Anna Quotes

I have to say, the hits are coming fast and furious at this point. Here's a sample:

• A very good friend of Anna's gave her the book Not Norman: A Goldfish Story as a particularly personal and thoughtful item in his birthday party's goody bag.
  Norman is a fish. Norman's owner got the fish for his birthday, but what he really wanted was a real pet (like a dog), or even a cat, or a ferret or anything--just not Norman. He decides that he wants to trade Norman in for some other pet. But not before learning a valuable life lesson and deciding to keep Norman for his uniquely lovable qualities.
  All in all, a great book. Anna really seemed to like it.
  Maybe this is why:
  "Mommy, can we take Thomas in to the pet store and trade him in for a real pet?"
  
  
• Anna and Jenny were headed to Cole's house last week. Anna was whining. Big time. So I used the old standby 'Now what is Cole going to say when you show up at his house whining like this...', etc, etc. She looked at me like I was a complete simpleton and let me in on the master plan:
  "Mommy, I'm going to stop whining when I get to Cole's!"
  Ah.
  
  
• Today was a big day. A birthday party for one of Anna's good friends from school. I can't remember the exact context of this quote, but at one point this morning Anna looked up from wrapping the present and announced:
  "I use lip balm. I wear it so that I will have moist lips..."
  
  
• Anna likes to set the table. She is very focused on it. So I've tried to give her some insight into the whole serving spoons/soup spoons and dinner forks/dessert forks concepts. I think she gets it.
  She now refers to the serving spoons as 'uppercase spoons' and the soup ones as 'lowercase spoons'. Ditto for forks.
  
  
• Do you remember that period of life when your little sister would make up jokes and then tell you them? Over and over? I do. And Anna is officially in the "joke-making" stage. Here's her latest gem:
  "Thomas is a giraffe."
  [cue fantastic smile] "I made a joke."
  "Heh heh."
  
  
• Some words that Anna tosses around: amazing, frustrated, interesting, "in general" and scrambled.