Grandpa Claus

Upon seeing her grandfather, Skipper, for the first time in a long time, Katie immediately climbed onto his lap and started playing with his beard.

Katie: Take your glasses off.

Skipper obliges.

Katie: Now say, "Ho Ho Ho!"

Bonding with Skipper

While sitting on her grandfather's lap, pulling his beard, and asking to see what his face looks like without glasses....

Katie: Skipper, my Grandma is very old but her doesn't have a beard...

Voices carry

I think that Zach has been filling Katie's head with some idle threats. She came in to my room, congested, in the middle of the night. I told her not to be alarmed if the phone rings, because Daddy was going to let me know that he made it safely to his hotel in San Jose.

Katie: He has a hotel?

Betsy: Well, yeah. That's where he sleeps when he's on a business trip.

Katie: And they have a jail there if he sings too loud?

Traffic Jam

Daddy, the highway is having a PARTY!

Fair Schmair

Katie: I'm making something, and only girls can touch it.

Betsy: Well, that's not very fair. How would you feel if you were a boy?

Katie: I'm never gonna be a boy. Doesn't matter.

Relationships

Katie: Where's Karl's daddy?

Betsy: He went home.

Katie. Oh. Ah, you don't have a boyfriend, do you?

Betsy: Well, I have Daddy.

Katie: He's not your boyfriend. He's just a friend.

Sportsmanship

Katie picked out a Busy Town board game from Zach's closet, wanting to play with me in the living room. In her haste, she dropped the game down the stairs.

Katie, running down the stairs after the game: Hey, Mom, I let the game go first.