Sophia: "I'm excited for EOGs this year" (EOG = End of Grade exams, which start in 3rd grade)
Rachel: "Why?"
Sophia: "Because I get to eat free breakfast."
- August 20, 2018
Rachel (at the table during breakfast): "I can't believe you're going to be six."
Sophia: "It's real, mom. Get used to it."
- March 15, 2016
Sophia's latest excuse about eating: " Mommy, I can't eat anymore because my neck hurts."
Rachel: "How does your neck hurt."
Sophia: "Because I ate a big chunk. I need to take a break"
- February 22, 2016
Sophia to Amy: "You need to worry about eating." Amy made a comment about what was on the TV during dinner (the table was in view of the TV).
- January 30, 2016
"Daddy, you're a handful" Why: "because you eat a lot."
- November 29, 2015
Daniel: I don't want you coming in and out of your room tonight
Sophia: Ok, Mr Zero Tolerance.
- August 26, 2015
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Old Sophia-isms (You Might Have Read These Before)
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Sophia wanted a piece of candy after dinner (from her Halloween stash), but we don’t allow lollipops because she uses them as a stalling technique when it’s time to get ready for bed. So, she looked through the bucket and said “all I have left are sucky things.”
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February 22, 2015
Sophia told Rachel: “You're the meanest mommy I've ever had.” Rachel said “That's not very nice to say to someone. What if I said you were a very bad girl. Would that hurt your feelings?” and Sophia responded: “That doesn't bother me very much.”
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February 16, 2015
Daniel was in Washington, DC for a conference and Rachel told Sophia he was coming home today. Sophia’s response: “Yay! I like daddy more.”
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January 14, 2015
“The golden rule is if someone does something to you, you do it back.”
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January 11, 2015
An NFL playoff game was on TV and Sophia asked Daniel: “Which team do we like?” Daniel said that either team was fine. Sophia responded: “I like the white and black team, they have pretty colors.” She chose the Baltimore Ravens (over the New England Patriots) because she liked the white and black jerseys with purple trim.
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January 10, 2015
Sophia asked Rachel: "Mommy, how did the first people get on the planet?"
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November 29, 2014
Sophia told Daniel: “You know everything. You know about cars and guns and volcanos and science experiments.”
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November 21, 2014
Sophia regularly asks to wrestle with Daniel and as they started, Sophia said "I'm delicate." After a brief discussion, Sophia decided that perhaps she wasn't delicate, but she enjoyed using the new word she learned a couple of days prior.
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November 16, 2014
"Pop is my favorite pop. Pop has a silly mustache and tickles me."
- October 7, 2014
When noticing the colors of the ketchup, mustard, and relish, Sophia said “those are the same colors that are on traffic signals.”
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May 18, 2014
Although we've never heard her say this, Sophia remarked that “when I see boys, I say ‘hello dude.’”
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May 17, 2014
Sophia said “I love daddy best. Ben loves mommy best.”
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May 5, 2014
Sophia saw a glass bottle in a parking lot and said “somebody left the drink there. That’s not good. Someone’s car is going to trip over it and their tire is going to be flat like Pop and Grandma’s.” She was with Pop and Grandma once when they had a nail in their tire and it was slowly deflating.
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May 2, 2014
When asked about her favorite color, Sophia responded: “all the colors in the rainbow.”
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April 25, 2014
Sophia saw some trash on the side of the road and said: “Someone put a cup on the grass. That’s not taking care of the Earth. We talked about taking care of the Earth at school. It’s not good if we don’t take care of the Earth.”
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April 24, 2014
At a Mexican restaurant, Sophia was eating some chips and salsa while we were ordering drinks and responded to our request about a drink with: “I need water, right away.”
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March 29, 2014
Sophia will regularly recall memories and specific details that we assumed she hadn’t remembered. Sophia vividly and correctly described the cakes from her last birthday (March 2013) and Ben’s (September 2013): “On my three year old birthday at Pop and Grandma’s house, I had Ariel and Flounder on my cake. Ben had a wolfpack cupcake on his birthday. He couldn't sing, so I sang a video for him.” Here’s the video she mentioned: http://youtu.be/Y8XsySjMIf8
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February 15, 2014
Sophia was playing with Ben when he spit up. She told Rachel “ewww. I didn’t want to see that.”
- January 28, 2014
Sophia said to Rachel “I’m mad and angry.” Rachel asked her why and Sophia said: “I don’t know, I’ll have to think.”
- January 19, 2014
Sophia and her friends at school play bad guys/good guys a lot. At bedtime, Sophia told Daniel: “There’s no such thing as a bad guy. They’re just pretending to be bad. There’s nothing to be scared of, right?”
- January 8, 2014
Sophia regularly (at least three times per day) asks for music to be turned on so she can dance. While at Pop and Grandma’s house, Pop was watching the news, but Sophia wanted it to be turned off and music turned on, so she said “Pop, come on, be done with this.”
- December 31, 2013
Sophia was talking to Daniel about going to see Ben when he was born. She said “when I was at the hospital, I was a little bit little, but now I’m taller and really a big sister.”
