Fun Conversations

As always, have other things/events I need to catch up on. However, I wanted to record a few memorable conversations that have been had over the past week.
First on occured last week when we were in the car and had our two neighbor kids with us. They had been talking about growing up and how long it takes to grow up. A few things established in the conversation:
- Carson will be the first to grow up (he is after all 6) but he doesn't even need to worry because he's not a teenager yet, that doesn't happen until you're like 88.
- Bowzer won't die until they're grown up then they'll be really sad but it's ok cause they can get a new dog, a small one they can carry around.
Highlight of the conversation:
Carson: So if I'm gonna be really old first does that mean I have to marry a really old girl?
Brayden: No, you get to marry whatever beautiful girl you want.
Tavita: WHAT? (imagine lots of inserts of laugh, what the hecks, and smart aleck remarks inserted throughout the conversation, that was about the extent of his contribution)
Emma: He wants to marry ----(I forgot her name)
C: YEAH I DO!!!
B: Who's that
C: Oh, she's so pretty and she's 7 but she doesn't want to marry me.
B: You should marry Emma Hall (not Emma his sister of course who was in the car)
C: She doesn't want to marry me either. (Pauses then gets really excited) But, But I'm gonna trick her you guys. I'm gonna get her. When we're old I'm gonna ask her to marry me and she'll say no. I'll say, good cause I don't want to marry you either. Then I'm gonna hide. I'm gonna hide somewhere dark and when she walks by I'm gonna jump out behind her, scare her and marry her. Then she'll be stuck!
(Junior and I are busting up laughing in the front. The kids find this to be a very feasible and wise plan)
C: Brayden, who are you gonna marry? I'm marrying Emma Hall so you need to pick someone.
B: UMMMM UMMMM UMMMM (in deep thought for a long time)
Meanwhile Emma has her hands in begging position, eyes closed saying: pick me, pick me, please pick me, please, please, please pick me
B(looks at Emma): AHHH, I don't know who yet, but she's gonna be beautiful.
Conversation continues about growing old.

A couple days ago I had just finished vaccuming the downstairs. Tavita comes down "WOW Mommy, it looks so clean!"
M: Doesn't it feel good to have a clean room? (being that it's the playroom, it usually gets bombed 10 minutes after I've cleaned it)
T: YEAH IT DOES!
M: Should I go do the upstairs now or should I go cook dinner?
T: NO MOMMY! Don't cook dinner. Your cooking makes me fat, don't do it.
Saunters of to go attend to other matters.
I just stood there dumbfounded, then cracked up becaues it was hillarious, then got a little worried about the fact my 3 year old is worried about getting fat.


Yesterday I was talking to Brayden asking him his thoughts on moving (nothing is remotely in the works, just talking hypothetically).
M: If Grandma and Grandpa were to move somewhere, would you want to go to?
B&T: YEAH, YEAH, YEAH
M: We could move there!
B: NO WAY!
M: Why not?
B: We live in Utah, our house is in Utah
M: We could get a new house
B: No, I would miss my friends too much
M: You could make new friends
B: Nah, I'll stick to my old friends, I don't need new ones.
M: What if we got a new, bigger house.
B: I remember when the Short's house was really little and blue. Now it's really big and brown so if we need to make our house bigger then PSSH (waves hands in the air) no problem. We'll just make our house bigger.

Today at the grocery store. We take about 10 steps in the store and Tavita freaks out, runs in front of the cart plants his feet and uses both arms to stop the cart, yelling, "STOP, STOP, STOP, RIGHT NOW!"
M: What's wrong?
T: There's flowers (points to a display of flowers). They're flowers for you get some!
M: Not this time I don't need flowers
T: (still very insistent): Yes you do, you NEED them (ever since he was very young he's thought all flowers are rightfully mine)
M: I'm not buying myself flowers, tell Daddy to buy me flowers.
T: NO, I'M A BOY I CAN BUY THEM FOR YOU. Get them right now.
I'm a bad parent and still told him no, we had come in the store for other things and didn't budget for flowers (they were huge fancy boquets). In retrospect I feel kind of bad and wished I had helped him find something smaller and more reasonable. Oh well, something daddy can do. (HINT HINT haha)