• Me: Hey, you left a bunch of toys outside. You need to pick up after yourself, okay you little stinkbug?
• Alex: Stinkbug? I'm not some kind of beetle or something!

• Alex (at 10PM): I'm hungry!
• Jamie: Too bad, so sad.
• Alex: Can I have eggs?
• Jamie: No.
• Alex: Can I have chicken?
• Jamie: No.
• Alex: Can I have fries?
• Jamie: No.
• Alex: Then what can I have?
• Jamie: A knuckle sandwich.
• Alex: No. I don't like knuckle sandwiches.
• Jamie: You know what it's time for? It's time for bed!
• Alex: No! Don't say that! I really super want eggs! I'M HUNGRY!!!
• (This can't do justice to the cuteness of his tiny, 3-year-old voice.)

• Sophie: Alex, don't potty talk!
• Alex: I didn't potty talk! All I said was, "pee and poo" and that's not potty talk. And anyway, I didn't really say it because I was just pretending.

• Sophie: I wish I could just play outside naked.
• Me: Why?
• Sophie: Because it's too hot to wear anything!
• Me: I see. But what if you get too hot when you're outside naked. Then you can't take anything else off. It's not like you can take off your skin.
• Sophie: Yeah. Then you'd just be meat and bones.
• Me: That'd be pretty gross.
• Sophie: Which is why God gave us skin.

• Sophie: It's too hot to play outside. WAY too hot.
• Me: Oh yeah?
• Sophie: Yeah.
• Me: It's going to be hot all summer. What are you going to do then?
• Sophie: Stay inside and take naps?

• Sophie: How come there's a "hint of mint" but I can taste the mint fully?
• Me: Are you drinking that Iced Tea?
• Sophie: Yes.
• Me: (Laughing.)
• Sophie: I can taste a TON of mint!

• Me: Goodbye, Alex. I've got to go to work.
• Alex, being hugged: Ok, but the water goes in the hole.
• Me: It goes in the hole?
• Alex: Yeah, with Crocodiles. Crocodiles fly in the sky!
• Me: OK, have a good day then!

I love this book! I used to always read it when I was a kid!!

Alex, 3 years old, in the bookstore.

This morning, Alex was reading an animal book with names in English and Spanish. He pointed to a picture of a horse and asked, “What’s that say?” “Caballo,” Jamie responded. “No, that’s LUNCH!” He declared.

And I think he meant it.