Funny Dale-isms 2013
In an effort to catch up on my blogging, I've been perusing through my 2013 Facebook posts for stories and other pictures. I've quoted so many funny and/or frustrating sayings or stories about Dale that I think it's worth mentioning on the blog so it will be recorded in the family scrapbook someday. Will have to go through 2012 another day.
March 2013
Me: "Dale, can you eat something for lunch? What do you want to eat?"
Dale: "How 'bout, yogurt?"
Me: "Yogurt? What else are you going to have with some yogurt? (thinking food)"
Dale: "ummm, a poon (spoon), a bow (bowl)..."
May 22, 2013
Someone got into the stamps
June 5, 2013
In the last 30 minutes I have confiscated scissors, matches, a toilet paper holder spring, and my wallet (empty of all my coins) from Dale. He also helped himself to sticky Limemade during that time as well. It's freaking madness, and it's exhausting. He can't be left unsupervised unless he is zoned out watching Curious George.
June 7, 2013
Justin had the pruning shears out trimming some tree branches. Dale thought it looked fun. He proudly showed us that he had trimmed our little peach tree!!! #insertcusswordhere
June 8, 2013
I know looking at the big picture this is only $1 worth of toothpaste and the fact that Dale used nearly an entire tube to create and soap/box/sink sandwich shouldn't bother me so much, but this crap really ticks me off!!!
June 10, 2013
What's the point in trying to clean the house several hours before a showing to avoid the last minute dash to clean everything right beforehand? I've cleaned the living room twice in the last hour, and I'm sure I'll clean it again before tonight. Dale saw a clean counter and decided to help himself to a quart of yogurt, and spill it off the counter onto the stool and floor, and dump water in the carpet so he could slurp it up (I thought we were past that stage, seriously...)
June 30, 2013
Wow, so after church today this huge kid, who looked like he could be at least 5yrs old, ran up to the front of the chapel and proceeding to climb up onto the pulpit and got both feet up there and almost pulled himself up to standing position by the time his Dad ran up there and pulled him off. THE CHAPEL PULPIT. His parents must have been so embarrassed!
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at least we got Dale down before he could get to a complete standing position....It all took about 10 seconds....no words...
June 24, 2013
This is what a few hours of Dale's free play leaves. Notice an uncovered milk jug next to the couch?? Chocolate covered raisins in the carpet? Now he's emptying the hall closet. This takes me from 0 to pissed immediately.
July 2, 2013
Hard to get a message across whe the ad keys o my computer do't work aymore after Dale dreched my keyoard with water...
July 5, 2013
Still eats sand at the playground
July 10, 2013
Because he likes to leave his mark wherever he goes.
July 8, 2013
July 16, 2013
Woke up and walked out to the family room and saw this. They were just laying there, big brother with a loving arm around little brother. Special experience.
July 25, 2013
Take a wild guess as to what/who happened to this library book. That's the first 82 pages of the book.
July 25, 2013
Dale's moments of voluntary affection are so infrequent that this melts my heart seeing his arm around his big brother. Special bond between those two.
July 28, 2013
Kids can fall asleep in the craziest places.
July 29, 2013
Watching documentaries on Giant Squids on youtube tonight with my older children when I hear a blood curdling scream behind me and see blood spewing out of Dale's hand (literally gushing out). By the time I scrambled the 10ft to him he had a trail of blood drops 6-8ft long around my island and all over himself. Bugger had decided to get one of my brand new paring knives out of the drawer and try to cut the top off his water bottle, was pushing on the plastic and it slipped and punctured the pocket between his thumb and index finger. Grabbed him, threw a rag over his hand and squeezed, yelled for older kids to run and get Dad (blood everywhere = terrified kids, Adaira was freaking out asking me if Dale cut his finger off). Trip to urgent care, got my first real look at fat tissue poking out of his cut, doctors got him cleaned up, taped up with steri-strips, wrapped up and out the door. Maybe he'll leave my knives alone now. Poor guy.
July 31, 2013
Dale language:
Computer = Piputer
Banana= Pinana
Nutella= Pitella
His cousin Xander= Pizander
Air conditioner = Aih conditida
Using more sentences every day. Seems like God throws me a bone sometimes when I feel like I can't survive this kid. My hat is off to parents of special needs children, Dale could be far worse, and I'm so grateful he's not.
August 12, 2013
God makes some kids SO incredibly cute....It must be so they won't get beaten by their own mothers for all of their crazy antics.
August 12, 2013
Dale loves to watch Cars clips on youtube, lately he's been watching the Tractor tipping clip. He asked me so sweetly, "We go tractor tipping mom?" That's funny right there.
