Anna Quotes

• "I want Jack's hair to be longer!"
  Then she pulls it.
  
  
• Picture a car trip with three small children.
  As both brothers are screaming, Anna keeps shrieking: "Guys, you're upsetting me!". Which is completely understandable (I'd like to yell that myself, after all), but of course just upsets them more.
  
  
• For the last few weeks, whenever Thomas or Jack coughs, Anna puts on her paniced look and yells:
  
  "Ah! Ah! Aaaaaahhh! Thomas [or Jack] is going to throw up on me!"
  
  This started on the car trip to Rochester and has continued at home. I think she is still slightly scarred from our last round of illnesses.
  
  
• If something happens that Anna thinks I have missed (for instance, when I am helping the brothers), or if she feels some event was lacking just the right amount of drama, when I arrive on the scene Anna will instruct me to say "What happened here?".
  At which point she will give me the full report on her boo boo, or what Jack did to her tower, or why Jenny didn't give her enough yogurt.
  Lower lip will be in full effect, of course.
  
  
• Anna is getting really chatty. This is only an issue on the not-so-rare occasion that Mommy or someone else would like to say something. When that happens, often I will get:
  
  "But Mommy, I need to hear my words!"
  "But Mommy, I need to saaaaaay things..."
  
  
• Anna and I went to the circus on Mommy's birthday. I didn't know exactly where in Lincoln Center the entrance was. I asked Anna to help me look for the place where we go in. She looked at me and said:
  
  "Well, Mommy, we just need to find a door..."
  
  
• Random Anna quote when I asked her to do something:
  
  (softly) "Do I dare?"
  
  Wow. And we've only read Prufrock one or two times, max.
  
  
• What don't you want to hear on a playdate when your view of both children is blocked?
  
  "Sebastian, I want to see what your brain does..."
  [insert diabolical laugh text here]
  
  
• How Anna casually says goodbye:
  
  "Thanks for stopping by"
  "Take care a bunch"
  "Have a good night"
  
  
• We have had a lot of conversations lately about being a big kid (and going potty and doing lots of special things) versus being a baby (they get to pee their pants and never go anywhere all that cool). Anna knows that babies can grow up to be big kids. And she knows that to grow, she needs to (1) eat properly and (2) get lots of sleep.
  
  And so... if Anna feels I do not give her enough of the food that she wants (generally yogurt, or cereal, or juice boxes, or chocolate), she lays the guilt trip on me:
  
  "But Mommy, you're not giving me food. How am I going to grow if you don't give me food?"
  Cue the lower lip, of course.