The Barker Family Journal: Holidays

Our Kids Say & Do The Craziest Things Sometimes...

"Hewo"... Kourtney's way to say Hello! Other words of Kourtney as of 3/11... sorry, bye bye, share some, ylar (Skylar), darson (Karson), Brode, Ben, help, pease (please), thank you, your welcome, goooo (at hockey games), yeah, me, colors...really anything, she will repeat! Her vocab is growing!

"What is lethargic?" said Karson... "The cousin to allergic!" said Brody... when we were all sitting around the table discussing Karson's sick symptons... (2/11)

Some words Kourtney is saying: Hello, Hi, bbbbb for book, bbb for blanket, ba-ba for bottle, mom, da da, ba for ball, ahhhhhh all the time for just about anything! (6/10)

"Dad, why do you like Michigan? (Pause) Oh I know, because Michigan is a M team and mom starts with M and you like mom." Brody chatting it up with dad (1/10).

"Look dad, we're matchy matchy...Brode and me matchy matchy." What Bennett says when his clothes are similar to anyone else's clothes. (11/09)

"It's blood mom... fake blood." What Brody and Bennett said to mom after she questioned what the little pieces of paper with red marker on it and taped to their faces were. And then she questioned why again..."we're boxing mom... it's the blood on boxers' faces mom" (10/09)

They tape on "eye black" also to their faces when they play football downstairs. (10/09)

"ewwww that's grose...dad has lipstick now!" What Bennett said after he saw Mom and Dad kiss. (9/09)

"Kourtney Boo" (Karson's nickname for Kourtney)

"Kourtney Bacon" (Ben's nickname for Kourtney)

"yip" (Ben, 3 years)

"Ben, you don't need gloves, only "pernessional" hockey players wear them like me." (Brody - 5/09)

"Mom you be Padme, Baby Kourtney be Princess Lea, Brody be Han, me be Luke." (Bennett - playing Star Wars - 4/09)

"Out of the Bloom" (Karson - a mixed up cliche... probably meant out of the blue - 4/09)

"Leaning tower of pizza tables" (Karson - a little confused about a tourist spot in Italy 4/09)

"Me here, me here... It ok, it ok, it ok"(Bennett - talking to Kourtney to help her stop crying - 4/09)

"Maybe the Holy Spirit IS "The Force" mom. (Brody - a random thought of his while driving in the car one day - 2/09).

Brody was told by mom that he could earn a "reward ticket" every time HE remembered to brush his teeth in the mornings. Mom asked him if he had brushed his teeth yet... his reply was no, but he would. Mom told him that wouldn't earn him a ticket though... a few moments later Brody held up is hand and said to mom, "YOU DON'T REMEMBER!" (Brody trying to use "The Force" on mom to get a ticket. :) - 3/09)

"Uhhhhhhhhh (while shaking his head)" (Bennett doing his impression of Chebaka from Star Wars - 1/09)

"Hey Hey...You You...girlfriend!" (Bennett singing a favorite song - 12/08)

"Thank you" "You're welcome" (Bennett using his manners, he can say them quite clearly - 30 months)

"Look, it's dad's favorite show. Too bad he's not here to watch it." (Brody while eating at a restaurant with College football on the tvs - 9/08)

Brody:"Mom did you know that Ninja Turtles like Pizza?"

Mom: "They do?"

Brody: "But you know what? They don't say prayer first"

Mom: "Maybe they don't know they should say prayer or maybe they don't know how to pray. Maybe you should teach them how to pray"

Brody: "Mom...they're toys!"

(Brody while he was lying in bed and mom "trying" to make it a "Gospel Teaching Moment!" 7/08)

"Dad, are you going to be on TV?"

(Karson asking dad when she saw him get ready to go golfing, 7/08)

"I can run faster than a donkey and a bullet!"

Brody-10/07

"Thank you for our nice house and our cozy beds"

Karson (while praying, 6 yrs)

"Varoom!"

Bennett (for the word cars)

"Mom, watch me be Shamu" "Mom, say, look there is Shamu's nose!" "Mom, be quiet, you'll scare Baby Shamu" "Mom, look at Shamu splash his tail" "Ahwooa"

Brody - 3/08

Whimpers and crawls around like a dog... even in stores, everywhere!

Bennett - 10 months and older

Has to race to get his diaper changed, and wants "Brode" to say "mark...go"

Bennett - 18 months and older

Uses sign language to "say" a few words: "more" "please" "thankyou" "drink"

Bennett - (when mom didn't want to hear his screams anymore, 9 months and older)

"Say What?"

Karson -(who watches too much Hannah Montana, 6 yrs)

"I want to feed Harry the Horse....mmm, maybe Dawn, yah Dawn the Horse."

Brody - 3/08

"There's crocodiles in the toilet! There's a whole family of crocodiles...one's a mommy and one's a daddy"

Brody - (while sitting on the toilet doing his "business", 3/08)

"That was a great book!"

