'Divorce is when mommy and daddy yell at each other then they spread apart. Then they put up a 'for sale' sign in front of the house and they spread farther and farther apart until they can't come back ever again and it's very sad.' (teaching her 4-year old brother)

'Dank Dank' (Reflecting his inability to accept compliments for several years.)

'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...)

As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.

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