Thrift Store Dust

Thrift stores can have allergens that irritate my sinuses, so I offer to stay in the car while Laura goes shopping:
Laura: Yeah, don't go in the store because of the dust.
Sophia: Pixie dust.

Barney Sanders

Laura's Post:

Surreal conversation at breakfast:
S: Mama, you know that man on the TV, Bernie?
Me: Yes.
S: The purple one.
Me: Purple one?
S: The one who comes from the kids' imaginations.
Me: Ummm.
S: He's a dinosaur.
Me: I wouldn't say that...Oh! You mean BARNEY.
S: Yes, Bernie. He lives with two other dinosaurs. They sing.

Farmer Boy

Me: Tell Mommy what we're reading together.
S: We reading Farmer Boy.
Laura: I haven't read Farmer Boy.
S: Did you know that Laura [Ingalls] marries the farmer boy when they grow up.
Me: The farmer boy's name is Almanzo. He's a nice boy and a really hard worker who works in the barn a lot with the animals.
Laura: I want you to grow up some day and marry a nice boy who's a really hard worker.
S: I don't know any hard workers.
Laura: Daddy's a hard worker!
S: But I can't marry Daddy. He's already married to you.
Laura: Maybe some day Daddy will find a nice boy for you to marry. Right, Daddy?
Me: Don't put that kind of pressure on me right now!...

Star Sandwiches

Laura's Post:

I'm trying to teach Sophia the value of honesty.
S: Mama will you cut my sandwich into a star shape for my lunch like E--'s mummy does?
Me: No.

An Only Child Moment

Sitting down to lunch as a family, minus 1 sleeping baby:

S: It is so much easier without a baby here!
Me: Haha, we could say the same thing about you, honey, but we prefer to have you here. We prefer to have baby here, too.
S: But now you have more time to take care of me...

Ah!

Sophia not very happy with me about something:

S: Daddy-ah!
Me: My name is Daddy, not Daddy-ah.
S: Daddy-ah!
Me: Why do you keep saying "ah"?
S: That's what I say when I'm angry with you.
Me: Ah...

Barnyard Masterpiece

Sophia was playing by herself with her barnyard set. Baby Thalia wanted to join her:

Me: Sophia, open the gate so she can play with you.
S: No.
Me: Why not?
S: Because I don't want her to ruin my masterpiece...