From the Mouths of Babes

Quote Monday goes trick-or-treating

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Evie: “What if a monster comes?”
Me: “Well, that couldn’t happen, because monsters are just for pretend.”
Evie: “Well…what if a dinosaur comes?”

Imagine my own daughter, using science against me!

Evie: “This is a book with directions to make a stairs. You need bugs or spiders to hold them up. Or else a broken window.” – I’d like to say we decorated our stairs for Halloween, but we didn’t. I guess it’s time to clean them up a little bit?

Evie: “My tummy feels like it doesn’t want the regular good food it usual has. It just wants desert.” – Well, it was Halloween night, who can blame her?

Evie, coming down the stairs from trick-0r-treating at a house: “You could just pick whatever candy you wanted out of the bowl, and you didn’t even have to say thank you!”

Quote Monday Shares Rock, Paper, Scissors

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Evie: “If Oliver doesn’t have a ticket, how will he eat supper? Speaking of eating, can we eat lunch now?” – Is she really old enough to understand segues?

::Me teaching Evie rock, paper, scissors::
Evie: “I’m going to be paper!”
Me: “Well, don’t tell me, because then I might be rock and you would cover me.”
Evie: “…okay, you be rock.”
::later::
Evie: “Wait! What do I make to win?”

Evie: “I like to share some things.”
Sara: “Like what?”
Evie: “Like pancakes. But some things I don’t like to share.”
Sara: “Like what?”
Evie: “Pancakes…”

Me: “We’re going to stay at Grandma Butterfly’s house.”
Evie: “Where is Grandma Butterfly going to be?”
Me: “She’ll be there.”
Evie: “She’ll probably want us to have some dessert…”

Girl: “How old are you?”
Evie: “3.”
Girl: “How old is he?”
Me: “5 months.”
Girl: “And I guess you are…44!”
She seemed very skeptical when I told her I was 30. I don’t think she bought it.

Quote Monday has Halitosis

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Me: “What was your favorite part of the festival?”
Evie: “When I was sleeping!”

::loud thunder::
Evie: “I just heard a nightmare!”

Evie: “Daddy, do you want me to draw a farm for you? Then you need to listen to me!” – I guess she’s heard that threat a time or two.

::Me singing I’ve Been Working on the Railroad::
Evie: “I’ve had about enough of that one.”

Evie: “How do you hug on the phone?”

Evie: “Smell my breath, then you can tell what I had for lunch!”
Me: “Who taught you that?”
Evie: “Aunt Anna”

Thanks for that one.

Quote Monday Surveys the Damage

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Me: “What do you think mommy will say when she finds out we had the same thing for lunch as she did?”
Evie: “She’ll say, ‘What the heck?'”

So, I guess it’s time to cut out that phrase. It could have been worse, obviously.

::Sara and I walking down the hall::
Evie, from the bathroom: “Is there a dinosaur walking out there??”

Geez, thanks a lot kid!

::I was asking Evie how her first full day of school went::
Evie: “Did you cry when I was gone daddy?”
Me, hiding a smile: “No, I didn’t.”
Evie: “Oh. Some daddies cry when their daughters are gone.”

Evie: “At the beginning, you just want to poke your nose all the time. Didn’t you feel like that when you were a kid?”

Quote Monday Talks Monsters

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Me: “You know there are no such things as monster, right? They are just for pretend.”
Evie: “What about the Loch Ness monster?”

I was trying to figure out which one of you wise guys put her up to that one, but then she told me it was from a book.

Evie: “Why is it Laura Ingalls Wilder?
Me: “Well, when you get married, sometimes your name changes. Mommy’s name used to be the same as Grandma and Grandpa’s, until she married me. And then what did her name become?”
Evie: “Mommy?”

Evie: “My favorite colors are blue and purple, until Aunt Anna gets her cast off.”

We were at a birthday party for a friend of Evie’s who was turning 3. I didn’t see what happened to prompt this, but I saw Evie pat her on the head and say, “You have to share, honey.”