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."