Early March Quotes

"Elsie's little baby Sylvie is hissing at her!"

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Mama:  "How did you sleep last night?"

Elsie:  "Elsie slept really good, but Olga Bunny was hop, hop, hopping all over Elsie's bed all night long!"

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Daddy:  "...and you have to eat all your vegetables to grow big and strong."
Elsie:  "Hmm...well, maybe when Elsie is older Elsie will know how to eat all her vegetables."

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Daddy and his girls

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"Elsie is pretty slow, but Pongo can run super, super, super fast!"

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Daddy:  "Good-bye, Elsie, I am going running!"

Elsie:  "Have a good run Daddy, and be very careful because there is lots of ice on the ground outside and it is very slippery!"

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Daddy, walking into the room:  "Mooooooooooooooo!"
Elsie, not missing a beat:  "Oink, oink!"

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Elsie:  "Mama, tell me some ideas for tomorrow."
Mama:  "Well, tomorrow we could bake cookies!"
Elsie:  "No!  Different idea, Mama!"
Mama:  "We could make chocolate cupcakes!"
Elsie:  "No!  Different idea, Mama!  A silly idea!"
Mama:  "We could build an airplane and fly it to Grandma Dorothy's house..."
Elsie:  "YEAH!"

On another night, sharing more "ideas" with Daddy:
Daddy: "You could wear all purple tomorrow!"
Elsie: "No!" 
Daddy: "What would be a better idea?  Why can't you wear purple?"
Elsie: "Because, Daddy, Elsie can't wear purple clothes.  Elsie has nice blue clothes to wear tomorrow!"

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Elsie and her tent

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After a series of furballs appeared in her tent, it was washed and put away.  After a few weeks, the following conversation happened as we set up her tent again:

" Elsie was worried about her tent!  I couldn't find it anywhere!  Kitties, no more furballs in Elsie's tent!"

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"Elsie don't like that kind of dinner (stir fry)!  Elsie just likes apples, pears, treats, bananas, and apples!  Elsie can't eat that kind of dinner, because it will make my tummy feel bad and then we will have to go to Elsie's room and get my medicine so I will feel better!"

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While looking at old pictures of Ping, Pongo, and Toodles together:
"Elsie doesn't have a Toodles anymore.  Elsie just has a Ping and a Pongo and an Izzy.  Now Elsie is a big kid, so maybe now Elsie can have another Toodles!  Can Elsie have another Toodles?"

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Mama:  Elsie, did you have good dreams last night?"

Elsie: "Yeah, Elsie did have good dreams!"

Mama:  "What did you dream about?"

Elsie: "I dreamed about Mama and Elsie's little baby piggies and Elsie's little baby Sylvie!"

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Elsie: "I want pears for snack!"

Mama: "I think we ate all the pears.  Maybe we can get more at the grocery store when we go."

Elsie: "Yes.  We can go and get pears and cupcakes at the grocery store."

Mama: "Just pears and cupcakes?  We don't need anything else at the store?"

Elsie: "Hmmm....no.  Elsie don't think so.  We just need pears and cupcakes."

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"When I wear my kitty coat, I look just like Pongo Kitty!  He is a very special, special kitty.  But I don't have whiskers like Pongo does."

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"When I wake up I have CRAZY hair!"