Straight Out of Their Mouths

- "It's going to take you TWO HOURS to run the 1/2 marathon?!  It takes two hours to drive to New Hampshire."  Thank you for your support, Elizabeth.
- "Can we get a minivan?"  No.  "But they are soooooo awesome!!!"  It's a good thing that the girls are not in charge of our car purchases.
- "We're eating Wilbur!" grinned Elizabeth one Sunday morning as she stuffed bacon into her mouth.  I'm glad that reading Charlotte's Web hasn't turned her into a vegetarian....
- "Halloween is over.  Next up - Thanksgiving!"  Not that these kids are in a rush to get to Christmas or anything.
- "I LOVE to eat!"  Not surprising, really, considering the genes.
- "Daddy, will you read to me?"  "No."  "Why not?  You're just sitting there doing nothing."  A very observant Emily just will not let Lee catch a little nap.
- "I don't want to go out to eat if I can't have dessert.  I would rather stay home.  I LOVE dessert!!"  Elizabeth knows what she wants and she's willing to turn down dinner at Chili's in order to have a cookie for dessert.
- "Daddy and Mommy are the King and the Queen and I'm the loyal princess."  Elizabeth has our family hierarchy down pat.
- "Mom!  Rudy's drinking out of Elliot's water dish and spreading germs!!"  Already an excellent tattletaler (she takes after her mother, clearly), Elizabeth even tells on the poor dogs.  To her credit, however, Rudy was sick when he was drinking from Rudy's water and she truly was concerned that he would get Elliot sick as well.
- "Emily is a playing machine and I am a sleeping machine."  Well, not really, but for the first couple of weeks after we turned back the clocks, this was actually true.
- "Mummy, you know that the people in the tv can't hear you, right?"  Emily pointed this out to me when I was talking back to Kayne West, who was being interviewed on the Today Show.
 - "We can't move to New Hampshire.  You and Daddy can't buy another house - it's too expensive.  At least $300."  At least.
- "Mummy, we had a meeting at lunch today too," said Elizabeth after listening to me tell Lee about something that happened at work.  "What did you talk about?" I asked.  "Well, it went kind of like this: blah blah blah blah blah blah....."  It looks like Elizabeth is already qualified to work at an insurance company....
- "I wonder what Santa will bring me...."  Emily is still at that wonderful age where she doesn't want anything and opens every gift with delight.  Elizabeth, on the other hand, knows exactly what she wants.
- "If I pray on a Christmas tree, will my prayer come true?" Elizabeth already knows that it's better to pray than wish.
- "Do you know how God makes the moon?  He takes the fire out of the sun, puts it back in the volcano and then pushes it [the sun] into the dark sky."  Emily has a wonderfully creative mind.
- "I'm afraid I'm not going to get anything from Santa," Emily wailed.  When asked why, she responded "because I haven't been very good...."
- "Next year, I'm going to be Mary," proclaimed Elizabeth, after attending her first Christmas pageant rehearsal.  Aim high, kid.
"Do you know how God makes it snow?  He cuts a hole in the moon, scoops out the snow and then pours it over the earth."  Again with the creativity.
- "I am Mary and Lambie is the new born king...."  The Christmas pageant really got to Emily.
- "Boy, they've really pulled the wool over everyone's eyes."  I couldn't resist adding this one, which Lee said.  This was after a week of pageant rehearsals and a parent teacher conference in which just about everyone we came in contact with told us how unbelievably great Elizabeth and Emily are.....