Vegetarians in Da Houuuuuse!

My children say the funniest stuff - stuff I write down. For real, I write so much of it down I have journals full of their quotes. When we're out and about and one of them says something hilarious I whip out my phone and type it in my 'notes' or if I'm without my phone I'll scrounge for a piece of paper, napkin, receipt, anything that I can jot it down on. Then I compile it all when I get home. 

Let me begin by telling you that Ariana is a picky eater, she eats "like a bird" (as my grandmother would say). She was a vegetarian for a while (and by 'a while' I mean 12 hours, 7 of which she spent sleeping). I could stop right there - huh? Shit, that's a story in and of itself. She coined herself a vegetarian one evening right before bed, went to sleep, went the morning with no meat, lunch with no meat and in the early evening Daddy cooked a dinner she could no longer resist...she was a vegetarian until Daddy cooked his famous ribs, at which point she dug right in. Ethan called her out on it and her response was, "Well Ethan, I can't resist Daddy's dairy delicious riiiiibs!" 'Dairy delicious' is one of our many inside phrases so don't feel silly if you're scratching your head trying to figure out if that was a typo. Anyway, Ethan quickly informed her that she wasn't a vegetarian if she ate ribs. And from that moment on she no longer referred to herself as a 'vegetarian.' Instead, she would insert the name of the food she didn't eat (grapes, for instance) and tag 'atarian' on the end (grapeatarian, for instance).

The kid uses the phrase all.the.time. She spent Christmas dinner explaining how she didn't want to eat her turkey because she was a, "meatatarian." 

I couldn't make this shit up.

So, the other day I was Skyping with them and Ari asks, "Oh, Mom! Have I told you that I'm a cheeseatarian?!"

Ethan rolls his eyes and says, "SHE'S AN EVERYTHINGTARIAN!!!!"

Owen, being the cutie he his must've felt the need to add his two cents because, without skipping a beat he said, very matter-of-factly, "Well I eat anything in my path. * shruds shoulders* That's why I'm so plump." 

Love my brood.

Xo, Lor