Miss M: Quotes...

Miss M:  Is Mr. Country (call sign...) in the Navy?
Mama:  Yeah.  He's a helicopter pilot.
Miss M:  Oooh la la!

Mom?  I had a dream?  That Allie was our neighbor?  And she lived in Elise's house?  And she had a big strawberry on top of her roof!

Miss M:  Let's play I Spy Things in the Clouds That Look Like They Are Real.  Oh!  I spy a horse!  That is stuck in the mud!  And there's its head.
Mama:  Ok...  Go  ahead.
Miss M:  No.  No.  You can't go until I'm done!
Mama:  No.  No.  You go ahead, go!  What do you spy?
Miss M:  No.  No.  You can't say ANYTHING!
Mama:  Ok, I won't say anything!  Go ahead.
Miss M:  I know you cheated...
Mama:  (laughing)  I'm not cheating!  Just go!  What do you see in those clouds?
Miss M:  Iiiiii seeee...  Well, a dragon.
Mama:  Where?
Miss M:  Right there.  Uh.  That's its crown, he's the king, and that's his eye, and he's dying.
Mama:  Oh how sad!
Miss M:  Well he's a BAD guy.
Mama:  Oh, ok.
Miss M:  Actually he's a snake.

Miss M:  Mom, did you know all the dinosaurs in the world are girls?
Mama:  No, I didn't know that.  Are there still dinosaurs walking around?  Or are they extinct?
Miss M:  There ARE dinosaurs walking around.  In California.  They are NOT extinct.

Fitness...

B and I have started doing P90X this week, early in the mornings.  Our efforts have not gone unnoticed, at least by Miss A.

"Dad, you are looking stronger than usual."

Miss M: Quotes of the Day...

Charlie got me sick at school.  He put some diarrhea in me.  He had it in his backpack.

(Miss M is being Iron Man for Halloween.)
When I go like THIS (raises hand, palm out), that means I'm going to kill you.  Ok?

Quotes From Miss A...

Miss A:  Mom.  This computer is just trouble!  Every time I push the space to get a capital, and the thing just moves!
Mama:  Well... to get a capital, you know you have to push the shift key...
Miss A:  OOOHHHHHH.

(A Prayer:)
Please bless that the Legion of Super Hero disc can be fixed from the library.

Mom!  I just love this caterpillar pillow!  So big!  So soft!  So green!

(Now seven and passed her swim test!  She can officially swim by herself in the big pool!!!)

Quotes From Miss M...

The more dark the clouds are the more it's pouring rain.  Allie told me that.  She knows everything.

(Miss M usually has some pretty interesting things to say first thing in the morning, when she is just barely awake...  Here are two days' worth:)
Mom!  I was sledding!  In the Arctic!
I thought I was a turtle!

She can go barefoot outside.  There are no hookworms in her land.

It's a good thing waffles can't talk.

When it rains, the angels actually have to push on the clouds.

Quotes From Miss R...

Mama:  What shirt do you want?
Miss R:  Owl hurt.
Mama:  You want your owl shirt?  What do owls say?
Miss R:  Foo foo!
Mama:  They say "foo foo"?
Miss R:  NO!!!  FOOOO!

Wuh Wuff= Ruffles
Yuh yick= yogurt
Nang woo= kangaroo
Uh Yadies!= Hello ladies!

An exceptionally rare event!  Miss R never falls asleep anywhere but her bed or her car seat.

Characteristics of a Good General...

Miss M (4) was just perusing our "Civil War Generals of the Union" placemat...
"He did not lose any of his buttons!  But this one did.  But this one has all his buttons.  And so does this one.  And this one (General Burnside) is just funny..."