While shopping in Hattiesburg, Connor commented on some of the store names he saw.
"Turtle Greek Mall" - (Turtle Creek Mall)
"Turtle Green Mall" - (again, Turtle Creek)
"Delizards" - (Dillard's)
"Office Deport" - (Office Depot)
"Paylee Shoo-Shorce" - (Payless Shoesource)
"Poopeyes" - (do I need to translate this one?)
"They shouldn't call it a Grab-n-Go. They need to change the name to Grab-Pay-n-Go, so people know to pay before they leave."
Connor (while in the living room with Jason): "Dad, can you text Mom to tell her I love her. I don't really feel like walking down to her bedroom."
Lori - What would you think if you had a little sister one day?
Connor - It would be ok. But if you can help it, I don't want one.
Connor was looking at his US President placemat while he was eating dinner.
Connor - "Franklin Purse and James Bakugan! I didn't know they named a TV show after a president!"
Me (laughing) - "Pierce and Buchanan"
Connor - "Ronald Regions. That's where you used to work!"
Me - "Ronald Reagan."
Connor - "John Calvin College. No, wait. It's Cool-eh-didge. Calvin Cool-eh-didge."
We are at Pump It Up with our homeschool group. Connor was having trouble finding me in the basketball arena with Ethan.
Connor (to a staff member): Have you seen my mom?
Staff: What does she look like?
Connor: Well, she has pants...
"At the Bass Pro Shop, it isn't the real Santa. He's a fake Santa. And the reindeer aren't real, either. Well, they are real. They killed them and put them in suspended-animation."
After Tae Kwon Do, Connor was talking jibberish to one of the other students in his class. The boy's father laughed and said that it must be something in my cooking. Connor exclaimed, "It was the mushrooms!"
"Ethan's play phone is a Tiny Touch Phone by Vuh-teh-ch."
(He tried to phonetically sound out VTech.)
We are headed to Connor's first martial arts tournament! In the car, we are talking about his Tae Kwon Do white belt form, Chon-Ji.
Connor - Dad, you remember I showed my Chon-Ji to those people at that restaurant, Chicken Papayas.
Lori (to Jason) - He means Popeyes Chicken.
Jason laughs.
Connor - Yeah, I meant to say Chicken Pa-Popeyes.
Jason laughs harder.
(Connor was trying to imitate the commercial that sings, Love that Chicken from Popeyes, but it comes out "Chicken Pa-Popeyes.")
Lori - You know there was a time when there were no TVs.
Connor - Well, if there were no TVs, there must've been T-Rexes.
Lori - Are those boxers getting too small?
Connor - No, they are good.
Lori - I'll go get some more if they are too small. They make larger sizes.
Connor - Like Dad's boxers are bigger. When Dad passes on, I'm gonna use his boxers.
We are discussing the difference between the words "miner" and "minor."
Connor - I am a minor. Ethan is a minor. You are not a minor. You've passed being a minor. And Dad is passed a double minor. He is a triple-minor because he isn't 20 anymore.
"Mickey has two big ears, yellow shoes, red pants with 2 white dots on them, white gloves, and a long nose with a period at the tip of it."
Jason - Where do you want to eat? Popeyes? Wendy's? Kentucky Fried Chicken?
Connor - Not Kentucky Fried Chicken.
Jason - We just ate there the other day. You wanted to go there.
Connor - No, we didn't eat there.
Jason - Kentucky Fried Chicken is KFC.
Connor - It is? Well, y'all have got to tell somebody!
"Some Disney movies aren't educational. Some of them have someone that dies. Nemo is a Pixar movie, and Nemo's mom died. But no one died in Monsters Inc. Movies need to have a happy beginning, a sad middle, and a happy ending."
