Favorite Moments

Clara (while squatting next to Daddy's boots, which she had just helped him polish. Said in a loving tone): Shiny, shiny... so shiny...... Hello, Shiny!

In the car tonight on the way home from a friend's graduation:
Clara: I see Sadie Mae! (said in a high voice - what we usually say when we get home) ... Where ARE you Sadie Mae? (holding her blankie up over her face) Hiding!
... Mommy, like some cheese.
Me: I don't have any cheese, Clara, you ate it all.
Clara: Mommy, like some cheese.
Me: You ate all the cheese, Clara, I don't have any.
Clara: Please, Mommy, like some cheese!
Me: Clara, the cheese is all gone. I don't have any more cheese.
(a pause)
Clara: Mommy, like some... cornbread! (Don't know where she got this from, we haven't had cornbread in quite awhile!)
Me (trying to hold back laughter): I don't have any cornbread, sweetie. All the food is at home.
Clara: Mama get some OATmeal ready!
... later, while talking about going to her friends' house tomorrow:
Clara: Bankie come us.
Me: Yes, blankie can come with us.
Clara: Pay ou-side fends!
Me: Yes! You can play outside with your friends.
Clara: Bankie pay ou-side us.
Me: No, blankies are just for inside.
Luke: Blankies are for catching sleep with... (in an undertone) kind of like for catching bats.
Clara: Catch bats! Catch bats bankie! Daddy catch bats bankie!
Luke: Maybe tomorrow, honey. Maybe Daddy will rope a bat tomorrow. Would you like that?
Clara: Uh huh! Daddy rope bat to-mah-woah.

When she sees anything she wants: "CA-ra (how she says her name) may have some!"