Confucius say: "woman who eat lemon have sour puss"

Dad: "Alex, the LEAST you can do is - Alex interrupts: "nothing"

Erin to Alex (08/05): "you fill my life with catastrophy - KER-TASS-TER-FEE!" "

Alex (11/04): "I'm pretty young to be a 6-year-old artist"

Alex (03/05): "Words I want to learn to spell: POOP and Peepee"

03/05 Erin: "(while watching a documetary about Harvey Milk) "NOW I understand about the twinkie defense" Alex: "You mean: "vagina defense"

Alex (03/05) : "Excuse the wonder of burps"

Alex: "Piece of toast (wink!) Love it!"

Alex: "I don't appreciate your enthusiasm"

2/05 Erin: "I have a large "forgetchion hole" "

8/03 Mom: "What does "romatic" mean?" Alex: "very beautiful?" Mom: "What else?" Alex: "Very stupid?"

3/14 Alex: "(watching a movie) "Mom, sometimes I think Love Music is dumb and stuff"

2/03 Erin: "(while playing) "That's not a REAL marriage - that's just dancing with kisses"

Alex: "What does "ballacy" mean?" Me: "I don't know" Alex: "I don't either"

12/2 Alex: "Hey! Let's play "Monster Cinderella"! "

Alex: "Dad, I have a small job for you, but it's a hard one. Can you make me a space shuttle?"

2/22 Alex: "(playing charades) "I'll give you a hint: it's bigger than a mouse and it looks like a rat"

1/5 Erin: "I want to be an ice cream seller who dances for people and the icre cream is free"

1/5 Alex: "Ok, mama - I won't do it again - does that look like a promise?"

8/25 Alex: (pretending to be a pterodactyl) "I have a poison pecker"

10/04 Alex: (after fixing something without any help) "Yay! Super-Duper ME!"

10/17 Erin (distraught when waking up without a parent to cuddle): "This is the SECOND time! YOU don't get into bed with your children, and POOF! Mama is gone......."

10/12 Alex: (talking about a kind of dinosaur) "He's KLARNIVORE" - Daddy: "what?" - Alex:"He eats meat and leaves"

Alex: "I have a secret" - Daddy: "what?" - Alex:"I'm not telling"

(When asked to pronounce a Dutch word) Erin:"I can't make the bumps in the words"

7/26 Alex: "Dammit!" (after getting "the look" from daddy) "Well, I didn't say "GOD-dammit..."

7/6 Alex: "My name is NOT Smartypants!"

6/6 Alex (slightly alarmed): "my dingle is hard as a stick"

Alex's Zolo creations: "The Poison Hot Dog" and "The Confused Inky-Binky"

5/30 Alex: "My goldfish ate my money..." Erin: "Let's look in his tuchis"

5/28 Alex (gleefully, while opening the snack drawer where snacks are kept) "heh, heh" Daddy starts laughing. Alex: "I'm saying "heh, heh, because it means "hee, hee"

5/7 Erin states that she is Barbie's owner, a REAL person. Alex: "you're not a real person..." Erin: "yes, I am! Girl people have feet, twinkies, head, hair."

5/1 Alex: "We're busy. We're soooo busy. You can't believe how busy we are"

4/14 (San Juan Bautista) Alex (who is being bribed with chips because he's being tired and cranky) "I am yessing my head for the chips" (nodding)

4/13 New game: "Superhorse-to-the-rescue-Barbie"

Erin's new way of "asking for treats, candy and other special favors: "Could you tell i was thinking about having some (for example) Chocolate cake?"

Sat 4/6 It's all relative: Alex (while being scolded on having a smelly accident) "It's not all the way down my legs...."

Alex: "I'm pretending to be a nice bad guy"

Tue 4/2/2002 Alex to daddy (Trying to not get caught giving his stuffed dog a haircut) "You have to go away now. You have to hide now"

Mo 4/1/2002 (Seeing daddy measure something with the tape measure): "how much does it smell?"

Erin's suggestion for calming down the conflict between Israle and Palestine is to "throw ice cream in their eyes, and poop in their hair"

Mon 2/4/2002: Alex: "He's a daddy pig, because he has five dingles. Mommy pigs have a tuchis"

Thu 1/31/2002 (playing with ZOLO) Alex: "This guy is called a woonkee. He's eating a squiggely worm. He's a pretty skunk,; and he doesn't poop at all

MORE Alex (talking to dinosaur at the Academy of Sciences): "Have a good roar!" Erin (talking in a dream) "I...am....a....daisy"

Alex (after trying the swing at the playground) "This is not for me"

Alex: "Dinosaurs eat plants and trees - but not the signs. They would hurt"