The Quotable Annika

--"It's not a hoose, it's a house!"

Correcting Canadians on Holmes Inspection, laughing her head off.

--"Fee-fi-fo-fum, I smell the blood of a ginger-crumb!"

Insisting that these are the words, and "Englishman" is something nutty that we made up.

--Skibbles

--Hand hand sanitizer

--Magic-trick guy

--lion-flower

--tooth-es, moth-es

Her take on Skittles, hand sanitizer, magician, dandelion, and the plurals of tooth and moth, respectively

--"These are pliers, to ply up things."

While playing with her new toolbox

--"Do dragons eat dragonflies?"

A reasonable question.

--Grandpa, to an elephant-print-pajamas-wearing Annika: "Hello, elephant!"

--Annika, to a college-T-shirt-wearing Grandpa: "Hello, Columbia!"

--R., while we listen to a song he recorded a few years ago, on which he played each instrument and sang the vocals, and combined them all via the magic of sound mixing: "Did you know Daddy played all the instruments on this song?"

--Annika, marveling: "You don't have enough HANDS to play all those instruments!"

--"Oh cool, a dolphin did it!"

Thoroughly pleased with my answer to her question about what a certain area on the title page of her Curious George book meant -- I said that was where they tell you who the publisher, aka the maker of the book, is; obviously I meant the words Houghton-Mifflin, but she focused on the tiny little dolphin logo.

--"I want curly hair like my cousints'."

[sigh] Don't we all want what we can't have? Heh.