Annalie walked into the kitchen this afternoon with one of her babydolls in a little basket carrier and said, “Did you know that Cassie & Christa are visiting their grandparents? And Miss Bekah is out of town, and Jason has to go to work and be there for…for ONE HUNDRED days! So Miss Bekah asked me to watch Jack for her, and here he is!” She held up the babydoll. “She left him with me, because she knows I’ll take good care of him. And she left his diapers, and his baby food, and his toys, and his blankets, and all that kind of stuff.”

I asked her why she needed baby food, since Jack was two years old and ate regular food all the time, and she looked at me like I was an idiot and said, “Mom, I’m not really baby-sitting Jack. I’m just pretending.”

“I kinda liiiiike…I kinda like penguins the best.”
07:07 PM January 14, 2008 from web

Awake, and telling the cat, “Wow, Katy, that’s some LOUD purring you’ve got right there!”
06:22 PM January 16, 2008 from web

“Mommy, is he a bad guy? Look at his eyebrows!”
02:06 PM January 23, 2008 from web

refereeing a fight between my horsey and my lemur…”my lemur is sad because he wanted to be a horse too, but they can kiss and make up.”
05:43 PM January 31, 2008 from web

“Peter piper picked a speck of sparkled vine!”
11:40 AM February 02, 2008 from web

listening to my mom blowing her nose, saying grouchily, “I’m ALLERGIC to BOOGERS!”
09:45 AM February 13, 2008 from web

blowing up my pink inflatable fish-shaped ring to take to the pool, saying, “I’m PRETTY sure this is a stingray…”
08:57 AM April 05, 2008 from web

“I’m strong as a rainbow!”
11:48 AM April 23, 2008 from web

“Oh, the french horn SURPRISED me!”
04:09 PM April 26, 2008 from web

“Hey, CHIP and DIP! They rhyme!”
10:01 PM August 05, 2008 from web

This morning while we were eating breakfast, Annalie pointed at something on my end of the table and said, “Could you please pass me my hot wing?”

I looked at her blankly for a second, then turned to examine the various items by my elbow to see which one she could possibly be requesting. I smothered a laugh as I passed her a pink plastic heart ring.