Here's a sampling of the many strange things that have been said over the years in the Matthews family...

“Hmm…fancy clothes.” – Nathan (4) said to Grandpa Fisher when he got home from the office.

“Oh, I just can’t think about Gramma right now.” – Nathan (4)

“There’s cookie trouble downstairs.” – Nathan (4)

“My underwear is tired.” – Tim (3) during day 3 of potty training.

“Oh no!...Oh, no!” – Tim (3) after accidentally flushing his shorts down the toilet.

“Like a frog, or a snail?” What Nathan (4) said when Mommy told you she’d bring you a special treat/surprise from San Francisco.

“Tim, I don’t work here.” – Peter (2) after Tim (3) sat down and the play-kitchen table and told you to make some food.

“What’s going on in my sock!?!” – Peter (2) had an itch on his foot and his sock wasn’t on straight.

“There’s “skeetos” in my pants!” – Peter (2) had an itch on his leg.

“Blue Target.” – Peter's (2) name for Lowe’s.

“I have a spiky thing in my foot.” – Peter (2) had a splinter.

“I am going to open the fridge, and I’m going to leave it open!” – Peter (3) angry at Daddy.

“Is this the Hobby-Lobber?” – Tim (4) asked when we went to get photo album supplies.

“Coughachoo” – Nathan (5) said when Daddy asked “Are you ok?” after you coughed and sneezed at the same time.

“Fine! I throw this!” – Nicholas (2) After being told to sit down in the bathtub, he flops down, screams, picks up a toy boat, holds it in the air and says this.

“He peed in the yard!” – Tim (4) catches Peter with his pants & underwear off, standing in the backyard. Peter (3) explains that he couldn’t go in the house because “Mommy is having a piano lesson.”

“Butterflies are made of butter” – Peter (3) says on a bike ride, looking at butterflies.

“Tim poked me in the eye!” – Peter (3) cries at Target. When asked why he did this, Tim (4) replies “He said I didn’t like him.”

“Where did Mommy go?” – Peter (3)
“She went to her yoga class.” – Daddy
“Oh, she went to her yogurt class” – Peter

“Maybe God will have stickers for us” – Peter (3) wondering what Sunday school is all about.

“Then I’m going to hit you!” – Nicholas (2), when anyone crosses him.

“Ladybugs are made of ladies.” –Peter (3)

“Cookie-mans.” – Peter (3) looking a gingerbread cookies.

“What the heck is goin’ on in here?” – Nicholas (2)

“Shut the door, cuz it’s gonna get stinky!” – Peter (3) tells dad this while on the toilet.

“But that puddle was just in my way!” – Peter (3) after stomping repeatedly in a puddle.

“I like girls, I always talk to them.” – Tim (5) when asked about friends at school.

“Look, I spelled but(t)!” – Nathan (6) lining up 3 letter blocks.

You can’t talk all the time or your brain will fall out of your mouth. – Peter (4)
“But that would be disgusting.” – Tim (5)
“No, no, your brain tastes like M-n-M’s” – Peter

“Don’t punch the cheese!” – Mommy

“What the twap!?” – Anonymous

“Is this just going to be the best vacation we’ve ever had, Mom?” – Nathan (6) watching Mom pack for a trip to Wisconsin.

“It must have been pretty hard for you to have all of us.” – Nathan (6) after watching a birthing show on cable.

“Look Dad, it’s a daddy poop and a baby poop” – Nicholas (3)

“Sparky Pa-ta-ta!” – Nathan (6) trying to describe his excitement about sparklers.

“Look Gramma! I caught a carpet fish!” – Tim (5)

“Yeah, it might be kind of gross in there.” – Peter (4) responds to being told that the new baby will come from a hole cut in Mommy.

“I’m going to have to break everything.” – Peter (4) says quietly after Mom and Dad can’t control their laughing at him.

“Dad! Dad! Dad!…you know I fell off the scooter, and then I got an owie, and then I got blood, and then I got a band-aid, and now the blood is all gone, Dad!” – Nicholas (3) says all in one breath.

“Santa’s not watching me anymore!” – Peter (4) after repeatedly disobeying his parents, we think that he thought Santa gave up on him.

“Tomato Hut”– Nicholas's (3) name for Fazoli’s.

“Jumponimo!!!” – Nathan (6) jumping off of something too high.

“The baby’s going to come out in about a week, you know…” – Mommy
“Well, I don’t want the baby to come out.” – Nicholas (3)
“Why not? – Mommy
“Because it will break you.” – Nicholas

“Well, I would never drink milk from that.” – Peter (4) watching Maggie nurse.

“Can I have a popiscle (pronounced pop-is-cul)?” – Nicholas (3)

“Oh, come on, just get to the AT-ST part!” – Peter (5) (watching a slow part where Luke and Leia are talking during Return of the Jedi.

“Maybe we’ll see means no!” – Nicholas (4) after being told “Maybe later today, we’ll see.”

