From Riley:
“Hey, Dad. The Cannibal Gardens starts with C! C for Cannibal!”
–we’d just left the Botanical Gardens
“When I put my foot in my food it tickles the bottom of my foot.”
“Let me try to open it. Maybe I can use my teeth like a screwdriver.”
From Emmett:
“No, no, no! I wore pants yesterday. I don’t need to wear them again today!”
–when asked to put on some pants
From Tessa:
“Nobody likes to clean up, clean up, clean up. Nobody likes to clean up any messes.”
–sung to a tune of Tessa’s own making while cleaning up the toy room
“That’s so beautiful! But I’ve decided that I’ll never ever die.”
–after passing a cemetery and learning that when people are buried they help the grass and trees and flowers grow
“I can’t be a pillow because I have arms and legs. Pillows don’t have arms and legs.”
–when asked why Daddy couldn’t use her as a pillow
“Then I wont grow up so I can stay your Little Girl.”
–when told by Mommy that she’s getting too big to be carried everywhere and she won’t be little much longer
“It’s Asher’s uniform jammies!”
–when Asher wore an army onesie that’s camouflaged like Daddy’s Army uniform
“I was a good girl. I didn’t hit her or anything.”
–expressing the benchmark for behaving with a new babysitter
“My eye hurts because I jammed my finger into it!”
“If I open my mouth when there is milk in it, the milk comes out.”
“Emmett, dance with me or I’ll cut you.”
–said while holding a small plastic knife. something clearly learned in the prison cotillion.
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