"When spit accidentally comes out, I eat it."
"Mama, Dora's head fell off."
Me: "A lot happened before you were born, believe it or not."
6 year old: "A long time ago happened before I was born."
(In front of her 1st grade class) "Look! My mommy's 'i' went out of the lines!"
"Why do I always have to be the first one to get up?"
(While helping to clean the kitchen) "It's like the dirty spots are Satan and the sponge is Jesus."
"I am listening to my instincts. My instincts say, 'Stay in bed'."
"I love my Daddy's arms because they do so much for us."
Me: "Time to get up, and go to the bathroom, and brush your teeth, and give your mama a big smooch.
6 year old: "Uh, no."
Me: "A little smooch?"
6 year old: "Nope."
Me: "A hug?"
6 year old: "I think I can squeeze that in."
(While eating a marshmellow peep) "I ate its head first, so it wouldn't cry."
(While saying prayers) "And please let Jesus know we had a happy Easter."
"Never believe what you see, especially on Scooby-Doo"
"Why didn't you ever tell me - all these years?"
(Written by on two pieces of paper) Page 1: "I like cats and dogs but they do not like each other."
Page 2: "I like Dell computers."
Me: "How did your room get messy so fast?"
6 year old: "I'm a tornado."
"Thanks, Mom. You're the best."
6 year old: "Mommy doesn't know anything because she doesn't go to school. Daddy neither."
Me: "Hey! We already went to school and learned all the school stuff."
6 year old: "Yeah, but you forgot it."
My husband (6 year old's Daddy): "Not yet, I'm not that old."
6 year old: "Oh, yeah. When you're 40, huh?"
(A couple of written lists. The first about her mom (that's me!) the next about one of her aunts.)
"List of good: nise, my mom, fun, funny. List of bad: 0"
"List of good: "mathy, my aunt, fun, funny. List of bad: 0"
(Spoken in a deep, singsong, six year old voice) "Here comes Bowser, breathing fire! Here comes Bowser, King of...um...."
(Overheard when cousins were playing together)
5 year old: "Cannonball soup? I'm not sure she'll eat that."
6 year old: "Well, *sigh* it's for her own good."
(A written note) "Mom you get more beautiful everyday."
"Tell me that story again, so I can scan it."
6 year old: "Mom, is Scooby Doo Disney?"
Me: "No."
6 year old: "Why not?"
Me: "I don't know, it just isn't."
6 year old: *shocked* "Not everything I watch is, like, Disney?!"
(While helping me organize papers for my church calling) "I am doing Visiting Teaching stuff and I am only 6 and a half! WOW!"
(While teaching her first all-by-herself home evening lesson) "Our lesson is about Heavenly Father's plan of agency. Lucifer's plan was for everybody to follow his instructions all the time. 'You do this, and you do this, and you do this, and you do this!' Jesus and Heavenly Father's plan was for us to get to choose. I am grateful for that - and you should be too."
(After crashing on her bike) "I'm OK, I'm still all here and everything."
"I don't like morning school. It's too morning-y."
(Talking about turkeys in the grocery store)
6 year old: "Is this a real live turkey?"
Me: "No, its a real dead turkey."
6 year old: "OOooooo!" (After this, she proceeded to ask me which animal every piece of meat in the store was)
"I wish I had a puppy...or a sister. That way I could play with someone who's more fun than grown-ups."
"Someday I want to go to the moon...and bowling too."
"I wanted to be a hexagon when I was born."
(While exiting the women's restroom and seeing the men's restroom door) "That must be the men's. I bet it looks just the same as the women's on the inside...except smells worse."
6 year old: "I wish Daddy never had to go to work."
Me: "How would we live?"
6 year old: ...."I'd make a lemonade stand."
"Mommy, country songs make me feel like I have a headache and a stomachache."
"Mommy, was Elvis the first world singer?"
"Daddy, eight is old - NOT seven."
Love you my soon to be 7 year old!
