Skiing at Northstar

Gingerbread House

Of Eeyore

"He is gloomy."

Perceptive

"You know why eyes are magic? Because they can see all by themselves."

Room 10, Brookside

Scary music?

"That's not scary. It's just music."

Trying to help me find the right track on the CD

"You know it, daddy. It's the one that goes 'dun, dun, dun'"

It doesn't, I hope

"Why does shampoo have "poo" in it?"

When Ian deliberately crashed his gokart on Wii

"That looks like fun. But it's not appropriate."

I thought I'd found the red pen she was looking for

"No. That's magenta."

When I let her go to the park

"You are my bestest buddy."

After getting a chocolate crepe for lunch

"This is the best day of my life."

On whether she enjoyed her first day in kindergarten

"Yes."

After finishing her first length of the pool and then, again, a few minutes later when she did her first jump off the diving board

"I did it."

About mosquitoes

"Why do they just like eating my blood?"

Nothing serious

"Will you two stop fighting? You're like babies."

Where did we go wrong?

"I can do whatever I want. I'm the boss of me. You're the boss of Ian."

Just managing to carry it from the fridge to the table

"I am strong than the milk."

After I drew what I thought was a perfectly decent flower on the Etch-a-Sketch

"Are you kidding me?"

In charge?

"You're not the boss of me."

Wearing her new watch out of the cereal box

"Look how time it is."

As we go out into the garden at night

"Here we go into the spooky, spooky woods."

As daddy roars round a corner

"Hey. That makes my tummy tickle"

Sometimes that's all it takes

"Sharks like people. They only take one bite. Then they say yuk."

In sickness...

"Daddy. I don't want to do a throw-up. It's skuss-stink."

later...

"I'm feeling better now. I had a vitamin."

Em-gat review

"I don't like M&Gs. The food is awful."

When she kicked the ball onto the deck upstairs

"I am amazing...the coolest guy."

Remember the Waltons?

Night night routine after we close the door:

"Good night, daddy."
"Good night"

"Good night, mummy"
"Good night"

"Good night, Louie" (the dog)
"Ruff ruff" (from Mummy)

After seeing the naked runners at Bay-to-Breakers

"Next time we go to Baker Breakers, we have to go naked too."

On being a pacifist

"Ninja Turtle are bad guys."

"Why?"

"Because they have weapons."

When I'm kidding

"You're kidding, right?"

Looking at the scene in Golden Gate Park on a hot, spring day

"You know what I don't like. I don't like the men with big boobies."

After I bought her a bag of cookies

"OK. You can have one more. And then that's it."

Rather than cats

"I think I'm allergic to people."

On the freeway

"Can you go superfast so we can win the Piston Cup?"

Happy 5th Birthday, Em!

Under the weather

"Every bit of my head hurts"

My first alphabet

While throwing a ball in the dining room

"Watch out for the light. It's deli- cake"

After I had put her skis on, her gloves on, her helmet on and adjusted her goggles and started to put on my own skis

"Dad, you are the slowest person in the world."

After I was cut off by some jerk in a fancy Audi

Emmi: " Why is jug a bad word? Why is that man a jug?"

Singing on a chairlift (in a white-out)

"Dreidel, Dreidel, Dreidel, you made it out of xxx" where xxx was these and more:

- snow
- sun
- skis
- bananas
- oranges
- poo-poo
- Ian's butt

(when, luckily, we arrived at our destination)

While I was irritating her about something as usual

"Dad, you're annointing me."

You must stay positive

"Daddy. You're a negative."

Apology not accepted

"That was a mean sorry."

When I screamed in the middle of "shark" game

"That scared my ears."

The Laws of Physics

"Daddy. Stop driving too fast. My hot chocolate is trying to spill."

More on the end of the storm

"The clouds are mad. They aren't going to pee anymore."

Advice to our dog

"Louie. You can't go swimming. You'll drown."

After a big storm

"Hey look daddy. There's blue. It's going to be Sunny."

Fire and brimstone in Mill Valley

"Are we going to Hell Valley today?"