From the Mouths of Babes

Quote Monday is Aquatic

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Evie: “Why does Grandma Kathy go shopping? Why doesn’t she just order it?” – This was before we blew her mind with the information that there weren’t computers when Grandma Kathy was her age.

Me: “How did your pants get wet?”
Evie: “…water maybe?”

Evie: “Sometimes your leg gets bubbles in it. Then you can’t move it. It goes away eventually, but sometimes you forget and try to move it, and then you have to wait.” – I eventually figured out this meant her leg fell asleep because she was sitting on it. I thought “my leg gets bubbles” was a awfully poetic description though!

Evie: “Mama, what color is a whale’s bellybutton?”

Evie: “Do people live on Saturn?”
Sara: “No. Earth is the only planet people live on.”
Evie: “What about France?

Quote Monday Converts

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Evie, drawing a picture: “You might think this is Shin, but it’s really a stool.” – I think she meant Hei, one of the other dreydl letters, because it looks like a stool (ה).

Evie: “I was thinking about being a rabbi when I grow up.”

Evie: “I un-cutted it, can you fix it with the stampler?” – This one cracked me up, because she so very precise with her language, but for some reason “stapler” consistently gives her trouble.

Evie: “Mama, is the onion still in my eye, or was that a tear?”

Sara and Evie were having an argument about if the titular character in the song Eddie Walker was a boy or a girl. Finally Evie ended the argument:
Evie: “Mama! Even the fools of Chelm could tell you it’s a girl!”

Quote Monday Goes Cannibalistic

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Me: “Evie, help me pick up.”
::Evie gets something out and throws it on the floor::
Evie, laughing: “Oops! I forgot we were picking up, not messing!”

Evie: “I saw tv when I peeked in her room.”
Sara: “Florence watches tv in her room? What does she watch?”
Evie: “Commercials.”

Sounds like she gets the same programming I get.

Me: “His name was Manmeet.”
Sara: “How do you spell it?”
Me: “M-A-N-M-E-E-T”
Sara: “So it’s like ‘nice to meet you’, not ‘nice to eat you’!”

Me: “So Ariel, what do you eat under the sea.”
Evie: “Well, we don’t have any meat or anything. No pigs or chickens…”
Me: “No pigs? So you don’t have bacon?”
Evie: “Yes we do. We just make it out of dead mermaids.”

Quote Monday pretends to pretend

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Me: “We should get rid of the George Foreman.”
Evie, distraught: “But, then how would we make bacon??”

Evie: “Can you keep reading from your brain?” – In other words, “Can you keep telling me a story?”

Evie: “I wonder what Uncle Nathan is doing right now? Probably boasting that the Packers won the big game.”

Evie: “She lived long ago, back when pretend things lived, like fairies and dragons.” – She understands that pretend means they don’t exist. At least not now. Maybe she’s not so clear on the definition of pretend after all. Oh well, I’d rather live in a world where fairies and dragons at least used to exist.

Evie: “I wonder what it looked like!”
Sara, not paying attention: “Mmm hmm, me too.”
Evie: “No you don’t.”

Touché.

Quote Monday plans to kill again

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Evie: “I want to wear these sunglasses all the time. I’ll wear them in the house and I’ll only take them off when I’m sleeping. Then I’ll be just like daddy.”

Evie: “Can you imagine? Dorothy had to walk all that way, and she didn’t even complain?” – She came up with this as motivation all on her own! The sidewalk is no yellow brick road, but if it keeps her from complaining…

Evie: “I was almost asleep, but then my potty ticket woke me up. It kept talking to me, saying, ‘I’m lonely!'”

Tom: “What kind of cheese is it?”
Evie: “Shark.”
Me: “Sharp.”

Evie: “I have a plan to kill an imaginary person.”
Me: “What’s your plan?”
Evie: “To kill an imaginary person.”