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Anna to Mom –

“Mom, you and Auntie Linda are Nana’s daughters, and then she has like a thousand – no, like a hundred, sons.”

The scene:  Mom is in the Volvo going to catch the train.  We (Me, Dad & Will) are behind her in the Subaru.  Mom decides to go a different way than usual.  This conversation follows.

Me:  Dad, where’s mom going?  She doesn’t usually go that way.

Dad:  Mom doesn’t know where she’s going sometimes.

Me:  Mom knows what she knows.

Dad:  (Laughter)

Me:  Dad, what’s so funny?

Bill “you are what you are” Parcells would be proud.

Me: What happened to April, Mom?
Mom: She had her tonsils and adnoids out.
Me: what are tonsils?
Mom: they are things in your throat that the doctor can take out.
Me: what’s that?  Like boogies or somethin?

I had this conversation with dad yesterday evening:

Anna:  Dad, someone is burning something
Dad:  Yeah, someone has a fire in their fireplace
Anna:  That smells yucky, it smells like burning hot dogs
Dad:  No, that’s a fire in a fireplace
Anna:  You mean someone is burning hot dogs in their fireplace?

I’m not nearly as excited as mom about our new (to us) fireplace screen.

From Mom:

Anna just made some pretend phone calls.  She called her boyfriend Dale.  And them she called some friends and asked if they got her text messages and emails.  Apparently they all live in Hyannis and she us going to take a plane to visit them.  She couldn’t decide who would fly the plane, then decided Mitch could fly it and it’s a jet.  All of this unpromted!!

From Dad:

No more travelling for Dad.  I’m gone for 2 days and this happens?

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After I heard Ashley use the word “sofa” in a sentence, this exchange occurred:

Anna:  Mommy, what’s a Sofa?

Mommy:  That’s what people from Indiana call a couch.

Dad said he is going to put up pictures from the weekend tomorrow after work.

Today I told Dad:

Girls are butterflies or princesses;

Boys are donkeys.

Ha ha!! said Mom.