Moms

"Mom, we need to go!"

"I'm the only one already in the car, Elanore! Why are you saying this to me?"

"Because you can make something happen. You're a mom!"

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"May we go to Pier 1?  I love that store!  It's really awesome, and it's not too big.  You can just stand up and  look over the pillows and see your mom..." - Elanore
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Scary trip to the outhouse...

Evie, after viewing Elanore's drawing: "Does anyone else find this disturbing?!"

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Getting Ready for Church

Elanore: "Dad, we don't have time for Axe!"

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Elanore: "How do you do spell my middle name?"

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Elanore: "Mom, I think I know where Philip gets his loudness from."

Mom: "Oh yeah? Where?"

Elanore: "Dad."

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"My hands are colder than I thought anything ever could be." - Elanore, after the morning run with the dogs

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"Diiest, I didn't know they made man leggings." - Elanore

(Dad was wearing running pants before his run.)

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Elanore: "I'm getting hot... can we turn off the TV?"

(This while we were all watching the "Cozy Cracklin' Firplace" DVD last night. The gas logs were on, and they were the real source of the heat.)

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Iivo, preparing for the costume party: "I'm coming as a big stinker!"

Elanore: "But, Diiest, you don't need to get dressed up for that!"

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Elanore: "Philip smells like earwax."
(as he read her a bedtime story)

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Olivia, to Elanore: "Lips? Lips?! Who doesn't know how to spell 'lips'?"

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"Yay! I want a Freeze Squeeze! What's a Freeze Squeeze?"

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"What's my name? I'm prettier than you."
- Elanore to Olivia, on taking the Austen Heroine quiz

The Austen Heroine quiz is something that Mom and Evie showed to the rest of our family this morning. The quote above is something that Elanore said when she turned out to be Marianne Dashwood, and Olivia turned out to be Elinor Dashwood.

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Elanore: "I LOVE piano! For some reason, it feels like I've been playing for a long time - like an old friend" (one week after her first piano lesson, the day before her second one).

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