In all seriousness though, if I had millions of dollars, I'd buy myself a nice house in the middle of a farm, like the one on Gilbert and Brooks Farm Rd. I'm jealous every time I drive by. Except I would have some cows to tip.
August 19, 2013
Someone keeps stealing money from Brighton & Adaira, and it's really upsetting them. Dale, on the other hand, is very excited to see our "Disneyland Jar" filling up at a rapid pace.
August 22, 2013
Wow, we hit an unexpected milestone today with Dale. For whatever reason, he has never been willing to tell me (or anyone else) what his name is. Tonight he came out and said "Hey Mom, I just knowed my name!" and I said "Really? What is your name??" and he says "Dale" !!! Okay it sounded more like "Day" than "Dale" because he seems to always talk with clenched teeth, but he has NEVER even been willing to try!
August 22, 2013
Dale doesn't love me any more because he doesn't want noodles for lunch. I told him I loved him, and he says "I don't love you too!"
August 25, 2013
So on a camping trip with family and friends, I shared a story about Dale last week that everyone voted Facebook worthy, so here it is for your enjoyment.
Last Sunday Justin & I were sitting in Sunday School and a primary leader opened the door and whispered to us that she needed one of us. She had Dale standing next to her. Justin got up and went out there and I was just thinking "Oh boy, now Dale is out of control in primary and one of us has to sit with him..." Justin didn't come back for about 20 minutes and told me that apparently Dale had discovered that his zipper was open during primary, and then discovered that he also didn't have any underwear on either, so OF COURSE he thinks "Hey, here's something I can play with!" His teacher saw him messing around down there and went to try to zip up his pants but the zipper was actually BROKEN, and she realized he also didn't have any underwear on. She told me after that at that point she knew "this wasn't something I could fix!" Justin had to take him home and get another pair of pants and underwear on him. Apparently the primary leader was trying not to laugh when she told Justin about it out in the hallway. Today I am making sure he has underwear on and a functioning zipper!
August 28, 2013
I know a little boy who learned his lesson this morning about putting metal objects in electrical outlets. Betcha he won't be doing that again. It is wrong for me to wish that all of his naughty behaviors zapped him back that way?
September 20, 2013
Anyone else able to see the future in this pic? #dale
September 24, 2013
$40k for a pool or $20 for plastic totes? Tough call...
September 25, 2013
This is what I get when I ask them to smile and say cheese.
October 4, 2013
A small sampling of Dale's gift to me today. These crayon lines span the entertainment center, across the tile in front of the fireplace, along the bench seat, on the couch, across the refrigerator and floor to 3ft high in Brighton's room. I am leaving on vacation tomorrow WITHOUT kids and I'm not looking back!
October 17, 2013
The other day Dale was playing with the "Guess Who" game the kids left in the car after a road trip. He asked me to play with him and I said "Sorry buddy, but Mommy has to drive" and he says "but you just could play and dwive with your knees..." Guess he's watching me more often than I think, lol.
October 18, 2013
Started dancing in front of Justin for fun in front of the kids tonight and Dale says "Mom, stop it! Dat is making me jus' feak (freak) out." I start laughing and he says "Dat is jus weed (weird)". Loving hearing the funny expressions this kid says now that is getting better with his speech!
October 26, 2013
Supposed to be at the Chandler day of play right now but THIS happened to my room over the course of 15min while I was getting ready. My hyper sensitive 4yr old melting down because he doesn't want to clean it up. #getmeouttahere
November 5, 2013
Dale is SO lucky magic erasers exist. If red permanent marker would have been stuck forever in that 3ftx3ft section of tile and grout lines I would have blown my top.... Child was supposed to be taking a nap anyways!
November 15, 2013
4yr old for hire! Started a project in my parents basement, Dale kept asking if he could help so I showed him what to do. Now I'm sitting on the stairs playing on my phone and he's having the time of his life pulling out baseboards. He just walked by with a piece and said "I super awesthome!"
November 17, 2013
This makes me smile. Dale is just kickin' it on top of Brighton watching cartoons...and Brighton is sweet enough to let him do it.
November 22, 2013
So hard to get a decent picture of this kid!
December 4, 2013
Anyone surprised that Dale just knocked the Christmas tree over? Water everywhere, ornaments on the floor, half the lights fell off. Took a while just to straighten the tree out in the stand and get it to stay up again. This is what it looks like now. Seriously considering pulling out my artificial tree and redecorating.
December 12, 2013
Can you spot the trouble in this picture?
December 15, 2013
Made it to the temple lights tonight. After chasing and losing Dale over and over in the crowds, we left. I think we'll try it again, in about 5yrs.
December 25, 2013
March 2013
Me: "Dale, can you eat something for lunch? What do you want to eat?"
