From the Mouth of Mini-Teens (or so it seems)

- "If I'm going to a school called St. Mary's, isn't that enough?  Why do I have to go to church on Sunday too?"  Lee pointed out what a good point Elizabeth made, leaving me to handle this one.
- "Did you know that Mr. John is retiring?  The Generator?"  Mr. John is the janitor and could never be confused as a generator.
- "What was Daddy like when he had hair?"  Another gem from Emily.
- "I wouldn't want you to have a baby because if you did, everybody would pay attention to the baby and not me."  This one, surprisingly enough, came from Elizabeth.  Even more surprising, Emily claims that she would love for us to have a baby.  In case you were wondering, not happening.
- "Are you going to come to my birthday party in the backyard?  Okay.  I would like a fish for my birthday."  This one is all Emily, letting Lisa know just what they should bring her as a birthday present when they come over for cake on her birthday.  She's very direct.  And Lisa got the hint.
- "Get a cup.  Put some ice cream in it.  Put a cover on it.  And put it in my lunch."  Anything else I can do for you, Princess Emily?
- "It's not all about you Emily." "What's it about then?"
- "I don't think that anyone should have to work on a holiday."  Although happy that the grocery store was open so that we could pick up dinner, Elizabeth was a bit distressed to learn that people have to work on national holidays.  This gave Lee and I the chance to tell her about all of the people that we know that have to work on holidays to keep us safe - she was pretty impressed.  And thankful.
- "Look - it's two bugs stuck together!"  "They are mating, Emily.  When bugs mate, they stick their butts together."
- "You look like Miss Hanigan [from Annie].  But she is uglier."  Gee, thanks Emily.
- "Whatever." Already?  She's only five.
- "If we had a motor home - which we're never going to get, I know - we could do all kinds of neat stuff.  Like if we got hungry when we were driving, we wouldn't have to stop to eat, we could just go back and make something in the kitchen."  I'm not sure which part of this observation by Elizabeth cracked me up more.
- "I was the Queen and...we were just pretending...." says Elizabeth.  To which I respond "Oh.  Pretending.  Because who is the Queen?"  To which Elizabeth responds "you are, Mummy."  Love her.
- "I know what you and Daddy do when we are sleeping.  You eat ice cream - ON THE COUCH."  Busted.  About the ice cream AND eating in the living room.
- "There are a lot of people on motorcycles today.  And nobody is wearing a helmet.  Which is a really bad word."  That bad word would be "stupid."
- "Next time you go out to dinner with Daddy, please make sure that he doesn't eat Lily."  Lee and I went out for sushi last weekend and apparently, Emily is afraid that Lee will try to turn her beta fish into his next meal!
- "Look, we make an "L" (Emily, Lee and I at the dining room table).  "What about Elizabeth?"  "We could give her away...."