Bonus Post: Sound Bites 14

Gretchen: Daddy is the best of you.  But I like both of you.  But Daddy is the best one.

Olivia, making book characters talk: My real name is Shoes William Barhorst.  My real name is Necklace Daphne Velma.

Gretchen: *singing* Snow White goes on the mountain tonight...
(That's the beginning of "Let It Go."  The actual phrase is "Snow blows white on the mountain tonight," but that didn't make sense to Gretchen so she changed it.)

Gretchen generally uses "old" as an all purpose unit of measurement.  This conversation took place while we were seeing how far we could jump.
Gretchen: Daddy, how old are you?
Bryan, pointing to where his feet landed: This old.
Gretchen: No, how OLD are you?  Lay down.  (She then proceeded to draw a chalk outline around him.)

(Our friend) Josh, to Kaitlyn: Hi, honey!
Gretchen: No, we are not calling her honey.  We are calling her Kaitlyn.

Olivia: Why did we stop?
Me: We had to wait for another car to go through.
Olivia: No, that was a truck.
Me: I'm sorry, we had to wait for another truck to go through.
Olivia: This is a van.

Bryan: So, Johannah and I just decided we're going out to eat for dinner tonight.  This is, at minimum, a 3 hour ordeal, only half of which will be spent at the restaurant.  It will also cost us, at minimum, $50, and 60% of the food we buy not only won't get eaten, but will be complained about.  I will get to watch none of the baseball game, will have only one beer, and will probably spend more time with my kids in the bathroom than I will at the table.

Gretchen: I am running out of quietly.

Olivia, pointing at the guardrails on a bridge: Are those to keep us from falling?
Me: Yes.
Olivia: So we didn't have to start over to get there?
Me: ...Yes?

Gretchen:  I cannot find my undies when I am done going potty.
*Note: Her undies (which she had on when she entered the bathroom) were nowhere to be found.

Olivia: Grandma, I need to put my princess crown on to be a princess because I wasn't born a princess.  I was born naked.