“If we call these foothills, can we call the little trees 'foot trees?''' (While driving in the foothills.)

'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.'

“If all the people in the world were nice could we just get rid of the word mean?”

“This is our house. And this is America Online.” (While pointing at a map of the North American continent.)

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.