Me: Someday, AE, you have to be the best student in your class. And then you have to do that all the way until 12th grade. And then maybe you’ll get to go to Stanford.
AE: Does this mean I have to eat my 小虾?

AE (to NÉ): You’re so cute! I wish I were cute like you.

Me: ok, AE, it’s time for us to purge the room of mosquitos.
AE: yay! I’ll get the spanking stick!
Me (after she gets it and whaps it around): AE, I don’t think the spanking stick is effective in getting rid of mosquitos. Why don’t you go put it back?
AE: well, I’ll keep it here. Just in case I do something bad. You might still need it.

Slo: Hootenanny!
AE: Don’t say that!
Slo: Hootenanny! What does that mean anyway?
AE: That’s not nice! Stop saying that!
Slo: Hootenanny?
Me: I think she only heard “Annie”
Slo: oh.
AE: Hooten-daddy! Hooten-mommy!

AE: God, I pray that my eyes will get better so I can watch lots of TV and play lots of iPhone and iPad.