Everything Prayer

"...and pray for everything we do have, everything we don't have, and everything we will have" - a recent prayer by Sophie

Purple Shirt Spy

Sophie: "I spy something purple on my shirt" Elijah: "Is it your purple shirt?" Sophie: "YES!!" - A recent "I Spy" game between Sophie and Elijah

Ruffin'

"Why is that dog ruffin' at me?" - Sophie asking about a big dog that was barking in her direction

Brrrrrrrin'

"It's brrrrin' " - Sophie speak for "It's cold"

A Katy Perry Christmas

"No Sophie, that's a July song!" - Elijah's adamant retort when Sophie requested Katy Perry's "Firework" as a Christmas song she wanted to hear

3 Year Old Pastor

"PAS-TOR WES-LEY!!" - Sophie repeatedly shouting what she thought she heard while chasing her 3 yr old friend Wesley after his Mom playfully yelled "faster Wesley!"

Bieber Loves Me This I Know...

"Jesus loves me this I know..." - the song Sophie broke out in to prove to another pre-schooler on the school playground that she does indeed know a Justin Bieber song

I Spy

"Is it the purple on your shirt?" - Elijah's correct guess during "I Spy" after Sophie gave him clues that what she spied was "something purple on her shirt"

Hopeful Gas Passing

"I think I just passed gas again…. I hope I did." - Sophie's pleasant explanation of the putrid smell at the dinner table

Head Burn

"I have a head burn." - Sophie describing her brain freeze

Clown Shaped Churches

"It doesn't look like a clown to me. It doesn't have a nose." - Sophie's response after hearing Mommy point out a church in the shape of a "crown"

Missing You

"I missed you a lot of times." - Sophie commenting on my recent business trip to California

My Scara?

"Is that your scara or my scara?" - Sophie's question after finding out the black stuff on Mommy's eyes was called "mascara"

Torrible

"Torrible" -Sophie's hybrid word for something that's both 'terrible' and 'horrible'

Sentenced to Jail and a Spanking

"Mommy, I'm going to spank you and then put you in jail." -Sophie's repeated threat from her room after being put in time out one morning

Unconditional Love for the Shirtless

"Daddy, you don't have a shirt on. But I still love you." -Sophie (age 3) providing commentary as I brushed my teeth shirtless

Cold Repentance

"Daddy, will you forgive me for getting a cold?" -Sophie (age 3)

Scared Ears

"It makes my ears scared" -Sophie (3.5) commenting on how the sound of Noah (1.5) repeatedly slamming her play kitchen's fridge door made her feel

Wiit

"Can I play Wiit?" -Sophie asking if she could play a particular Nintendo motion sensing game console

Facial Nipples

"Is that a nipple?" -Sophie asking about a pimple on my face