Nicknames

Katie doesn't like it when Charlie pretends to tickle people:

DAD! Mister-on-the-radio-Billy-Bob! STOP tickling Mommy!

(Not) Sleepy

At bedtime (actually, well past bedtime):

My stomach hurts. My eyes do not want to sleep. But my nose is already sleeping. My stomach is punching me....can I have water?


...Mommy, guess what! It's over now! My stomach is sleeping!

Response to clean up directive

Mom, you're being a little whiney. And there's no whining in this house. DADDY doesn't whine. ZACH doesn't....well, Zach sometimes whines. And I sometimes whine. But there's NO WHINING in THIS HOUSE!

Update

Hey, Zach! Guess what! Mom and Dad are still married!

Goo

Katie: Mom, we need to buy some more gooey stuff. For my col-lec-tion.

Betsy: Gooey stuff? You have a collection?

Katie: Yeah. Gooey stuff.

Betsy: What's in your collection?

Katie: Sticks, bananas, gooey stuff.

Happy Bedtime Talk

Katie: Mommy, I missed you when I was at school.

Betsy: I missed you, too! But I was happy because I knew you were having fun!

Katie: And I bet you were happy that I peed and pooped and pooped.

Betsy: Ah, yeah. I'm happy about those things, too.

Katie: And I bet you're happy that I can't go to jail yet!

Sisterhood

Katie, at bedtime, to Betsy:

I'm going to live with you forever. Because you only have a brother, and you don't have a sister.