Baby magnet

At a family party with many cousins: "Lots of babies have been messing with me today. I'm used to it, though, 'cause they're so cute."

It can get a little chilly on Baywatch

"I shivered, and it sounded like I said 'Hasselhoff.'"

That must be "old"

"I am little-aged, Aidan is middle-aged, and you and Daddy are big-aged."

It's right next door to "Triscuit Hut"™

"That looks like a lot of fun. Sometime for my birthday, can we go to Chucky Cheez-It's?"

Picking the right role models

In class, after a moving story about Martin Luther King, Jr.:

"He sounds like a beautiful man. I wish he was still alive so we could be friends."

Yeah but can he sing?

"My friend Jayden at dance class thought Justin Beaver was a real beaver."

I wonder if Jayden's seen this.

On Holidays

Cael: "Tomorrow won't be Christmas anymore."
Mom: "Right."
Cael: "So what's next?"
Mom: "New Years."
Cael: "So that's St. Patrick's Day?"
Mom: "No, it's New Years."
Cael: "Is that when we eat dumplings?"
Mom: "Um, sure."
Cael: "Yum!"

Accounting

Dad: "I hear you've been really good at school."

Cael: "Yeah. I've been in trouble only a few times. Like maybe two or three. And then there's one more, and that makes four and that's it."

More career choices

Mom: "What do you want to be when you grow up?"

Cael: "Let me think... ... ... I know, a farmer!"

Mom: "What are you going to grow on your farm?"

Cael: "You mean like animals?"

Mom: "Sure, animals or vegetables. What do you think?"

Cael: "Baby tigers. ... Baby piggies."

Mom: "Oh, careful! The baby tigers may want to eat the baby piggies."

Cael: "Not on my farm."

Mom: "Okay, what else?"

Cael: "Mice in a cage. Baby kitties. And baby puppies."

Mom: "That's wonderful! Where is your farm going to be? Iowa? Nebraska? Missouri?"

Cael: "Hmm... ... ... I know! NORTH AMERICA!"

Speechless

"You knocked the words right out of my mouth!"

Fickle birds

Mom: "You'll have to help us watch for hummingbirds again this morning."

Cael: "They're not coming back for a long time."

Mom: "Why not?"

Cael: "'Cause they're off sucking on somebody else's flowers."

Mother Earth

"I talk to her quietly in my room and she answers back with a star. It's a gift to me."

Ice cream cones inspire neologisms

"This is blaster. You know what 'blaster' means? It means, 'This is delicious, it's the goodest day ever, and it won't give me nightmares.'"

"This is very, very blaster."

They don't care for seafood, apparently

Cael: "I'd like to introduce you to my soup."

A: <pretend-tastes the imaginary soup>

Cael: "Does it taste too fishy to you?"

A: "No."

Cael: "It does to me, because I'm a faerie."

Easter Decorations

"Tell whoever it is that's on the phone that I made two 'super eggs' and one them's name is Aidan and the other is George Washington."

The New Imaginary Friend

"Her name is Jenny. She's a gymnastic. She eats raw potatoes. Really."

On age

"My sister's twelve. And when I grow up, I'm going to be five."

Tomayto, Tomahto

Cael: "Ouch. Right in the tentacles."

Mom: "Honey, you don't have any tentacles."

Cael: "Yes, I do. This girl's got nuts!"

No more talking

After tucking her *back* into bed...

Mom: "Good night. It time to go to sleep. No more talking."

Cael: "Okay..."

"...Good night..."

"...See you in the morning."

Mom: "Cael, that's 'talking.'"

Cael: "Okay. But I love you."

Mom: "I love you, too. No more talking."

Cael: "Okay. See you in the morning."

Mom: "Cael."

Cael: "Okay. But I love you."

Mom: "Stop talking." (walks downstairs)

Cael: "Okay..."

"...Okay!"

"...OKAY!!!"

Mom (sternly): "O. KAY."

Cael: "Sorry...

"...See you in the morning."

Mom: "Argh."

Elbow Terminology

"It's not a 'funny bone.' They should call it a 'hurty bone.'"