Overheard in the Lowell home...

In no particular order, and without much editing. Here we go!

Ari (while cooking in the kitchen): Ilan, I have no more patience for your whining. You have your paci and your lovey, if you need to self soothe, you can go do it somewhere else.

Ari (said following my IQ testing for his assessment course): So it turns out that you're an off the charts genius in verbal comprehension, except your working memory and processing are so hampered that you might as well be an idiot.
Shana: yeah, tell me something I don't know. I've been telling you for years I have the memory of a peapod. But hey, at least I know exactly what a peapod is.

Ari (looking over from the kitchen toward sunroom): Ilan, please stop screaming at the dinner table.
Ilan: No! I wanna scream ring ring (said at top volume).
Shana (under my breathe): He wants to scream ring ring. How exactly do we compete with that?

Gavriel (upon hearing that one of his new fish died in the quarantine tank): WAHHHHHHH! But Ima, I never got to show him to the other fish in my room. He never got to see my room or my toys, or my friends. Ima, if they all die and we get new ones I won't remember their names and then won't remember to tell the other fish about them so they can all be sad!

Shana: Ilan, go get your paci.
Ilan: No, wait Ima, I need help finding it. You please come with me?
Shana: blink. blink.

That's the look. The one Ari and I give each other at least once a day that says "did he just say what we think he said?" The answer is always yes.

Shana (observing pre-bath shenanigans): Nadavi, you're naked!
Nadav (looks down): Nooooooo! No, I'm not!
Shana: you just stick to that line of answers under interrogation kid, and you're gonna go far.

Ilan: Abba, I want milk. I'm cranky.
Ari: blink. blink.

More coming later, have to go get the kids from day care so I can feed them all a nutritious dinner of cheerios and apples and send them off to bed. Not that that actually sticks, mind you. Nadav in particular has been enjoying the 3am "I want Abba" wailing for the past two weeks. Figures that Ilan would start sleeping and Nadav would take over.

Everyone said, oh, it'll be so great when Nadav starts speaking more! And I warned them, I said, when he gets going it won't be possible to shut him up. Well, lo and behold, this morning at 6 am I tiptoed past the room and heard Nadav having an entire conversation to himself while Ilan tried to shush him "me still sleeping!"

Ah well, I suppose it was time Ilan got a taste of his own medicine. As for myself, I'm investing in ear plugs. Really really soon.

Finally, a huge huge thanks to all those who chipped in this past week while I was out on medical mommy leave. You know who you are and I appreciate it so much.