As I was shutting the bedroom door for the night, Jimmy randomly called out, “If the planet earth breaks in half, we will break in half?”
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Danny overheard me referencing a “magazine” while talking to someone, and he asked, “What are magazines?” I briefly explained, then Danny concluded, “Magazines will not bite you. They are not animals or snakes.”
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Jimmy: “We have a big family.”
Danny: “We have a big daddy.”
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After the power suddenly went out during Bible Reading at church one night, Jimmy softly asked me, “Did this place run out of batteries?”
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We were listening to an American Girl audio book where a nanny character was scolding a child. Danny exclaimed, “I hear hate!”
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One morning, Danny happily called to me from his crib: “Mommy, come here! There’s a bad guy in my plane!”
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Danny, after he clipped a hair claw onto the top of my head, announced: “You look like a present.”
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Jimmy, during a prayer he said before lunch, “Dear God, please bring Daddy home safely and make Danny not crazy.”
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After the kids finished their first big-kid go-karting course, Becky was beaming and said, “I won! I won!”
Susie was equally euphoric and said, “I can’t believe I didn’t crash!”
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