<\/p>\n
December 19th
\nJulie: “Nathan, eat breakfast so you can start on your school work.”
\nNathan: “Can I please finish my book first?”
\nJulie: “How many pages do you have left?”
\nNathan: “2,500.”<\/p>\n
December 20th
\nNathan: “Can we snuggle? Because some day when I’m 18, you’ll wake up and say, ‘I really should have snuggled with Nathan when I had the chance because now those days are gone forever.'”<\/p>\n
December 22nd
\nGiven his initial reaction to the idea, Julie is thrilled when Nathan seems less opposed to the idea of having company visit and stay in his bedroom overnight. He even makes a sign for the door that says “COME IN AND MAKE YOURSELF COMFORTABLE.” Julie gets a little teary-eyed at his kindness. Later on she notices that he is still working on the sign. He has added another sentence: “AS IT MIGHT BE THE LAST THING YOU EVER DO.”<\/p>\n
December 25th
\nNathan: “Well, I’m glad that’s over. Now I don’t have to be good again for hundreds of days.”<\/p>\n
January 9th
\nNathan is climbing on something he shouldn’t at the church pancake breakfast. An adult asks him to get down. Nathan asks, “By what authority are you asking me to get down?”<\/p>\n
January 18th:
\nTruman: “Can I get a cinder?”
\nJulie: “A sister?”
\nTruman: “No, a cinder!”
\nJulie: “A what?”
\nTruman: “You know: a cinder! The electronic thing that you read on?”
\nJulie: “You mean a Kindle?”<\/p>\n
February 1st
\nTruman: “Why is it not appropriate to stick your middle finger up?”<\/p>\n
February 3rd
\nTruman, who has grown a few inches and is now chest-height to Julie: “Mom, what are those two lumps of fat?”<\/p>\n
February 6th
\nTruman: “Why does our house never catch on fire?”<\/p>\n
April 3rd
\nTruman: “My stomach is thirsting for muffins.”<\/p>\n
April 7th
\nTruman, hesitantly: “Mom, is “whyIoughtta” a bad word?”<\/p>\n
April 14th
\nNathan, at a friend’s house, to the mom there, “We have decided that we want to watch The Princess Bride and if you don’t let us, we are going to go union.”<\/p>\n
April 29th
\nTruman notices all of the food that one of our toddler foster children has thrown on the ground: “Mom, all of this food on the floor really disturbs me. Can you clean it up?”<\/p>\n
May 1st
\nDerrick asked Truman to turn on the light. Truman walks over to the light switch and says in a robotic, feminized voice, “Please wait three days for service.”<\/p>\n
June 10th
\nJulie: “Tru, don’t do that; you are going to hurt yourself.”
\nTruman: “No, I’m invincible.”<\/p>\n
July 15th
\nSimon ponders whether, as a vegetarian, he should be eating angel hair pasta.<\/p>\n
July 25th
\nTruman makes a passing reference to the chocolate chips in his cereal.
\nJulie: “What? What chocolate chips?”
\nTruman: “I put chocolate chips in my cereal. Like Daddy puts banana in his cereal. It’s the same thing!”<\/p>\n
August 20th
\nNathan, in best British accent and looking like an urchin, “Chocolate for the poor, gov’nur?”<\/p>\n
August 27th
\nNathan: “Why can’t they make a cologne that smells like gerbils? Eu de Gerbile? It would be a hit!”<\/p>\n
Nathan: “Mom, be sure to put one of those toothpicks with the American flag on it in your sandwich so Canadians can’t steal your lunch.”<\/p>\n
August 28th
\nNathan, clutching at his face where Julie just kissed him: “It burns! It burns!”<\/p>\n
August 29th
\nSign found taped up in the bathroom: “Deu to the lack of tolet papr, please use both sides.”<\/p>\n
September 21st
\nNathan to Julie: “I need a $200 grant for my missile silo, and in return, when I rule the world, you can be the duchess of Yugoslavia.”<\/p>\n
October 13th
\nJulie finds Nathan’s written plan to take over the world:<\/p>\n
“USA: blackmail
\nRussia: bribe with piece of USA and then renege
\nEngland: cut off their tea and crumpets
\nGreece: threaten to blow up Parthenon
\nGermany: cut off the beer supplies
\nChina: cut off all of their jobs
\nJapan: diplomacy
\nKorea: war
\nrest of the world has not been decided”<\/p>\n
October 29th
\nTruman: “Mommy, you look just like a sumo wrestler with that thing in your hair [=bun] and being this wide [extends his arms to demonstrate large girth].”<\/p>\n
October 31st
\nSimon: “Mom, it was very nice of you to make these cookies and everything, but I am wondering if there was some kind of ulterior motive, like ‘I am sick of your squabbling all day and so I put elephant tranquilizers in the cookies.'”<\/p>\n
November 10th
\nPart of Simon’s outline: “The French Revolution was caused by revolting people.”<\/p>\n
November 20th
\n20 minutes into today’s 900 mile drive, Truman says, “Doh! I forgot to wear shoes!”<\/p>\n
December 10th
\nAs we (finally) emerge from IKEA, Simon says sotte voce to Nathan: “She’s finally escaped the lotus flowers.”<\/p>\n