On style

Cael (listening to Muppets Christmas): "Is that a girl?"

Mom: "Well, yes. It's a girl pig. It's Miss Piggy."

Cael: "Ohhhh. I know her! She wears beautiful clothes."

The simple joys of a cardboard box

"I'm making a car. It's called a Zamboni."

The wrong question

Dad: "How old are you?"

Cael: "I'm four!"

Dad: "How old are your feet?"

Cael: "Dad, they don't have a number."

Feels like the hundred-acre wood

On her Winnie-the-Pooh stuffed animal:

"I have a picture of this guy. I have a toy of this guy. I like having this guy and everybody else."

Bedtime stall tactics

Mom: "Goodnight, Cael. No more talking."

Cael: "Okay, I have three more things to tell you."

Mom: "<sigh> Okay."

Cael: "Plus seven."

Culinary preferences

"I like the middle of an apple.

Wait. No, I don't."

Walk it off

Reporting on a minor injury:

"It's still scraped, but it's okay. It doesn't hurt anymore. My skin's still together. I just get the scrapes, the bruises, and the birthmarks all the time.

Did you know that you can get the birthmarks even when you're bigger?"

Newton and Darwin all in one little package

When offered an explanation of the numbers on a digital watch:

"Numbers!?! I know all about numbers. And cats. And lions, tigers, mosquitoes, and dragons. I know a lot about a lot of stuff."