Stuff Emma Says

I keep a running list of the kids' funny quotes on my phone. Here are Emma's:

8/9/18

Sitting at lunch, Emma suddenly tells me, “Mom, the queen of England is just an OLD GRANDMA. Eva (her primary teacher) showed me a picture!” 

8/5/18
Mom: "Emma, how old do you think you’ll be when you get married?"
Emma: "Um, maybe like 72?"

7/21/18
I said that Levi was awesome and she corrected me, "Levi isn’t awesome, he’s cute."

7/21/18

After going on a bumpy road:

Mom: "Is Levi ok? Was he bumping around back there?"

Emma: "Yeah, he jiggled." 

7/21/18

Today in the car she was telling us all about going bowling with Taylor's dad yesterday. When Taylor asked her about the dinner they got (chicken strips) she told him, "Dad, chicken ribs are yummy!"

6/27/18

Emma was sitting in a hammock that broke while we were on vacation. Later that day:
Dad: "Hey, Emma. Remember when you broke the hammock?"
Emma (rolling her eyes a bit): "Yeah. It was today."

6/27/18
Emma saw a street sign designating no trucks and said, "No mail trucks." "What, Emma?" "It had the circle and the line that means it’s against the law and it had a mail truck. So that means no mail trucks."

6/26/18

We were saying different words for Luke to copy and finally Emma says, "Luke, can you say hamaburger??"

6/26/18

At breakfast one morning Emma was complaining that the house was cold, "I’m freezing! I’m shimmering! Dad, watch me shimmer." (Then she shivered.)

4/5/18
Will was talking about how dad is going to be in charge of all the older kids at outer banks and then Emma chimed in, “And mom is going to stay home and watch Wonder Woman maybe.”
Me: “Is that what I’m going to do this weekend?” (They were heading to St. George without me.)
Emma: “Sure. Maybe watch Wonder Woman all day.”

4/4/18

Air Bud was on TV.
Mom: "Hey guys, you know what movie this is? It’s Air Bud!"
Emma: "Wait, so does the bud go in the air?"

3/19/18
Emma: "Mom, on Sunday they didn't let me teach the sharing time." 
Me: "I thought you got to tell them how you know Heavenly Father loves you?"
Emma: "I did! But that's it." 
Me: "Okay...Did you want to teach the whole lesson?"
Emma: "Yeah!"

2/11/18
After Will said something funny, Emma says, “Mom, that just joked me up.”

2/3/18
Taylor (at Lucy Smith’s request) put on Emma’s mermaid tail and when he asked Emma if he looked good she said, laughing, “No! You look like an idiot!”

1/22/18
Emma (As a pretend sheriff): “Stop! In the middle of the law!”
Mom: "What does that mean?"
Emma: "It means it’s the LAW." 

1/21/18

After Taylor changed his clothes to paint the bathroom, Emma realized Luke was asleep so she didn’t have any clothes to wear except her church clothes so she said, “I don’t have any paint clothes. Oh, I guess I’ll have to paint naked.”

1/18/18
Drinking root beer: “Mom, every time I drink this it just... root beers my mouth up!”

1/15/18
Will was burping in the back of the car and Emma (not sure if it was intentional or coincidence) started singing under her breath, “They’re sabbages sabbages.” (from Pocahontas)

1/15/18Will’s shirt got wet at the beach so he rode home shirtless in the car and Emma says, “Will, put your jacket on so I cannot see your nipples.”

1/13/18
“Mom, I know where bananas come from—Monkeys!”

1/13/18
Will, Emma and Taylor went to help at an Eagle Project so I asked them: “What were your jobs at the service project?”
Emma: “We picked up trash...? And I ate a banana!”

12/20/17
Pointing to the toy cash register: “Will can you hand me my money mucher?”
Mom: “Your money muncher?”
Emma: “No! My money MUCHer. Because it tells me how much money I have!”

12/20/17

Luke was crying in the car so Emma says, exasperated, "Luke, chill out! We’re getting Taco Bell!"

12/18/17
While playing one day Emma started singing her own version of Row, Row, Row Your Boat:

"Yo ho! Row your boat
Gently down the stream
Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily
A pirate’s life for me!"



