Soundbites

Bea: You comb the back. You make it flat. If you comb it like that, you don't look like a mom.
Mom: How?
Bea: combs mom's hair over face
Mom: What do I look like?
Bea: A monster.


Nathan: wearing the tiger ears he went to sleep with I was a tiger all night.


Nathan: perhaps contemplating war, tragedy and life choices What if a man who didn't have a son and didn't marry someone was a star war and someone tried to kill him and his leg got broken off. THen he wouldn't go back, he would just go find a house to live in and someone to marry... or just live in a house by himself.


Bea: I love roasted seeds! I love roasted goo!
Mom: You do?
Bea: Ye-ah! You put celery and pepper and all the things and its so good. You never had that?
Mom: No.
Bea: Nana had that at her house.
Mom: Roasted goo?
Bea: Yeah.


Nathan: What if this whole place stayed dark and all the gloomin' eyes were on this place?


Nathan: looking at a Christmas wreath Look a coral reef!


Bea: Do you know string cheese or pombees?
Mom: I know string cheese but not pombees.
Bea: Oh. You take celery. You put it in water, soak it, put it in the cups. There!


Nathan: while discussing gifts I know since Papa Mike loves airplanes we could give him airplanes. We could give him a whole bunch of paper to make airplanes. Its like how we made slime (jello) from our box. We could give him the ones not already made.


Nathan: while Grammie, Papa and Mom are cleaning up dinner and Nathan and dad are "working" on putting together a new toy crane Why are you all in the kitchen when dad and I are in the living room WORKING!?


Nathan: scattered throughout the day, Nathan often tells everyone what his sister loves Bea loves purple. Bea loves toys. Bea loves dolls. Bea loves cranes. Bea loves orange because I loved orange and then she loved orange. Bea loves puppies. Bea loves cake.