“I wasn't yawning, I was just letting some fresh air into my mouth.” (After being accused of being tired.)

'There is no such thing as 'fun for the whole family.''

'Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.'

'I'm not beautiful, I'm pretty!' (Angrily at age 2 and a half. After getting into his sister's toy makeup case and being called beautiful...)

Nobody has ever before asked the nuclear family to live all by itself in a box the way we do. With no relatives, no support, we've put us in an impossible situation.