out of the mouth of gabe

:: "can God get eaten by a dinosaur?"

:: "these are what my mouth likes" (as he chews a green gummy bear)

:: "mom, one day you're gonna be my wife... i mean eleanor is. someday, titus will be esther's husband and ezra will be a husband to arden. later, i will go to their house and tell them."

:: "ezra, those are some worship owls!" (as ezra moves the owls that were apparently attending gabe's pretend church service)

:: "these eggs taste like dying people."

:: we explained to him the meaning behind the red and white candy canes around christmas. now, he wants to know what the rainbow ones mean. and he gave this explanation for the blue and white ones that someone gave them, "the blue means that there is a pond in the woods. the white means that the walls turn into meat."

:: "let's get out of this smooky cave!" (a combination of the words smokey and spooky?)

:: "mom, for my birthday, i am going to get a spatula spider locked in a cage full of water." (he meant tarantula)

:: "could the armored car come by for my piggy bank?"

:: recounting the plot of the veggie tales version of the story of saint nicholas to me in the car one day, "mom, nicholas was lonely, so jesus sent god to be his daddy... and god sent jesus to be his mommy!"

:: "mom, maybe when we go on a plane, we could ask the pilot to take us to heaven."

:: "i am going to sing a song... everybody, everything, needs medicine!"

:: "it's gonna be a long time to get to grandma's. its called 'the journey of the holy land'"

:: a checker flag! my favorite flag in the whole world!"

:: one day in the car, i threw gabe a sucker for being generally awesome, but it bounced off of him and onto the floor. he burst into hysterical tears and i asked him if he was sad or hurt. his reply was, "hurt! that sucker must have been for ezra because i don't like blue!"

:: "mom, poppy is an orphan." (poppy is my dad)

:: "they don't have anymore suckers? it's not sucker season?" (we go over the concept of food being "in season" at the grocery store every week when he asks me to please buy an overpriced watermelon.)

:: "hiccoughs are when your bones wiggle up and they hurt you."

:: (to the tune of "he's got the whole world in his hands") "he's got the whole brother in his head... christ the lord!"