Josie Says

 

// Josie, completely deadpan, after sniffing a can of Sierra Mist left on the counter: 

Smells like your airport wine.

(at this point we had not been in an airport in over a year and I don't drink wine at the airport ever or at home more than once a month??)

// Peering out of the car window at the bagel place where they planned to stop for breakfast, she said with absolute world-weariness and exasperation: Oh GOD, there's a line.

// Josie's friend has the curliest, cutest hair that Josie said she straightened a while ago. When her name came up recently I asked Josie about her hair: is it still straight? -- No, she replied. She curlied it back.

// Josie to Luke: Some of your songs make me sad. They might be happy for you but they're sad for me.

// The tooth fairy brought Josie a Harry Potter fan magazine which unfortunately contained a bunch of spoilers for girls that have only finished two of the books.  Luke introduced them to the term "spoiler". Later in the day she was telling me about a library book they read at school and told me, regarding the plot, "DO NOT SPOIL THE BEANS!" and "DO NOT SPIT OUT THE BEANS."

// Josie appeared at 4:45 am at my bedside.

Josie: Mommy?

Me: yes?

Josie: when a cow has a dead calf, does it still do milk?

Me: yes.

Josie: ok

[They've learned a lot from watching Dr. Pol on NatGeo].

// Josie, opening the sliding door to better hear an owl hooting and also hearing the buzz of insects: [pausing] Can you hear the nightness? 

// Regarding her Brazilian classmate: She speaks Pork-a-jeez.

// Both girls have learned about figurative language and we went through a few week period in which no conversation wasn't punctuated with the exclamation: THAT'S AN IDIOM! when they heard, well, an idiom.