Sounds delicious

Dad: Eva, you are as cute as a button.

Eva: Yup. I'm the tasty button.

Touche

Eva: Daddy, what are those?

Dad: I'm wearing my new boots.

Eva (staring at bare feet): I'm wearing my toes.

Is that a rhetorical question? (from July 3, 2006)

Eva: Pee-pee's comin'. Okay?

Dad: Okay, let's get to the potty.

Eva: Pee-pee's comin' on the floor. Okay?

Rain is God's tears, Dew is God's . . . sweat.

Gabe: Did it rain last night?

Dad: No, that's dew.

Gabe: Where does dew come from?

Dad: From moist air.

Eva: From arm hair?

Pitfalls of sharing a bedroom

Eva (praying): And, God, please help Ruby not to bark . . . and Gabey not to snore.

No make-up or dating until you talk about grandfathers and lambs, missy.

Mom: Eva, you are such a big girl. You stay in your bed all night, you put your jammies on all by yourself, you can do puzzles all by yourself . . .

Eva: Yes. And I talk about grandfathers and their little lambs.

Private Yogi reporting for duty

Mom: Eva, would you like to help me with our morning chores?

Eva (enthusiastically): Yes, Sir!

Mom: Do you mean yes, ma'am?

Eva: Yes, Bear!

I'll be raking it in hand over fist!

Gabe: If you find something to go in my museum, I'll pay you twenty-five dollars.

Dad: Twenty-five dollars!! Where are you going to get twenty-five dollars?

Gabe: From your wallet.

Run, run just as fast as you can. You can't catch me . . . I'm a ninja.

Mom: Eva, what book do you want to read?

Eva: How about the ninja-bread book.

They can never take our love away

Eva (to Ruby): How's my girl?

Gabe: She's not YOUR girl!

Eva: Can I still love her?

Gabe: Yeah, you can still love her.

We all feel that way sometimes.

Gabe: Dad, Eva just peed in the training potty upstairs.

Dad: Eva, that potty isn't for you. You need to use the big girl potty in the bathroom.

Eva: Oops. I thought I was a baby.

Perhaps the greatest quote to ever be blogged on this site.

Gabe: Dad is so tricky, I should call him Ricky-Tricky-Tavvi.

Great, now I'm all self concious.

Gabe (pointing at dad): Ruby! Get him! Get the guy with the nasty feet!

I think that's called "tag"

Gabe: Hey, Eva. Want to a play a game called "little girl touch"? You have to chase me and try to touch me, and then I chase you and try to touch you.

Cannibalism in the workplace

Gabe (holding up a gummy santa and a chocolate elf): I'm going to eat Santa and one of his co-workers!

Lasers are pretty much my favorite thing in the whole world

Gabe: Dad - you see this picture I drew?

Dad: Yeah.

Gabe: Look. This knight's sword can turn into a bunch of things. Laser sword, hyper-laser sword, laser gun, hyper laser gun . . . pretty much anything laser.

She uses that excuse for everything parts 2, 3, and 4
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Nate does something to Amy (tickles, tackles, pokes . . . )

Eva: C'mon dad, she's pregnant!

Later, after more of the same

Eva: C'mon dad, she's fancy!

And again, after more of the same

Eva: C'mon dad, she's shiny!

I think he's trying to get posted

Dad: I'll buy you a plain burger, and then we'll get more food at home.

Gabe: and some fries?

Dad: NO! Just a plain burger.

Gabe: Okay . . . how about some chicken nuggets?

Fourth time's a charm

Dad: Levi, did you make a poop?

Levi: No.

Dad: Did you poop?

Levi: No.

Dad: You didn't make a poop?

Levi: No.

Dad: In your pants?

Levi: Yes

Outsmarted by his own honesty

Dad: Gabe, are you doing the pee-pee dance?

Gabe: Nope. This isn't my pee-pee dance. I have a new one.

Dad: Then why are you moving like that?

Gabe: I have to go pee. Wait . . . Shoot . . . I did not mean to say that.