::Me hanging Evie upside down::
Evie: “Don’t put a schnozberry on my tummy!”
Me: “Do you mean a raspberry?”
Evie: “Or a schnozberry! I don’t want either!”

We were playing outside and we saw our neighbor in shorts and a tee-shirt. A little while later he came out dressed up.
Evie: “Was that your brother in the red shirt?”

Evie: “The first story is kind of scary, so I might need to hold you.”

We were roughhousing and I had Evie tucked close to my chest. I said something, and it must have been kind of low because Evie said, “I can’t understand you daddy, you sound like an engine!”

Sara: “There’ll always be somebody who doesn’t like you.”
Me: “What? Doesn’t like me? I only met one person ever who didn’t like me, and I married her.”

::Riding in the car silently for 10 minutes::
Evie, suddenly wailing: “What if I can’t find anybody to marry??”

Really? That starts at 3 1/2 now?

Sara: “What is it?”
Me: “It looks like a stink bug to me.”
Sara: “Can you smell it?”
Me: “It’s hard to smell anything over my own stink.”

Sara: “You have an eyelash on your nose. Did you know that some people say you can blow on it and make a wish?”
Evie: “No.”
::Evie blows eyelash off of Sara’s finger::
Sara: “What did you wish for?”
Evie: “A cake…and cupcakes…and candy rocks…and gold money that you can eat…and cherry dates.”

Sara: “These [overalls] would be very useful for working outside.”
Me: “Well, your pants wouldn’t fall down.”
Sara: “Yeah, and they’re covered with little pockets all over!”
Me: “But what would you put in the pockets?”
Sara: “Snacks!”

Later she commented: “Look, there’s a little loop to hold my water bottle!”

Me: “Did you learn any new games?
Evie: “Yeah! It’s called…steam engine?”
Sara: “Steam roller?”
Evie: “Yeah! I’m going to play that with mommy before bed instead of reading a book.”
Me: “Oh, is that so?”
Evie: “Well, I don’t know. We’ll see…”

Me: “Ugh, that was foolish of me.”
Sara: “I’m sorry.”
Me: “No, I’m sorry. What are you sorry for?”
Sara: “I’m sorry you’re so foolish.”

Evie: “Does this say ‘jaguar’?”
::stunned silence::
Sara: “Well, it’s close, it says Jaqua.”

Evie was reading the name on some real estate sign. I wasn’t aware that she really knew the word jaguar, much less knew how to read it (or read anything).

Me, goofing around with Evie: “Mommy, who was the first one to fall asleep?”
Sara: “I don’t know, but I know who is annoying me most right now…”
Evie: “She means me! That means me!”

Me: “He’s trying to give you a smooch. I think it’s a thank you smooch for being such a good sister.”
::Later::
Me: “I think Oliver has a poo-poo diaper.”
Evie: “That’s his way of saying thank you for being such a good daddy!”

Mom: “I never thought at my wedding I would be worried about my hearing aide battery!”

Evie, on getting her nails painted: “Now I can’t poke my nose!”

Makenna: “Eww, he’s spitting out all of his food!”
Sara: “You know what? Sometimes he spits out his food and then eats it.”
Matt: “That’s classy.”
Sara: “Sometimes he spits out his food and I eat it.”
Me: “That’s double classy.”

Rachael: “What is the birds and the bees speech? I don’t get it. Are the birds boys and the bees girls? I’m going to google it when I get home.” – Rachael has to google about the birds and the bees? Sounds like poem material…