Anda Says/Lilah Says

This list builds quickly now that Lilah is so verbal too. These are from June through August. 

Anda [after we have all been sitting silently in the car for ten minutes]: Some bananas have squishy peels! [resume silence]

Lilah: Say "cheese!"

Dan: Cheese!

Lilah: Good girl. 

Lilah [trying to climb onto the bed]: I too widdle!

Anda: How did God make Froot Loops?

Lilah [to herself, holding her baby doll of color]: She have brown feet. She colorful!

Anda: It was a bad dream stuck to a good dream 

Lilah: I got hurcups. I got three hurcups. 

Lilah: I eat dinner. I eat woodles and beans. Those dinners. 

Lilah [getting out of bed for the third time that night]: I want a peanut. 

Lilah: I want Monkey Charms. 

Me: What's Dada doing?

Lilah: He watching soccer balls. One, two, three soccer balls. 

Me: How old are you?

Lilah: I four. 

Me: How old is Anda?

Lilah: Four

Me: How old is Dada?

Lilah: Four. 

Me: How old is Benjen?

Lilah: Four. 

Lilah: I pick my nose. I got a boogie. 

Me: Ew gross! Don't pick your nose. 

Lilah: I got a boogie. Can I eat it?

Me: No! Gross! Don't eat it!

Lilah: But, why??

Anda [regarding Augustus Gloop]: He eats a lot of chocolate!

Me: He sure does. 

Anda: Why isn't his mom getting mad at him?

Me: All day long Lilah picks her nose!

Anda: I don't much. Just a little bit. 

Dan: What you got there Lilah? Looks like you got some shampoo. 

Lilah: Sham-poop? Ew. Dis-gusting. 

Dan: Lilah!

Lilah: What, the heck?

Lilah [as we arrive home from our family reunion]: Nana, Papa, Mimi, Hannah?

Me: No, they're not here. They went to their own homes. 

Lilah: [eyeroll] Awh, man!

Anda [seeing the ultrasound picture of her that I drew a Santa hat on]: But that's not real. You didn't eat a hat. 

Anda: Why does your cereal have two numbers on it?

Dan: What two numbers?

Anda: Five or One [Fiber One]

Me: What did you do in nursery?

Lilah: ROSIES!

Me: Did you sing any songs?

Lilah: JESUS!

Anda [praying]: ...And please bless that Lilah can learn to go pee pee in the potty...

Lilah: Ew ew ew ew ew ew ew

Lilah [to the tune of "Let It Go"]: Where it go, where it go! 

[and later] Watch a show! Watch a show!

Anda: How do penguins not fall off the bottom of the earth?

Anda: I'm almost there, am't I, Lilah? Am't I almost there?

Anda: What's happiest little brother on the earth doing?

Anda: [sniffs deeply] You smell like a cricket. 

Papa: I'm just too fat!

Nana: No you're not. No one is fat. Everyone is just fine. 

Anda: Except for my papa.

Me: What's your favorite number?

Anda: I like 7 because I get up at 7 and because I like the beach and Florida is shaped like a 7.

Lilah [chasing Anda around]: Anda Paige Carter! 

Lilah [getting my attention]: Mama Paige Carter!

Anda: Do they call it Friday because that is the day you go to a restaurant and eat french fries?

Anda: Did you know that Ben turns into a ghost at night?

Lilah: I like my princess [dress]. Anda not princess. She got a unicorn.

Me: A unicorn? Oh, a uniform?

Lilah: Yeah.