~ Livin ~ Laughin ~ Lovin ~: Energy to Expend!

Chloe Quotes

While Grandma and Grandpa Howard were making pancakes Saturday morning:
Chloe: Grandma and Grandpa, you have a special kind of love...where you just work together.
G & G: Well, thank you, Chloe.
7-16-11

Me: What's wrong Chloe
C: I'm tired of breathing
Me: oh yeah?
C: I'm going to stop breathing...
Me: ok (few moments pass)
C: (gasp), Why do we have to breathe?!
Me: to live
C: I wish we didn't have to breathe so much, breathing is making me tired.
6-8-11

Mom asks, "Hey Chloe. If Dad and me had a wrestling match, who would win?" Chloe confidently responds, "ME!"
5-3-11

Chloe comes up to a boy (about 6 or 7 years old) and in a conversational tone asks, "So, are YOU the best wrestler in your family too?" Boy, very confused, says "huh?"
--that's right, our girl is pretty sure of her abilities--
4-27-11

{apparently Chloe doesn't approve of mommy-daddy conversations...}
"Dad! Stop talkin' mom's head into the trash".
4-2-11

{Have you heard of the magic "pasta pot"?}
Me: "If you had a magic pasta pot, what food would you have it make all the time"?
Chloe: "Brussel Sprouts!!! Brussel Sprouts every day and that's all it would make"!
3-8-11

"When at church, and I'm in my teaching class, teaching the gospel, I know that doing what's right is a good idea"
(yes!)
~Feb 9th '11

--while playing pretend-- "They want to kill me, because I'm SO beautiful"
~Oct 18th '10~

"Mom, my eyes are getting black" (aka I'm falling asleep)

"There's got to be a reason to smile at a crocodile"

Dad: Look Chloe, your tadpole has grown legs!
Chloe: It's a daddy frog?!

Chloe: Daddy I love you, but I wish you were a dad that couldn't go to school.

~Chloe: Mom if you drink all that agua, I'm going to saw you in two halves!
Mom: Where on earth do you get this stuff???
Chloe: Ahh, ARIZONA!

~Chloe: Mom, ask me if I heard that?
Mom: Chloe, did you hear that?
Chloe: YES! AND I NEVER WANT TO HEAR IT AGAIN!
March 2nd '10

~Chloe: I will wear that dress when it gets bigger.
Mom: Clothes don't grow bigger, only alive things grow.
Chloe: hmmm... I know clothes that will get bigger..
Mom: yeah? what?
Chloe: ME!
Dec 17th '09

~Asking Chloe to play quietly, she responds ~
"Sure...NOT!!!" Asking her, "what does that mean?", and she says, "I will play quiet AND LOUD"
Dec 16th '09

~Chloe was teasing Dad again and was trying to bite and lick his hand. Dad avoiding her and laughing says,~
"Chloe what are you trying to do?" Chloe replies, "I'm trying to laugh your head off Dad!"
Dec 16th '09

~What's for dinner?~
Dad: "What do you want for dinner Chloe"?
Chloe: "Soup"
Dad: What kind of soup, the beef soup in the fridge"?
Chloe: "no, CHOCOLATE SOUP"!
Nov 9th '09

~Standing on the slide~
"Who's the most perfect, pretty princess in the whole wide world *pause*, CHLOE"!!!
Nov 6th '09

Friday, February 11, 2011

Energy to Expend!

Today after walking home from a neighbors house Porter couldn't hold in his excitement that it wasn't absolutely FREEZing outside and that he REALLY NEEDED to expend some energy outside to celebrate the (bit of) warmer weather.
He proceeded to run up and down the sidewalk more than a dozen times, laughing the whole time. I love this happy kid!