The Things She Says (and does)

Thou shalt not take the Lord's name in vain...

2011-01-11T16:53:00.000-08:00

"Cheese and Rice"

I had to bribe her to go on it in the first place

2010-09-05T20:53:00.000-07:00

"Awesome. Awesome. This water ride is awesome. Awesome. Awesome. Can we do it again?"

On the way to the city from Marin

2010-09-05T10:35:00.001-07:00

"Why does San Francisco never warm up?"

She only turned seven a few months ago..

2010-09-05T10:34:00.000-07:00

"You treat me like a five year old."

Half way into a 15 mile bike ride

2010-08-30T17:38:00.000-07:00

"What was I thinking?"

Some more firsts

2010-08-29T21:35:00.000-07:00

First proper dive in swimming

First 15-mile cycle ride

2nd Grade starts today

2010-08-23T07:25:00.000-07:00

Scented pens, and other supplies, at the ready.

So proud...

2010-08-23T07:21:00.000-07:00

Emmi know all the words to the chorus of California Gurls (Katy Perry):

California girls, We're unforgettable
Daisy Dukes, bikinis on top
Sun kissed skin so hot
Will melt your popsicle
Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh
Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh

Etc

About my artistic rendition of a song playing on the radio

2010-08-23T07:20:00.000-07:00

"It's not artistic. It's irritating."

After a trip to Spain

2010-07-17T17:43:00.000-07:00

"I'm not going to another church, museum or palace. Never again."

One day they'll fly away

2010-07-17T17:41:00.001-07:00

"Can you buy cally-pittas online?"

Official member of the roly-poly club

2010-06-01T21:13:00.000-07:00

A dedicated collector of roly-polys and member of the Brookside 1st Grade club.

"Guess what, Dad. Ava found 12."

Watching John Henson on Wipeout

2010-06-01T21:11:00.000-07:00

"How did that man get to be so funny? Did he go to funny school?"

Half way up a big hill as she rides on the trailer

2010-05-29T16:48:00.000-07:00

"C'mon dad. Don't give up. We haven't accomplished our mission."

Don't mess with ....

2010-04-18T16:52:00.000-07:00

"Hey look. There's litter. That's not helping the earth!"

About Avatar

2010-03-28T17:27:00.000-07:00

"The scariest part was when they kissed for about five minutes."

Wheel of Fortune tactics

2010-03-24T21:40:00.000-07:00

"E," "E," "E," "E".... "I told you."

Watching iCarly

2010-03-17T21:41:00.000-07:00

"Ewww. Are they going to kiss?"

Flashlight eyes

2009-12-04T21:42:00.000-08:00

"I can see it even if you put your hand in front. I have flashlight eyes."

The dog has his place

2009-09-27T21:11:00.000-07:00

"Louie. You're a dog. That's why you can't eat people food."

San Francisco fan-in-training

2009-09-27T21:10:00.000-07:00

"Giants, Boo!" "Giants, Boo!" "Wait. Which team is San Francisco again?"

As mommy tries to draw a sea lion

2009-09-19T10:06:00.000-07:00

"That looks like a duck!"

Don't give in to the tickle

2009-09-05T17:42:00.000-07:00

"I can hold it."

Pave it over, people!

2009-09-05T17:39:00.000-07:00

"I have allergies. I wish everyone would stop growing grass"

First Grade!

2009-08-24T09:00:00.000-07:00

Emmi swims her first length

2009-08-01T15:29:00.000-07:00

She had to do a "swim test" to be able to use the diving board and, with that incentive, she did the length easily.

She was right

2009-07-27T21:37:00.001-07:00

"I didn't tell you," (that she had broken a lamp) "because I thought you would be mad at me."

Music Critic

2009-07-27T21:34:00.000-07:00

"This music is giving me a headache." (It was David Gray.)

Hiking up the mountain

2009-07-11T23:00:00.000-07:00

"I hate walking. It's the stupidest thing ever"

On sharing

2009-06-13T21:17:00.001-07:00

"You're not the boss of this cupcake"

Brookside K Graduation

2009-06-11T21:33:00.000-07:00

Stop already!

2009-06-06T09:31:00.000-07:00

"We got a new skateboard. Mom keeps buying skateboards."

At least it was in the toilet

2009-05-29T16:19:00.001-07:00

"Hey, Dad. I just vominated."

Thanks, Buzz

2009-05-26T20:14:00.001-07:00

While watching Home Alone:

Q: "Mom, what does 'his ass' mean?"
A: His butt

Conditional love

2009-05-23T21:28:00.000-07:00

"Give me a hug. Then I'll be nice to you."

Buzz off

2009-05-03T16:12:00.000-07:00

"Hey, Bees. Stop following me. I'm not a flower."

After winning at "Balloon Lagoon"

2009-05-02T15:31:00.000-07:00

"I'M THE WINNER!" (+ dance)

After losing at Balloon Lagoon

2009-05-02T15:19:00.000-07:00

"Well if you win, we have to play again. If I win, we're done."

After losing at "Let's go Fish"

2009-05-02T12:57:00.000-07:00

"Hey Dad! I just read the instructions. It says whoever gets the less wins. So I win."

Pitch girl

2009-04-18T22:03:00.000-07:00

" I like Trader Joe's. It has all the good stuff."

After an argument (that I won)

2009-04-18T22:01:00.000-07:00

"You know, dad. Kids are smarter than adults."

