Overheard while playing with our dog, Mopsie, the other day:

Karsten (5 yrs): What if we got her a boy dog?

Elijah (7 yrs): A boy dog to fall in love with?

Karsten: Yeah, I bet they would talk a lot. And by talk, I mean bark.

Conversation at breakfast the other day:

Elijah (7 yrs): Where did my vitamin go?

Mommy: Well, I guess you already ate it.

Elijah: No I didn’t. I can see into the past, you know!

Conversation on the drive to school this morning:

We were low on gas and started talking about how dangerous gasoline is and why adults should keep it locked up or out of reach from kids.

Elijah (7 yrs): What if a robber comes and turns a paperclip into a key and steals your gas and uses it in a mad experiment?

Daddy: Well, he could just go to the gas station and buy some gas instead of going to all that trouble of stealing mine.

Elijah: Well he likes to steal stuff. Anyway, after all, he is a robber. What part of robber don’t you understand? The rob or the er?

Overheard in the car driving past new bridge construction:

Elijah (7 yrs): I’d love to be on top of that crane!

Karsten (5 yrs): You love heights?

Elijah: Well, I was born with my head above the ground and I’m gonna keep it that way!

Overheard in the car on the way to school this morning:

Karsten (4 yrs): Look! Airplanes!

Daddy (30-something): Good eye! Ooh, look, there’s two of them.

Karsten: They’re flying in two-mation!

Daddy: Well, it’s called formation even when there’s only two planes.

Elijah (6 yrs): No, it’s really called two-mation.

Daddy: Okay.