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

All I am, or can be, I owe to my angel mother.

'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...)

When you have snowflakes in the clouds in the sky and you have mountains, you get snow. That's how it works.

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.