Questions

"How can you tell someone is Amish?"

"Why aren't horses in the zoo?"

After being asked to do a favor, "I have a question. Why is it that when people ask for a favor, they don't stop and wait for an answer? They just keep talking and tell you what to do anyways!"

 "How many calories does it take to kill you?"

"Did clowns come out in the 80's? Because they have huge afros..."

"How do you get brain freeze?"

"Is dust a plant?"

"Madeleine, would you like an exotic dot?" (Some little dot stickers she had...)

"Why do kidnappers usually have black cars?" (We couldn't understand why she thought black cars...I have always thought white van...)

"Will your contacts grow back if you put them in water?" (This was after I had torn one of mine.)

We were in the car and it was quiet. She wasn't doing anything and randomly said, "What's the five letter word?"

"Why aren't apples hairy?" (um...why would they be?)

"Aren't you so glad we don't have cats to chase the yarn?"

"Someday, if we have dry macaroni, can I make a brain out of it? And if there is edible glue, then eat it?

She is so odd...

Madeleine

Jillybeans

"I like my last name. Some people have last names like Valdez. But, I don't. I'm not going to take my husband's name."

"I like doing crosswalks."

"It would be cool if you could gel your eyebrows to look like a mo-hawk. No! To look like another set of eyelashes!!!"

"Carpet looks like a sea anemone."

"Grandpa, the reason Dixie (our dog) will bite your head is because its round and shiny, like a ball."

"I usually just think of a club like a place in the woods where kids and their parents go in the morning and night."

"Mom....I think I ripped a mole off."

"That's an awesome truck! It would've been better with a deer on it, though."

"I just thought of something...it is like we (us sisters) are the boogers and Mom is the nose..." (I do not know what she meant by this...)

"That guy is skinny but his ribs are like...whooooo!"

"I know why Santa has a beard. To keep him warm in the North Pole."

"A fairy could rip off a succulent plant leaf and use it as a pillow. Because they are so squishy. It would be like a Tempurpedic pillow...with a rock underneath it."

"Lamentations has the word 'lemon' in it." (Um...okay? Wrong...)

"I think that sign was made out of a mattress."

"Yo, yo! I'm THE JILLYBEAN!!!"

At the eye doctor, trying to read some really small print: "This looks like my Bible!"

"Sometimes when I have to go number 2, my uterus hurts." (What in the world?!?!?)

Science Lab

I'm sure you read the title and inhaled sharply a bit because "Jilliane...science...experiments...things that could go terrible wrong...house burned down...how can we help their family"...was somewhat like your train of thought. Don't worry. Nothing has gone wrong. Yet.

I just thought her seriousness and love of what she calls "science" is really rather Jillianish. :) And, so you all know, "This place is not for human hands." Apparently, only she and her tweezers can touch things in her lab.

Her set-up. New things are added/used/taken away every day. Including random things from outside, the kitchen, the trash, etc. 

I asked what she was doing and what was in the dishes to the left. She said, "Just water for stuff." 

The little circle dishes have bits of plants/moss and water in them. 

 The yellow things are corn on the cob holders. She has also got communion cups, medicine cups, tweezers, a lipstick holder, a mirror, a hat light, icing caps, and some other stuff I can not figure out...like the gray thing.

But, this is her absolute favorite part. A little terrarium, that she takes special care of, that is perched on her ottoman by her window sill. She was so excited when my grandma bought it for her and she watches it all the time. The plants have actually started growing now. :)

I wonder what goes through that little head of hers...to be Jilliane for a day...

Madeleine

Vitamin water?

Jilliane likes to....experiment sometimes.

Here she is trying to make 'Vitamin Water'. We have a jar of gummy vitamins and she decided to take two and put them in a medicine cup with water and see if it would turn into 'Vitamin Water'.

It failed. Miserably. Don't ask me where she gets her ideas or what goes through her head...

She makes me laugh...

Madeleine

Don't bother

It's a normal, lazy summer day. However, the house is quiet. Too quiet. Jilliane's room door is shut. Very suspicious. (We have had an open door only policy for awhile because of the experiments and other strange things she hid from us...like her stash drawer...)

I open the door to find a clean (I KNOW, RIGHT? CLEAN?!?) bedroom with what I think is nobody in it. As I'm turning to leave, I hear the sound of TV. Jilliane has in fact closed herself in under her desk with pieces of a dollhouse and is watching TV on a device.

She has the entire room and house even...and she decides to hole herself up under her desk with very limited room...(Her head is bent because she has to and her knees touch both sides...)

That child is SO odd...

Madeleine

Jilliane ownly!

So, I walk into the kitchen and see the fridge, like any normal day. However, a bag of chips has been attached to it by a chip clip. Who ever could have done this?

The chips on fridge. (Left side, under ice dispenser)

She wrote in Sharpie, "Jilliane ownly!"

Apparently, it was Jilliane. And the next morning she walked into the kitchen, saw her chips and exclaimed, "I totally forgot about those!"

What a weirdo...

Madeleine

Jillybeans

Another collection of her random comments...

"Mom! Is this a blouse?!? Ohmygoodness! I've never worn a blouse before!! This is my first blouse!!!"

"When I get older, I'm gonna be a tree climber...and pick oranges for money."

"My favorite dots are the green ones." (She was eating a bag of Cool Ranch Doritos and there are little, TINY, spices on them...that she calls dots. And, apparently her favorite ones are the green spices...I don't know how she can taste them individually...so...?)

"That hole over there looks like where the Lorax came from." (Reference to Dr. Suess' book, The Lorax)

"I found out that it hurts really bad when you pluck hairs by your mouth. Only on top though..."

"Copy that, Roger."

"I wish I had a costume for a carrot." (She meant she desires a carrot costume. :))

"Mom, the ice cream has two humps in it. One for you and one for me."

"That tree looks like it is looking at me!!!"

"That guy's muscles are the size of daddy's head!"

*SCREAMING and singing* "IF YOU NEED A CAR, TRUCK-O-LAY!! WHO YOU GONNA CALL? AUTO MAN!!!"

While looking at a cracker and said in a dreamy voice, "It's like a square moon with craters..."

"I want to be like Daddy...Except I can't pee in a jug..."

While talking about New York and how she wouldn't want to live there: "But, when you go to sleep, it's like 'bing bing bing' all the time."

"I learned that one gallon is a couple quarts and pints and some other stuff..."

"Pirates know how to sleep with one eye open." (She told us this very matter-of-factly...)

"I've always wanted to be in a kangaroo pouch."

"I wish I had a costume for a carrot."

"I LOVE wearing bathing suits because I don't have to wear underwear with them."

Those are french fries:)

Madeleine