_____Date_____ |
They Said What? |
1 9 8 6 |
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Age 3 |
December 1986 |
"My teeth are hungry."
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December 1986 |
I told Santa what I wanted but all he gave me was a sucker. He didn’t give me any toys.
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1 9 8 7 |
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Age 4 |
August 21, 1987 |
Daron declared that if we all got locked out of the house
by Uncle David we could all climb down the chimney. That
idea did not appeal to all of us. |
September 6, 1987 |
Daron wanted to keep me within earshot and if I wandered
off he would call and I might say 'upstairs' or
'downstairs'. He would then ask, "Are you
upstairs or up, up stairs?" He meant the very top
floor where the bedrooms were. I only am adding this for
future generations cause there were four floors in that
house. |
October 17, 1987 |
Daron and Dave were wrestling, etc in the living room and
Daron fell off the top of Dave's head. Daron came to me
and said, "I fell off of Uncle Dave's head and got all
bended up!". |
October 18, 1987 |
While reading Halloween stories to Derek and Daron, Daron
looked up at me and said, "Boy, that sure was
'pookey'". |
October 18, 1987 |
Derek, Daron and I were cleaning out the garden area
behind the house and cutting off the rose bush limbs which
were flopping all over the place. After two hours of this
trimming and putting the stuff into barrels Daron asked,
"Nannie, is this fun?" I said it sure is. Later I
heard Daron comment to Derek, "This is sure fun".
Still later he said to Derek, "This is really fun did
you know that, Derek?! |
October 18, 1987 |
One day Daron crawled on my lap and told me he was really
sad. I asked why and he replied that only Shelly and
'me's' Mom knows why he would be sad forever. I
asked if he wanted to share with me why he would always be
forever sad and he said sadly, "But, I forgot what it is
I am so sad about!". |
October 18, 1987 |
Derek and Daron had the clever idea of cutting down the
willow tree in the back yard so got one of Tom's golf
clubs and started whacking away. I saw them and soon
decided they were going to harm the tree and the club so
went out to retrieve the club. Strange looking club.
Looked sort of like the letter "S". |
1 9 8 9 |
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Age 5 |
June 5, 1989 |
Daron thinks out loud like Grandpa Tom but Derek does not. |
June 7, 1989 |
While trimming the dead branches out of a rose bush it got
dark on us and Daron asked, "Are we going to cut on this
bush till morning?". |
June 7, 1989 |
I was reading a book to Daron and Derek about a person at
church. There was a graveyard beside the church. Both
boys asked questions about the church and the graveyard
and they decided between them that they were not going to
church anymore so they wouldn't die and go to a graveyard. |
June 7, 1989 |
Derek broke Daron's 'Burger King royal crown' and
Daron asked Derek how come he did that when he had worked
on putting it together for his whole life . . . (all
of 15 minutes, anyway.) |
June 8, 1989 |
I asked Daron if he went barefoot at home and without a
pause he asked, "Go where?". |
June 8, 1989 |
Daron said he just saw three kittens. One was black and
one was gray and one is striped black! |
June 9, 1989 |
Daron ran outside and excitedly said he was going to get
my mail off of the driveway for me. . (the daily
newspaper). Thanks, Daron. |
June 9, 1989 |
Daron is still worried that he won't be able to tell the
Grandma by the church (in Monroe) from me if we are
together. Thanks a lot, Daron. I didn't know I looked 85
years old! |
June 9, 1989 |
Daron asked how old Grandma by the church is and I told
him. He was amazed when I said 85 and he said, "Oh, she
is older than my mom, then". |
June 9, 1989 |
Daron excitedly showed me a picture of a baseball player
in the Chicago paper and told me it was Uncle David. No
way, Jose! |
June 10, 1989 |
Daron asked me if the water runs back into the faucet if
you step on the hose. Then he picked up Dave's 'jock
strap plastic holder' and put it over his nose while
asking what it was. |
June 10, 1989 |
Daron was looking for Derek one morning and said Derek was
already up before him because he looked on Derek's pillow
for his head and it was gone! |
June 10, 1989 |
Daron and Derek were having a great time scouting out the
neighborhood. They came walking in with a 'Huge'
leather chewing bone for a big dog. I told them to take it
back from where they had gotten it because it belonged to
someone's dog and the dog likes to chew on it and will miss
it. Both boys suddently had a very forlorn and sad look on
their faces and Daron said, "We thought it was a
dinosaur's bone". Boy, I could sure see where they got
that idea from. I had never seen such a huge chewing bone
before. Don't you know how sad they were to have their
discovery turn out to be a mere dog's bone to chew on? |
June 10, 1989 |
Daron was admiring the very green and prosperous looking
garden Tom had planted to fill the garden space. Daron
said that "Grandpa sure has good crops!". |
1 9 9 2 |
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Age 9 |
June 24, 1992 |
The boys (Daron and Derek) wanted to stay up past 10
PM and I told them no because Daron would be here a lot of
nights yet and no need to burn the candle at both ends.
Shortly after that I looked up to see Daron looking high
and low around the fireplace and then in a puzzled voice he
said, "I don't see any candles." I laughed and
laughed and then he said, "Oh, that was just a figure of
speech, wasn't it?". |
June 25, 1992 |
Took Daron to our bathroom to see what the Master area
looked like. When he opened the door to the stool area he
said in amazement, "Well, what do you know. A bathroom
inside a bathroom!". |
1 9 9 8 |
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Age 15 |
September 9, 1998 |
Debbie Jean walked past Daron and he stretched his arm out
and put the end of a toilet paper roll on her stomach.
When she asked him what he was doing, he very calmly and
seriously said "life o suction". |
|
Age 17 |
March 1, 2001 |
"Interestingly enough I got my ACT score back today. My English dropped from a 29 to a 27. I mean this is bad, but seriously, a 30 in both math and science with that 35 in reading doesn't make it all bad. After all, a 31 composite does put me in the upper 2% of the nation. With the envy of all my peers. Though my English did drop and my math is below my standard. Yet that Bright Flight scholarship... $2,000 every year for four years. Not bad. The $3,500 curator's at UMSL isn't so bad either. Then there is that $1000 physics scholarship I needed a 28 for... Oh well maybe I will do better next time." |