Evie: “I’m just a kid, I don’t know everything.” – She makes that easy to forget sometimes. I’m sure she’ll change her tune by the time she’s a teenager.
Evie: “I want Orlan to stay with me. I want daddy to be a part of your family instead.”
Lisa: “Oh yeah? How would that work?”
Evie: “They could just switch wedding rings!”
Evie: “But I only wanted jelly on the peanut butter side! I didn’t want peanut butter on the jelly side!”
Me: “Well, that’s not the way it works. You can’t have one without the other.”
Evie: “Humpf.”
Me: “…”
Evie: “I said humpf.”
Me: “Well, that was an entirely appropriate thing to say.”
I guess you hear that in books a lot? She obviously understands the context…
Sara: “What is it called when you have more than one foot?”
Evie: “Feet!”
Sara: “What is it called when you have more than one fish?”
Evie, without missing a beat: “Twins!”
Sara, laughing: “What is it called when you have more than one sheep?”
Evie: “Lambs!”