_____Date_____	They Said What?
2 0 0 4
	Age 2
August 4, 2004	I had just about finished eating a late lunch with the little ones. We had a stuffed pasta thing people in the East call perrougies. They have potatoes and cheese in them. We also had chips, green grapes, and juice. Colton requested some more grapes but I wanted him to eat the rest of the food on his plate first. I got up to put Tyler down for his nap and came back to find Colton perusing the grapes left in the grape bag and the little bunch still on the stems, which he had obviously pulled out of the bag. He pulled at a grape and it popped off the stem. His eyes got real big and he tried to stick the grape back on the stem. His brow furrowed and looking very serious, he tried it several times. The stem would go back in the hole in the grape, but of course it wouldn't stay. He finaly noticed I was watching him and held the grape and the bunch out to me saying, "Broken! Uh-oh! Broken! Oh no!"
2 0 0 5
	Age 3
May 13, 2005	Leticia, Debbie, Cody McClain (6) and the two little boys (2 and 1) went to Wal-Mart and Debbie was complaining of having gas pains in her tummy. Colton became quite concerned and asked her if she needed a band-aid.
May 15, 2005	Leticia was rocking Colton in the rocking chair. She was telling Colton she loved him and he would reply, "I love ice cream". Leticia then asked, "Do you love your mama" and Colton replied, "No, I love ice cream".
May 13, 2005	Colton (2) was helping Debbie pick flowers out to plant. He found some Marigolds and was eager for Debbie to buy the "dandelions" to plant. Right color anyway.
December 09, 2005	Leticia had sneezed in a room other than where Colton and Tyler were and when Colton heard her sneeze he quietly said, “Bless you”, and kept on doing what he was doing at the table.
December 24, 2005	I (Dottie) got up from my chair momentarily and Tim sat down in it because it was vacant. Colton tried to pull Tim out of the chair without saying a word and when Tim got up Colton pushed me back into the chair and climbed up on my lap for about 30 seconds and then was off to check other people’s gifts. His job was done, I guess. Colton Wick (great grandson).
2 0 0 6
	Age 4
September 14, 2006	Colton showed Debbie how well he printed his name. He did it backwards, forward and upside down while sitting on the sidewalk. Deb said the upside down one was perfect!
September 15, 2006	Debbie, Kami and I were singing "There’s a hole in the bucket, Dear Liza, Dear Liza" and Colton looked at Debbie and said, "Quit singing so I can hear!"
November 13, 2006	This morning I could not find Colton's shoes anywhere. I was running around the house, searching frantically. I thought he had taken them off with the rest of his clothes last night when I gave them a bath, but the shoes were not with the rest of his clothes from yesterday. I was asking him where he had taken them off, looking upstairs and downstairs. Really needed to be going out the door. I hollered as I came down the stairs for Colton to help me find his shoes because they were hiding from me. When I turned the corner to come down the second half of the stairs, Colton was standing there with his hands on his hips and that one eyebrow raised up the way he does. And he said to me in all seriousness..."Mom, just count to ten and say 'Ready or not, here I come shoes!!!' and then you'll find them."
April 12, 2007	Debbie had a lettuce salad for supper last night which consisted of leaf lettuce and red cabbage plus a bit of carrot tossed in. When Colton (Leticia’s son, age 4 ˝) saw the salad he asked Debbie why she had ruined the carrots. Debbie explained it’s the way she eats her salad. When Deb finished her salad, Colton apparently thought the carrots were not ruined after all because he said, "Nana, can I have the 2 little pieces of carrots you didn’t eat?"
	Age 5
October 15, 2007	Debbie told Colton (5) and Tyler (4) if they did not behave she was going to put them in her doghouse and then they both started insisting she put them in her doghouse and wanted to know where it was, etc. She had a hard time getting them to understand what and where her fictional doghouse really was.