Pronounced: Yun-yins.

Elizabeth: "I don't like onions.... I only like onions in Old McDonald's Happy Burgers."

Pie Season

(Making baking plans for the big day...)

Me: "You can help me bake Grampa's favorite pie for Thanksgiving."

Elizabeth: "What kind is it?"

Me: "Pecan Pie."

Elizabeth: "Oh, I have three... No... I have... six yummy favorites."

Me: "What are they?

Elizabeth: "I like Cherry Pie, Pumpkin, Pecawnd Pie, Apple, Berry... I really like Watermelon, Berry, Apple... all kinds of Berry Pie... and Pear."

Preschooler One-Liners

Holy Sense-of-Humor!

She replied, without hesitating...

(While at the Happiest Place on Earth...)

Me: When you're grown up, are you going to bring your kids to Disneyland?

Elizabeth: If they are big enough for rides I will!

Yes, this happened

Elizabeth: "What in the Hell is this???"

Taller.... or Shorter?

(Mommy gets the hang of a brand new game...)

Elizabeth: "Want to play a game? It's called 'Taller, or Shorter?'"

Me: "Sure"

Elizabeth: "OK. Are you taller, or shorter?"

Me: "Than what, you?"

(repeats, patiently)

Elizabeth: "Are you taller.... or shorter?"

Me: "Um, taller."

Elizabeth: "Right! Now, am I taller or shorter?"

Me: "Shorter?"

Elizabeth: "That's right. Shorter."

A Sacred Holiday

(On our way to the Spirit Halloween Store...)

Me: "Did you know that me & daddy got married on Halloween?"

Elizabeth: "You mean.... you missed Trick or Treats??"

Dry-clean only

(While watching a Disneyland show, Elizabeth wonders about the costumes...)

Elizabeth: "Can everybody's costume get wet?"

Me "Sort of... probably not too wet."

Elizabeth: "Yeah. I hope when all the characters go home at night, I hope they wash all their costumes."

Super-Duper

(Dessert time...)

"You know what I want for dessert? OK. This is gonna be a super-duper dessert, so I'm going to have to brush my teeth really, really good..."

It gets confusing

(I really don't remember how this conversation started... Something like this...)

Me: "...I'm the only Mommy."

Elizabeth: "I have one Mommy and one Daddy."

Me: "Yep."

Elizabeth: "And one Grama and one Grampa."

Me: "Well, you have Grama Jan & Grampa Tom. But, you also have Grama Connie and Grampa Al."

Elizabeth: "So, I have two Gramas and two Grampas."

Me: "Yes."

"And two Mommies and two Daddies."

Me: "Actually, only one Mommy and one Daddy."

[pause]

Elizabeth: "Are you pretending?"