Chad was having a sleepover in Eli’s room, the girls were in my room…
Ada: I feel less scared when I’m near you.
Me: Well that’s good.
Ada: So can I be near you?
Me: Um…. (we were already sharing a pillow)
Ada: There!
And we’re now sharing breathing space. 

Eli (singing): See, I can sing.
Me: I know.  Did someone say you can’t sing?
Eli: Yeah, some people don’t think I sing well.  But I think it’s time I let my secret out of the box.

Me: Daddy and I are going to Indianapolis tonight.
Eli: I love Indian-Apple-Us!
Ada: That’s where you get the cork guns!
Me: No, that’s the Johnny Appleseed Festival.
Ada: Oh right.  That’s where we go pick apples and have donuts.
Me: No, that’s the apple orchard in Illinois.
Ada: Are there apples there?
Me: Apple isn’t in the name!
Grace: Hey Ada, where is the best place to get apples?
Ada: Indian-Apple-Us.
Grace: You ruined my joke!
Me: She thought you were really asking the question.

Ada’s homework is a subtraction worksheet, worded as…
The whole is 8.  One part is 3.  The other part is…(5).
Then a tricky one.  The whole is 8.  One part is 8.  What is the other part?
Ada correctly wrote 0.  Then she had to tell how she knew.
– Because it is easy.
And yes, I’m going to let that be her answer. 

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