Jessa: Mom, me and Jamison are BFFs!
Jamison: Yep! Me and Jessa are F-ers!
Mom: Well, isn't that special!

"Mom, I really want an iPod Touch for Christmas. Then I wouldn't have to tattle on Jayce anymore. I can just text you all the things he is doing wrong w/ the free text app.". Jessa, age 7.

Last night Jessa and her dad studied for her spelling test and I learned after school that they didn't have their spelling test today. I said "Oh no, maybe your your teacher forgot. You should've reminded her." Jessa replied "Mom, that's HER responsibility!"

Today Jessa and I went to the hospital to visit my cousin Holly Merriman Klemisch, her husband Nick Klemisch, and to meet their new baby Rylan Paul. On the way home, Jessa says to me, "Mom, isn't it amazing how cell phones cost like $100 but you can get a baby for FREE!"

You know your 5th grade son could be in trouble for tomorrow's history test when you are reviewing discoverers with him and you ask him for the name of a specific leader of a group of Vikings and his answer is Brad Childress.

Jamison, while looking at Jayce's baby pictures today - "What? Jayce was a baby?"

"Mom, is Dad a grownup?" Jamison, age 3.

Jayce: "Mom, I sure hope Justin Bieber and Selena Gomez get married... and soon!"
Me: "Why is that?"
Jayce: "Because then Jessa won't have a chance with him and I won't have to worry about him living with us!"
Me: "Yes, Jayce. That should solve that problem for you."

Today I found Jamison with his finger in his nose. "Jamison, do you need me to get you a Kleenex?" I ask. "No. My fine," he replies. "My putting it all back.".

Me: Jamison, what are you doing?
Jamison: Just sitting here, duh!
Me: Duh? Where did you get that from? (Meaning his terminology)
Jamison: Oh, just from Walmart!

I had quite the predicament on my hands tonight when Jamison insisted on stopping at a strangers house which he insists is his imaginary friend "Rob's" house. None of my excuses for not stopping satisfied him. Next time I am going to stop and send him right up to the front door of that strangers house. They can deal with him!

Tonight I was quizzing Jessa on her spelling words while Jamison played a puzzle game on the computer. Jamison (age 3) was very involved in his computer game and was paying absolutely no attention to what was going on around him. Jessa's spelling word was "who" and I used it in this sentence for her: "Wow! WHO tooted?" From a little voice at the computer we heard, "Oops, that was me. Sorrrrrrrrrrrrry!" He never once looked away from the screen.

Jessa's morning started out when I woke her by saying "It's time to get up! Today's your first 2nd grade volleyball game!" Surprised and not realizing this was game day, her response was, "What? How's that gonna work? We can't even get the ball over the net!" The end result... a victory over a 3rd grade team!

Jamison has been learning about the letter "P" in preschool. On the way home from school today, I could hear him in the back seat practicing: "Pa-Pa-Pig. Pa-Pa-Pumpkin. Pa-Pa-Angry Birds." Hmmmmm....

"Mom, it's a good thing God gave us fingers so we can figure out science; you know, like 5 take away 2." Jessa, age 7.

"Jayce and I used to really get along well when we were little. Now that we are older, it's not really working out for us." jessa, age 7.

Jamison and jessa are playing in the playroom with the Batcave and Barbie Hotel and Jessa is singing. Jamison says very politely, "Please stop Jessa. My ears are breaking."

According to Jamison, only he, Grandma Hilda and Papa Ernie can say "What the heck?" I was reprimanded when I said it and was TOLD the rules!

Jamison - "Where's dad?"
Mom - "Remember, he went to the Twins game with his friends?"
Jamison - "Who's his friends?"
Mom - "Rich, Brady and Gary."
Jamison - "Wow! Dad has a friend Gary like SpongeBob! That's amazing!"

"My not tired at all," were his last words.

Jessa had her very first piano lesson on June 7. She looked so precious and so grown up sitting so straight on the edge of her seat, her little hands on the piano keys. She was soooooooooo excited to go to her first lesson and 10x more excited when she walked out! She designed a very special bag for her piano books.

Apparently Jamison wasn't real impressed with his food options for supper tonight. His meal prayer went, "Dear Jesus, my just wanna eat water. Amen."

Jamison has been dealing with allergies the past couple days and his symptoms include lots of sneezes that send us running for handfuls of kleenex to clean up the disasters left behind by those sneezes. Last night, after he was tucked in bed, I heard him sneeze 3 or 4 times. I immediately jumped up to run for the kleenex when I heard him yell, "My fine! My use my hand!"

Heading out to run errands with Mom.

"Mom, every time you ask me to clean up the toy room I get a tummy ache and my leg starts to hurt." Jessa, age 7

"Jamison, I think you have sand in your hair from the park," I say. "No Mom, maybe my just have gas," my 3 year old answers.

Most nights when Jamison says his bedtime prayers, I only can recognize every 6th word or so. Again, tonight there was much jibber jabber while chatting with the Lord but then amongst all the uninterpretables I hear the word "sandbagging." So Bismarck/Mandan, you can be assured that you are in my 3 year old's prayers tonight too.

I was laying in bed watching tv after putting Jamison to bed and I hear him yell in a stern voice, "Mom, time for sleep. Turn show off. And close eyes too!" Apparently, now that he is 3 he thinks he is the boss of me.

"Jamison, make sure you don't go potty in your big boy underwear," I say. "Why? It falls out the bottom?" he asks patting his tushy. Why am I not feeling very hopeful???

Just got schooled by Jamison on the "real world of superheros." According to him, Peter Parker is Spiderman and Jayce is Batman! He followed it up with, "Yeah, that's right," so it's gotta be factual.

Jayce has been begging us for boxing gloves. He finally got tired and just made his own from old mittens and duct tape. Creative kids save me $$$.

Last night Jamison was denied his chocolate milk before bed because he refused to pick up his Spiderman puzzle and put it away. To say the least, he was NOT happy when he went to sleep. At least 3 times during the night, I heard him talking in his sleep about "cockit nulk" (chocolate milk).

"My want to go to Wobby Bobby (Hobby Lobby) with you. My want to talk to him!" Jamison, age 2.

Jamison's new way to get someone's attention: "Yo, Bo Peep!" So far it's been working well for him.

Jamison was participating while I was quizzing the kids for their spelling test. He proudly gave me his piece of paper where he had "written" his spelling words. I said, "Wow Jamison, you did an awesome job! A+ for you!!" He replied, "Your welcome very much!"

yes, jayce forgot 2 bring his recorder to his 4th grade recorder program!

Jamison just realized the Christmas tree is gone and he is not happy about it!

Tonight I got a phone call from a telemarketer asking for donations. After I hung up the phone Jessa asked who called. I said, "just someone wanting money." She replied, "Oh, it must have been the President. He is always wanting everyone's money." I laughed hysterically at her comment, to which she added, "Well, that's what I keep hearing everyone say."

Memo: Jamison would prefer that everyone call him Potato Head or Batman.

While driving, I complimented Jessa on her act of kindness today by saying, "I am so proud of how you think of others." Not to be left out, Jamison pipes up saying, "My think of mother too!"

Jamison has taken to wearing his "unnerwear" over his pull-up. Yes, potty training is raising many an eyebrow at our house. Yesterday he wouldn't let me put pants on him because he said "then my can't put my cell phone in my pocket on my unnerwear."