{b.i.f. eleven}

Amelia: Who was your mom when you were a baby?

Me: Grandma!

Amelia: {insert gasp and shocking tone} Our grandma?!!

Shocking, I know.

{b.i.f. eight}

From Amelia. 

Mom, when we get to heaven, can I sit by you?

{I'll be sad if you don't.}

question.of.the.day

Amelia is such a funny goose (that's her term...silly goose, funny goose...is there a difference?!).  She wanted to hold Olivia today (or Yibia...as she calls her).  As she was holding her, she was being a bit careless with her.  I was right there with her, of course, but I was correcting her. 

Me:  Amelia, you need to hang on to her.  You have to be very careful with Olivia. 
A:  Yibia get broken?
Me: (laughing) She won't get broken, but she might get hurt.
A:  Oh, Yibia get broken...buy new Yibia?
Me: No, we can't buy a new Olivia.
A:  Why?
Me:  There's only one Olivia!
A:  Oh.

question.of.the.day

Setup:  The girls are discussing Spanish numbers, and we're counting to 10 in Spanish.  Meredith takes her turn and counts to 10. 

Meredith:  Mom, do you know what 11 and 12 are in Spanish?

Me:  No...sorry.  We'll have to check on that.

Meredith:  Do you think Dora knows? 

Me:  I'm sure she does. 

I hate it when cartoon characters know more than I do.

question.of.the.day

"Mom, do all tornadoes have tomatoes?"

I think we've read Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs one too many times.

college.sports

Of course we've been all about March Madness in our house.  We've been talking about the college teams and where they are located and how they play each other.

Meredith was asking all sorts of questions about college sports.  Namely, she wanted to know what sports are played by college students.  I was listing a few off the top of my head:  boys basketball, girls basketball, soccer, baseball, tennis, golf.

She says, "Is that all?" 

Me, "Well, really just about any sport you can think of...they probably play it."

(pause for 20 seconds...picture Meredith thinking hard...okay, now she an idea in her head and asks the best question of the week....)

Like hopscotch?

Ummmm....not hopscotch. :)

question.of.the.day

From Meredith:  Why did God put meat in deer?

question.of.the.day

Claire: Mom, don't Meredith and I look fab-lee-ous?

Meredith: Yes, Mom, and you look fab-lee-ous too!

Why thank you. And yes, fab-lee-ous really should be a word.

...and while all of this is going on, I look up to see Amelia dipping her animal crackers in her chili. Yummy.

question.of.the.day

From Claire:

Mom, can you come help me think?

question.of.the.day

Setup: Claire and Meredith are looking at the newspaper ads and discussing the pictures. Meredith spots an ad that has a product with both Dora the Explorer and Blue (from Blue's Clues) on the front of the box.

Meredith: Look Claire! Dora and Blue on the same box!

Claire: Yeah, they are both on the same box!! Mom, look...Dora and Blue are on the same box!!

Me (not being nearly as excited as everyone else): I see that.

Claire (as excited as if I had told her that there were pigs flying overhead): I didn't know that they knew each other, did you?!!

:)

question.of.the.day

From Claire...

Why do my tears taste like meatballs?


hmmmm...good question.

question.of.the.day

Claire is sitting up at the counter counting her money. She has in front of her 2 $1 bills and 5 quarters (plus a whole bunch of nickels, dimes, and pennies off to the side). She asks...

Is this a hundred dollars? No.

What if I add these two dimes?

Thank you, Lord, for comic relief. :)

question.of.the.day

Today, Claire was looking at our cheap stickers, the little circle ones that come in tablets of like 1,000.

Here are some examples of the stickers:
"Great!"
smiley face
star
"Yeah!"
frog
whale
"WOW!"
"Super"
various animals
and...

#1

Claire asks..."Is there a #2 on here somewhere?"

Hmmmm...I don't think they make #2 stickers...I think it has something to do with self-esteem issues :).