Pick Up Your Room

D: [steps on a toy in Aidyn's messy room; endures the pain while trying not to swear, I'm sure] "Aidyn. You need to pick up your room."
A: [giggles] "Daddy. I can't pick up my room. How could I do that!?"
D: [still a bit cranky thanks to the plastic object now embedded in his foot] "Ok. Good point. You need to clean up your room."
A: [still giggling] "Oh, Daddy. You're silly. I can't pick up my room."

Daddy eventually had to just giggle with her!

Not Real

A: "Well, Mom, I know that the tooth fairy isn't real."
M: "Oh, really?"
A: "Yeah. And Santa? He's not real either. Neither is the Easter Bunny. But some kids think they're real, so I better not tell them yet."
M: "Oh. Well, what about Jesus?"
A: "Oh, He's real! He's definitely real."

Smart girl!

Onomatopoeia

In the book "If You Take a Mouse to School" there is an illustration of the mouse spelling "a word or two" on the chalkboard. This illustration caught Aidyn's eye and we ended up having a big discussion about the vocabulary words including "precocious" and "onomatopoeia." Once I explained that "onomatopoeia" means words that say the sound they make she immediately came up with several of her own examples, "Oh! Like 'clink,' 'knock,' and 'bang!'"

Later that week she was making lots of noises with her mouth and I asked her what she was doing in a moment of frustration with the noise level of the house. She looked up at me and said, "But Mom! I am making an onomatopoeia song!"