Cloverisms

- "I did not wake Elizabeth up.  I just turned on the light.  It's not my fault she woke up, that's her problem."  Ahhh, sisterly love.
- "I like everything about the colonial days better than today.  Except for chamber pots.  I'm glad we don't have chamber pots."  Elizabeth thinks she's better suited for the colonial times than today.
- "I want to look beautiful for Jesus," said Elizabeth, explaining why it was taking her so long to get ready for mass on Easter.
- "Somebody needs to tell the captain to turn this boat around!" said Emily, after one particularly enormous swell on our whale watch.
- "If we only see one whale, it's going to be a real bummer," same kid, calmer seas.
- "The smell of your cookies makes me smile."  Love that kid.
- "After I have my lasik surgery, I'm going probably going to become a sniper.  That's my opportunity of the month.  I'm also thinking about being a marine biologist."  The sky is the limit for Elizabeth.
- "I'm like Goldilocks - my toast can't be over-cooked or under-cooked, it has to be juuuusssttt right."  That's our princess Emily.
- "Are people going to be quiet, or what?" asked Emily, while we were at a children's theater production at the Bushnell.
- "Doesn't this church have a cry room?" asked Emily at Christmas Eve mass.  When I told her that it did, she followed up with "why aren't people using it then?"  She does not like to be disturbed.
- "There are many chinks in Daddy's armor," said Elizabeth, describing what a pushover Lee is.
- "I feel bad for the Patriots and the Seahawks because they are missing Katy Perry's halftime show."
- "I want to be a marine biologist.  Or a botanist.  But if I can't be either of those professions, I want to be a scientist that works with DNA.  So I can make bird people.  You know, people with wings."  Sometimes, I don't know if I should be scared or in awe of Elizabeth.
- "You can't move out.  Who would get us library books?"  In a fit of cabin fever, I threatened to leave if the girls didn't stop driving me crazy; Elizabeth reminded me of the utility that I bring to the family.
- "I have no desire to go to Flight [trampoline park]. I have far too much to do in life." I have never let the girls go on trampolines (long story), and although the latest rage is indoor trampoline parks, they will never go to one.  It seems like Elizabeth has far too many important things to in life rather than worry about becoming paralyzed on a trampoline.
- "Everyone else named actors or singers, but I said Les Stroud [from Survivorman]." At a birthday party, one of the questions asked to the girls was who they would want to be stuck on deserted island with - our girl may not be the coolest, but she's the most practical, because Les Stroud can survive in any conditions.
- "Did you notice that the lady next to us was speaking Spanish?" asked Elizabeth.  "Yes.  Could you understand her?" I replied.  "Well, she wasn't talking about colors or fruit, so no."  I guess fifth grade Spanish doesn't cover the vernacular of screaming soccer moms.