What a strange year it has been! We are thankful for our health and our time together as a family. We proudly present our memorable quotes of the last year! Please also enjoy our photoshopped Santa picture from this year!
December 2019 - During the extended family Christmas with Benharts, Isaac was helping get dirt pie ready for the birthday people. He snuck a gummy worm for himself, snuck one to Meg, and then handed a handful to Deewee (one of the birthday people) and said, “congratulations on still being alive.”
January - We have really been working to help Isaac focus and get tasks done quicker. Things like getting dressed should take you 5 minutes, not 10. After several weeks of this I asked him to go make his bed and pick up, saying, “now do I want this to take you 20 minutes?” He replied with, “No... 25?”
February - Sam asks if ramen noodles are a Romanian dish.
February - Isaac and Sam discuss what our former pets are doing in heaven. Sam, “I bet Ellie is chasing Lily and Lily is running for her dear life!” Isaac, “but she doesn’t even have a life!”
February - The boys are discussing with Josh about how if he poops at work he gets paid to poop. Sam, “I guess poop is a currency” and Josh adds, “I guess we have a real sh*t economy!”
February - Isaac tells me about music “you have your bass, tumor, alto, and soprano.”
March - Sam and Isaac have a hotly contested debate over whether God allows gum in heaven. Sam, “well there is no gum in school so it’s probably the same in heaven.” Isaac, “dude it’s HEAVEN.”
April - We have all been doing our best with remote school. The teachers have been great too, trying to adapt to having kids participate in lessons with items from home. One day, I listened as Sam added a video for a recent science lesson, “I know a wine glass is not magnetic.”
April - For the first time, Noah joined a zoom karate class. He was using my laptop in order to join. I had last used my zoom account for a happy hour with friends the previous night. I had left my background as ridiculous Cher costume picture. The 12 year old was not pleased to be joining his karate class with Cher.
April - Noah realizes he was saying "ricochet" wrong his whole life, as “rich or riot.”
May - Isaac and Mike work on an art project for school, and Isaac tells Mike “yeah this is like real construction paper like they usual on real construction sites”
May - Isaac comes down with his iPad asking me to add an app for him. One that Sam has. "You know, that shopping spree app." He is referring to the amazon app.
January - We have really been working to help Isaac focus and get tasks done quicker. Things like getting dressed should take you 5 minutes, not 10. After several weeks of this I asked him to go make his bed and pick up, saying, “now do I want this to take you 20 minutes?” He replied with, “No... 25?”
February - Sam asks if ramen noodles are a Romanian dish.
February - Isaac and Sam discuss what our former pets are doing in heaven. Sam, “I bet Ellie is chasing Lily and Lily is running for her dear life!” Isaac, “but she doesn’t even have a life!”
February - The boys are discussing with Josh about how if he poops at work he gets paid to poop. Sam, “I guess poop is a currency” and Josh adds, “I guess we have a real sh*t economy!”
February - Isaac tells me about music “you have your bass, tumor, alto, and soprano.”
March - Sam and Isaac have a hotly contested debate over whether God allows gum in heaven. Sam, “well there is no gum in school so it’s probably the same in heaven.” Isaac, “dude it’s HEAVEN.”
April - We have all been doing our best with remote school. The teachers have been great too, trying to adapt to having kids participate in lessons with items from home. One day, I listened as Sam added a video for a recent science lesson, “I know a wine glass is not magnetic.”
April - For the first time, Noah joined a zoom karate class. He was using my laptop in order to join. I had last used my zoom account for a happy hour with friends the previous night. I had left my background as ridiculous Cher costume picture. The 12 year old was not pleased to be joining his karate class with Cher.
April - Noah realizes he was saying "ricochet" wrong his whole life, as “rich or riot.”
May - Isaac and Mike work on an art project for school, and Isaac tells Mike “yeah this is like real construction paper like they usual on real construction sites”
May - Isaac comes down with his iPad asking me to add an app for him. One that Sam has. "You know, that shopping spree app." He is referring to the amazon app.
May - as the great debate of ding dongs versus ho hos rages on, Isaac says “well I guess I’ll eat ding dongs if there’s nothing else left in this house.”
August - As we begin the school year remotely, I listened to Isaac share information about himself to his new 2nd grade class and teacher. He showed a pic of his brothers to his class, “This is my oldest brother Noah. He already had his growth spurt and he is almost a teenager. This is Sam and he’s real bouncy.”
September - Sam was locked out of his roblox account. He was stressing and trying to reset, etc. I had an exchange with customer service that revealed he was flagged for inappropriate language. I lectured him about the importance of appropriate online behavior and how playing roblox is a privilege. We finally got into his account and could review the flagged language. He had typed “doooogggooos.”
October - Isaac asked me about the sport of cross country. “They probably get super tired running all the way up and down the whole country of America.”
November - Mike lays on the couch and asks Sam to rub his head. He tells Sam that he’s losing his hair and going bald. Sam pauses and says in his best therapist voice, “and how do you feel about that?”
November - Isaac plays a game in which your avatar falls and takes damage, and it displays your injuries. He tells me all about a “hammer gauge” which is WAY worse than a concussion he claimed. We discovered he meant the term hemorrhage.
December - Our advent toy calendar this year is a Pokemon themed one. Sam shares, “bulbasaur isn’t quite Jesus but he almost is.”
And that's it! We hope you are all staying home and staying safe and looking forward to a better 2021!
