Kids say the darndest things

Julia, on why she didn't want to eat her broccoli:
"Well, I used to like broccoli, but now I think I'm OUTGROWING it."


Julia reflects on a conversation overheard:
ETHAN: (reading from "Dora's Spooky Halloween") I can be a doctor, or I can be a cat...
MADELEINE: WAAAAAHHHHHH!!!
ETHAN: What's the matter, Madeleine? You used to love this book. I can't say the same for myself, but you usually like it.
JULIA: (turning to me knowingly) Mommy, it sounds like Daddy thinks that book is S-I-O-N.


Madeleine remarks upon my hairstyle today, one little braid on the left side of my part:
"Mommy's wearing JULIA'S hair!"


Madeleine comments on pictures from her baby book:
ME: See Mommy's big tummy? You were inside my big tummy! Then you came out.
MADELEINE: Yeah, Madeleine's hiding! Baby Madeleine hiding Mommy's big, big tummy!
ME: And see, here you are after you came out. That's Baby Madeleine. Aren't you cute?
MADELEINE: (skeptical) I think that's Anja.
ME: No, that's Baby Madeleine!
MADELEINE: Yeah, I think that's ANJA.
ME: No, honey, that's you!
MADELEINE: I have big, big tummy!
ME: Oh, yeah? Do you have a baby in there?
MADELEINE: Yeah, I have Julia hiding MADELEINE'S tummy!