Evie: “I am *not* in the mood for grownups today!”
Evie: “I had a bad dream! Crocodiles were in my bed and they were giving me shots! Then I got a lollipop.”
Me: “So…it was a good dream?”
Evie, miffed: “Crocodiles were giving me shots!!”
Evie: “If you were born on the sun, then right after you were born, you would die.” – How’s that for a non sequitur?
Me: “Evie, don’t poke your nose.”
Evie: “I was just checking it!”
Nathan (telling Grandpa Johnny his age): “Yeah, I’m 26.”
Evie: “You’re almost gonna die!”
Me: “I really want to get a picture of all 3 of us in our shirts.”
Sara: “Yeah, before Nathan eats again.”
Sara to Nathan: “You’re at the bottom of the list of people who annoy me. You’re even below Shane.”
Me: “This room is a mess!”
Evie: “It’s because of Uncle Nathan.”
Nathan: “Good thing fingerprints weren’t invented yet.” – Apparently not even by ’84 when the movie came out. I think everybody’s fingerprints raised in the early ’90’s or so.
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!”
Evie: “You fools! You have no idea how many I have!” – I don’t even remember what this was about, but I just remember thinking, “Looks like Uncle Nathan’s plan to turn her into an evil genius are succeeding…that sounded like a line out of a movie!”
Evie, gobbling Oliver up: “Oliver, you’re just a strip of bacon!”
::Evie was talking in her sleep::
Me: “Evie, are you okay?”
Evie: “I was dream-talking on the phone!”
Evie: “Indianapolis? Indianapolis? That sounds like…apples!” – Not what I was expecting her to say.
Evie: “I like your chicken!” – This was shouted at a group of woman pouring out of the “chicken limo”, a yellow limo with a chicken on top. You definitely need to check out the website, the limo is definitely as cool as it looks. However, these ladies were not who you would have expected to be getting out of the limo, and at least some of them looked vaguely embarrassed about the whole thing. So Evie’s comment was well appreciated.
Evie: “We should get a pet.”
Sara: “We have a pet.”
Evie: “No, for pretend! For my pretend family. I’m pretending I’m not part of this family.”
Sara: “Probably not for the last time.”
Sara, pointing to their matching shirts: “Hey, we match today.”
Evie: “You’re right, we both have necks!”
Me: “And you know how you can tell your parents love you very much? Because they make such good food for you to eat!”
Evie: “But how can I tell that you love me?”
Alright, alright, I should make supper more often!
Evie: “This is a true story, from when I was a little kid…”
Me: “Be patient please!”
Evie: “I had to be patient once, when I was two.”
Shane Halbach 