"Take a deep breath and count to four. 123. I feel calm now." - There's a song on Daniel Tiget about this, but we haven't even watched it in a few months. She spoke it.

December 21
Evalyn said Clark can't give her hugs until after Christmas (I think Hyrum's due date is getting to her).

Clark was pretending to take off Bird's toes and she said, "That's embarassing!"