Spring Cloverisms

- "One of the rules in our classroom is don't hurt anyone, on the inside or the outside."  Emily told us this one night at dinner after I asked Elizabeth to tell Emily a story about what had happened to her earlier that day (another girl told Elizabeth that she hated her), as I want the girls to understand how much words can hurt, and how words like "hate" can't be taken back with a simply apology.  For those of you worried about Elizabeth, she simply shrugged off the comment because, as she said, the girl is not a friend of hers so it didn't really mean anything.
- "When I retire, I'm going to live in Argentina.  You know why?  Because it's the beef capital of the world!"  Elizabeth loves beef!
- "If you don't have enough knowledge in your brain, you don't know anything."  True 'dat.
- "Elizabeth, can you darn my socks?"
- "Mommy, you have a lot of free time after we go to bed. Can you do some stuff for me?"  Sure, Emily. All kinds of free time.
- "If I lived in Africa, I would wear red all of the time.  To keep the lions away."  Random thoughts (although logical, given the history of the Maasai), by Emily.
- "Let me put my thinking cap on," said Emily, pulling the sheets over her head.
- "I know how to ride a horse.  I learned all about in books that I've read."  Elizabeth has suddenly decided that she wants a horse.
- "Don't you mean adult-napped?" asked Elizabeth, when Emily was trying to explain the plot of the book she was reading.  She thinks that there should be a different word for when an adult gets taken against their will.
- "Let's go ask google!"
- "What's a Klondike bar?" asked Emily.  "It's a kind of dessert from the olden days," answered Elizabeth.  Good grief, my childhood is the olden days!!
- "Do not repeat what I say!" So said Emily after she tried on a dress and declared herself beautiful and I was forced to remind her that she had refused to wear the dress earlier because it was "ugly."
- "If I was the Queen of England, I would make a law that outlaws paparazzi so that they don't do to Princess Kate what they did to Princess Diana." We spend a lot of time talking about Constitutional rights when Elizabeth makes these types of statements (and yes, I know that England doesn't follow our Constitution).
- "What is paparazzi anyway?" asked Emily.  "People that follow you around and take pictures of you all day," answered Lee.  "Oh, like Mommy."  "Yes, but she is just paparazzi for Elizabeth and Emily."
- "Everyone was talking about the sleepover at school today.  They said that they are all going to stay up until one in the morning, talking and playing and stuff.  I'm glad I'm not going, that doesn't sound like fun to me."  I don't know whether to applaud her or cringe.  Practicality is great, but too much at age 8 is probably not a good thing.  Also, as she gets older, it is becoming more and more clear just how much like me she is (or is becoming).  Lee and I spend a lot of time just laughing and shaking our heads...