"Murphy was an optimist!"
From the mouths of babes June 29, 2009 10:31 am
Posted by Doug McCaughan in : Daily Life, Evan, Family, From the mouths of babes, Of Being Dad , add a commentEvan, 4 years old: "Dad, I gotta go!"
In case you are unaware of why you teach your children to walk, it’s so they can run away. Embrace them at every opportunity. There will come a day you have to let them go.
add a commentFrom the mouths of babes June 16, 2009 10:02 am
Posted by Doug McCaughan in : Daily Life, Evan, Family, From the mouths of babes, Of Being Dad , add a commentEvan, 4 years old: "Daddy, go downstairs to your computer so I cannot get scissors."
add a commentFrom the mouths of babes June 3, 2009 11:00 am
Posted by Doug McCaughan in : Amy, Daily Life, Family, From the mouths of babes , add a commentI most often listen to Pandora but chose Slacker Radio today.
Slacker: *playing Low Rider*
Amy, almost 7, skipping down the stairs, exclaims: "George Lopez!!"
*Wow! George Lopez has a nice MySpace page! I didn’t think "nice" and "MySpace" could be combined in a single sentence.
add a commentFrom the mouths of babes June 2, 2009 1:20 pm
Posted by Doug McCaughan in : Daily Life, Evan, Family, From the mouths of babes, Of Being Dad , add a commentEvan, 4 years old: "Dad, can I have a bite your cake?"
Me: "Yes."
Evan: "YEAH! Mom, Dad said I have a bite his cake!"
I love happy children!
add a commentFrom the mouths of babes May 29, 2009 4:59 pm
Posted by Doug McCaughan in : Daily Life, Family, From the mouths of babes, Of Being Dad, Sarah , 2commentsSarah: "Can I go hang out at my boyfriend’s house?"
Me: "Is anyone else going to be there?"
Sarah: "I’ll find out."
Me: "Are you ever going to have him over here?"
Sarah: "Uh, we don’t have a couch."
Me: "Need me to buy you a couch?"
Sarah: "Deal. Get a couch and I’ll have him over."
From the mouths of babes May 28, 2009 6:20 pm
Posted by Doug McCaughan in : Amy, Daily Life, Evan, Family, From the mouths of babes, Noah, Of Being Dad, Sarah , add a commentSplashes!
Noah, assisting Amy and Evan in evening baths and getting frustrated: "Evan! Stand up!"
Me: "Sarah, please give your brother some backup."
…because life with 5 children is like a police drama.
From the mouths of babes May 28, 2009 6:05 pm
Posted by Doug McCaughan in : Cathy, Daily Life, Family, From the mouths of babes, Of Being Dad , add a commentCathy, leaving for a meeting: "Don’t eat the children."
Me: "I’m cooking spaghetti!"
Sounds like…embarrassing May 13, 2009 1:19 pm
Posted by Doug McCaughan in : Daily Life, Family, From the mouths of babes, Noah, Of Being Dad , add a commentNoah has done so well with his phone that I was considering canceling the insurance plan on it (which is $4.95/mth with a $50 deductible..can you say ripoff? I knew you could!) So naturally, despite placing it in a ziplock bag, Noah soaked his phone at Dollywood. In this day and age, with five children including socially active teens, cell phones have moved beyond convenient toys to necessary family organizing tools. The rule of the house is that if you lose or damage your phone before your scheduled upgrade, you get a clunker from the boneyard in the garage. Noah ended up with an antique Siemens (phones are now BenQ). After complaining about the pixelated screen, he tried to pronounce the company name:
Noah: "Sigh sigh mens"
I interrupt, "It’s pronounced sea mens."
Noah: chuckles
Me: "Yeah, like that."
How could I forget about the funny homophones of middle school! Ew, better not say homophone around Noah.
add a commentFrom the mouths of babes April 30, 2009 4:59 pm
Posted by Doug McCaughan in : Daily Life, Evan, Family, From the mouths of babes, Of Being Dad , add a commentEvan: "Go jump o tramping"
Dad: "Look at me. Say tramp oh lean."
Evan: "tramp jumping train"
Dad: "Say tramp."
Evan: "Tramp"
Dad: "Oh"
Evan: "Tramp"
Dad: "Oh"
Evan: "Tramp"
Dad: "Oh"
Evan: "Tramp;"
Dad: "Oh"
Evan: "Tramp"
Dad: "Say Oh"
Evan: "Oh"
Dad: "Say Lean"
Evan: "Lean"
Dad; "Trampoline"
Evan: "Trampoline"
Granddaddy: chuckles.
From the mouths of babes April 16, 2009 11:30 am
Posted by Doug McCaughan in : Daily Life, Evan, Family, From the mouths of babes, Of Being Dad , 6commentsEvan, approaching 4 years old: "God dammit. God dammit. God dammit. God dammit. God dammit. God dammit. God dammit."
Dad: "I get the message already!"
Yup, a little bit of a repeat.
6commentsFrom the mouths of babes April 6, 2009 6:27 pm
Posted by Doug McCaughan in : Daily Life, Evan, Family, From the mouths of babes , add a commentEvan, 3.5 years: "I want a cookie."
Dad: "Eat two more bites of meat and I will give you a cookie."
Evan: "Close your eyes and I eat my food."
From the mouths of babes April 2, 2009 6:09 am
Posted by Doug McCaughan in : Amy, Daily Life, Family, From the mouths of babes , add a commentAmy: "Tinker Bell is named Tinker Bell because she’s a Tinker Fairy. Leprechauns are fairies…in Ireland. They make shoes for other fairies."
add a commentFrom the mouths of babes April 1, 2009 5:55 am
Posted by Doug McCaughan in : Amy, Daily Life, Family, From the mouths of babes, Of Being Dad , add a commentAmy, 6.5 years old: "Dad, what’s a death threat?"
Dad: "What did you just say?!"
Amy: "What’s a death threat? On the show iCarly, they talked about death threats."
Dad: "A death threat means I’m going to have to have a talk with Nickelodeon."
From the mouths of babes March 31, 2009 4:32 pm
Posted by Doug McCaughan in : Daily Life, Evan, From the mouths of babes , add a commentEvan, 3.5 years old, comes down stairs with his picture in one hand and a Rockband drumstick in the other. He points to the picture with the drumstick and says: "We go here now."
He was pointing to the picture of the Midway Drive-in. I’d say we’ll be there for opening night as soon as drive-in season starts.
From the mouths of babes March 26, 2009 6:39 pm
Posted by Doug McCaughan in : Daily Life, Evan, Family, From the mouths of babes, Of Being Dad , 1 comment so farEvan, 3.5 years old: "Zoooombie! Zooombie!" *bump* "Ow!" *thud* *knock* *thunk* "Oh ow!" *bump* *klop* "Ow!" bump! bump! bump! "oh. I oookAY!"
Evan: "I come down stairs to scare you!"
Dad: "Well you sure did that!"
That’d be Evan wrapped in toilet paper like a mummy accidentally rolling down the wooden staircase steamroller style. It was almost in slow motion. It was one of those parent moments where you are hoping the child is fine because you really want to bust out laughing.
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