Risky Behavior

Katie: ...and I might fall if I go on the roof...

Betsy: You're going on the roof?

Katie (Adament): NO! (pause.) Not today. Wednesday.

Betsy: Why are you going on the roof on Wednesday?

Katie: I am going to get a space ship. I need to get a space ship on Wednesday. Daddy will lift me up.

Accessories

While getting ready to go to the lake....

Katie: I don't need shoes to go swimming in the lake....just toes.

Age

While playing "Polar Coaster" in a way-too-fast moving wagon, Zach and Katie asked me to stand on the grass (for self-preservation). I sat on the grass.

Zach: You're SITTING in line.

Betsy: Well, I'm going to sit. I'm old.

Katie: Why you old?

Betsy: (Pause) Well, you have something to do with it...

Katie: (Concerned) You're not old. You're new!

It's so easy being green

I've written elsewhere about Katie's love of (maybe I should say her indoctrination into?) the music from Wicked. She's always been strictly a Glinda girl - way better costumes and there's that killer solo, "Popular". But today she told me that she's experimenting with Bad Witch territory...in particular with different media to achieve that green skin. We can't decide which best expresses Katie's evil alter ego. What do you think? Poster board paint --




or white board marker?

Growing up is hard to do

Frustrated over potty training:

I don't want to be a big girl. I want to be a little big girl!

Of pigs and butterflies

Lying in bed at bedtime, thinking, apparently, about the Pillow Pet she got for Easter. And about her cousin, Claire.

I don't like pigs.

(Pause)

I like butterflies. I don't want the pig Pillow Pet. Grandma can get me a butterfly one. Claire likes pigs. We should send my pig to Claire.

What's really happening in the esophagus

While eating pancakes and drinking milk:

It's like the milk catches the pancakes!