Recent Quotes

The other day, Abby was eating clam chowder for lunch and pulled a small piece of clam out of her mouth.   "Mom, what's this slimy thing?"  I told her it's clam and she put it back in her mouth.  She pulled it back out of her mouth and clarified, "Dead clam?".  Yes, I assured her, it's dead.  Back in the mouth, then back out.  "But mom, what's clam?".  I reminded her of the shells that close up, and how there's a little animal, clam, living inside.  "Oh, so the shell is dead and they just open it and pull out the clam and they cut off his eyes and they cut off his butt and they put him in the soup."  Yes, Abby, that's exactly how it goes!

This morning as we were driving we saw a couple dead deer on the side of the road.  Haley asked if someone was going to scoop them up, and I told her that deer are so heavy that it would take a really strong person.  After a few moments of quiet, she told me "If I saw a dead tiger on the side of the road, I could pick him up because I'm SO strong.  But what would we do with it?  Would we put it in the garbage?"  I told her that tigers are much too big to fit in the trash can.  We all agreed that we didn't want a dead tiger in the car.  "I know.  We could just drop it in the water...then the fish could eat it."  Man, these kids are full of great ideas!

Seth's greatest quote is that if you say "row, row, row your..."  he will say "boat".