Riedem-isms

It's been since March that I've done a "Will-isms" post!  Partly out of laziness.  Partly because he's maturing too much and his speech is more adult-like and less silly errors that came with a younger age.  Now, so much of his funnies are because he sounds so grown up and it's amusing to hear those mature things coming out of a five-year-old.

Sophie on the other hand just wasn't the same in regards to bold, early, mature speech.  She started talking early enough, but she spoke simply and not really advanced for her age.  Most of the things we giggled about were her silly voices and cutest tones:  high pitch with questions, dripping with sweetness, growly with frustration, etc.  Those weren't exactly things we could put into comical posts for the persons not actually listening to her.  We certainly laughed with her, but in a different way.

I think a lot of the basics and early funnies went into her monthly development posts.  So I won't go back and post those.  I'll just try to pick up around the same time the last Will-ism post left off.  I apologize if I squeezed any of them into other posts and you've already heard them.  But especially recently, she's gotten really funny!

And instead of separating the posts, I'll just jointly compile both kids' funnies and call them "Riedem-isms".  Deal?

1) (Apr - Sophie) A popular slogan with Sophie these days:  "I'm serious!"  (This has continued to now and she says it any time you seem to doubt her... for any reason.)
2) (Apr - Sophie) Another popular preface to any sentence:  "Actually..."
3) (Apr - Sophie) Driving on 75 northbound coming from Perrysburg Peds and Sophie's 3-yr well check, she asked "are we still on the big road, mommy?"  I said "yes, we're still on the highway, baby.  But we're going to get off pretty soon because we're gonna' make a couple of stops."  Sophie asked "and then we're gonna' make a couple of go's?"
4) (Apr - Sophie) Sophie has had a fixation on her birthday being "up", as in somehow 'up in the air'.  I think it had something to do with me frequently telling her that her birthday was "coming up".  So even after her birthday passed and she wanted to extend the celebrating, she'd tell me her birthday was "still up".  She even had Will believing this terminology and they were both asking if her birthday had "come down".  I kept telling them that we might say something is "coming up", but that once it's passed, we just say it's "over".  Will accepted this explanation.  Sophie kept arguing "my birthday's still up". 
5) (May - Sophie) Finally, Sophie understands that her birthday has passed, but still doesn't get the proper terminology.  Tonight she tole me:  "my birthday came down".  I said "yes, your birthday is over now".  She said "Yes! My birthday was down on the ground, then it came up and it was my birthday and then it went back down and now my birthday is over."  :)
6) (May - Will) Will's been able to open the door to my Jeep, close it behind him and buckle himself into his car seat for awhile now.  As we were leaving preschool to drive to the elementary school for a tour, Will says to me "I almost closed myself in the door!  I was 'freakin' out'!"  LOL  And a little bit later, telling his slightly younger school mate (who was riding in our car in Sophie's seat) about how great this visit was going to be.  "This is the awesomest school ever!  And that is not a lie.  Wait till you see it!"
7) (May - Sophie) Both kids love the song "Moves Like Jagger" lately.  They love to sing and dance to it and Sophie likes to change out the word "Jagger" with mommy, daddy, Brutus, Will, the house, etc.  :)  Tonight at dinner, she was singing again and we tried to ask her to stop singing and eat.  She said with frustrated insistence "I'm Jagger and I've got moves!!"
8) (May - Will) A couple frequent slogans out of Will's mouth lately:  "In fact..." and "Technically..." (both used to preface many sentences).  He uses them correctly for the most part but they're a little bit overused.  He's also been saying "prefer" a lot, though not always in correct context.  Like when he was trying to tell Craig that he prefers the same thing Craig does, he said "Daddy, I prefer with you." 
9) (May - Sophie) Driving in the car, Sophie tells me "Daddy's got a little bit of hair on his belly.  I don't have hair on my belly.  I just have hair on my top."  (Pats head when she says "top".)  :)
10) (May - Sophie) Walking into the Andersons with Sophie on my hip in the parking lot, Sophie looks up at the sign above the door and moves her hands in an arching motion above her hear as she says:  "It says: 'the meat store'."  Haha!
