Ada: Will you please look at the clock?  The clock that shows you the weather?
Me: The thermometer?
Ada: Yes.  Will you tell me what it says?

Ada: When we’re with Grandma and Grandpa, and you’re not with us… we still have to make good choices but we have different rules.

Grace: Oh no!  I forgot my camera!
Ada: Well, we can turn around.
Grace: No we can’t, we’ve been gone for an hour!
Eli: Actually, we’re half way there.
We were exactly nine minutes into our 4.5 hour trip.

Grace: … Read the rest

Ada: You smell like white milk.

Chad: Isn’t mommy beautiful?
Ada: Well, I think she’s more beautiful when she wears make-up.
It started out so well… 

Eli: In the Kivil War… (he pronounces Civil incorrectly)
Chad and I: Civil
Eli: Yeah.  In the Kivil War…
Chad and I: CIVIL!
We’re usually more kind in correcting our children, but come on, twice??

Grace: Can I wear capris today?
Me: Yes.
Ada: Well mom, do you know if I have capris, and do you know what capris are?

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Ada: My kindergarten class is taking swim lessons at the high school!
Eli: I would be scared, there will be big high school kids everywhere!
Me: Eli, are you trying to scare her?
Eli: No.
Ada: Besides, I’m six years old and I’m not scared of anything except the dark!! (she said with ALL the attitude her little body could muster)

Me: Should we have leftovers or go to Red Robin?
Eli: Leftovers.
Me: What?!?
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Ada: She is the bossiest kid in class.  Sometimes she bosses me in the housekeeping area.
Me: OK, well you just use nice words, and if that doesn’t work get a teacher.
Ada: No mom, first you ignore, then you walk away, then you use nice words, then you use firm words, THEN you get a grown up.  That’s what you do at school if someone is bugging you.  (pause)  Sometimes you bug me.
Two can play that game, kid. 

Grace: I have mosquito issues when we go camping.
Ellen: I have hair issues.
Eli… Read the rest

Eli: Mom, do you know why boys like to sweat?
Me: No…
Eli: Because it makes their hair straight.
Ada: And that makes them handsome?
Eli: No, Ada.  When their hair is straight it helps them attract girls.
Ada: Well, if your hair was straight it would NOT attract me.

Playing Lego Harry Potter…
Eli: Do you know who my favorite character is?  Voldemort.  Because he’s the strongest.
Chad: But he’s evil, and Harry Potter defeats him.
Grace: And I bet he doesn’t brush his teeth.

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Grace: Do you know what a kid’s worst enemy is?  Bed time.
Ada:  No.  I kid’s WORST enemy is ROBBERS.  Because they ROB YOU.

Eli: When I grow up I want to do what dad does.
Grace: When I grow up I want to be a saloner.  I love going to DT Nails.
Ada: When I grow up I am going to be a paleontologist. (And this was, of course, perfectly enunciated.)

Ada: Today at recess I threw mud at in those yellow things.
Me: Are you supposed to do that?
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Eli: Mom, wouldn’t it be nice if we had one of those things that cut off people’s heads to cut cantaloupe?
Me: A guillotine?
Eli: Yeah!  Wouldn’t that be nice?
Once again…thank you, Mythbusters.  I guess the silver lining here is that he wants it to cut cantaloupe.

Eli: Mom, there’s a place in Legoland Florida where a boy like me can build his dreams.
Mission accomplished, informational video.  Why are you in my home again? 

The kids were building a blanket fort in the living room when I heard this gem…
Grace: Eli, it’s … Read the rest

Ada: Why is that ghost pooping coins out of his bottom?
We just started playing Lego Harry Potter Years 1-4 on the Wii.  If you haven’t seen it, it’s kind of hard to explain.  If you have, you know exactly what she’s talking about, and it’s hilarious.

Ada: When you get a shot if you don’t look it doesn’t hurt.  Really!  God can do that, it’s a miracle.

Ada: When we were in mommy’s tummy I just wish I gotted to come out first because I was SO HOT in there!
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Waitress: (to Ada) I just want to look at you!  You’re so cute!
Ada: With my bow and my glasses (she stated as fact with her head tipped to one side). 

Ada: Last night when I was sleeping with my eyes open…

Ada: I splitted the cheese!
…CUT the cheese. 

Me: Ada, there is dried up pepperoni in your bed!  That’s disgusting!
Ada: I did that when I was five.  I certainly wouldn’t do that now that I’m six.
Me: You just turned six last Monday.
Ada: I know.

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Me: Ada, you’re doing a good job putting your laundry away!
Ada: Sometimes I work quickly.  That’s just my charm.
Ada does nothing quickly. 

Me: Ada, stop eating candy!
Ada: But it’s good….
Me: I know.
Ada: …for your body.

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