Monday, August 8, 2011

Monday Made: Quotable quotes


Junior J has been talking more and more these days.  There has been lots and lots of childish chatter, and he never fails to come up with some gem of a statement each day that puts a smile on my face, such as:

    Mama: Do you want to listen to Sunday School songs?

    J: NO!  I listen to Tchaikovsky ONLY!  

    (Ok... well, at least Papa will say you have decent taste, my boy.  He'll prefer that to some rock band I guess...)

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    Mama: Which is your favourite song by Tchaikovsky?

    J: (Thinks very hard...) Old Macdonald!

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    (Little boy holds up an ambulance sticker.  He scrutinizes it for awhile.)

    J: This is the ________ hospital ambulance (insert name of hospital which hubby works in).
    (He turns and looks at the hubby.)

    J: You can drive this to work!

   Hubby (trying very hard not to laugh): Errr, ok, I really wish I could!

  
However, my preggie brain tends to forget these little snippets rather quickly, and I didn't want to leave my journalling in a digital form only (after all, if I were to record down all these little moments, there'll be no end to it on the blog and FB page!)... I didn't have time to come up with a nice little album, or a journal jar (like the previous one made to record all the "first words" the boy was picking up)... so I took the easy way out and scribbled them inside a novel-sized journal:


Right now, its becoming a habit to just spend about 5 minutes scribbling down these little moments before I sleep each night.  Perhaps one day I might do an album for some of the quotes, but meanwhile, at least I do have all the toddler talk down on paper somewhere!

How do you keep record of all these little moments?  Do you write them down?  Or is there a special album to store these little memories?

6 comments:

  1. I keep a notebook as well, Ally is famous for her hilarious one liners which I never want to forget. Now that Max is becoming more vocal, there's even more to write down :)

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  2. i like the idea of writing down what the kids said...
    too cute!

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  3. Kids really say the cutest things! I'm so looking forward to the day my boy starts talking, and I'll write them down too, like the way you do :)

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  4. Jillian: Cool! :) Double the fun I guess... Do you keep separate books for them, or does everything go in the same book?

    Shaggyfish: :) I had to just use a notebook... knowing how fast you scrap, you'd do a beautiful album for all of your little boy's quotes!

    Ruth: Yup, I'm sure you'll have lots of fun recording all the funny and poignant moments! :)

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  5. I'm a lousy recorder of events and doing regular stuff that you do so well! So far all I've done is to write what I remember on the blog, which is only a small portion of what we get to hear :( But I know myself, if I start a notebook I'll probably stop after a while. My 1000+ wedding photos sitting under my table is testament to that =P

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  6. Corsage: Actually I have many projects that I've started where I've never gotten down to finishing! :p But I thought at least I'd just try this time to scribble a little bit everyday, and I've managed to keep it up for a week thus far. Not sure how long I'll be able to sustain this though! (PS: You really should write them down, your Bubbles has such amazing toddler talk! She knocks my socks off!)

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