Five Minutes' Worth of Kid Quotes

Five minutes ago, overseeing Roo washing her hands, I admonished her, "Honey you don't need to use so much soap! That's wasting."

She looked up at me with stern brow furrowed. "Kids gotta do what they need to do!" she informed me emphatically.

Now I'm sitting at the dining room table as O. makes imaginary scenarios on the living room couch with his thirty-six (but who's counting?) silly bandz, and he calls in to me "Mom, come admire what I did!"

It's their world. We just live in it.