out of the mouth of gabe

:: during tae kwon do, while doing a pushup. "i gotta get my body all exercized!"

:: "hey mom, does bimini have a bigina? go girls have butts? do girls pee with their butts?"

:: he asked me what guts were, so i told him that they are the insides of a living thing's body. after a pause, he told me "mom, guts are the stuff in your junk that wiggle around."

:: in response to the now colder weather outside "hey mom, are the birds putting on jackets?"

:: praying for steve at lunch today, "our father. i need daddy. i want him to eat lunch. i like riding on his back. amen."

:: "mom, we need to go to arden and esther's house again because i forgot to wear a dress."

:: "hey mom, soon you will have our girl baby and we will have two babies. and when i grow up to be big, i will take one of our babies with me, because you will still have our girl baby." (no i am not pregnant, gabe is just still obsessed with the sister that he has wanted since i was pregnant with titus.) i told him that maybe instead, he would like to get married to a nice girl and have babies of his own. he responded that he would rather just take titus because he loved titus.

:: after ezra had a potty training accident on the carpet today, "ezra... it's not FLOOR training!"

:: "mom, all the kids in the whole world need to be wild things because there are not enough kids in our family."

:: "mom, my tummy hurts. i think i have a fever. cause you hear this deeper voice?" (while making his voice exaggeratedly low)

:: "i want something warm because i am not sad." when picking out a snack, gabe's choice depends on his sadness level. if he is sad, he wants a snack from the fridge. if he is not sad, he wants a snack from the pantry. it has been a month, and he still operates off of this incredibly unusual system. if that doesn't make him the weirdest kid you have ever met, i need to meet your friends.

:: while playing soccer the other day (and apparently pretending to be someone else), "hey mom, my mom and dad are in jail... they're wrestling... and then they're drug... and they do every bad thing and they kill people. i don't have anybody to cook for me."

:: and finally, gabe has taken to explaining the rules of wrestling in the sivyer home (though he calls them steps to wrestling). there are many of them and this video does not cover even a fraction of the rules he has decided on, but here are a few of them: