Real-Time Quotes from Summer of 2025

 

Because children are weird and funny and wonderful, and I want to remember these. 

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Ransom, trying to get Luci to eat a piece of candy he does not want:

If you eat it, it will go down your body and down into your toes, and then when you go up on the roof a rainbow will come out of your toes!

Piper: There are probably trail cameras in the woods.

Ransom: No, there are probably turkeys with cameras on their heads taking pictures of us.

Overheard as Luci and Ransom played the game Neverending Questions, the mystery subject being in the category ANIMAL.

Luci: Does it fly?

Ransom: Yes! It flies at night-time and in the snow.

Luci, guessing all the birds: Is it an owl? (no) Is it a bat? (no) (Then, when she got desperate) Is it a penguin? (no)

She finally gave up and Ransom told her the answer, saying "It's Santa Claus and the reindeer!"

Aidan, looking thoughtfully at the van's ignition, "Heeey, can you start this with your finger?"

When he saw my amused expression, he realized how weird that would be, chuckled, and pantomimed starting the van with his finger.