Summertime quotes

N: Did you know chopsticks are great for soup?

Mom: No. I didn't. What do they do for soup?

N: They just give it a little kick, you know.

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N: Mom! Lavender ran across the bathroom scale!

Mom: Was that surprising?

N: Well, I almost got to see what her weighment was but she ran too quickly to see it!

First words

N: Mom, when did I say the word "baby"?

Mom: Probably when you were about a year old. You started talking really early.

N: I said "baby" when I was a baby? (laughs)

Mom: Yeah!

N: Did I say a lot of things when I was one year old?

Mom: Oh, yeah. You talked a lot.

N: Could I say stupendous?

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In the middle of dinner.

N: Mom?

Mom: Yes?

N: Do you know what alliterations are?

Plans for the future II

N: (in the car on the way to SF) I wish I could be a nun when I grow up.

Mom: (calmly) Tell me more about that? Why do you want to be a nun?

N: Because nuns are really fun.

Mom: Yeah. Well you could be a nun if you wanted to.

N: No. You can't be a nun and be married and I want to get married.

Mom: You have to be Catholic too, and you're not Catholic.

N: Are all nuns Catholic?

Mom: The Adrian nuns are Catholic.

Dad: There are buddhist nuns too. You could be a buddhist nun.

N: I don't want to be buddhist.

Mom: Why not?

N: I'm not really into buddha.

Mom: You could be Catholic, maybe.

N: No. I don't want to be Catholic, it's not fun at all.

Mom: Why don't you want to be Catholic? I'm just curious.

N: They believe in things that aren't real.

Mom: What isn't real to you?

N: You know. People don't die and then come back to life.

Mom: Oh, yeah, that. Some people just believe that that's a story, a way of thinking about things and are still Catholic.

N: I don't want to be Catholic. It's boring.


And the moral of the story is?

Song before sleep

N: Mom, I know we should be quiet, but can I sing a song about jerboas*?

E: Sure, if it's short.

N: Jerboa, hop, hop, hop, jerboas, hop, hop, hop, hop away from the mountain lions. (etc.)

E: I liked your song, thanks.

N: (laughing) The joke of the song is that jerboas don't live anywhere close to mountain lions.

*jerboas - long-legged rodent that lives in hot desert areas of Asia and North Africa.

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N: Mom, I think A and I are becoming friends.

E: That's great! What do you think has happened that made you start to be friends.

N: I don't know. I just think I'm starting to build onto him.

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Waking up and reading

N: In the morning will you wake me up by singing opera?

Mom: I can try.

N: Oh, good. And then we'll have a snuggle contest.

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N: Watch this, mom. (N sits on the couch and opens up a book)

Mom: What am I watching?

N: I'm silent reading. (N says this as if I have never heard of such a thing)

Mom: That's great!

N: Do you want to watch again?

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N: Mom, what does a chick first think when it sees the world?

Mom: Ooo. What a great question. I bet it's different for each chick. What do you think they first think?

N: I think they must be emazed and think "Wow! what a beautiful world!"

The things we don't know about our parents..

Rushing around in the morning before heading out to school....

Mom: Wait, I think I'm forgetting something.

N: I have my snack!

Mom: Oh, that's it, I forgot my lunch.

N: You need a lunch when go to work?

Mom: I almost always eat lunch at work.

N: You do?

Mom: Yeah.

N: I'VE KNOWN YOU FOR FIVE YEARS and I didn't know you ate lunch at work!


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N: Mom, did you get sick a lot when you were a kid?

Mom: Yeah. I had a lot of sicknesses when I was little.

N: You mean as soon as you got well you just got sick again?

Mom: I don't remember but I think it was like that. I was sick for a long time with several sicknesses.

N: (very serious face) Did you pick your nose and not wash your hands?

Get your Sunday best ready...

N: Mom, I think I'm going to get married two or three times.

Mom: Really? What makes you think that?

N: I just really like people.