Bonus Post: Sound Bites 5

Gretchen: I want butter.
Bryan: You want butter?
Olivia: No, she said she wants WATER.
Gretchen: I want butter.
Olivia: She doesn't say "water" very well.

Olivia: Should we do that again yesterday?

Gretchen, pointing at Murry: That's not Mommy!
Me: No, that's not mommy.  Who is that?
Gretchen: I am saying that is Grandma!
Me: I am saying that is Grandma, too!
Gretchen: No, you are saying that is Murry.

Olivia: Mommy, why is daddy not coming up to give me a tootsie roll?  I was having quiet time.

Gretchen: My back hurts.
Me: Why does your back hurt?
Gretchen: Because I need a new one.

(The monitor in our room is right next to the clock on the dresser.)
Olivia: I hear Kaitlyn!
Me: You do?  How do you hear Kaitlyn?
Olivia: In the clock!

Gretchen: I Opa's Kiki.  I not Oma's Kiki, I Oma's Gretchen.  And I mommy's Gretchen.  And I Opa's Kiki.

Gretchen (holding a length of (clean) toilet paper): I have my king.
A few minutes later...
Gretchen (holding two squares, having ripped the toilet paper in half): I broke my king.  I am just a mother now.

Olivia: Can you say Spicable Me?
Gretchen: Hickalel You.
Olivia: Hey! Say Spicable Me.
Gretchen: Hickorly You.
Olivia: No! Say Spicory ME!
Gretchen: Hickory YOU!

Me: This little tuna brain was up at 1 and 4 and 7.
Bryan: But it's so cute!  It just wanted to remind you how cute it is.
Me: I can't appreciate the cuteness if my eyes are glued shut.
Bryan: Mooom, look how cute I am!  Mooom, you're missing it!

Bryan's sister, Keshia, and her husband, Tyler, have a baby daughter named Rudy.  They also have a dog, Kevin, who was Keshia's before they got married.
Gretchen: Rudy has her mommy and her daddy.  Keshia has her Kevin.

Bryan: They're counting the chickens in our driveway.  There's more than zero.
Olivia: 1, 2, 3, 4.
Gretchen: So many chickens we have!
(Note -- We do NOT have chickens, but the neighbors do and they escaped into our driveway.)

Me: Oh, you have bug bites on your arm.
Gretchen: I have bug eats on my hand, too.