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CHLOE: (7/11) (sitting on my white couch) "Mom, will get me another one of these chocolate bars?"
ANDREA: "Are you eating out of the kitchen?"
CHLOE: "Yes"
ANDREA: "Do you need your bootylicious spanked?"
CHLOE: "Yes, but will you get me a chocolate bar first, then you can spank me."
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CHLOE: (7/11) (sitting on my white couch) "Mom, will get me another one of these chocolate bars?"
ANDREA: "Are you eating out of the kitchen?"
CHLOE: "Yes"
ANDREA: "Do you need your bootylicious spanked?"
CHLOE: "Yes, but will you get me a chocolate bar first, then you can spank me."
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CHLOE: (7/11) "Mom, I think the Mexicans (referring to our lovely
neighbors) are owls...they sleep all day and then at night they come out
with their hair all done, and wearing pretty clothes ready to party!"
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CHLOE: (5/11) "Mom, I KNOW I am adopted!"
ANDREA: "And what makes you think that?"
CHLOE: "Lexie and Jaden have their hand prints in the driveway and I don't!"
ANDREA: "That's because you weren't born when we poured the cement."
CHLOE: "No it's not! It's because I was adopted!"
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CHLOE: (4/11) "Mom, you are being so mean! I don't even think you're my real mom...actually, I think I'm adopted!"
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CHLOE: (4/11) "Grammy, I think my skinny jeans are getting a little too skinny!"
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CHLOE: (4/11) "Today I gave Brigham a note that said 'I like you,' and he asked me what it was for...It broke my little heart!"
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JADEN: (4/11) "Mom...you should do push-ups and sit ups with dad."
MOM: "I do."
JADEN (laughing) "YOU DO?!? You don't seem like that type."
MOM "And what type would that be?"
JADEN: "I don't know...the strong type. We all know your definitely not the cooking type!"
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MOM: (4/11) "Lex, please go get me your laundry basket, I'm doing laundry."
LEXIE: "I don't want to right now."
MOM: "Lex, I don't care. If you want your clothes washed, go get your bucket."
LEXIE: MOM, I don't want to right now!
MOM: Alexa Schwab, right now!
LEXIE: Why don't you go get it? Your the mom, not the Queen of England!"
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CHLOE: (12/10)(Trying to get ready for church) "Mom, I am having serious tight trauma here...HELP ME!!"
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JADEN: (10/10) "Mom, pleeaaase will you fix dinner! If you fed me, maybe I would grow!"
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CHLOE: (5/11) "Mom, I KNOW I am adopted!"
ANDREA: "And what makes you think that?"
CHLOE: "Lexie and Jaden have their hand prints in the driveway and I don't!"
ANDREA: "That's because you weren't born when we poured the cement."
CHLOE: "No it's not! It's because I was adopted!"
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CHLOE: (4/11) "Mom, you are being so mean! I don't even think you're my real mom...actually, I think I'm adopted!"
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CHLOE: (4/11) "Grammy, I think my skinny jeans are getting a little too skinny!"
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CHLOE: (4/11) "Today I gave Brigham a note that said 'I like you,' and he asked me what it was for...It broke my little heart!"
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JADEN: (4/11) "Mom...you should do push-ups and sit ups with dad."
MOM: "I do."
JADEN (laughing) "YOU DO?!? You don't seem like that type."
MOM "And what type would that be?"
JADEN: "I don't know...the strong type. We all know your definitely not the cooking type!"
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MOM: (4/11) "Lex, please go get me your laundry basket, I'm doing laundry."
LEXIE: "I don't want to right now."
MOM: "Lex, I don't care. If you want your clothes washed, go get your bucket."
LEXIE: MOM, I don't want to right now!
MOM: Alexa Schwab, right now!
LEXIE: Why don't you go get it? Your the mom, not the Queen of England!"
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CHLOE: (12/10)(Trying to get ready for church) "Mom, I am having serious tight trauma here...HELP ME!!"
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JADEN: (10/10) "Mom, pleeaaase will you fix dinner! If you fed me, maybe I would grow!"