“What are you doing, Nathan?” – Daddy
“Waitin’ for my birthday…when it gets to 3 days left, I get that good feeling.” – Nathan (almost 7)

“Peter, you look so handsome.” – Mommy
“Maybe I’ll be in a show today! Sometimes handsome people get to be in a show, you know.” – Peter (5) in church clothes.
“Peter…(sigh)…” – Nathan (7)

“And what are you going to do today, Peter?” – Mommy
“Make a sword, of course!” – Peter (5)

“Ooh, Dad, it’s jiggling my privates.” – Peter (5) riding over a bumpy part of the path with Daddy.

“What kind is that one?” – Nicholas (4)
“That’s an almond.” – Brother
“Oh yeah, we say that in Church.” –Nicholas

“I’m think I’m gonna die.” – Mommy exaggerates.
“I’ll get you some water.” –Nicholas (4)

“Don’t mess up the house while I’m gone.” – Mommy
“What house?” – Peter (5)

“K-Mart or Target? What’s your vote? – Daddy
“John Kerry!” – Nicholas (4)

“Why did you bring your calculator to the soccer game?” – Mom says to Tim (7).

"Nathan, you are always doing the most annoying bothering things." – Peter (6)

“Well, I don’t think she’s ever going to learn to do anything!” – Tim (7) getting frustrated with Maggie.

“What do ya do at basketball camp? Play basketball in a tent? – Tim (8)

“Well, you’re just blurting!!!” – Peter (7) mad at Mommy’s comebacks during an argument.

“Oh! Peter is so ANGRY!” – Peter (8) when Dad was telling him he had to do something else before he could play.

“It’s kind of warmish-hot, but mostly it’s hot. Mostly hot, and kind of warm.” – Nick (7) assessing the current weather situation.

“I know where la-la land is, Mrs. Angell says I go there sometimes.” – Tim (9)

“I ready-all did that!” – Maggie (3) still working on saying ‘already’.

“No! I don’t like to be happy!” – Maggie (3)

“What the heck in the world!” – Maggie (3)

“No more snipping hair!” – Maggie (3) tearfully pleading at Great Clips.

“Mom, before I was born, pretzels were soft.” – Tim (9)

“I think pork might come from porcupines.” – Tim (9)

“That’s my channel!” – Nick (7) seeing his name in the corner of the TV screen while watching Nick (Nickelodeon) Jr.

“I want to be in college, because I don’t like to go to school!” – Tim (9)

“My butt is itchy.” – Maggie (3)

“Are we just going to see those Bus-Grampa’s?” – Maggie (3) on her way with Mom to the Bus Barn.

“It certainly tastes like jelly.” – Maggie (4) tasting her toothpaste.

“I just don’t understand this…I’m not sick.” – Maggie (4) says as we arrive in Iowa City for a check-up on her hips.

“Peter, stop making fart sounds!” – Dad
“I can’t help it! It’s just the way I am…and I’m happy being this way!” – Peter (9)

“Why is there a necklace wrapped around your cheese?” – Daddy talking to Maggie (4).

“That is not appropriated!” – Maggie (4) having trouble with the word ‘appropriate’.

“I’m going outside to turn the sky pink.” - Maggie (4) announces while holding her magic princess wand and getting all her winter gear on

“Hopefully, I’ll get a hermit crab for Christmas, so when I have to go to my room, I’ll have someone to play with.” – Peter (9)

“That was yummy circle food!” – Maggie (4) after taking communion at church.

“Peter, go get some socks on! ” – Dad
“Wait a minute, first I have to be Spider-man.” – Peter (9)

“Why is the cheese dirty?” – Mom

"How did you get so cute?" – Dad
“I was just born.” – Maggie (4)

"Are you gonna eat your cereal or what!?" - Dad
“What.” – Maggie (5)

“It's easy to curl your hair, but it's not easy to put a hat on a frog.” – Maggie (5)

“If there's a cheetah under your pillow, you will be cozy and warm.” – Maggie (5)

"Maggie! You ruined our band moment! – Peter (10) playing guitar hero with Tim and Maggie (on drums).

"That seems like a lot of cookies for Santa." - Dad
“It's OK, fat guys like a lot of cookies.” – Maggie (5)

"I thought I'd lived about a million days, but then I found out i was way off." – Tim (11)

“Don't eat a pencil, cuz it might come out sideways.” – Nick (9)

"Next week, Gramma and Grampa Fisher are going to live with you for 4 days while Mom & Dad are on vacation." - Mom
“(Eyes watering) I'm so happy, I'm crying! I've never done that before!” –Maggie (6)

"Try and improve yourself a little." – Jen to Pete while working out at the pool.

"Why is there a bag of grapes taped to the door?"– Dad

“You know what Dad? You are just the biggest pile of poop in the whole world.” – Nick (10)

“Alright, whose butt am I gonna kick next!?” – Maggie (6) after winning a couple of races at Prariefest.