Evie does not like the title of the following book:

She really can’t see why they named it that. She says that a better title would have been, “One Fish, Two Fish, One Fish, One Fish”. I have to admit, I can kind of see her point there.

“Mommy, you’re a good girl. Daddy’s a mean old daddy!” I don’t even remember what I did to deserve this anymore, but she repeated it several times throughout the day. In fact, at one point she took it back and said, “You’re not a mean old daddy anymore.” but then later I earned it back somehow.

We were driving and she kept saying “I see the Eiffel Tower!” I had no idea what she was talking about (how does she even know what the Eiffel Tower is?) but eventually Sara figured out that she was saying that when she saw a water tower. She’s obviously easy to impress, I’m thinking about taking her around and showing her all the “wonders of the world”, without ever leaving our neighborhood!

It reminds me of when I was younger and we were driving through Chicago. I saw a multi-level department store with a little spire sticking up with a sign that said, “Sears”. Logically, I asked my mom if that was the Sears Tower. She laughed at me and said no, the Sears Tower was really tall. I pointed out that we were on an elevated highway and this Sears Tower was even taller than we were, so it probably just looks taller from the ground. So the moral of the story is, don’t laugh at your kids or it will scar them for life and then they will grow up and expose you on their blog. And also, kids are easily fooled.