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.

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!