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LEXIE: (10/10) "Mom, I am changing my name to Lexie Lou-Lin. And I am going to spell Lynn L-I-N."
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CHLOE: (9/10) "Why did we have to give Maddie to an old grandma? I bet she doesn't even have any teeth!"
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CHLOE:(8/10) "I am so not being a doctor...they have to touch boy's wieners! N A S T Y!"
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ANDREA: (9/10) (While Travis is leaning on her) "Lexie, please get on your knees for prayers."
LEXIE: "I cant, Dad is elbowing me in the butt knuckle!"(whatever a butt knuckle is???)
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TRAVIS: (8/10) "Chloe, come here please."
CHLOE: "Nah."
TRAVIS: "Excuse me. What did you say?"
CHLOE: " I said NO!"(kids these days!)
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CHLOE: (8/10) "Mom, did you know that every time I eat a Happy Meal there is hope at the bottom?"
ANDREA: "No, I didn't know that."
CHLOE: "You know what else? All that hope goes to the kids in Haiti."
(I think that earthquake had a profound effect on her.)
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JADEN:(7/10) "Mom, what's for dinner? I am starving!"
(I think that earthquake had a profound effect on her.)
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JADEN:(7/10) "Mom, what's for dinner? I am starving!"
ANDREA: "Spaghetti."
JADEN: "No way...wait a second...YOU actually cooked, I don't believe it!"
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JADEN: (7/10)(grabbing my calf) "Is this blubber or muscle?"
(isn't he such a treat.)
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CHLOE: (7/10)(at Roaring Springs Water Park) "This is the greatest day of my whole life!"
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JADEN: (7/10)"Mom, are you a French babe?"
ANDREA: "What are you talking about"
JADEN: "French babes don't shave their armpits."(guess I can't skip days between shaving anymore)
JADEN: "French babes don't shave their armpits."(guess I can't skip days between shaving anymore)
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CHLOE: (6/12/10) (sitting in the car) "Mom, your watch is so dumb."
ANDREA: "Chloe, we don't say the word 'dumb' in our house."
CHLOE: "Well, we're not in our house, we're in our car!"
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CHLOE: (6/9/10) (looking at my tears) "Mom, are you sad that Maddie's gone too? "
ANDREA: "Yes, I am"
CHLOE: "Oh. So mom's really do cry."
ANDREA: "Yes, I am"
CHLOE: "Oh. So mom's really do cry."
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CHLOE: (3/10) "I like having a broken arm, everyone takes such good care of me!"(referring to all the goodies and treats she'd been given)
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CHLOE: (2/20) (very randomly) "Mom...I love you."
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JADEN:(2/10) "Mom, did you get a new car?!"
ANDREA: "Nope."
JADEN: "Are you sure?"
ANDREA: "Yep, just washed the old one"
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LEXIE: (2/2/10) "Mom, can I wear my pajama pants to the game tonight?"
ANDREA: "Are you kidding me...No way!"
LEXIE: "Why do you have to be one of those moms that cares about what I wear and how I look?"
JADEN: " It's called responsible parenting, Lexie!"
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JADEN: (Staring into the fridge) "Mom, I am starving, I haven't eaten since lunch!!"
TRAVIS: "Quit whinning! There are children in Haitie that haven't eaten..."
JADEN: "Dad, don't even start that with me!"
(I quess he's heard that one too many times)
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JADEN: (1/24/10) (While wearing Chloe's bright pink gloves, he holds up his hands) "Look mom, I am supporting women with cancer!"
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CHLOE: (1/12/10) "Mom, how did you get to be so smart?"
ANDREA: "I don't know."
CHLOE: "I know... moms, they just know everything!"
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CHLOE: (1/12/10) "Mom, I know how babies get into your tummy."
ANDREA: (Thinking "Oh crap, she is way too young for this conversation!") "Really... how?"
CHLOE: "Well, Jesus puts the tiny little baby in your belly and then you just eat lots and lots of food so your belly gets bigger and bigger. I hope I have a baby in my tummy, I just love to snuggle them!"
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CHLOE: (1/5/10) "Mom, I just can't choose who I'm going to marry!!"
