Evie: “When you get bigger, you sometimes need bigger clothes. Even pajamas! ::shrug:: It’s the circle of life!”

After our visitors left: “Now that they’re gone, we can mess up the house again!”

We were making a snowman:
Me: “We need to find some arms and eyes.”
Evie: “And we need to find some magic things!”

Unfortunately, we did not find any magic hats for our snowman.

Evie and I were playing:
Evie: “I need a drink.”
Me: “Wait a minute, we’re mermaids, can’t you just open your mouth and take a drink?”
Evie: “Daddy, you can’t drink sea water!”

::Oliver practicing with a cup::
Evie: “Everybody, clap for Oliver! He’s drinking it like a human!”

Evie: “I try very hard to be a good daughter. But ::shrugging and laughing:: sometimes I think I’m in charge!”

We were talking about how when you grow up you don’t live at home anymore. Evie said, “After you come visit, I’ll have to decide if I like that visit or not, and if I do, you can come visit many times.”

Evie, in a stern voice: “Daddy! Give that back to Oliver, he was playing with it!”

Evie: “Simon says…stand up. Simon says…put your hands up in the air. Simon says…go find money.” – Well, if she has a slave forced to do whatever she says, she might as well make the best of it!

Evie, smacking Oliver in the head: “Oh, sorry daddy, I thought you were out of the room.”

Evie: “My hands are sticky.”
Me: “Why?”
Evie: “I’m not going to tell you, you know why? Because I ate a [dried] cherry [after she was explicitly told not to]”
::Me, pondering how to answer::
Evie: “Don’t worry, nobody saw me.”

Evie: “Grandma, can I have that stamper?”
Grandma S: “Here you go.”
Evie: “Thank you.” ::to herself:: “She’s a really nice Grandma, even if I don’t love her.” – She later told me she was just kidding, and she does love Grandma. But it was quite surprising at the time!

Grandma S: “Does his shirt say, ‘My Aunt Sucks’?”

Evie, assembling random letters: “This is a word that they use a lot in France.”
Me: “Oh yeah? What does it mean?”
Evie: “Like when you have to ask a question. It means, ‘Can I?'”
Me: “Huh, I’ve never heard that word before.”
Evie: “You probably weren’t in Paris or in French class long enough to hear it.”

There is a fine line between a girl with a good imagination, and a bold faced liar. At least she has confidence I guess?

Evie: “I think there are 3 apartments under the school for the teachers to live in.” – Remember when you thought your teachers didn’t exist outside of school?

Evie: “Sometimes my eyes just water, so I didn’t want Mrs. Laura to think I was crying.” – She didn’t want her teacher to think she didn’t like school. What a sweet girl!

Evie: “I wish I could go to school 5 days a week!” – Well, I’m glad she likes it!

Evie, telling me about her day: “…and, oh my Lord! We didn’t even sing Johnny Works with One Hammer!”

Evie, shouting out of nowhere: “Momma!”
Sara: “What?”
Evie: “Your finger bones are called phalanges!”

Evie: “No, I don’t want to wear [my mittens]! I want to go to school first and see if any of the other kids are wearing theirs!” – Ah, peer pressure, you start so young.