11) (June - Will) The kids have been introduced to Alvin and the Chipmunks movies and are totally hooked.  Craig and I were trying to explain the word "sequel" to Will and why it was funny that the 2nd movie was called the "Squeak-wel" (sp?).  He didn't seem to get it at first but then we think he caught on because he told us that Babe 2 should have been called the "Oink-wel".  Haha!  Very clever!
12) (June - Will) On his birthday, while we were visiting the planetarium, Craig carried Will up several flights of stairs to reach the observatory.  (Still not sure why Craig opted for the stairs.)  When we were finished and ready to head back down, Will said to Craig:  "Dad, you know how you like to protect me and keep me safe?  Well, I want to keep you safe too... You should take the elevator this time."
13) (June - Will) After his birthday, Will has decided that he would like to use some of his birthday money ($25) to buy another Tranformer (Sentinel Prime) that he really wanted the most.  We allowed him to do so, with a big lesson in using money that went along with that experience.  We ordered it at a huge cost savings from E-bay on a Sunday night and by Monday evening, when it hadn't arrived yet, Will was in tears.  We told him it would probably take several days because it was coming from Oregon state and we looked at a U.S. map with him to show how far it had to travel.  On the way to karate class Monday night, Will said with a voice of sudden realization:  "Oh! I know why it's taking so long!... Their trucks are too slow!"  :)  And then later:  "I think it's probably in Wyoming now."  And still later:  "Maybe they could put it on a jet or a plane to make it go faster and they could drop it down to me with a hook... or they could just give it to me on a day wer're playing outside and they could drop it down and I'll catch it!"  :)  Haha!  Such a test of patience! 
14) (June - Sophie) Sophie was stripping down in the kitchen to go outside and skinny dip in the baby pool while I watered the garden.  When she sat down to pull her underwear off her legs, her hiney landed on a Lego that one of the kids left on the floor and the corner of it scratched her and actually made her bleed just a little.  She made a pained face and said "owwie!" but didn't cry.  Before I realized what had happened, I asked "did you sit on it?"  For some reason, she said "no".  I asked "did you step on it?"  Again, she said "no".  I asked "well, what happened?"  She said "my bootie stepped on it!"  :(
15) (July - Will) "Mom, I think I have a goose bump."  (It was a mosquito bite.)
16) (July - Sophie) Sophie ate a bunch of our babysitter's fresh picked garden vegetables that weren't really intended for her to eat.  When I asked her about it, she shrugged her shoulders and said "silly me, I guess".  :)
17) (July - Sophie) Received a trophy from the library that says something about Summer 2012 - Great Job Reading.  But Sophie insisted it read (while sliding her finger over the words):  "Sophie is win-ning".  She paused between the word winning like it was two words.  Haha - quite proud of herself I guess.
18) (July - Will) Craig was getting fed up with constantly transforming Will's "leader class" Transformers (the really hard ones).  They are far too advanced for Will and I haven't a clue what to do with them.  So Craig was passive aggressively saying to Will (loud enough for me to hear): "You know, you have TWO parents that you could ask to do this for you.  You don't always have to ask me."  And Will's response was:  "Ya, but daddy, you're a construction worker... you build things and you can fix things.  Mommy's just a dietitian... she makes us the healthy meals."  Hahahahaha!!!  I love it!  Coincidentally, I was prepping dinner while Craig was watching TV so it was perfect timing... even if I am "just" a dietitian.
19) (July - Sophie) Whenever Sophie is referring to a day in the past, she always says "last morning..."  Other common expressions from her lately:  "That's my dooog!" (when she fist pounds daddy), "I suppose...", "Actually...", "Wait a second!"
20) (August - Sophie) Craig was laying down with Sophie at bedtime because she wanted someone to snuggle with her.  He had his arm draped over her and she asked him: "daddy, are you protecting me?"  He said "yes" and she replied "thank you for protecting me".  Aww!  So sweet!!
21) (August - Will) Will is becoming such a mini-me of his daddy, picking up so many expressions that Craig jokingly uses with him often.  Several of them include:
"That's what I'm talking about!"
"That's my boy!" or "That's my dog!" (to Craig)
"That's what I like to hear!"
22) (August - Will) Following his doctor's appointment (dx: swimmer's ear), I decided to take Will shopping for school supplies.  We parked and as we were walking into Target, Will said "School supplies... here we come!"
