It Tastes Like...

Caroline [tasting vegetable shortening]: Yuck, I don’t like that. It tastes like the stuff you put on your bottom when it is sore.

I Want To RULE This House!

Caroline: Mom, I AM a princess!

MaShell: Oh, really?

Caroline: Yes, and I am going to RULE this house --starting tomorrow!! I WILL RULE THE HOUSE!

MaShell: Why don't you start by going upstairs princess and getting your pajamas on?

Caroline: Tomorrowwwwww.....I willlllllll starrrrrrrt!

Aunt Erin Thinks Maureen is Funny

Mush: Is that angel from God, Grandma?


Mush: It got in my POOP!
erin: What did?
Mush: My foooood! It all got in my poop!

Candy High

First words out of Caroline's mouth the morning after Halloween:

"Mom, can we go trick-or-treating right NOW?"

For Real!

Maureen likes to tell stories. Lately, she ends every story with "For Real!" and nods her head up and down.

So it goes something like this...

"And then, the big, big, big, big, big, giant, giant, giant GIANT came! For real!"

Turn Ups in the TreePan

Caroline has funny names for things. Here are some favorites...

Turn-ups are turnips

Tree-pan is a pantry

Feathers are hangnails

Baby is maybe

You Flushed Texie!

Our fish, Tex, died recently. He's been laying in the bottom of the bowl for a few days. We intended -- and even promised -- to have a proper burial, but it didn't happen. Caroline brought it up at dinner last night.

Caroline: Dad, what happened to Tex?

Daddy: I buried him in the back...uh, actually....I flushed him down the toilet.

Caroline: But Dad, I don't want to pray by the toilet!