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

'Daddy, how many whoppers are there in those tall trees?' After waking up in the car while driving through Calaveras Big Trees and hearing daddy say, 'Wow, that's a whopper of a tree.'

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

I hope they get here soon. The kids are biting at the chomp.

Every man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque caricatures of himself.