Girl Speak

- "We finished our paradise testing today."  That's standardized testing, but Elizabeth obviously had a good attitude about it because she thought that it was paradise.
- "There are just so many things that I want to be when I grow up, it's hard to decide."  The world is your oyster, little Emily.
- "We said that Mr. Nick could come for dinner.  We didn't say that you could stay up chit chatting all night."  All night - well, until 9:30 p.m. at least.
- "Why did people think that the world was flat before Christopher Robin came along?"  Mixing famous historical characters and famous literary characters makes for good dinner conversation.
- "Who is going to make our computers now?"  Elizabeth's reaction to the passing of Steve Jobs.
- "Here you go, Mommy. You can use this towards my Christmas present."  Elizabeth received an American Girl gift card as a present and promptly handed it to me, to offset the cost of the AGD stuff that she wants for Christmas.  Sometimes, I wonder where she came from.
- "Are we poor?"  Elizabeth is currently obsessed with AGD Kit, who grew up during the Great Depression.  She wanted to know if we were poor like Kit or doing okay.
- "Mummy, can I please, please go on the field trip?"  The fact that Emily thought that we might not let her go on a school field trip makes me think that we might be a wee bit too strict.
- "I feel like an American Girl Doll."  This from Elizabeth after a particularly brutal morning of me combing her hair.  Apparently, she hacks at Elizabeth Cole's hair like I hack at hers.
- "You go to work and Daddy goes to the grocery store."  During the drive home from dance class one week, we started talking about how people are different and I asked them to name all of the ways that Lee and I are different.  This one, along with "You eat healthy food and Daddy eats candy - I hear his hands tinkling in the M&M dish all the time!" are among my favorites.
- "You are the best mom when there is no power!"  Lee and I took them to Dunkin' Donuts a few mornings for breakfast to warm them up, but all they knew was that they were having donuts.
- "I feel bad for all those kids [in towns that are still without power, 12 days after the storm].  I bet that they really, really want to go to school."  Elizabeth loves school so much, she just assumes that everyone else does too.
- "Does a cigarette have some sort of interesting taste that makes people want to smoke?" asked Elizabeth, upon discovering one of our friends smoking (he's done a good job of hiding it for the last 18 months, but he was bound to get discovered).  The facial expression and hand gestures made this question priceless.
- "I think that you should take a day off.  You deserve it," said Elizabeth, as I was discussing the fact that I would make them a big breakfast on Thanksgiving, after I got home from my run with my friend Sarah. Not sure if she thinks that I deserve it, or if she just doesn't want to wait around to eat.
- "But I'm in KINDERGARTEN!!" Emily was furious with me one Sunday when I told her that she needed to take a nap.  She was battling a vicious cold and Lee and I both thought that a nap would make her feel a lot better, especially because she had fallen asleep on the couch the night before.
- "I think that I'm going to start doing the laundry.  Daddy is going to have to bring the basket up and down the stairs for me though."  I'm sure that if Lee doesn't have to do the laundry anymore, he will gladly carry the basket for Emily.
- "I wish that books never ended and just went on and on forever."  Elizabeth is in the middle of a series of books that she is really enjoying.
- "I hope we find a wishbone in our turkey because I really want to be a fairy."  I'm kind of hoping that we don't find a wishbone because I don't really want Emily to turn into a fairy!