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TRAVIS: (12/20/09) (Sticking his stomach out to look 6 months pregnant) "Hey kids, who do I look like?"
CHLOE & JADEN: "MOM!?"
(Guess I need to drop a few pounds??)
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CHLOE: (12/8/09) "Mom, I want to get married in the pretty, white Temple up on the corner."
LEXIE: "You want to get married in the Rexburg Temple? Not me...this crappy town is WAY too small for me!"
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CHLOE: (12/7/09) "Brooklyn, what do you want Santa to bring you for Christmas?"
BROOKLYN: (Chloe's bestest friend) "A cell phone."
CHLOE: "I want a cell phone too, and an I-pod touch!" (yep, these girls are 4!)
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CHLOE: (11/25/09) (scratching her ear with her toe) "Look Mom, I can do what Maddie does!"
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CHLOE: (11/24/09) "MOM, the Wonderpets just said a swear word!"
ANDREA: "What did they say?"
CHLOE: "The d...d...daaa word!"
ANDREA:"They weren't saying dam the swear word, they were saying dam as in a beaver dam. The poor little beaver's dam is about to break."
CHLOE: "Well, can I say beaver dam?"
ANDREA: "Yes."
CHLOE: "Beaver dam! Beaver dam! Beaver dam...oh beaver dam!"
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JADEN: (11/16/09) "I hate the sun right now!"
CHLOE: "You can't hate the sun, Jesus is in it!"!
ANDREA: "Are you kidding me...No way!"
LEXIE: "Why do you have to be one of those moms that cares about what I wear and how I look?"
JADEN: " It's called responsible parenting, Lexie!"
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JADEN: (Staring into the fridge) "Mom, I am starving, I haven't eaten since lunch!!"
TRAVIS: "Quit whinning! There are children in Haitie that haven't eaten..."
JADEN: "Dad, don't even start that with me!"
(I quess he's heard that one too many times)
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JADEN: (1/24/10) (While wearing Chloe's bright pink gloves, he holds up his hands) "Look mom, I am supporting women with cancer!"
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CHLOE: (1/12/10) "Mom, how did you get to be so smart?"
ANDREA: "I don't know."
CHLOE: "I know... moms, they just know everything!"
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CHLOE: (1/12/10) "Mom, I know how babies get into your tummy."
ANDREA: (Thinking "Oh crap, she is way too young for this conversation!") "Really... how?"
CHLOE: "Well, Jesus puts the tiny little baby in your belly and then you just eat lots and lots of food so your belly gets bigger and bigger. I hope I have a baby in my tummy, I just love to snuggle them!"
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CHLOE: (1/5/10) "Mom, I just can't choose who I'm going to marry!!"
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TRAVIS: (12/20/09) (Sticking his stomach out to look 6 months pregnant) "Hey kids, who do I look like?"
CHLOE & JADEN: "MOM!?"
(Guess I need to drop a few pounds??)
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CHLOE: (12/8/09) "Mom, I want to get married in the pretty, white Temple up on the corner."
LEXIE: "You want to get married in the Rexburg Temple? Not me...this crappy town is WAY too small for me!"
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CHLOE: (12/7/09) "Brooklyn, what do you want Santa to bring you for Christmas?"
BROOKLYN: (Chloe's bestest friend) "A cell phone."
CHLOE: "I want a cell phone too, and an I-pod touch!" (yep, these girls are 4!)
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CHLOE: (11/25/09) (scratching her ear with her toe) "Look Mom, I can do what Maddie does!"
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CHLOE: (11/24/09) "MOM, the Wonderpets just said a swear word!"
ANDREA: "What did they say?"
CHLOE: "The d...d...daaa word!"
ANDREA:"They weren't saying dam the swear word, they were saying dam as in a beaver dam. The poor little beaver's dam is about to break."
CHLOE: "Well, can I say beaver dam?"
ANDREA: "Yes."
CHLOE: "Beaver dam! Beaver dam! Beaver dam...oh beaver dam!"
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JADEN: (11/16/09) "I hate the sun right now!"
CHLOE: "You can't hate the sun, Jesus is in it!"!
