Ism's For The Week

Lincoln-isms...

I love the band Bare Naked Ladies, it's a great, hilarious band from Canada. Lincoln also loves their song $1,000,000, but I don't think he'd ever heard the band's name before. We were talking in the car and he asked if I had that song on my phone. I told him yes, but it was the only Bare Naked Lady song I had on there, and that I need to download more. He looked at me in utter confusion and disgust...which I didn't understand until I really thought about what I had just said. Thankfully I could easily explain that one away.

Then we were reading the Book of Mormon one morning. Lincoln's just about 12 and he's really been working on being on his best behavior. He ended up with a verse that said ass, as in donkey. He got right up to the word, squirming all the way, then asked if he could just say donkey instead. I love it, he's such a great kid.

Savannah-isms...

She will deny having any interest in Justin Bieber (seriously, we've never even listened to him here at home). However, I still find papers with Savannah loves J.B. on them all over the place.  Ah, the pre-pre-pre-adolescent girls and their crushes.

She was talking to her cousin, Lyndon, and said, "yeah, I'm smart! S-M-R-T". He looked confused, and she said it again. I was laughing, because we quote Homer Simpson and his S-M-R-T song all the time, but I think it's time we explain to her how to actually spell smart.

Landry-isms...

She's famous around here for her elastic facial expressions and her unique pronunciation. She can say the funniest things while not unclenching her teeth and moving her face at all. 

She also loves words like punchy instead of poky and couldn't stop saying rodeo-deo for rodeo. Even when someone else corrected her she'd say, "Yeah, we went to the rodeo..........deo."

Cael-isms...

I think we may have finally figured out why he's not eating, when he replied at the dinner table, "I don't eat, because Spiderman doesn't have a mouth..."  So much for encouraging a liking of that particular super hero.

He has an amazing fascination with "Zombie Glabulators", which is some sort of a horrible creature mixed of gladiators and zombies...neither of which I think he could even identify.

And his face, when he gets excited, scrunches up to little semi-circle eyes and a gigantic smile. He entered the dining room in Houston with this face and proceeded to announce, "I've got to tell you something, it's totally creepy...Ashtyn is climbing on the t.v.!"