I was telling my kids that I have two students that stutter. Ada asked what stuttering was, so I did my best to describe it. I said, “It is when a person tries to say something but the same sound comes out over and over, like st-st-st-st-st-stutter”

Ada says, “So they are trying to rap?”

Just ten seconds after finishing opening her presents, Ada says, “I kind of want to eat my jellybeans but I think that I will just have my cake.”

This actually smells like dad’s deodorant. ” – Ada

Liam! You got like a thousand dirts in my shoe.

Liam:

Every player on Nigeria is African American.

That’s Helena’s guess as to what OCD stands for.

“Ada, do you want to see people ski while they shoot Guns?”

That’s the biathlon, Liam.

Liam was so impressed with himself that he has changed his socks and underwear three days in a row that he told us about it. He added that he is going to have four days in a row tomorrow.

Ada said, “Why? You already have a turkey.”

On the way back home from swimming lessons, Helena was wondering if her cat’s birthday, which apparently is February 13th, was going to be on a Friday. I told her that it was going to be on a Monday, so she was glad that it wasn’t going to be on a Friday because Friday the 13th is bad luck.

I told her that was a superstition (well, a stupidstitiion) and she began rattling off more, like walking under a ladder (never a good idea, anyway, but she said because paint could fall and poison you!) or a black cat crossing your path (that isn’t bad luck she knew, but she did say that when one crossed in front of the van, later that day Ada fell off her bed).

After a few more superstitions, Liam decides to tell us one: “Don’t let a dog pee on a rug”

On a billboard, I see an advertisement for a local casino that mentions $1 Blackjack.

Ada says that was the guy who was tied up in the Muppets.

We had this substitute who was like this hippie from the 80s.

Apparently he wore a jacket, jeans, and he had an earring.

We always put the Christmas tree up on Thanksgiving Day.