Clara: This week is E week at school!
Timothy: That’s Exciting.
Katherine: Let’s see how many Extra E-words we can find. Elephant, and Egg…
(many fine words are named)
K: Oh - and here’s a good one: Eye. It doesn’t sound like an E word, does it? Hm, anything that starts with Ep-… Ep-…
Clara: Epinephrine?
K: … ah… yeah, that’s a very good E word!
Clara and Dad are walking to school.
Clara: I love when you drop me off at school and pick me up.
Dad: Yeah, I think yesterday was the first time I ever did both.
C: Yeah. You know what, Dad?
D: What?
C: I love you… ten hundred million!
D: Well thanks!
C: …Is that even a number?
D: Well, ten hundreds is a thousand, and a thousand millions is a billion. So it’s a billion. And that’s a number.
C: Dad?
D: Yes?
C: I’ll always remember you.
D: That’s so nice. I’ll always remember you too.
(As Dad sings the first of the usual bedtime songs, Clara has her eyes closed but is smiling. He finishes the first song.)
Clara: Dad? You know why I was smiling?
Timothy: No, why?
C: It was because I had a funny dream that made me happy.
T: Uh huh?
C: I dreamed I was Obama. (rolls over, goes to sleep)
Clara: Dad, when’s Arthur Lutha Kid’s Day?
Timothy: Uh… what? read more...
Clara: Mom, in the morning I am all filled up with silliness!
Timothy: I think the silliness fills you up while you’re sleeping.
Katherine: And then maybe it leaks out during the day, so you’re not as silly by evening.
C: No, Mom, I can be silly at night too. Watch: bleahbleahbleah!!!
[Clara hears the news.]
Clara: I think we should get some flowers for [Grandma] Nanny to cheer her up.
Timothy: Yeah, actually, I think that’s a great idea. read more...
Clara: Mom, I can count in Spanish. Uno, dos, tres, quatro, fingo, seis.
Mom: Wow, that’s great!
Clara: And, do you know how to say “Yes?”
Mom: ¿En Español? ¿Como?
Clara: Nope, it’s “Si.”
Clara: Mom, me and Happy Feet were…
Mom (interrupts): Happy Feet and I…
Clara: No, Mom, I said Happy Feet and me.
Mom: Yes, but the way you say it is “Happy Feet and I.”
Clara: But Mom, it was me and Happy Feet!
Dad: Mom is telling you that the way that grown-ups say it is to say “I” instead of “me.”
Mom: Yeah, cause you wouldn’t say “me go to the store,” you would say “I go to the store.”
(pause)
Clara: Mom, Happy Feet and I …
[Clara is looking at a dinosaur book.]
Clara: I know what this says: “Rocky… Records. How… do we… k-now? kunnou?
Timothy: ‘Know.’ That’s a weird one - a silent K that makes the O say its name.
C: “How do we know… what dinosaurs… looked… like?” On this page there’s the skeletons. I think this skeleton is from this dinosaur. See, Dad?” read more...
I thought it would be fun to add a couple of light emitting diodes (LEDs) to Clara’s Tinker Bell costume this Halloween.
These are similar to the “throwies” described in Make Magazine and on Instructables, except with a barrette instead of a magnet. read more...