Anda Says 2013

I've been letting this document build up again. I think this one started in fall of 2012 and goes through today. 

Anda: [giving me her bread crusts] Mom, you can have these ones because I licked the honey off already. 

Anda: [after we dropped Nana and Papa off at the airport] Why do they have to go at Virginia? Why do they live at Virginia? 

Me: That's where they live. They need to go home to their house and take care of Dooley Dog.

Anda: And get him his Dooley Dog breakfast and Dooley Dog lunch and Dooley Dog dinner?

Me: Yes

Anda: And their piano? 

Me: Yes?

Anda: I don't want them to leave at our house. Why they don't live at our house? Can we go at Virginia again? But my daddy will miss us because he has to go at work. 

Anda: [looking at the handful of marshmallows I gave her] I just need a little bit of more. 

Anda: We are cats now. But my sister is a dog because she has drool. 

Anda: [referring to Lilah licking her chops after sneezing] She thinks food comes out of her nose

Anda: She wants her sucker. It's a flumb sucker. I took her flumb sucker out of her mouth so she could be happy at me. 

Anda: I'm just going to hold it for a couple while.

Anda: Why is this taking for a long time ago? 

Anda: [after putting in the Star Wars BluRay] This isn't Lego Star Wars; this is the movie about Lego Star Wars. 

Anda: Why is he a Storm Chooper?

Anda: [watching Darth Vader force choke a guy] Why is Luke's father doing that? [Spoiler alert]

Anda: I want my daddy to come home so we can play Lego Star Wars.

Anda: How does Rapunzel go potty with her long hair?

Anda: [praying]...and please bless Mama and Dada to be healthy so they can do their exercise for a long time ago...

Anda: [watching Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory] I don't like that part because it's scary. It's scary because animals that will bite you come and a mean guy. I don't want a boat like that. 

Anda: [after Lilah took a tumble down the stairs] I told Miss Joan [preschool teacher] that my sister was on the stairs all herself and all the way up and she falled down. But if someone would watch her, she wouldn't hurt her face.

Anda: [someone had been sick in our home on any given day for about three solid months] Why can no one be healthy and safe in this house?

Me: Anda, that was such a nice thing to do. You are a very nice girl. Why are you so nice?

Anda: Mommy...everybody's nice. 

Anda: My mouth feels like its time for macaroni. 

Anda: [after being in the car for a long time] Our heads are saying, "We want to get out of this car!"

Anda: Ooh, that's a pitty tank. [piggy bank]

Anda: Why Mrs. Potato Head has so many arms?

Me: I don't know. Didn't you make her that way?

Anda: I guess I just want her to reach a lot of things. 

Me: Do you want to go back to the zoo?

Anda: I think I can play a little bit of there with my broken arm. 

[We were talking about our families and got on the topic of how some people are dead and she didn't get to meet them]

Me: But when we get very old we will die and then we can meet those people in heaven.

Anda: Then who will take care of Lilah?

Me: She will be very big then so she will be fine. But when she gets very old she will die too. 

Anda: Is Dada going to die like you?

Me: Yes. We won't die until we are very old, and you will be very big then.

Anda: And I can reach things?

Anda: [tugs on my sleeve during church] Mama I think about things every day. Yeah, I think about trees and houses and churches and doors if the door closes really loud and if someone cuts my arm...[Well that escalated quickly]

Anda: We are seahorses now. And upstairs is sea rooms and sea laundry and sea bathrooms. 

Anda: Mama how do giraffes hug?

Me: I don't know. How do you think?

Anda: I think they just do their necks to each other and that's how they hug. 

Anda: Mama look outside it's still raining and it's flunder time!

Anda: [I wrote "THANK YOU" for her to copy on a thank you note] But where's the D?

Me: What D?

Anda: For "Dank you"?

Me: Anda, look at those cows. What do those cows say?

Anda: They say, "Hello, every car."

Anda: That guy had robot arms!

Me: He did. What do you think happened to his arms?

Anda: [quietly] I think they fell off. 

Anda: That boy was crying. 

Me: Oh no. Why do you think he was crying?

Anda: Because he had tears.