Who dya see in NYC?

2009-04-16T21:07:00.000-07:00

Me: "Emmi. You know where I was yesterday? New York City."

Emmi: "Oh. Do you know who lives there? Undonna*."Did you see her?"

* Madonna

To the dog, about to go to the beach

2009-04-04T14:41:00.000-07:00

"OK. Your best part of the day is now."

On manners

2009-04-01T07:19:00.000-07:00

"Can I have milk with no 'please'?"

Emmi loses first tooth!

2009-04-01T07:05:00.000-07:00

She actually really lost it (at school) so the tooth fairy had to accept this picture, printed out and put under her pillow as evidence. It worked!

On Calculation

2009-03-30T07:03:00.000-07:00

"I don't need to count. I can do it in my brain."

Emmi is 6!

2009-03-13T21:30:00.000-07:00

First cycle ride (finally!)

2009-02-21T21:26:00.000-08:00

As we practice dreaming

2009-02-07T08:26:00.001-08:00

"Is your power brain working?"

Emmi Rocket

2009-01-26T21:31:00.000-08:00

Emmi, Who is the President of the United States?

2009-01-20T21:06:00.000-08:00

"Barack Obama"

Skiing at Northstar

2008-12-21T12:25:00.000-08:00

Gingerbread House

2008-12-07T12:21:00.000-08:00

Of Eeyore

2008-11-15T20:59:00.001-08:00

"He is gloomy."

Perceptive

2008-11-09T17:25:00.000-08:00

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

Room 10, Brookside

2008-10-31T12:29:00.000-07:00

Scary music?

2008-10-19T20:45:00.000-07:00

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

Trying to help me find the right track on the CD

2008-10-19T20:44:00.000-07:00

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

It doesn't, I hope

2008-10-15T08:21:00.000-07:00

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

When Ian deliberately crashed his gokart on Wii

2008-10-04T10:16:00.000-07:00

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

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

2008-09-27T18:59:00.000-07:00

"No. That's magenta."

When I let her go to the park

2008-09-21T17:04:00.000-07:00

"You are my bestest buddy."

After getting a chocolate crepe for lunch

2008-09-21T17:02:00.000-07:00

"This is the best day of my life."

On whether she enjoyed her first day in kindergarten

2008-08-26T08:04:00.000-07:00

"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

2008-08-24T09:32:00.000-07:00

"I did it."

About mosquitoes

2008-08-19T21:17:00.000-07:00

"Why do they just like eating my blood?"

Nothing serious

2008-08-06T21:55:00.000-07:00

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

Where did we go wrong?

2008-07-12T20:41:00.000-07:00

"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

2008-06-18T19:52:00.000-07:00

"I am strong than the milk."

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

2008-06-08T09:43:00.000-07:00

"Are you kidding me?"

In charge?

2008-06-05T22:11:00.000-07:00

"You're not the boss of me."

Wearing her new watch out of the cereal box

2008-05-31T19:10:00.000-07:00

"Look how time it is."

As we go out into the garden at night

2008-05-30T21:13:00.000-07:00

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

As daddy roars round a corner

2008-05-30T21:12:00.000-07:00

"Hey. That makes my tummy tickle"

Sometimes that's all it takes

2008-05-26T14:43:00.001-07:00

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

In sickness...

2008-05-25T14:48:00.000-07:00

"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

2008-05-25T14:47:00.000-07:00

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

When she kicked the ball onto the deck upstairs

2008-05-22T21:23:00.000-07:00

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

Remember the Waltons?

2008-05-22T21:17:00.000-07:00

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

2008-05-18T21:20:00.000-07:00

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

On being a pacifist

2008-05-11T19:09:00.000-07:00

"Ninja Turtle are bad guys."

"Why?"

"Because they have weapons."

When I'm kidding

2008-05-03T06:40:00.001-07:00

"You're kidding, right?"

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

2008-04-27T20:29:00.000-07:00

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

After I bought her a bag of cookies

2008-04-27T06:47:00.000-07:00

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

Rather than cats

2008-04-25T19:20:00.000-07:00

"I think I'm allergic to people."

On the freeway

2008-03-29T20:28:00.001-07:00

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

Happy 5th Birthday, Em!

2008-03-13T20:50:00.000-07:00

Under the weather

2008-02-29T21:50:00.001-08:00

"Every bit of my head hurts"

My first alphabet

2008-02-24T14:22:00.001-08:00

While throwing a ball in the dining room

2008-02-20T20:40:00.000-08:00

"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

2008-02-10T21:26:00.000-08:00

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

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

2008-02-10T21:25:00.001-08:00

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

Singing on a chairlift (in a white-out)

2008-01-29T17:32:00.000-08:00

"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

2008-01-29T17:30:00.000-08:00

"Dad, you're annointing me."

You must stay positive

2008-01-13T19:50:00.000-08:00

"Daddy. You're a negative."

Apology not accepted

2008-01-12T12:31:00.001-08:00

"That was a mean sorry."

When I screamed in the middle of "shark" game

2008-01-08T21:41:00.000-08:00

"That scared my ears."

The Laws of Physics

2008-01-06T17:26:00.000-08:00

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

More on the end of the storm

2008-01-05T22:09:00.000-08:00

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

Advice to our dog

2008-01-05T22:07:00.000-08:00

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