Dale: "How 'bout, yogurt?"
Me: "Yogurt? What else are you going to have with some yogurt? (thinking food)"
Dale: "ummm, a poon (spoon), a bow (bowl)..."
May 22, 2013
Someone got into the stamps
June 5, 2013
In the last 30 minutes I have confiscated scissors, matches, a toilet paper holder spring, and my wallet (empty of all my coins) from Dale. He also helped himself to sticky Limemade during that time as well. It's freaking madness, and it's exhausting. He can't be left unsupervised unless he is zoned out watching Curious George.
June 7, 2013
Justin had the pruning shears out trimming some tree branches. Dale thought it looked fun. He proudly showed us that he had trimmed our little peach tree!!! #insertcusswordhere
June 8, 2013
I know looking at the big picture this is only $1 worth of toothpaste and the fact that Dale used nearly an entire tube to create and soap/box/sink sandwich shouldn't bother me so much, but this crap really ticks me off!!!
June 10, 2013
What's the point in trying to clean the house several hours before a showing to avoid the last minute dash to clean everything right beforehand? I've cleaned the living room twice in the last hour, and I'm sure I'll clean it again before tonight. Dale saw a clean counter and decided to help himself to a quart of yogurt, and spill it off the counter onto the stool and floor, and dump water in the carpet so he could slurp it up (I thought we were past that stage, seriously...)
June 30, 2013
Wow, so after church today this huge kid, who looked like he could be at least 5yrs old, ran up to the front of the chapel and proceeding to climb up onto the pulpit and got both feet up there and almost pulled himself up to standing position by the time his Dad ran up there and pulled him off. THE CHAPEL PULPIT. His parents must have been so embarrassed!
.
.
.
.
at least we got Dale down before he could get to a complete standing position....It all took about 10 seconds....no words...
June 24, 2013
This is what a few hours of Dale's free play leaves. Notice an uncovered milk jug next to the couch?? Chocolate covered raisins in the carpet? Now he's emptying the hall closet. This takes me from 0 to pissed immediately.
Hard to get a message across whe the ad keys o my computer do't work aymore after Dale dreched my keyoard with water...
July 5, 2013
Still eats sand at the playground
July 10, 2013
Because he likes to leave his mark wherever he goes.
I
am becoming more and more convinced that Dale was sent to me to teach
me patience by pushing me to my breaking point every single day. It's a
test of my strength, I am sure of it. Especially just now when I found
him dancing (with shoes on) on Justin's less than a month old OPEN
laptop. And yes, he did break something. I am not laughing right now.
July 16, 2013
Woke up and walked out to the family room and saw this. They were just laying there, big brother with a loving arm around little brother. Special experience.
July 25, 2013
Take a wild guess as to what/who happened to this library book. That's the first 82 pages of the book.
July 25, 2013
Dale's moments of voluntary affection are so infrequent that this melts my heart seeing his arm around his big brother. Special bond between those two.
July 28, 2013
Kids can fall asleep in the craziest places.
July 29, 2013
Watching documentaries on Giant Squids on youtube tonight with my older children when I hear a blood curdling scream behind me and see blood spewing out of Dale's hand (literally gushing out). By the time I scrambled the 10ft to him he had a trail of blood drops 6-8ft long around my island and all over himself. Bugger had decided to get one of my brand new paring knives out of the drawer and try to cut the top off his water bottle, was pushing on the plastic and it slipped and punctured the pocket between his thumb and index finger. Grabbed him, threw a rag over his hand and squeezed, yelled for older kids to run and get Dad (blood everywhere = terrified kids, Adaira was freaking out asking me if Dale cut his finger off). Trip to urgent care, got my first real look at fat tissue poking out of his cut, doctors got him cleaned up, taped up with steri-strips, wrapped up and out the door. Maybe he'll leave my knives alone now. Poor guy.
July 31, 2013
Dale language:
Computer = Piputer
Banana= Pinana
Nutella= Pitella
His cousin Xander= Pizander
Air conditioner = Aih conditida
Using more sentences every day. Seems like God throws me a bone sometimes when I feel like I can't survive this kid. My hat is off to parents of special needs children, Dale could be far worse, and I'm so grateful he's not.
August 12, 2013
God makes some kids SO incredibly cute....It must be so they won't get beaten by their own mothers for all of their crazy antics.
August 12, 2013
Dale loves to watch Cars clips on youtube, lately he's been watching the Tractor tipping clip. He asked me so sweetly, "We go tractor tipping mom?" That's funny right there.
In all seriousness though, if I had millions of dollars, I'd buy myself a nice house in the middle of a farm, like the one on Gilbert and Brooks Farm Rd. I'm jealous every time I drive by. Except I would have some cows to tip.
