Totoro

We have a neighbor cat who has been spending a lot of time in our yard. I think he looks like Totoro so that is what I call him. The kids and I decided he is Gidget's (our cat) boyfriend. I was singing "Gidget and Totoro sitting in a tree.... K-I-S-S-I-N-G!"

Zach:  Mom, I think you mean L-I-C-K-I-N-G!

Zach - age 8

Archaeologist

Chels had to do a 'Getting to know you' poster for school. One of the boxes on it asked what she wanted to be when she grew up. She said she wanted to be an archaeologist. I asked her how it went and she told me

"No one knew what an archaeologist was. I wanted to tell them its River Song but no one in my class even knows Doctor Who! I just cant explain everything to them."

Chels - age 5 

Corruption

Z: Chels, do you want to go to jail? I'm going to be a police so I can put you in jail.
C: I don't want to go to jail.
Z: Then you better give me a lot of money so you don't have to go to jail.
C: But I don't have a lot of money!
Z: You better get some. Maybe steal it or something.

They become corrupt so young nowadays. ::sigh::

Z - 8
C - 5

Hunger Games

Heading into Costco

C: can I get a smoothie?
Z: me too?
Me: I'll tell you what, lets play hunger games.
Z: what is that?
Me: I'll send you into the forest and only one of you comes out. Whoever comes out gets the smoothie.
Z: mom, are you sure that's appropriate?
C: do we have to walk to the woods?

Z - 8 years old
C - 5 years old

Hangry

C: Mom, I'm really hangry. Like, I feel like I want to rip some people's arms and legs off.

C 5 years old

Gravity

Z: I figured out how gravity works. I know gravity is what keeps us from falling off the earth but I kept thinking 'where does it come from' so I thought and thought until I figured it out. I think there are Jedis standing on the clouds using the force to keep us all safe and not falling off the earth. 

Z 8 years old

Black and white

C: Mom, was dad born in black and white?
Me: Like was the world black and white? 
C: Yeah cuz that's how it was in the really old days.
Me: Yeah. He totally was.

That's what he gets for laughing at me growing up in the ole west!

C 5 years old