'A duck!... A baby duck.' (Squealing about a birthday card on her third birthday on Puerta Vallarta, Mexico.

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

“No it's not. It's a big hot!” At 2 years old. After being warned that the car seat was a little hot.

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.

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