Quotable Quotes

First of all, it is amazing what gets passed around at school, even here.  For example, do you remember that "chubby" story with actions that goes, "My mom is chubby, my dad is chubby..." and they go on a motorcycle ride and say, "Slow down!"

Also, out of all the songs they could teach these kids in English, what do they come home singing?
"What do you do with a Drunken Sailor?"  I remember learning this song in school when I was a kid.  It is funny to hear it in British English with a German accent!

Macy:  Mom, I think it's just wonderful to be here in Germany...The playgrounds are my best favorite thing.

Carly (upon seeing a man with a black eye):  Man, it looks like he got in a fight!  Or, maybe he didn't drink enough water.

Me:  Please make your beds so you can give Gram the grand tour when she comes.
Carly:  She knows we're not perfect.  Something has to be not perfect or it's boring.

Macy:  I can't believe Gram's really coming.  It seems like a dream.

Carly:  Look at that gutter!  (a goat's udder)

Macy:  How did you NOT see that?  You're a mom AND you wear glasses!

Carly's thoughts on her first roller coaster ride:  It's like my heart dropped way down and then split between my legs.

Carly:  What if when the doctor checked your smeller and you couldn't smell good enough he put those tubes up your smeller and then you could sniff in like this and say, 'Yeah, they're having chicken for dinner across the streeet?'

Macy:  It's all crazed in my head.  (German mixed with English)

Me (about the rice cakes we were trying):  It reminds me a little bit of popcorn.
Macy:  It reminds me a little bit of edible styrofoam.

Macy:  Mom, I know you're learning a lot of German.
Me:  Really?  How?
Macy:  Because you said, 'Do you want a trink of milk?'  ("to drink" in German is "trinken").

Carly:  Mom, you must be getting old.  You keep forgetting things.  I wish you would've forgot to take a nap with me today (we were both sick).
Myles:  That's a good one.
Robyn:  You should write that one down.
Me:  Yeah, before I forget!


Macy:  This is for 6 and up.  Good thing she gave it to me on Sunday, or I would've been tempted to use it on Saturday!  (She turned 6 on Sunday).


Carly:  I bet the old ladies miss their Easter flowers.  (We used to deliver them in Utah).  
Myles:  We could've just cut one of our orchids off.
Macy:  That would be like cutting off an arm!


Me (while riding bikes):  Watch out for that poop!
Carly:  Thank goodness for all the flies in this world.


Carly (walking into the kitchen where Myles and I were cooking):  It's really starting to smell like a noodle around here!


Macy:  I have no choice but to love you!


Carly (translating a sign from German into British English on the train that said "First Class"):  What does it mean to sit in the first grade?

Macy (explaining why she didn't know her great-granddad Ross):  I was going down when he was going up!

Carly:  There's edible paper, edible string.
Macy:  Next, there should be edible hole punchers!
Carly:  I think there should be edible milk cartons because then moms can say, 'Oh, kids, drink your milk, so you can have your treat!'

Carly:  Wouldn't it be funny if the way grandmas died is that they just kept shrinking and shrinking until they were gone?
Robyn:  No, I don't think that would be very funny, actually.

Carly:  Did Noah from Noah's Ark live in America?
Me:  I don't know.  Why?
Carly:  Did he know German, then?  In religion we learned a song about the rainbow that he sang, and it was in German!

Carly (trying to peel her band-aid off that was put on after getting a shot):  When I get older, I'm going to make some handy things, like band-aids that fall off after an hour.

Robyn (giving a lesson about what a plant needs to grow):  What else do we need?  (besides sun and rain)
Macy:  Somebody to look at it.

Carly (talking about a boy in her class who was the slowest runner):  He tried really hard, but I just don't think that he was made for that.


Carly (holding my deodorant):  I don't understand how this helps you smell better because it doesn't smell good in the first place.


Carly:  Sheep milk?
Me:  Yeah, you know, like goat milk.
Myles:  Sheep give milk.  They're mammals.
Carly:  Well, it's not like we drink gorilla milk!

Carly (discussion about what if people steal flowers from the you-pick place):  If they were really a robber, they'd take the money box!

Me:  When I hear them speaking Chinese, then I know that I really do know German.


Carly's new favorite phrase:  Every man on the face of the earth knows that.  (Man in this case in German really means person).

Carly:  Mom, some people aren't very wise...with their money.  Remember that one lady we gave a pretzel to?  And, then, the next time we saw her begging, she had pink hair?
Macy:  Yeah, sometimes, people aren't really hungry for food.  They're lungs are just really hungry for cigarettes or wine.

We were at a party where a baby was crying really loudly.  A woman told us that everyone's so quiet in Sweden that even the babies cry softly.  Since then, we have told our girls, "Let's be Swedish," meaning, "Let's lower our voices."  When Carly heard someone walking by our apartment laughing loudly, she said, "She's NOT Swedish!"

The girls have been super into the Guinness Book of World Records lately.  I remember that stage as a kid.  They keep talking about what they could do to get in and are wondering how much you might get paid or if it's just good enough to get in the book...