Maggie: Mama, does Minnie live with Mickey?
Smells
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Maggie: I don’t like all the mixed up food smells in the fridge. Do you?
Comedian
The Little Liusers love Jim Gaffigan. Tommy told me he dreamed about him last night. In the dream, JG was doing tricks on a water fountain. Then a girl came out and did better tricks.
I was listening to Gaffigan’s audio book Dad Is Fat and Maggie asked “is that guy real? I want to meet him.” Or maybe she meant she wanted to meet his kids. She kind of mumbled at the end.
Charm
Tommy: can I get a haircut the morning we leave for meema’s house? I want to look handsome and charming.
Teenagers and Santa
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Tommy: for some reason, when you’re a teenager, you text a lot.
I’m not going to write a letter to Santa. He’s not even real. If he was real, why don’t people go up there and check it out. There’s probably just raw fish there.
A Game
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Maggie: I just made up a new halloween game. It’s called “duck duck spider”.
[She quickly revised it to “pumpkin, pumpkin, spider”.]
pushing the [physical] boundaries
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Maggie: is there any way that food can get all the way from my stomach all the way to my neck? [yes. That’s called puking]
No, I mean like if it stacks up because I eat so much. Is that possible?
Demonstrate!
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More Maggie stream on consciousness: Tommy! Demonstrate how you were born! Demonstrate! [switching to deep voice] and now I’m talking like a boy.
Nonsense?
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Maggie: what does ‘nonsense’ mean? Oh like when I talk? I hope an earthquake doesn’t knock down my favorite McDonalds. I love McDonalds. Am I talking nonsense again?
Shaking: Causes
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My kids’ thoughts on the earthquake as it happened were predictably entertaining. Maggie thought a truck of unusual size was driving by (although she couldn’t imagine a truck that big), and Tommy thought Maggie was stomping around his bed and messing thing up.