The Howe Family

phin 2011.

Jan

Here are some of the most notable, funny, or clever entries from Phin’s 2011 Calendar:

When talking about the Lehi’s dream (one of Phin’s favorite Book of Mormon stories): “Is the Tree of Life shiny? Is it bright and shiny? Is it beautiful?”
I didn’t want Mama to play the piano anymore, so I removed both of her hands and said, “I turned it off.”
“I don’t want Eli to poop over there.”
I put a book in Mama’s shirt and said, “you’d better save this for later.”

After Mama called me a rockstar I firmly said, “I’m NOT a rockstar. I’m Phinny!”
Mama: “Phin, do you want to wear underwear?” Phin: “Yeah, I don’t.”
I smelled Mama’s hair and she said, “What does my hair smell like?” Phin: “It smells like you didn’t poop!”
Papa: “Pirates don’t wear diapers.” Phin: “Yes they DO!”
Talking to Aunt Emily about temples: “Angel Moroni plays his trumpet. It’s gold. Gold is my favorite color.”

I have croup…
I was tooting during snack time today. “It isn’t Phinny, it’s a tow truck.”
I know the difference between a hopper car and a freight car. (It helps to live directly next to train tracks.)
Eli was in the tub alone and I said, “Can I get in? Eli is lonely.”

I turned 3!
“I built this plane so we could go to Africa.”
My babysitter called me Phin. I corrected her and said, “Call me Angel Phin.”
When my diaper was full of poop, I called Mama over and said, “I have a poop surprise for you!”
To Papa, “I’m growing up big like you. And you are going to melt and be small like me.”

In the garden, “The mud painted my feet black!”
In the story of Samuel the Lamanite, “The arrows didn’t hurt Samuel the Lamanite because Jesus protects his monster.”
I met Adele! (“I have nipples! I can make Mama Milk, too!”)
Phin: “Do you know what Junie (Adele) is dreaming about?” Mama: “What?” Phin: “She is dreaming about dragon faces! GRRRRRRR!”

Papa went out to the back yard to see what me and my brother were doing… Phin: “We just played the hitting game and the biting game.”
Talking to Mama… “Would you please sing a song to your daughter?”
I gave myself a haircut.
“Can I sing a song about families?” (then proceeds to sing “Families can be Together Forever“)
I can get myself dressed!

“I put on my roller skates and I got a sword and I fought a bad guy and a dragon!”
I wrote my first “H” and can spell my name.
While in the garden, “Chives are my favorite breakfast!”
Phin: “I heard a toot!” Mama: “Whose was it?” Phin: “It was mine!”
My imaginary horses that live in the yard (it all started with Max from Tangled): Max, Thax, Dax, and Horse-o

I used a twisty straw as a saxophone and gave mama a concert. The kitchen table was my stage.
I can do the monkey bars at the park by myself!
“Mama?! Is Adele the cutest most beautiful girl in the world?”
I call the freezer the “Ice Cream Fridge.” (That’s all I really need it for anyway )
Papa: “How was nursery today?” Phin: “I told the big girls to stop touching me and I told the little girls to stop touching me.”
“When you say ‘no,’ you really mean ‘yes.’”
Papa: “Who has a bigger nose? Me or Mama?” Phin: “You both have HUGE noses!”
Eli was crying… Phin says: “Eli, did you get attacked by a tiger and a monster and a bear?” Eli: “Yeah.”

While worm hunting: “When we find a hungry worm in the morning – should we feed him worm food?”
I invented “Basketball Lacrosse” with my Uncle Chris
When learning about Moses and the burning bush: “Woah! And the bush was on fire? That’s pretty crazy!”
While singing “Row, Row, Row your Boat,” I changed the words to, “…merrily, merrily, merrily, don’t forget your dreams.”

Mama: “Phin, What do you like about Papa?” Phin: “I like sea horses, horses I can ride, and cows.” (Don’t we all love that about Nate?)
“My stomach is trying to make me hungry.”
I brought a lot of sand in the house and when Mama asked me why I said, “sand helps the house smell better!”
I went on a road trip with my family to Utah!
“Mama! You broke my life. Help me fix it!”
To Mama’s really old Avon lady, “Hey dude! My sister came out of my Mom’s uterus!”

I told Mama that I wanted bacon in my hot chocolate. (Nate’s son for sure)
When Mama asked me where I put Jesus from our Nativity: “I put baby Jesus in a special bed, called the closet.”
I call pomegranate seeds “Tumbleweed Seeds.”
I sang a song about ‘turtles in space’ for Grammy Great while playing the Ukulele
While potty training: “Pooping is tricky…”
Using the toilet! Wearing Underwear!

Some Favorite Books this year: The Pout Pout Fish, Amelia Bedilia, Liza Lou and the Yeller Belly Swamp, Where’s Walrus?, Bringing the Rain to Kapiti Plain, Click Clack Moo: Cows that Type, Curious George.