Another Round of Cloverisms

- "You are the best cook in the world, daughter of the best, best cook in the world.  In fact, you're from a family of great cooks - Grandpa on the grill with his ribs and Grammy with her cookies, cakes and pies!"  Only Elizabeth could come up with something like this.
- "You know, there's a McDonalds just about everywhere," said Emily after telling me how hungry she was one afternoon when we were out and about.  I told her to keep an eye out for a place to eat and that's when she let me know how ubiquitous McDonalds is....
- "Kid who get to go to summer school are soooooo lucky."  That's our little nerd.
- "I was born for reading and eating meat."
- "I was born for Lambie and eating clam chowder."
- "When Daddy gets home from work, I want to go to Home Depot, go to the fan department, and buy 150 fans."  When you don't have air conditioning, and you've never had air conditioning, it doesn't even occur to you that perhaps what you should be buying at Home Depot is a few air conditioning units, not 150 fans.
- "Daddy, you shouldn't eat and drive at the same time."  "No, Emily, that's only a rule for teenagers, because they are such idiots.  Except for Taylor and Emily."  You've got to love Elizabeth's view of teenagers (excluding her former and current babysitters).
- "I hope that they have powerlifting in the Olympics."  Oh boy!
- "Actually, Mummy,  how do a man and a woman make a baby?"  Amazingly, I was able to escape this question with "it's very complicated" - Lee, by the way, acted like a deaf mute and looked at the ceiling during this entire conversation, which started with the much more complicated question of "can two men, who aren't married but are in a relationship, have a baby?"  Not sure where Elizabeth comes up with this stuff.
- "I do declare, cucumbers are my absolute favorite vegetable."  What eight year old uses the word "declare"???
- "Well, then why did you marry him?" Emily asked after I told Lee that he was annoying.  We just cracked up....
- "I think that God painted the sunset tonight.  He did a pretty good job."  Love that Emily.
- "I thought that Sinister Citizens got up early," commented Elizabeth when we were at my parents and I told her not to get up too early because I didn't want her to wake them.  Totally confused, I asked her to please explain what she meant by "Sinister Citizens" and she said, "you know, people like Grammy and Grandpa who get to park at the beach for free."  Ah....senior citizens.
- "Boy, I hope that we get to see that tomorrow," said Emily, after Elizabeth gave us a very gory description of harpooning on the eve of our visit to New Bedford.
- "You are so beautiful.  I hope that you never get old," said Emily to me one night.  "Yeah," said Elizabeth, "I don't think that you would look good with white hair."
- "I hope that I can stay young forever.  It is so much fun being a kid.  And, you don't ever have to worry about being cool."  I love how Emily thinks.
- "When I get older, will you shave my legs for me so that they don't end up looking like Daddy's?"  Sure thing Emily.