week ending may 18, 2008:

Week ending May 18, 2008: Sometimes conversations with 4 year olds are pretty strange:
Chloe: “Why is the candy label blue?”
“Because that is what the marketing department decided.”
Chloe: “Did they all have to agree?”
“I don’t think so”
Chloe: “I hope so. I hope they did have to agree.” I find it amusing that she was more concerned that the marketing department agreed than to actually ask what a marketing department IS.

Alex: Mom, is Florida still warm without us?
Yes.
Alex: Why?
Florida didn’t change its temperature for us.

I’m getting good at twenty questions:
Alex: Mom, will the brown thing go into the white thing?
Me: (We are in the living room, 1st thing in the morning, no brown things and white things in sight) “Will what brown thing go into what white thing?”
Alex: “the little brown thing into the big white thing?”
Me: “Where are they, in the kitchen?” (Wild guess)
Alex: “yes”
Me: “What do you use them for?”
Alex: “My rocket”
Me: “Oh, will the brown engine go into your white rocket?”
Alex: “Yes”
Me: “Yes, it will”
Alex: “How?”
Me: “There is a little metal holder”Alex: “Where?”
Me: “I don’t know”

Sometimes I just don’t know what planet my children are from:
Alex: MOM! Chloe SPAT on my dessert (I look over and see Chloe still poised over his plate and the offending spit, complete with bubbles, in a pool on top of his dessert)
Me: Chloe, WHY did you spit on your brother’s dessert?
Chloe: I don’t know.
Me: Well it was a really bad idea! It is really rude to spit on people’s food. How would you feel if Alex spat on your dessert?!
Chloe: Well you can clean it off.
Me: NO! That does NOT make it ok to be very rude to your brother!

Sometimes they are so cute I could eat them up:
Alex: I think Grammy Barb will be very excited to see us.