Adventures in babysitting.

Here are some of the [somewhat paraphrased, due to memory shortages...which are a result of aforementioned babysitting adventures] cute things that happened last night wilst babysitting.

Ruby [age 3]: My daddy turns 17 tomorrow.
Me: Oh really now?
Ruby: Yeah.
Me: I don't think so...
Ruby: Oh maybe it's 13.

Ruby: I'm a mouse!
Me: What's your name, mouse?
Ruby: Cheese puff.

[Note: due to the fact that bacon is not a frequently consumed item in our house, I have never cooked it. The following is my attempt to do so.]
Me: Aaron, does this bacon look like the bacon you normally have?
Aaron: Um...no.
>tastes bacon<
Aaron: But it tastes good!
Me: Okay...
Aaron: I like it. Hannah-style bacon.
(I now smell like bacon...from the funny cross between microwaving and pan-frying the bacon...several times in succession to make sure it was done.)

Me: Okay who wants maple syrup on their french toast?
Jonah: No no no!! We have to put butter on and cut it first!
Me: oh. Alright. >obliges<
Ruby: Can you pour me a puddle to dip in?

>minutes later, I've forgotten and have poured syrup on my own toast without cutting it<
Ruby: You didn't cut it!
Me: uhh...oops! haha. Um...well I'll just cut it now.
>later, after seconds have been passed around<
Me: Okay Ruby, let me cut yours for you.
Ruby: No! maple syrup first.

Jonah: I'm a TROLL!
Me: Well I'm a t-rex and I'm going to eat you!
Jonah: No! a t-rex doesn't eat trolls.
Me: Well how about a dragon?
Jonah: No, they don't eat trolls either.
Me: What eats trolls?
Jonah: Nothing.

Ruby: Canaan doesn't like me.
Me: Who's Canaan?
Ruby: this friend he doesn't like to play with me.
Me: Ooh. Well, even if he doesn't like you, Jesus likes you. And he likes Canaan, too.
Ruby: Did Jesus die for Canaan too?
Me: He sure did. Because he loves Canaan, he loves Jonah, and Aaron, and mommy and daddy, and he loves Ruby!
Ruby: And he loves you, too, Hannah Dokupil.

Knights of the round table - literally.

L: Today in school, we were learning about circumference.

Me: Is that so?

L: Yeah, and I was so confused because I thought circumference was a person.

Me: >pretends to understand< Haha, really?

L: Yeah cause you know, "Sir Cumference."

Best. Student. Ever.

of green beans and pioneers.

This year I've been teaching piano, working in awana, and babysitting on a regular basis, which means I've gotten a lot of awesome kid quotes. Here are some of my favorites from this week...

Me: If you have three notes altogether, it's a 3rd. What do you think it is when you have 2 notes together?

K: Um...a twoth?

......

Me: Who knows what a hymnal is?

B: It's a book they sang out of in like, the pioneer days.

......

Ruby: I'm a baby goose. You're the momma goose.

Me: Ruby, can you stand up?

Ruby: No say baby goose.

Me: Stand up, baby goose!

>obligingly stands up<

......

Me: Hey guys, if you eat your green beans, it will make me really, really happy.

>Ruby immediately eats like 5 beans<

Ruby: Did I make you happy?

Only five?

Today I had an extra quiz practice with my book 4 quizzers for awana T&T quizzing.

Oh, it was so. much. fun. One of them totally forgot about it, so we ended up going way late so they could all be there.

I started out using the goldfish crackers as a snack break, but it proved to be extremely distracting and I wasn't organized enough to just completely move it out of their way. (I've been up since 5am doing math and physics, give me break.) So I came up with the idea of giving them each a bowl and putting a goldfish in it when they did something particularly brilliant, and taking one out when they did something particularly...not so brilliant. =P

It worked quite well.

Halfway through, however, the following conversation ensues.

Me: Okay, take five and eat some goldfish.
>several minutes later<
L to J: you ate all of yours!
J: what's wrong with that?
L: she said eat only five!

Oh, how I love these kids. And coaching. And quizzing. I love seeing them get into it, get excited about remembering the material, learning new material...I especially love to see them in a huddle, buzzer jumping and getting excited like I did a few weeks ago on my quiz team.

(: