Evie: “Oliver, I love you more than a penny.” – It may not sound like much, but if you know Evie, then you know this is about as high as praise gets.

Grandma Kathy: “Here, I can fix it.”
Evie: “Mama can do it, but you’re too old.”

Sara: “Ooh, you startled me!”
Evie, accusingly: “That’s because you know there are monsters and things like that in the world!”

Apparently she has been waiting to catch us in some inconsistency which would prove we were lying when we said there was no such thing as monsters.

::Me tickling Evie::
Evie: “Stop, I’m going to pee on you!”
Me: “Oh no!”
Evie: “For real, that’s just the way my body is designed!”

Sara: “Wake up, we’re at the campsite!”
Evie: “No thank you.”

Evie, on her first day of school: “I’m as excited as on my birthday!!”

Evie: “Hey! Have we been here before??”
Sara: “Yeah, does it look familiar?”
Evie: “No.”

::Me, staring at Sara with puppy dog eyes::
Sara: “Get what you want, I’m not the decider.”
Waiter, picking up on this: “Oh, do you want a beer? We have specials.”
Me, giddy: “Diet coke please!”

I could tell he was a little disgusted with me, but in my defense, Sara doesn’t like me to drink pop in front of the kids!

Evie: “Dead cows are yummy!” – Amen to that, sister!

Sara: “It’s Labor Day today.”
Evie, whispering in awe: “Wow. Who cares?”

Me: “But there’s one advantage our new tent has over our old tent…it doesn’t have a hole in the top.”
Evie: “Yeah, but that comes later in the story.”

Sara: “They have moose tracks, superman, bear claw, pecan praline…”
Evie: “But what kind if *ice cream* do they have?”

Evie: “Daddy, I want to cut open your stomach and look at your skeleton.” – This is why I’m a light sleeper these days…that’s a hell of a non-sequitur!

Evie: “Daddy, is it okay if I talk in my sleep? Because sometimes I have to whisper, ‘Flying Chair! Flying Chair!’ if I want to go anywhere.”

Sara, on a Monday: “We will use the new blender on Wednesday.”
Evie: “You shouldn’t have told me that! Now I won’t be able to sleep!”

Evie: “It must be hard to be a zebra. Or a monkey. Or a Japan.”
Sara: “Japan is a country.”
Evie: “Oh.”

Sara: “Sometimes I can’t stand you. I mean all the time, but I just said ‘sometimes’ to be nice.”

::The music table played London Bridge is Falling Down, Hey Diddle Diddle, and then a mystery song::
Evie: “Oh! I know what it is! Saskia Hamilton!”

Me: “Don’t be cute.”
Evie: “I’m not cute! Er…you’re not cute!” – It’s not often that you actually hear someone say, “er…”

Sara: “Why do they think they can just park on the grass?”
Me: “Well, they probably saw someone else doing it so…”
Sara: “BUT THEY HAVE A PRIUS!!”