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."