12/4/17
Favorite color: pink... and white... and blue and lellow and green and purple
Favorite store: the do it center
Favorite restaurant: in-n-out
Favorite time of day: Monday
Favorite friend: Lauren
Favorite letter: E
Favorite number: 3 cause I was three and then I just turned 4! Oh, and 4.
Favorite person: Me!
Favorite snack: banana
Favorite vegetable: cucumber
Favorite dinner: Mac n cheese
Favorite toy: my little ponies
Favorite ice cream: chocolate and vanilla
Favorite book: my little mermaid book
Favorite kitty cat story: where they go find their dragon friends

11/25/17
Emma wanted to wear her hot-glue-gunned headband from her mermaid costume to a wedding so I said, “Emma, it looks kinda tacky. Do you know what tacky means?” She responded, grinning, “Beautiful?” She wore the headband.

11/2/17

“Mom, I can’t snuggle with myself! That’s weird!”

10/19/17
Emma: “Me and dad are stinky.”
Me: “Why?”
Emma: “Because we fart and burp a lot.”

9/7/17
"Mom I know why it's called A Bug's Life! Because it has bugs and it's their life."

9/7/17
Emma: "Mom, I need a white paper."
Me: (handing her a piece of paper) "You got it, babe." 
Emma: "Don't push it, bub." (Which is a quote from one of their books but funnier when she says it.)

8/28/17
Emma told me she is going to marry a husband with brown hair who looks like daddy and is named Taylor. They'll get married in the temple and have 40 kids. But only if their house has stairs and has 50,000 rooms and 50,000 bathrooms. Otherwise she's only going to have 3 kids.

8/26/17
Emma jumped off the ottoman and said with a deep voice: "I. Fell. Down. In my heart." Then laughed.

8/26/17
Mom: "Emma did you do _______?"
Emma: "Yes"
Mom: "Are you telling the truth?"
Emma shakes her head and smiles.
Dad: "Why do you say yes if you aren't telling the truth?"
Emma: (bigger grin) "Because Heavenly Father loves me!"

7/2/17 
Talking about Taiwan
Taylor: "It's a really big island."
Emma: "Like could it fit a hundred people??"
Taylor: "Yeah."
Emma: "Wooooah."

6/14/17
Will: "Good morning, miss Emma!"
Emma (grumpily): "No, I'm Emma. Don't call me Miss Emma."

6/7/17

In a single car ride, Emma pointed out the "paint nolish place" (nail salon), "pine cone trees" and she explained why she thought Luke was crying, "Luke's like: waaa, waa, I want a bullet for my birfday!"

5/9/17

We were in the car and at some point Emma yells, "Hey, somebody-" (as in, I have something to say and whoever will listen gets to hear it)

5/1/17

Trying to quote Kung Fu Panda's "I love Kung Fu!!!" Emma said, "I am very confused!!!"

4/28/17
Will was bossing her around and I said, "You are not the boss of Emma. Emma is the boss of Emma and Mom is the boss of both of you." Then Emma said, "No, dad's the boss."

10/22/16
Pointing to daddy's leg hairs: "Do these pull out?"
Mom: "No, don't pull out dad's leg hairs."
Emma: "Why?"
Dad: "Because it hurts!"
Emma: "But I just wanna see your knees!"

11/9/16
Emma: "I see the moon!"
Mom: "You do??"
Emma: "Yeah! It lights up!"
Mom: "Do you see stars?"
Emma: "Just one star. But I hear the stars!"
Mom: "Really? What do stars sound like?"
Emma: "Dey sound like dis (tries to whistle). They whistle at you!"

Big Brother

I don't think I need a lot of words to describe that Will is a really good older brother. He says he doesn't like little kids but he has a definite soft spot for little Levi. I'm so grateful for our sweet, kind, clever oldest child.

(Pictures from 6/4/18)

Levi's Birth Story

(I don't get very graphic at all but this is a birth story so if that's not your thing just skip to the pictures.) 

I knew very early on in this last pregnancy that I wanted to get induced if the baby didn't come on his own by 39 weeks. After having 3 really smooth deliveries (2 inductions) and after having an almost 10 pound Luke at 39 weeks I was pretty sure my doctor would let me get induced early with Levi. I wanted to get induced right at 39 weeks (May 25th), but it was the last day of school and then it was Memorial Day weekend so I ended up waiting until May 29th to get induced. 

