Gender Differences & Analytical Processes

Jane:  "I like to drink milk, and pretend it's chocolate.  And, it's soooo yummy, but it's really good because it's like you have chocolate milk, but it's healthy."

Eric (Jane's friend):  "I don't think about all that, I just drink my chocolate milk."

A New Role for Daddy

Today Margot's class had a field trip to the Museum of Fine Arts, which prompted this conversation:

Margot:  "Mommy, is Dad going to be a mascot for my field trip, or not?  I really want him to."

Me:  "A what?"

Margot:  "A mascot.  You know, one of the parents who comes along on the trip to help watch the kids."

Allergy Season

Jane:  ''This morning my eye was itchy and it felt like allergies.  I told my mom and she said it wasn't allergies - but it was."
 

Lindsay:  ''What do eye allergies feel like?"

Jane:  "Like my eye wanted to sneeze.''

Of Vampires and Virgins

Claire:  "Margot, I read in the Guinness Book of World Records that there was a woman who practiced vampirism and that she killed over 600 virgins.''

Margot:  "What's a virgin?"

Claire:  ''It's a woman who has never been married . . . I think.  Or a woman from Virginia.''