Birthday wishes

Kate [to Andy]: Just because it's your birthday doesn't mean you get everything you want.

Dad [knowing that Andy's ambitions are quite modest]: Actually, Kate, we're going to do everything for Andy that we can.

Kate: You can't make a thunderstorm.

Kate up close

On Christmas Day, 2008.

Go ahead, humor me

Kate [after making dad a PB&J on wheat]: Was it good?

Dad: I can't even tell you how good.

Kate [pauses]: Please?

Healing Brownies

Dad [looking at Kate who is eagerly waiting for the noodles to cook]: If you'll cheer up, we'll have brownies later.

Kate [without hesitation]: I'm already cheered up, dad.

Pun

Andy [after placing a rubber cockroach on dad's arm]: I bug you.

Rapunzel

Dad [after asking who Kate's school friends are]: That sounds like a boy's name.

Kate: Yeah.

Dad: You know you're not allowed to kiss boys, right? If you do I'll lock you in your room.

Kate: Ok.

Dad: I'm serious.

Kate [glances at mom to see if it's really true; mom gives her a confirming look]: I am taking it seriously, dad.

It was a small bubble.

Kate: [upon seeing her school clothes laid out for the morning]: Mom, I'm sorry to burst your bubble, but you got two shirts for me.

Manners are a matter of context and understanding.

Dad: Would you like syrup on your french toast?

Kate: Always.

Dad: 'Always' doesn't sound like the word 'please.'

Kate: I took it as a 'please.'

Nibbling makes it go too quickly.

Andy [after dinner but before dessert]: I'm sucking my thumb I'm so hungry.

On some level it's all alchemy.

[Dad is in the middle of reading Snow White to Jane.]

Kate: I'm hungry. Can I have something to eat?

Dad: Can I make you a poisoned apple?

K: You're a musician, dad, not a scientist.

Cold Snap

Kate: My fingers are too freezing to snap.

Dad: If your fingers freeze and you try to snap do they break like ice?

K: No. They get too cold and the water makes it slippery.

Spanish has some flexibility

Kate [rebuffing Jane's insistence]: Four words. No. Way. Jo. Sé.

What's in a name?

Kate [while playing with the lego set Stacey sent us]: He's going to jail because he's a Robert.