The whole thing was pretty much as I expected. Just like with Emma and Luke I went in about 7:30 in the morning, got checked in, and got checked. I was already about 2 centimeters dilated and pretty effaced so they hooked me up to an IV and started me on Pitocin about 9:00. With the other two inductions my doctor let my contractions go for a couple hours before breaking my water but I had a new doctor this time and she broke my water right from the start. Things kicked into gear pretty quickly. They told me the anesthesiologist would be in a c-section so I either had to get it before his c-section or after it (a gap of about 45 minutes). I was planning on an epidural at some point anyway so I went with before. And it was a good choice. I forget how quickly induced contractions progress so by the time the doctor came to give me the epidural I was definitely starting to want it.

Taylor was a good sport. Fourth time around he knew what to expect. He knew that I would make him stay in the room for the epidural (I don't even need him to look at me, I just need him in the room for whatever psychological reason), he took a nap on the couch during the down time after the epidural kicked in (after asking me if it was okay), brought some work to do, and did whatever I asked him to. He's a good hospital buddy. :)

When you're on an epidural they prop a pillow under one side to keep you from laying flat on your back, then they come switch sides every once in a while to keep the epidural from settling to one side. 

So based on my previous two deliveries I expected something like this:

After the epidural I'd take naps or read for a few hours and finally at some point they'd switch my pillow, I'd start feeling a lot of pressure and the epidural wouldn't help. They'd check me, I'd be ready to go and I'd have to try not to push out the baby until my doctor got there. 

I even gave my nurse a heads up so she would take me seriously when I said I was ready to push. And sure enough, I was right!

They switched my pillow while Taylor was gone getting lunch (only about 5 minutes away... I checked Find My Friends...) and I started to feel that all-too-familiar pushing pressure. I texted Taylor that I was going to have the nurse come check but that he should probably get back to the hospital. The nurse came in, I was 9+ centimeters, she had me do a test push and said, "Yep! You're about ready." I thought, Great! We'll have this baby by 3:00!

NOPE.

Taylor came back and about 20 minutes later my nurse comes in and says super casually, "I called your doctor and left a message. She's finishing up with a couple patients and then she'll be on her way over."

SHE HADN'T EVEN LEFT THE OFFICE??

The office was like 20 MINUTES AWAY FROM THE HOSPITAL.

I was so mad.

Meanwhile I'm sitting there not moving and trying not to push out a baby. I wasn't in pain but I was SUPER uncomfortable and SUPER bitter. I almost just pushed the baby out without my doctor because I wanted that baby OUT.

But I waited.

Finally, my doctor came in, got me set up, and told me I could push with the next contraction. And although it felt like I'd had a million contractions in the last 5 minutes, nothing happened for like 3 minutes. Oh, the irony.

But a contraction did eventually come, I pushed, the baby's head came out, my doctor told me to stop, readjusted her grip on the baby, told me to push again (all within a single contraction of about 45 seconds maybe) and another Moss baby was born.

Levi Evan Moss

9 lbs 9 oz

21 inches long

Born 5/29/18 at 4:06pm (not 3:00)

It felt like some serious déjà vu when they put him on my stomach to cut the cord. He looked so much like Luke that I thought, Didn't I already give birth to this one?? He was definitely one of our kids.

This boy was not a happy camper when he first came out. In fact, he cried for maybe the first 20 minutes of life (even when I was holding him) until I was finally able to nurse him. He was just hungry! I should have predicted then that I would be feeding him every 2 hours for the next month or so (not exaggerating).

We also had a hard time naming him! We knew we wanted his middle name to be after Taylor's brother Evan but his first name? We went to the hospital still not knowing. With our other kids we basically had one name picked out unless they came out with a stamp on their forehead that said otherwise. But with Levi we actually had two other names above his on our list. We even called him one of them for like an hour before Taylor and I both decided it wasn't it. We decided to sleep on it and so we didn't officially decide on Levi until the next morning. But now it fits. 

I feel so lucky and relieved to have such straightforward deliveries and such healthy babies. Levi's blood sugar got a little low in the hospital (common with big babies) but they brought it back up with a tiny bit of formula and since then he's been absolutely perfect and healthy. He's a sweet little chunk and we all just love him.