::Evie jumping out at us::
Evie: “Boo!”
Me, feeling Ollie jump and clutch my arm: “Are you okay buddy? Did she scare you?”
Ollie: “I thought it was a spooky ghost!”

::Leaving the family for the weekend::
Me: “Bye guys!”
::door shuts::
I hear Sara through the door, shouting: “Party time!”

::Ollie, seeing a peacock feather::
Ollie: “Hey, there’s a feather under that eyeball! That’s crazy!”

Evie: “…and they were so scary, they even scared the lion!”
Me: “But it would be easy to scare the lion, he doesn’t have any courage.”
Evie: “No! They already had those things. For real! There’s a song that says the Wizard didn’t give anything to the Tin Man that he didn’t already have!”

::Evie and Oliver were playing a game::
Evie: “Okay, so one, two, three, and Evie gets to go again. Oh, okay, one and Evie gets to go again, and then one, two, Evie gets to go again.”
Ollie, trying to follow along: “How about Evie does NOT get to go again?”

Me: “Sometimes it’s just nice to lie in bed…”
Evie: “…just like Brian Wilson did?”

Sara: “…Young Master Oliver.”
Ollie: “I am not a master. And I am NOT young!”

Ollie: “If we went to bed when it’s tomorrow and we wake up yesterday, we might be back at today.”

Me: “Ollie, why weren’t you wearing any underpants today?”
Ollie, very seriously: “Because, the teachers hid them from me.”

Ollie: “Will you play jewel with me?”
Me: “Sure.”
Ollie: “Okay. I’ll be the banana.”

Ollie: “I just gave mama a super-squeeze hug.”
Me: “Oh yeah? What does that feel like?”
Ollie, thinking: “Like a lemon.”

Me: “Shoot, you’re kidding me!”
Evie: “What’s that?”
Me: “I got a ticket.”
Evie: “A ticket to what?”

If only there were magical fairies dispersing show or concert tickets under the windshields of people with expired license plates…

Evie: “…and that is the end of the show. Thank you for coming. The name of the series is, “The Queen of the Sea and the Alligator”. Double u, double u, double u, dot, Queen of the Sea, dot com.”

::Guys in fatigues::
Evie, whispering: “Are those warriors?”

Evie: “Whenever I hear the name ‘Royal’, I always imagine him in…like, overalls.”
Sara: “Not a crown?”
Me: “And a royal robe?”
Evie: “No, I can’t imagine that.”

Ollie in the middle of the night: “My heart says it’s time to wake up.”

Me: “Well, I love mama differently than I love you.”
Evie: “How is it different?”
Me: “Well, she’s an adult, so I can talk to her about different things than I can talk to you about.”
Evie: “Like, you can say potty words to her?”

I guess that’s marriage in a nutshell.

::Ollie rolling a one::
::Me rolling a six::
Me: “Hey, look at that! I won!”
Ollie: “I just one’d too! I “one” too!”

Ollie: “My pants have many pockets, just in case I’m an octopus.”