It’s that time of year again when we look back at my preschooler’s best quotes from the year before! Our oldest daughter, Michaela, turned four in August. Here’s some of her sweetest, funniest, and most profound comments from January to December, many of them about her baby sister “Beanie” who turned one in June.
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As I was getting the girls ready for bed one night, Angelina started fussing, and Michaela said, “Night-night’s almost done, Beanie. Mommy only has two hands.”
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In August, Michaela had nightmares about her baby sister. One night, she woke up yelling, “She’s got the cup without the lid!”
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One day, Michaela went to the doctor’s office with Grandma Angie. When the nurse left the room, Michaela said, “We have to tell her about the song that Daddy sings—the ‘Go Tell It On the Mountain’ song—so she can spread the word that Jesus Christ is born!”
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Auntie Faye, a sweet dynamo from our former church, gave Michaela lollipops with crickets and scorpions inside. As we were looking at them one day, I told Michaela that scorpions can sting people.
“Crickets are the nicest bugs that you’ve ever seen so you can be their best friend,” she said. “But scorpions are the baddest bugs so you do NOT want to be best friends with them.”
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When the girls got home from Grandma Necie’s house one morning, I commented on the cute barrette in Beanie’s hair.
Michaela pointed a finger at me and said, “You cannot tell her, or she will know it is there!”
“My words exactly!” Grandma Necie later said.
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“Beanie, you can either give me the crackers or stop spilling them,” Michaela told her sister in the car one day. “Those are your options.”
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“Mommy, what was your favorite part of the day?” Michaela asked me at dinner one night.
“Snuggling on the couch with you and reading stories,” I said. “And making a cake with you—that was really fun.”
“No,” she said, holding up her finger. “You’re not supposed to do two things. Just one. Now we have to start over.”
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“One day, Michaela was wearing a red Thomas the Train shirt with green lettering. “I wish you had a Thomas the Train shirt, so we could be best friends,” she said to me. “Do you have a red or blue or green shirt?”
“I think I have all three.”
“Great! Then tomorrow, you can wear the red shirt, then you can wear the green shirt, and then you can wear the blue shirt, so we can be best friends for a long time.”
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“Where can we get a baby brother?” Michaela asked Mark one day.
“Mommy and Daddy and God can try to make one, and just like Mommy was pregnant with Bean, she’d try to have a baby boy.”
“Oh, yeah!” Michaela yelled, jumping on the couch. “Let’s do that.”
“Why?” Mark asked.
“Because we have three girls and one boy, and we need another boy.”
Mark grinned. “If we have another baby, we might find out it’s a baby girl.”
“Oh, no,” Michaela said. “That would be too many girls.”
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One morning, I told Michaela about Pat Matthews, an amazing woman of God from our church who had just passed away.
Later that day, Mark told Michaela they were going to a funeral. “Someone at our church, that I don’t think you know, died. That’s sad, right?”
“No,” Michaela said. “That’s happy.”
“Why is that happy?”
“Because she gets to play with Jesus.”
Those are our preschooler’s best quotes from 2015! Which one’s your favorite? Comment below! Want more of our preschooler’s best quotes? Check out “Top Ten Michaela Quotes from 2014!”
#2 is my favorite, although there are several that are good!
That one continues to crack us up! 🙂 Last year, we got a bearded dragon, and it turned out to be a girl too! 🙂
#1 for Sure
I loved and chucked at them all 😃
So glad you enjoyed them! 🙂 Thank you for commenting, Claudet! 🙂
#1 for sure! And she’s totally right! Pat M. would love playing with Jesus! She also loved serving little ones, so that comment would just bless her heart!
Awesome! 🙂 Guess what? Michaela drew your name to win a free copy of Snow Out of Season! Should I bring it to church this Sunday?
Thank you for the book Christy! I’m more than halfway through the book with all this snow! It gives one lots to think about. I’m sure God is using this book to reach many women (and men)!
Thank you, Karen! 🙂 Glad you won the book at a good time! 🙂
I really like the one about Pat Mathews getting to play with Jesus. I can really see her doing just that!
I’m looking forward to seeing Pat Matthews play with Jesus myself one day! 🙂
There’s no favorite. All of the quotes are fantastic.
Thank you, Frances! 🙂
Those are your options.
How many times did Michaela hear me say something like that? 😉 Thank you for commenting, Jenn! 🙂
They were all so precious, but my favorite was the the joy in getting to play with Jesus!
Me too! 🙂
Michaela is so funny & smart. I loved all the quotes. So I can’t choose just one. Kids say the darnest things. Love, Auntie Faye
Thank you, Faye! 🙂 Hope you and Al are doing well!!! 🙂
I love kid’s perspectives on life. Let’s you look at things in a totally different way.
Me too! 🙂
Love#8 Go Tell It On The Moutain! Spread the word baby girl! I sing to my new baby granddaughter and I’m adding that to our hit list! Thanks Michaela for reminding me that little minds are sponges and out of babes comes the truth!
Awesome! 🙂 So glad to hear it! 🙂
They were all amazing! What an intelligent and lovely young lady, God bless her! She is truly reflecting mom and dad’s example of love and grace, but since I have to pick one, I pick #1. This brought tears in my eyes! 😌
Aw–thank you so much, Ruth!!! 🙂
It was a toss up between #1 and #8, but I’ve gotta go with #8. Love that she is thinking about evangelism. Way to be good models! 🙂
Aw–thank you, Carol! 🙂
My favorite is #1 for sure. Because I know that is exactly what Pat is doing and she would have loved to hear it described that way.
One day we’ll have to share the story with her! 🙂
#1 Because of what Michaela said to me, in response to my hospital stay in Dec 2014.
What did she say? (Sorry–I’m replying to these comments WAY late! :-))
Number 9. Any child holding a cup without a lid is my nightmare, sleeping and waking, too.
Haha! 🙂 Thanks for commenting, Lori! 🙂
Thank you everyone for all your great comments! 🙂 And the winner of the free copy of Snow Out of Season is . . . Karen Al-Faleh!!!
I thought they were all precious, but I thought #4 with the “Now we have to start over” was priceless.
I thought that one was hilarious too. 🙂 Thank you for commenting, Patti! I was so sorry to hear about your husband passing some time ago. 🙁 How have you been?
Beanie, you can either give me the crackers or stop spilling them. Those are your options.
Such a cute quote.She sounds like Miss Mommy.
Oh, yes! 🙂 I’m sure she had heard me say similar things many times by that point! 🙂
They are all heartfelt, but if I have to pick it would be #1.
Thank you for commenting, Jo-Anne! 🙂