Hannah has a nightly reading assignment, for which we have to initial that she has completed it. I hadn't signed her form in a couple of weeks, so I asked her if she wanted me to sign it.

"I got a new folder, and if we don't start getting it signed, it's going to get ugly," she said.

Famous names

Last night, we were watching TV and saw a commercial for a new movie, "Elizabethtown."

"Man, Elizabeth is SO LUCKY," Hope groaned.

"Why?" I asked.

"Well, when we were driving through that one town, there was a restaurant called Elizabeth Ann's, and now she gets a movie named after her, too! No fair!" she said.

While making Scotcheroos today, I was preparing the peanut butter/corn syrup/sugar mixture. Hope asked, "Is that the topping?"

"No, it's not," I replied.

"Is it the bottoming, then?" she asked.

Mom: I'm not sure what to cook for dinner.

Elizabeth: We could cook Noah! He would be juicy!

Traveling down a winding, bumpy, hilly road in rural Nebraska, Hannah piped up from the back seat:

"I'm getting noxious."