Brody - (while "reading" a book in the car, 3/08)

Runs up to mom and grabs her legs and gives a big hug!

Bennett - 2 yrs +

"BoonDock"

Bennett - (first "compound" word... and doesn't stop saying it!, 6/08)

"uv you!"

Bennett - 2 yrs

Hugs and hugs and hugs and hugs you! Likes to snuggle up with you or hold your arm... a very loving boy!

Bennett - 2 yrs

"Pets are a lot of responsibility... that's what Emily said about Clifford"

Brody - ("responsibility" was a little difficult to decipher :)6/08)

Reads on her bed and plays Polly Pockets or cars in her room all by herself.

Karson (after moving to a room of her own, 6/08)

"Nake -Nake"

Bennett (for the word naked while smiling and laughing, 6/08)

Tries to convince Brody or Bennett to go downstairs with her so she can watch TV, because she is "scared" to go by herself.

Karson - (since the basement has been completed and the tv is there!)

"jeep" "jeep" "jeep"

Brody -(he could spy a jeep anywhere, even before mom or dad would see one, 2 yrs)

"Where's the dirty hamster mom?"

Brody -(asking where he should put his dirty clothes, 6/08)

"Toot"

Bennett - (as he laughs about it, 18 months +)

"Thank you for being a good boy"

Brody - (what he said after being asked, "what do you think Jesus would say to you if he visited you today?", 5/08)

Brody: "Mom, I got mad and said stupid"

Mom: "To who?"

Brody: "To my band."

Mom: "To who?"

Brody: TO MY BAND, There's ten of them."

Mom: "You need to go say you're sorry. We don't say that word."

Brody leaves out the door and says "something"

Mom: "What did your band say when you said sorry?"

Brody: "Thank you"

Brody - (while playing in the garage by himself, 5/08)

"I miss great grandpa!"

Brody - all the time

"war-mit"

Karson (trying to say Wal-Mart, 3yrs)

"Bapoo"

(Karson, for diaper, 2 yrs)

"Neece"

(Karson, for Trenten, 2yrs+)

"Ya-Ya"

(Karson, for Jocelyn, 2 yrs+)

"Yo, yo...me!"

Bennett - his version of the song, "Yo ho, Yo ho, the pirate life for me!"

"Don't ...Maul ...Don't Maul"

Bennett - playing "Star Wars", 2yrs.

Brody: "Ben, I hate to tell you this..."

Mom: "Brode, we don't use that word..."

Brody: "Ben, I love to tell you this, but I'm gonna need that stool."

Brody - talking to Bennett while Bennett was standing on a stool brushing his teeth, 7/10/08

"Overdrive... excelery"

Karson and Brody - playing Power Rangers (Overdrive excelerate) Summer 08.

Family Favorites

* A clean house
* Backyardigans
* Being kind
* Book Time before bed
* Cars cars
* Chocolate
* Cookies&Cream icecream
* Copper Creek Neighborhood
* Disneyland
* Eating out (at least for mom)
* Eating Taco Salad with Doritos
* Friends for dad to golf with
* Friends for mom to talk to
* Getting Treats
* Ginger Ale
* Going for walks
* Hearing the kids pray
* Hearing, "I love you"
* Hearing, "I wuv you"
* Hugs and kisses from Benny
* Hugs and kisses from Brody
* Hugs and kisses from Karson
* Lightsabers
* Michigan - Go Blue!
* Packages in the mail
* Playing ball
* Playing hockey
* Primary songs
* Reading the Book of Mormon Stories
* Riding bikes
* Sea World
* Shamu
* Shamu Splash
* Singing in FHE
* Visiting cousins
* Visiting Grandparents
* Weekends

12.30.2009

Countdown to Christmas!

As a family we tried to do a few things to help us get in the Christmas spirit:

**Made Gingerbread Man cookies

(Karson was the photographer)

**Made Rudolph Cookies

**Watched the traditional Christmas Movies... Some of Dad's favorites.

**Participated in a NativityPlay and had a Christmas Party at the Tuellers

Karson as Mary

Brody and Bennett as Two Wise Men

Kourtney as Baby Jesus

Brock as Joseph

Dani as Angel

Mia and Dan as Shepherds

**Drove around looking at Christmas Lights

**Delievered presents to the "Bishop's Room" to help those needing "a little something" at Christmas

**Had Family Home Evening lessons about Jesus Christ

**Opened Granparent presents early (just to see if they remembered how to unwrap from last year :)

2.10.2009

Christmas Eve

Christmas Eve 2008

We enjoyed our 2nd Annual "Christ Centered Christmas Eve"

This year we shared the Chistmas holiday with Jolene, Lee, Blayden, Britton, and Shorleigh.

Trenten and Garrett were also with us Christmas Eve (Darren and Janna were at the hospital with Madelynn :( She had RSV) and Grandma Barker and Aunt Carole came later.

We started the evening with dinner and then the children colored nativity pictures.

We then got the children dressed in their nativity costumes: