4. Out of the Mouths of Babes

• We spent the night in a Best Western hotel on the way to Washington for Thanksgiving. When we had breakfast in the hotel the next morning, Maggie tasted some 2% milk--we usually just do skim--Maggie exclaimed, "It tastes so white!"
• During the same breakfast mentioned above, Maggie requested poison berry syrup for her waffle. "No Maggie, it's boysenberry, not poison berry."
• On a related note, Jenny and I had to laugh when Evelyn requested buckleberry ice cream at the local sweets shop in Snoqualmie. "No, Evy, it's huckleberry, not buckleberry."
• While staying at Grandma and Grandpa Smith's house the week of Thanksgiving, our kids watched far more movies than they ought to have done. But whatever. Evelyn especially enjoyed watching the American classic film "The Lizard of Oz."
• Jared can say a few select words and phrases in various languages and, as a result, is convinced that he is fluent in all of them: Spanish, English, Portuguese, German, Snakelish, and Snakese. Presumably those last two languages are spoken by snakes, including his stuffed animals, who are named Slither (rather appropriately named) and Bob (rather randomly named). 
• Maggie, not to be outdone by Jared's linguistic abilities, informed us that she can speak Spanish, Portuguese, and Nice Witch Language. I'm not sure what Nice Witch Language sounds like, but that is the language commonly spoken by... nice witches. By the way, she was "born a nice witch."