23) (August - Sophie) Taking a shower with Sophie (it's rare, but she did so well!), she watched me shaving my legs and said "can you scrape my legs too?"  Haha!  :)
24) (August - Sophie) Swimming naked at Nana's because we forgot her suit:  "I'm kinny stipping!"
25) (August - Sophie) Sad that her first concert (The Fresh Beat Band) was over, she asked as we were walking out of the zoo to the parking lot:  "Is the Fresh Beat Band going home?  Where's their car?"  :)
26) (September - Will) At Andersons, Will wants to get in the back of the cart while we wait our turn at the meat counter.  He asks: "Can I jump in the cart?"  I say: "You can't jump in, I can lift you in."  Will replied:  "It's just an expression, mom".
27) (September - Will) After hearing Sophie singing, Will says to us about her:  "She rocks my socks.  She's a big ball of awesome."
28) (October - Sophie) Randomly, at dinner:  "Hey guys!  Wanna' go camping?"  Thus beginning her obsession with the building of "camp outs" all over the house with her pillows and blankets.  :)
29) (October - Will) Will stayed home from school this morning with a barky cough.  He turned out not to be too sick - the cough subsided and nothing else - so we decided he'll go into school for the afternoon.  So after he finished dressing, he came out to tell me:  "You know, I think I have a common cold."  :)  And for the whole day, Will was insanely sweet and complimentary to me.  When we got out of the car at school and were starting to cross the parking lot, I started to reach my hand out to him out of habit.  But there was really no one else in the lot and it occured to me that maybe Will would prefer to be big kid and not hold his mom's hand.  So I stopped myself.  But then he took my hand all on his own donig and said to me:  "I love holding your hand."  And as we walked into the breezeway, just before entering the office, he said: "Mom, I love you so much."  :) Just writing this makes me tear up again.  That boy sure holds my heart.  And oh how I will ache to relive this day when he's too big and too cool to say it that simply anymore.  :(  I love him!!
30) (October - Sophie) Soph to me:  "You're my best friend" or "We're best friends, right?"
31) (November - Sophie) Calls clementines, "lemon-kines".
32) (November - Sophie) To daddy, while he's driving:  "Be careful, daddy! Don't bump into the fog!"
33) (November - Will) Playing hide and seek at the our friends' house with several kids while the parents visit in the living room.  The kids had been trying to hide under/around/behind the adults - concealing themselves with pillows and blankets.  When it was Will's turn to be the seeker, he approached one of the other moms sitting on the chair and assumed she was concealing a kids.  He asked her, "Angie, could you please open your legs?" as all the adults busted up laughing.  :)  Hey, at least he asked politely!
34) (November - Sophie) Brutus licked her toes.  "Eeew, he licked my polish!"
35) (December - Sophie) Picking kids up at the babysitters, I'm carrying Sophie up the steps from the basement playroom.  She says to me:  "Be careful going up the steps, mommy!"  And then when we reached the top of the stairs and she said:  "Be careful standing on your feet, mommy!"  Wow.  I must exude grace and good balance to my daughter. 
36) (December - Sophie) When Sophie's outside in the cold, her eyes start to water and sometimes tears start to fall involuntarily.  Once, when that started to happen, she said to me:  "I think I'm crying..."  I said:  "You're crying?"  And she said:  "Ya, my drippers are falling!"
37) (December - Sophie) I was talking to Craig and didn't answer right away when Sophie was trying to get my attention.  After asking me to collect her water bottle from her (in the car) repeatedly, she said: "Why do I have to ask three times?"
38) (December - Sophie) I asked Sophie if she pooped at Lisa's house today.  She responded:  "I tried, but the poop kept staying in my butt.  It said 'what are you trying to do?'  And I said 'I'm trying to poop!'  And it said 'uh uhh!!'."  LOL
39) (December - Sophie) Me:  "Soph, if you're going to color, don't scribble.  Color neatly."
Soph:  "I don't know! My crayon keeps scribbling! I don't know how to stop it!"  (And later...) "What's going on with my blue crayon? It keeps scribbling!"
40) (December - Sophie) From the next room, I hear Will say "Sophie hit me!"  (His tone didn't sound too concerned.)  So I said "Sophie, did you hit your brother?"  And she said "No! I didn't hit him! I just popped him in the lips!"  Confused, I said "Well, popping in the lips is not okay either."  To which she replied, "Ooooh... okay.  You're right.  I won't do it again."