I just stumbled across a cache of notes for a blog post I never wrote. It was crammed full of funny things my then-three-year-old daughter was saying. Here they are for posterity’s sake.

“Mama, don’t whine.”

“What are we gonna do today? We can go to the mall, or the zoo or OMSI. OMSI is a great place. OMSI even has bathrooms!”

There’s a note here that just reads “I smell like…” which was how Zoe announced that she smelled something for a long time. If I gave her a kiss after eating some candy, she’d say “I smell like chocolate.”

Zoe: “Tonight I’m going to dream about being a stop sign.”
Me: “What’s it like being a stop sign?”
Zoe: “Stopping people.”

“Santa has a gun in his pocket, so he can shoot down the chimney real fast.”

Zoe: “I want some chapstick, Momma!”
Annie: “Zoe, no, hang on, do you know what we’re doing right now?”
Zoe: “CHAPSTICK.”

“I want to play a game.”
[Uncle Sean turns on a card game on the ipad]
“No, I don’t want that game, that’s a grown-up game. I want to play Plants versus Zombies.”