User:Harena/Benjy-Quotes
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Decided this would be the best place to archive the Best of Benjamin Quotes. Easier to do by date & access & stuffnthings. Right. Onwards!
- October 21, 2003:
- "Woozle, we don't put fire in we're mouth!"
- (and no, i have no memory of what precipitated this remark; Woozle says he said something to me {he can't remember what} and apparently Benjamin interpreted it to mean something like having fire in one's mouth...)
- October 24, 2003:
- "I am not a silly boy, I am a crying boy and I need a hug"
- ...said when i was giving him a hug & telling him he was silly because 'cause he was crying over something that silly me thought was silly
- January 1, 2004:
- Benjamin comes trotting into the office & says to me, "You have to be happy mommy.. here, I will kiss you on the elbow and that will make you happy" and then does so.
- May 2, 2004:
- In reference to the window that was leaking water during the wee thunderstorm & deluge we had.. this was after it was over:
- "Nothing is coming through by there!"
- Also, just before that when the sun sorta came back out he said:
- "The thunderstorm is gone! Now the thunderstorm makes it back morning!
- We can't touch the thunderstorm. It makes us scared."
- (and yes, that was said all in the same breath)
- May 3, 2004:
- Re: Balloons gradually shrinking due to loss of air:
- "These balloons are getting aired off"
- May 6, 2004:
- On the way to daycare this morning, in the middle of his usual free associating, he came out with this:
- "When I was your age, Woozle." (pause) then (after some prompting) "I was like your age."
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- May 23, 2004:
- During the thunderstorms, Benjamin was heard to say something along these lines (in reference to our house):
- The house is afraid. But the house doesn't have legs to stand up with. The house can't run away.
- (No quotes 'cause i'm doing this one from memory & i am kinda paraphrasing from a half asleep state)
- May 27, 2004:
- That morning from the bathroom, I overheard this being said by Benjamin:
- "My shadow is eeeeviiil"
- (I fell off the toilet laughing)
- May 29, 2004:
- Today whilst Woozle was installing the tow-hitch thingy to the Windstar (so's we can haul some or all of his stuff from Georgia next week) the following conversation ensued:
- B: What are you doing, Woozle?
- W: Installing a trailer-hitch...
- B: A trail-hinge?
- W: ...so we can bring back a whole bunch of stuff from Georgia
- B: Georgia? You mean George the monkey?
- (as in Curious George, i guess!)
- May 30, 2004:
- It was raining this morning and B wanted to go out in it... he likes to do that.. pull on his boots & get his umbrella and walk in the rain a la Christopher Robin (and yes, he does have black wellies just like CR's ^_^) and so he does....
- ...a few minutes later he comes in & announces that he had to come back in because...
- "The rain is broken."
- (it had stopped raining!)
- It was raining this morning and B wanted to go out in it... he likes to do that.. pull on his boots & get his umbrella and walk in the rain a la Christopher Robin (and yes, he does have black wellies just like CR's ^_^) and so he does....
- June 6, 2004:
- This first part is sort of paraphrased 'cause I don't remember exactickly what was said, but the punchline is word for word!
- B: I'm not feeling well
- M: Oh? What's the matter?
- B: My feelings are empty
- (he was hungry & wanted lunch!)
- June 10, 2004:
- I did a :P at B in the car on the way home from picking him up & he responded with:
- "Don't stick out your tongue when you are dead!"
- I fell over laughing... good thing Woozle was driving!
- June 12, 2004:
- Whilst sitting on my lap:
- "I'm getting all heavy on you"
- June 15, 2004:
- In reference to the clouds breaking up & the sun coming out, he said:
- "The clouds are melting! All of everything is melting!!"
- September 20, 2004:
- This morning upon looking into our front-loader washing machine as it was running, he said:
- "Oh no! The Soap died!! He drunk too many waters so he *died*!"
- [fx of me scrambling for pen & paper to write it down!]
- October 9, 2004:
- Benjamin started my morning out thusly:
- I get up & go to the bathroom. Upon leaving the bathroom, Benjamin greets me with this little ditty:
- (Sung to the tune of Here We Go Around The Mulberry Bush)
- This is the way we kill the moms,
- Kill the moms, kill the moms;
- This is the way we kill the moms, kill them all to death!
- (I should note the next verse was "this is the way we kill the dads" so I guess it was nothing personal! ;D)
- March 11, 2005:
- This'un is only paraphrased rather than directly quoted 'cause, golly, it happened at 6:20 in the freakin' morning!
- Upon seeing what the tooth fairy brought for the first tooth he lost, he uttered:
- "I have a dollar & now I can get money with it!"
- March 16, 2005:
- So Benjamin lost another tooth & put it under his pillow for the tooth fairy & this morning when he retrieved the dollar he got, this is what he said:
- "I got another dollar!! And it's got George Washington! And he's *STILL* dead!!!"
- October 19, 2005:
- Benjamin comes up to me & says:
- "I have to whisper something in your ear"
- and I say, "okay" & he whispers (very solemnly),
- "Life Goes On"
- November 23, 2005:
- Re: The Pumpkin Bread baking in the oven:
- "It's drying up & raising right now"
- November 23, 2005:
- Hands me the yarn winder after playing with it so much that it came off the chair arm it was attached to:
- "...now put it somewhere I can't reach it to spin it"