August 19, 2013
Someone keeps stealing money from Brighton & Adaira, and it's really upsetting them. Dale, on the other hand, is very excited to see our "Disneyland Jar" filling up at a rapid pace.
August 22, 2013
Wow, we hit an unexpected milestone today with Dale. For whatever reason, he has never been willing to tell me (or anyone else) what his name is. Tonight he came out and said "Hey Mom, I just knowed my name!" and I said "Really? What is your name??" and he says "Dale" !!! Okay it sounded more like "Day" than "Dale" because he seems to always talk with clenched teeth, but he has NEVER even been willing to try!
August 22, 2013
Dale doesn't love me any more because he doesn't want noodles for lunch. I told him I loved him, and he says "I don't love you too!"
August 25, 2013
So on a camping trip with family and friends, I shared a story about Dale last week that everyone voted Facebook worthy, so here it is for your enjoyment.
Last Sunday Justin & I were sitting in Sunday School and a primary leader opened the door and whispered to us that she needed one of us. She had Dale standing next to her. Justin got up and went out there and I was just thinking "Oh boy, now Dale is out of control in primary and one of us has to sit with him..." Justin didn't come back for about 20 minutes and told me that apparently Dale had discovered that his zipper was open during primary, and then discovered that he also didn't have any underwear on either, so OF COURSE he thinks "Hey, here's something I can play with!" His teacher saw him messing around down there and went to try to zip up his pants but the zipper was actually BROKEN, and she realized he also didn't have any underwear on. She told me after that at that point she knew "this wasn't something I could fix!" Justin had to take him home and get another pair of pants and underwear on him. Apparently the primary leader was trying not to laugh when she told Justin about it out in the hallway. Today I am making sure he has underwear on and a functioning zipper!
August 28, 2013
I know a little boy who learned his lesson this morning about putting metal objects in electrical outlets. Betcha he won't be doing that again. It is wrong for me to wish that all of his naughty behaviors zapped him back that way?
September 20, 2013
Anyone else able to see the future in this pic? #dale
September 24, 2013
$40k for a pool or $20 for plastic totes? Tough call...
September 25, 2013
This is what I get when I ask them to smile and say cheese.
October 4, 2013
A small sampling of Dale's gift to me today. These crayon lines span the entertainment center, across the tile in front of the fireplace, along the bench seat, on the couch, across the refrigerator and floor to 3ft high in Brighton's room. I am leaving on vacation tomorrow WITHOUT kids and I'm not looking back!
October 17, 2013
The other day Dale was playing with the "Guess Who" game the kids left in the car after a road trip. He asked me to play with him and I said "Sorry buddy, but Mommy has to drive" and he says "but you just could play and dwive with your knees..." Guess he's watching me more often than I think, lol.
October 18, 2013
Started dancing in front of Justin for fun in front of the kids tonight and Dale says "Mom, stop it! Dat is making me jus' feak (freak) out." I start laughing and he says "Dat is jus weed (weird)". Loving hearing the funny expressions this kid says now that is getting better with his speech!
October 26, 2013
Supposed to be at the Chandler day of play right now but THIS happened to my room over the course of 15min while I was getting ready. My hyper sensitive 4yr old melting down because he doesn't want to clean it up. #getmeouttahere
November 5, 2013
Dale is SO lucky magic erasers exist. If red permanent marker would have been stuck forever in that 3ftx3ft section of tile and grout lines I would have blown my top.... Child was supposed to be taking a nap anyways!
November 15, 2013
4yr old for hire! Started a project in my parents basement, Dale kept asking if he could help so I showed him what to do. Now I'm sitting on the stairs playing on my phone and he's having the time of his life pulling out baseboards. He just walked by with a piece and said "I super awesthome!"
November 17, 2013
This makes me smile. Dale is just kickin' it on top of Brighton watching cartoons...and Brighton is sweet enough to let him do it.
November 22, 2013
So hard to get a decent picture of this kid!
December 4, 2013
Anyone surprised that Dale just knocked the Christmas tree over? Water everywhere, ornaments on the floor, half the lights fell off. Took a while just to straighten the tree out in the stand and get it to stay up again. This is what it looks like now. Seriously considering pulling out my artificial tree and redecorating.
December 12, 2013
Can you spot the trouble in this picture?
December 15, 2013
Made it to the temple lights tonight. After chasing and losing Dale over and over in the crowds, we left. I think we'll try it again, in about 5yrs.
December 25, 2013
Merry Christmas everyone! Hope you have a relaxing day. Dale doesn't take Christmas off unfortunately #permanentmarker
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