Since the writers here at Photographs on the Dashboard often feel completely unoriginal and even downright boring, we figured we could exploit the children that roam around our house in hopes of entertaining you, our faithful visitors and sometime-lurkers. So here you go--real-life, actual-factual quotes from the ever-amusing Anna Kate and Elle. Enjoy.
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Anna Kate: "Mom, when they do an ultrasound... how can they tell if it's a boy or a girl? It doesn't have hair yet."
Anna Kate, one night, stating her case against Elle sleeping with her: "Well, the best time to day dream is at night--it's good alone time ya know--and I don't like to do it with a bunch of racket."
We're at a party and I'm trying to get Elle to eat her hot dog. In front of the host (Mrs. Eva), in her loudest whiny voice, "I don't like that bun...it's not fresh!" p.s. it was plenty fresh.
Anna Kate: "We get to read 3 books tonight? Mom, you're like so good to me."Anna Kate on her favorite ice cream shop: "I like Maggie Moo's. But it looks more like a cow than a moose."
Anna Kate to Elle: "We usually get our fried chicken from Popeye's, but this time we got it from that old white man."Elle when entering the room, at least once a day: "Mom...... [pause] What was I 'bout to say?"
I was trying to get Anna Kate dressed. She was intently watching TV and not cooperating. After repeatedly telling her what I needed her to do, I finally say, "Anna Kate. Am I speaking English??" "Yes," she says, still staring at the TV, "but they're speaking English, too."Elle: "I only like corn on the bone."
Anna Kate: "This water tastes like scrap." "HUH!?," I say. "Well... it tastes like dirt."
On our trolley ride, Anna Kate says, "Mom, why do we have to take pictures on the charlie? It's the only time we have to relax."Anna Kate: "Mom, have you seen my holy Bible?"
I was having a bad day and laying on my back in Anna Kate's bed while she played. She left the room, brought back her Bible and plopped it on my stomach, "Here. Read a little of this if ya need to." and walked off.
Elle, upon seeing a truck carrying a mobile home down the road: "What in the whole wide world!!??"Anna Kate: "Mom, you just don't understand...the problems of life."
