March 13, 2011 [Crying on the floor] Dad: What's the matter?
Kid: I can't clean my room.
Dad: Why?
Kid: I don't have enough hands!
March 15, 2011
[At the Burke Museum arguing with another Dino-nut kid about the Euoplocephalus]
Kid: ew-OP-lo-SEF-ə-ləs
Other kid: yu-OP-lo-SEF-ə-ləs!
Kid: ew-OP-lo-SEF-ə-ləs!
Rinse. Repeat.
March 17, 2011
[Discussing the idea of loss] If I lost Elephant (stuffed animal/lovey) a dandelion and a hammock would make me feel better. I looove hammocks.
March 25, 2011
My hair is starting to turn brown. I'm going to be a MAMA!
March 26, 2011
[Crying after falling and hurting herself WELL after bed time] This is going to hurt forever.
Dad: Where did you get hurt?
Kid: My breadbasket
Dad: That's not your breadbasket, that's your butt.
April 1, 2011
I bet when Laika (dog) grows up she wants to be a human.
April 19, 2011
Mom: What are you doing?
Kid: Sometimes you need to jump on a chair. But only on Fridays.
Mom: It's Monday.
Kid: And Mondays.
April 24, 2011
[Apparently apropos of nothing] Mom, saying hasta luego is just like saying au revoir
May 1, 2011
[After Rapunzel makes her daring escape in, "Tangled"] Uh oh, she's going to make her mommy very upset by running away.
Mom: Yes. Yes she will.
May 1, 2011
[Regarding a piece of hard candy]
Dad: No honey that's a choking hazard.
Kid: I like choking hazards.
May 7, 2011
Dad: What should we get mom for Mother's day?
Kid: A book.
Dad: What type of book?
Kid: One with a princess in it.
Dad: Hummm. Well what makes mom really happy? That's what we should get her.
Kid: Water! Get her water!
May 10, 2011
You're beautiful Morgana. You're the king of the cats
May 12, 2011
I have to go to the doctor's office because my feelings are hurt.
May 23, 2011
When I'm fat, can I go to that McDonalds?
May 30, 2011
Teach me how to play this game (Balderdash)
Dad: I don't know, it requires a lot of knowledge.
Kid: I can do knowledge.
June 2, 2011
[Regarding iPad] I WANT MY SCREEN TIME!!!
June 6, 2011
Let's play "market". I'll be the marketer.
June 13, 2011
[Playing Plants vs "Mazombies"] Dad, you protected my mushroom! You're my hero.
June 16, 2011
[Headed to grandparents]
Parents: Anya where do you think we're going?
Anya: I don't know.
Parents: Guess!
Anya: I give up.
Parents: That's not a very fun game.
Anya: It's an "I give up game"
June 18, 2011
[While mom and dad were waking up] Don't get up yet. I'm going to surprise you and I'm not ready. ...Okay come out now and I'll jump out and say "boo!"
July 4, 2011
Opposites: Sunny : Cloudy. Lunch : Pie. Water : Milk. Plants : Zombies
July 12, 2011
[Pointing at a pilot in the Minneapolis airport] Is that a Nazi!?
July 13, 2011
Dad: I thought you said you were full.
Kid: I didn't say I was full of ICE CREAM.
July 14, 2011
Kid:I found a new way to get off the bed. I throw a pillow on the ground and I fall on it.
Dad: How's that working for you?
Kid: Good. My head hurts a bit.
July 14, 2011
[Playing with toy bugs]
Kid: The mean dragon fly stole the baby lady bugs!
Dad: What are we going to do!?
Kid: Oh nothing, go to the kid store and get a new one!
July 24, 2011
Kid: Are we flying or driving to Portland?
Mom: Driving
Kid: But if we drive, I'm going to keep asking if we're there yet.
July 25, 2011
[Upon waking up on our road trip north]
Kid:I know we're in Seattle because it's raining. (Sadly she was pretty close, we were about in Sea-Tac)
July 25, 2011
Kid: I have an idea, let's have a race![tears off up the hill.] [Once I've caught up to her] I've got another idea. Let's have a tired race. Where the person who's the most tired wins.
July 25, 2011
What a sad little play ground with no one playing on it. I can make it happier!
August 2, 2011
[Freaking out in the car and wanting her elephant which we'd accidentally left at home] (rather helplessly and matter-of-factly)
Kid:I can't stop screaming until I get elephant.
Dad: Okay, okay! We'll go home and get him.
Anya: Aaaaaah. But I can't stop until I have him. (and she did, in fact, scream all the way home)
August 7, 2011
I didn't like being 3 1/2. I was too small. (she's now a whopping 3/4)
August 10, 2011
Guess what mom!? I saw a small and stingy animal and it wasn't a predatory wasp!
August 11, 2011
I'm going to tell you a story. There were three pigs. One had a house made of straw, one made of sticks, and one made of real house.
August 13, 2011
[Playing with an ice pack]
Kid: Can I put this here (on her dresser) until I fall off my bed and hurt myself?
Dad: are you planning on falling off your bed?
Kid: yeah
Dad: won't that hurt?
Kid: Yeah. (proceeding to jump on the bed) Is that the kid quote of the day!? "
August 16, 2011
[The moment she woke up] Sqwaaaaarrrrrrck! I'm speaking pteranodon English.
August 18, 2011
[Eating flank steak] Is that mastodon? It looks like mastodon skin!
August 25, 2011
[In the PCC parking lot]
Kid: Just leave me in the car.
Dad: I can't. Mommies and Daddies who leave their kids in the car get in trouble.
Kid: And you could go to jail?
Dad: Yep.
Kid: Well the cops won't SEE it.
August 27, 2011
[After saving this earwig from drowning] He's so cute!
September 5, 2011
[Whispering in my ear conspiratorially] Daddy, I can feel my cells.
September 8, 2011
[On vacation with the grandparents]
Dad: How's the pool?
Anya: It's a little bit drowny.
September 17, 2011
Laika (the dog) needs a Halloween costume. She should be a cat!
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