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I don’t recall seeing that in my box of Crayolas
Posted by John on 12 Apr 2009 | Tagged as: heard
“Well… color me crazy then…”
- John
“Sorry sweetie, I used up that crayon a loooong time ago.”
- Shannon
It makes you a silly-billy!
Posted by Shannon on 30 Jan 2009 | Tagged as: heard
“Mama, what is ‘alidocious’?”
- Amanda, practicing at the piano
“What do you mean?”
- Mama, who has never heard of “alidocious”
“Well, in the song it says ‘super-cali-fra-gi-list-ic-MAKES-ME-alidocious’, and I just wondered what that makes me.”
- Amanda, succumbing to her penchant for reading the first part of a word and guessing at the rest when faced with “supercalifragilisticexpialidocious”.
I think it’s baroquen
Posted by John on 20 Jan 2009 | Tagged as: heard
“If it’s already fixed, don’t baroque it!”
- Amanda, further warping the already warped quote from Beauty and the Beast’s Cogsworth: “If it’s not baroque, don’t fix it!”
Directional challenge
Posted by Shannon on 23 Sep 2008 | Tagged as: heard
“We should be putting something on your scar every time you turn around”
– Mama, dabbing ointment on Emily’s keloid scar to try to soften it
“Good grief! I need to walk in straight lines!”
– Emily, very amused at her own joke
Wow… they do listen!
Posted by John on 23 Jun 2008 | Tagged as: heard
In the middle of a discussion between Daddy and the girls on how whining only works when parents give in…
“So… why do children continue to whine at the park or the museum… ?”
- Daddy, trying to prompt the girls to arrive at the answer “Because their parents give them what they want when they do”
“Because they never want to come back there again!”
- Amanda, showing that she understands that lesson, anyway 
Waterfowl among us
Posted by John on 23 Jun 2008 | Tagged as: heard
“I have an idea what, Daddy!”
- Emily, indicating that she may have the answer to a now forgotten question
“What?! What?! What?! What?! What?!”
- Amanda, indicating that she can be rather annoying when she wants to be
“What’re you, a duck?”
- Daddy, indicating to Amanda that she is indeed being annoying
“AMANDUCK!”
- Emily, indicating that she’s developing quite a sense of humor
“No, she’s a girl duck!”
- Mama, indicating that Emily probably got that sense of humor from her
Watch out for the watermelon!
Posted by Shannon on 01 Jun 2008 | Tagged as: heard
“Look! A squirrel eating watermelon.”
- Daddy, glad that the rinds he left on the porch railing were being enjoyed
“EEEK! A squirrel-eating watermelon?! (Dramatically) Who knew a fruit could be so savage?”
- Emily, making her father very proud…
School daze
Posted by Shannon on 27 May 2008 | Tagged as: heard
“I got no school this week.”
- Amanda
“Sounds like you *ought* to have school this week.”
- Daddy, commenting
“I *have* no school this week.”
- Amanda, correcting
“No… I *don’t* got no school this week!”
- Daddy, “correcting”
“I *ain’t* got no school this week!”
- Emily, continuing
“I done told you I ain’t got no school this week!”
- Mama, capitalizing
“Y’all…”
- Amanda, completing
Voices from the bottomless pit
Posted by John on 12 Jan 2008 | Tagged as: heard
“What do we want to have for lunch?”
– Mama, just returned with the girls from piano lessons
“I dunno… I just had breakfast.”
– Daddy, who got a late start to the day
“Around here on Saturday, it’s ‘if you’re hungry, eat.’”
– Daddy again, in response to Mama’s look of exasperation
“Well, guess I’m gonna eat all day!”
– Amanda, speaking the truth as only a child can
Amanda’s superpower REVEALED!
Posted by John on 11 Jan 2008 | Tagged as: heard
(Daddy’s spontaneous lyricism, sung to the tune of “Spider-man”)
Mandie-moo, Mandie-moo
Does whatever a Mandie do
Makes a mess, super-sized
There’s her socks! Big surprise.
(This is as far as I got, since Shannon nearly fell out of her chair laughing so hard at the last bit.)