Eli: Mom, you’re the best mom ever.  Even though you can’t cook on the grill, and sometimes you cook food we don’t like, and sometimes we say things that upset you… we really appreciate you.
I’m just going to take that in the spirit in which he meant in and be thankful his “even though” list wasn’t any longer. 

Eli: Calvin said girls are weird.
Chad: I think sometimes girls are weird and sometimes boys are weird.
Eli: Boys are always weird.

Me: Eli had to get a helmet a size bigger than the girls’.
Eli: Why is mine bigger?
Chad: Because your head is bigger.
Eli: I think it’s because boys’ brains are bigger.
No, you were just born with a 15-inch head and have gone from there.