2025 Quotable Quotes

By my calculations it’s officially a new year. Thus, I present last year’s quotable quotes.

January:

- Crosby: “I’m going to start caring about grades in the middle of the year.”

- Hugo upon seeing the sun: “Oh my eyes, I’m a vampire.” 

- Carmen putting on her baklava scarf: “I look like a dumpling.”

- Hugo: “I can’t have a mom with a broken purse, that’s just embarrassing.”

February:

- Paige: “Are those the same ski socks as yesterday?” Hugo: “Yes, but I didn’t move my feet yesterday.”

- Hugo: “I might freeze to death. Tell my story if I don’t make it.”

- Hugo: “I’m thankful to grow up with technology so we don’t have to use whales for electricity.” 

- Carmen: “I’ve got a cough and the bless yous.”

- Hugo after I explained turning in our marriage certificate to the government for immigration purposes: “Do you have to turn it in so daddy can pick up Kokio (fried chicken) or Tacobell for you?”

March:

- International Women’s Day 

    - Paul: “Hugo, do you know what today is?”

    - Hugo: “Girls’ Day”

    - Paul: “Sort of, but we call it International Women’s Day… “Girls” is more of a word for kids.”

    - Hugo: “But Mommy isn’t a woman. She’s a mom.”

- Paige: “Do you want me to do a presentation at your school for International Women’s Day about my work?” Hugo: “You don’t work. Oh wait, your job is keeping us alive.” 

- Carmen on why dinner is not suitable: “When I eat this food, it makes my toe itch.” 

- Bedtime with Hugo: 

    - Hugo: “What are the three worst diseases to have at the same time?” 

    - Me: “In terms of suffering or death?” 

    - Hugo: “Death.” 

    - Me: “Ebola, Pancreatic Cancer, and …” 

    - Hugo: “That disease you get from eating raw pork leg?” 

    - Me: “Sure, trichinosis.” 

- Hugo on my favorite dance movie Center Stage:

    - Hugo: “You know that movie where the two boys are fighting over the girl?”

    - Paige: “Yes.”

    - Hugo: “You could see their nuts. Their pants were too tight. They had moose knuckles. What’s a moose knuckle?” 

    - Paige: “When pants are so tight that men’s privates look like a moose’s knuckle.”

    - Hugo: “Yes, that’s it.” 

- Hugo: “I want to be a lawyer because they make a lot of money. I’d be a good lawyer because I have very good excuses.” 

- Hugo whilst playing the animal guessing game. Abuela: “It lives in a house.” Hugo: “rats, mouses, a dog?” 

- Hugo on a bike ride with Daddy: “Now I understand why people find this (bike riding) enjoyable.”

April:

- Hugo: “It’s easy not to not get a baby. Just don’t lay down naked together. Or put a sock on your nuts.” 

- Paige: “Boys who have sisters are more empathetic” Crosby:  “I don’t know what empathetic means. Is that like not pathetic?”

- Hugo while putting his sun hat on after a recent burrito rolling lesson: “This looks like a burrito that wasn’t folded right.” 

May:

- Hugo: “I found a Playmobil on the ground.” Crosby: “Is it a limited edition cigarette figure?” 

- Crosby after I gave him cake: “Are you being nice to me because you have bad news?” 

June:

- Paige: “Your siblings did no chores while you were gone.” Crosby: “Oh my gosh, you poor thing” 

- Phone conversation with Hugo: Paul: “I love you” Hugo: “Can I hang up the phone now?”

- Crosby while making a walkie talkie beep and static: “Mom, your nightmare has come true. I’ve learned how to make techno music.”

July:

- Carmen: “I can only eat, sleep, dance and hair.” 

- Crosby: “I didn’t say you were a horrible person. I said you were a horrible mom.” 

- Paige: “Let’s go for a run.” Hugo: “Let me make a sign real quick that says loser so I can put it to my back and you can look at it while you’re running behind me.”

- Carmen at a discount supermarket: “Why does this smell like the toilet?”

August

- Carmen: “Unicorns are my favorite animal because they don’t poop. They do pee though, right?” 

- Carmen: “Do you know my boyfriend? He’s a DJ.” 

- Hugo: “When we’re officially Germans, can I wear sweatpants?” 

- Hugo to my side braid hairstyle: “You need to change your hair. You look like Pippi Long-stocking with one braid missing.”

- Hugo: “People here don’t really have braces. Their teeth are kind of snaggly. That’s not a good look.”

- Paige: “Rihanna can do whatever she wants.” Carmen: “Why? Because she doesn’t have parents or anyone she has to take care of?”

- Crosby: “We’re modern art statues.” Hugo: “We need to take off our clothes because sometimes statues show their butts.”

September:

- Carmen: “Hey Siri, I hate you so hard.”

- Carmen while snuggling: “Is my foot on your penis?” Paul: “Yes” Carmen: “Well, I can’t put it anywhere else.” 

- Carmen: “I didn’t wake him up. I just touched him and he opened his eyes.”

October:

- Crosby on JS Bach: “It sounded like religious yodeling.”

- Papa to Hugo: “Thanks for coming to visit me.” Hugo: “It wasn’t my choice.” 

- Hugo to Papa about the pool boy: “Do you pay him or did he come with the house?” 

- Hugo: “I’m a businessman. I don’t do things for free.”

December:

- Hugo On Val getting married: “Are you sure? You haven’t even known him a year?”

- Hugo: “Being a kita teacher is an easy job.” Paige: “It’s really hard. It’s like parenting.” Hugo: “Parenting is an easy job.” Paige: “It’s the hardest job I’ve ever had.” Hugo: “Well, you haven’t had a lot of hard jobs then.”

Speaking of which, I need to find that guy in the gaggle of Kur kids and get him to bed.