The Tweeter

I have a human twitter account. The name is Katie and she tweets everything we do from an open window in the living room or from the curb of our sidewalk. If you want my status update, just pass by my house and you can have all the info you need.  Her latest tweet from the living room window was to our neighbor: "Hi! I'm coming outside right after my mom gets dressed.  She just got out of the shower!"  (9/4/11)

Circumventing the Rule

After the constant bickering escalated to name calling, I shouted, "Alright, now everyone stop it! There will be no more name calling in this house."  Danny immediately turned to his sister and said, "Katie, I need you to come outside with me a minute.  I have something to tell you." 
(8/2/11)

The Prayer Explanation

Katie asked me, after hearing the words of the Our Father prayer, "What does 'deliver us from evil' mean?".  Trying to come up with an answer that she could understand, I said, "It means that we are asking God to protect us from bad things that can hurt us."  She inched her face close to mine, looked at me, nose to nose, and whispered with all seriousness, "You mean like alligators?" (8/6/11)

The Aged Princess

James often creates games for him and Katie to play, with one of her all time favorites being "Karate Chop Princess".  Deeply immersed in their activity, they elaborated on the original game by venturing into the future when the Karate Chop Princess is all grown up.  James, the narrator of the scene, started to say, "Okay, now the Princess is 20 years old ..." when Katie suddenly interrupted and said with great surprise, "I'm twenty? I'm so old!" (6/30/11)

The Wedding Dress

Katie and Danny were having a conversation about how one day Katie will get married.  Danny said to her, "You will have to wear a big white dress".  Katie, a bit distraught, replied, "But I don't have a big white dress".  Danny, not budging on his position, firmly stated, "Well, the girl HAS to wear a big white dress when she gets married."  Sensing that she was about to get upset, I intervened and said, " Katie, When you get married, Daddy and I will buy you the prettiest white dress ever".  Katie immediately perked up and shouted, "We can get it from Target!"  (10/17/10)

The Workout

With my days of packing only a towel and a sandwich for a day at the beach well behind me, I was dragging a cart loaded to the top with an umbrella, cooler, beach bag and a myriad of sand toys.  As we were leaving to go home, Katie and I had to walk through a football toss between two young guys playing by the ramp.  Seeing the huge load I was pulling, one of the guys commented, "That's quite a workout, huh?"  Before I could open my mouth to reply, Katie, holding only her Cinderella pail, answered, "Oh yes.  I have a LOT of shells in here." (6/9/11)

The White Man

Danny, who is quite the literal kid, watched The Simpsons movie and asked me, "Why does Mr. Burns say, 'for once, the rich white man is in control.'?"  After trying to explain the irony of the joke with a brief history lesson, he gave me a confused look and said, "But I still don't get why he said white man. Mr. Burns is yellow." (2/15/11)