Caecilia: “Papa, remember those little maple syrup bottles you get at…um…Breakfast Barrel?”
Author: Joshua
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MacGuyver’s Not Violent Enough For Us
Margaret: “Why don’t we watch MacGuyver anymore?”
Scholastica: “Because he doesn’t like guns.”
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Trouble Skating
Margaret: “I’ve been practicing skating backwards and I’m getting pretty good! I can even skate with one foot up. But if I put both feet up, I fall down.”
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Stinky Bug
Peter: “There’s a stinky bug!”
Papa: “What does it smell like?”
Peter: “The top head of a marshmallow that is burned.”
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Not Nerby
Scholastica, pointing to spelling book: “I don’t know what ‘not nerby’ means.”
Papa, humorously confused: “What do you mean? Show me.” Looks at book. “What does that say?”
Scholastica: “Oh…’nearby’”.
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Water to Beer
Peter: “Can I drink this water?”
Papa: “Yes.”
Peter: Drinks water, and with a concerned look, says “This is not water!”
Papa: “What is it?”
Peter: (long pause) “…beer.”
(It was definitely NOT beer in the cup.)
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Know Thyself
Papa: “Benedict, why are you using a knife to open the milk?”
Benedict: “It’s a new milk, and I can’t get the lid off.”
Scholastica: “I can’t either, Benedict. It’s because we’re wimplings.”