Literally! Kids say the darndest things...

One of my favorite things to document is the funny things my kids do and say, but I have totally sucked at that lately. SO, I wanted to tell you about some of the recent ones-Wes will have to read this later and remind his old forgetful wife about the other ones I forgot!

Kindle is 2 now and speaks better that most of the kids in Armour's preschool class. She is articulate and always surprises people when she opens her mouth, and it is rare that she says something I do not understand. A month or so ago, she came in to the kitchen where Wes and I were cooking dinner and said "I want so buffalope." We asked her to repeat it so we could understand, so she clearly asked again for some "buffalope." I told her I did not know what buffalope was, she got upset, opened the fridge, pointed to the cantaloupe and said "buffalope!" Oh how we laughed! Buffalope! Classic! All the funnier by the fact that Ender used to mix up cantaloupe and antelope.

Solace and Ender are at this stage where they are really broadening their vocabularies, and they both LOVE words. Once they learn a word, they want to use it, and use it often! But never has a new word stuck more in the Johnson household than "literally". Solace and Ender use it in every way they can think of-even some that really don't work. In fact, anywhere most people use the word "really", those 2 kids use the word "literally". For example, Solace might say "Ender, are you literally sick?" Or Ender might say "I literally love playing Wii." You know how people will ask "Really? REALLY?" when they are not sure they believe what you said? Well, here at our house, they say "Literally? LITERALLY?"

Oh and Armour...wow he is somethin'! I don't have a specific Armour word, but it is just how he uses his words. He has some nerve and he is spunky. One night Wes and I locked ourselves in our room as it is the only room in the house we can lock the kids out of. We had put them to bed and were dome with them for the night! Armour came and started pounding on the door for like 5 minutes. Wes got up opened the door and put him to bed with firm instructions to stay there. A few minutes later he was back and we returned him to bed. This happened a few times, then it finally stopped. It stopped and we had about 30 minutes of silent bliss in which time we thought he had fallen asleep. Then another knock came. I thought "who is awake this time?!" So, I yelled out "Who is it?". A very low manly response came saying "You know who it is." It was all we could do not to crack up and send to wrong message...it was hilarious!!

Oh Johnsons...buffalope, literally and you know who it is! Literally , you do!!