- December 2, 2013
On a rainy drive home from school, Sophia said "it looks like they're fighting." Daniel asked who she was talking about and she said: "the windshield wipers!"
- November 1, 2013
Sophia decided to wear pajamas to school and one of her teachers casually asked her if she was wearing pajamas. She said: "You can call it what you wish. All that matters is that I like it."
- November 1, 2013
On the morning of Halloween, Sophia woke up and immediately came to our room to declare: “I’m not sleepy anymore, I’m ready to go trick or treat.”
-October 31, 2013 (5:23 AM)
At her first movie in a movie theater (“Room on the Broom” at IMAX Raleigh), Sophia saw the dragon and said “We’ve never seen a dragon before, have we?”
-October 27, 2013
After talking about guns and the need to pay attention around them, we asked Sophia why guns are dangerous, to which she replied: “they can poke you in the eye.” Earlier, she said that they could “cut you in half.”
-October 26, 2013
When getting toys out in the truck, Sophia picked up her American flag and told Daniel: “13 stripes for 13 original colonies.”
-October 6, 2013
Rachel told Sophia she was going to be a big sister today and Sophia responded “I’m already a big sister.”
-September 29, 2013
On their morning walk, Daniel told Sophia to look up into the sky for the moon (it was just a half moon). She quickly said “it’s just half.”
-September 28, 2013
Anytime we’re in the woods, Sophia is looking around and telling us “leaves of 3, let them be.”
-September 15, 2013
While in the pool in an area where Sophia could barely touch the bottom, she asked Daniel: “Can you take some water out so I don’t have to stand on my tippy toes?”
- September 6, 2013
While cuddling before bed, Sophia was patting Daniel on the back and said "you're a sweet daddy."
- August 25, 2013
When eating (and pretending she has a baby in her belly), Sophia will occasionally say about her baby: “she’s going to have food all of her face.”
- July 26, 2013
Daniel told Rachel: “I need to go to L-O-W-E-S”, Sophia responded “I want to go to Lowes!” She knows the spelling of Lowes, Ice Cream, Pool, and Snack.
- July 21, 2013
Rocco wasn't wearing his collar and was ready to go out for walk, so Sophia asked Pop: “Can you put Rocco’s colish on?” We’re not sure if she purposely combined collar and leash, but it was funny.
- June 20, 2013
Sophia had a conversation with Daniel (that was slightly one-sided), while inspecting her pony: “I’m the doctor. Did she have a vaccine or something? Oh yeah, she had a vaccine last year.”
- June 18, 2013
Sophia’s school invited parents to share their careers with the students and after many parents had given their talks, they were asked what they wanted to be (some answers were doctor; big brother; fireman; police officer; parrot, teacher, and a designer; police officer and baseball player; a bird and a designer; a police officer; a mom; a president and myself; a train conductor; and a monster) . Sophia said I want to be a …. “ladybug.”
- June 15, 2013
When it was raining Rachel told Sophia that she has two wipers on the front of her car and one on the back, Sophia responded: “That makes 3!”
- June 7, 2013
Sophia to Rachel: “Shoo that baby out of that stomach.”
- June 7, 2013
Sophia made a comment about Ursula on The Little Mermaid: "She’s mean like Snow White’s witch."
- May 23, 2013
For Sophia’s annual school evaluation, they asked her to name her best quality (even after multiple attempts to ask for another answer, she stuck with this one): "because I want to."
- May 21, 2013
At Sophia’s 3 year check-up doctor’s appointment, she had to have her blood drawn out of her finger for some blood work ("just like Pop," in her words). She was very brave through the process, didn’t cry, and was pretty interested to watch the whole process and she that her blood was red. During dinner that evening, she remarked that "if you take your skin off, your whole body will be red."
- April 10, 2013
Sophia rides in the backseat on the right side of Daniel’s truck. While he was making a left turn across traffic, Sophia saw a car approaching and said "hurry, hurry, hurry."
- April 6, 2013
Daniel was peeling a clementine, but accidentally asked Sophia if she wanted a piece of tangerine. She replied "it’s not a trampoline. It’s a valentine." We’re not sure if she was trying to be funny or serious.
- April 3, 2013
Sophia and Daniel go for multiple walks each day on the weekends. When Poopa and Grandma Cricket were visiting, Daniel and Sophia went for a walk and Sophia asked “Why didn’t anybody want to walk with us?” Daniel responded that he didn’t know and Sophia came up with an answer “I think they wanted to look at the iPad.”
- March 23, 2013
Sophia woke up at about 4 AM, came into our bedroom, and dramatically told us "my big blanket is ruined!" The blanket had fallen off of her and she wanted it back on top of her.
- March 17, 2013
Grandma Jan asked Sophia when Rachel was going to join us and Sophia replied, "My mommy’s not coming because her tummy hurts and she’s having a uterus." Rachel was about two months pregnant at that point.
- March 2, 2013
In Sophia’s class, they’re learning about politics and the presidents. Each student was asked to complete this sentence: "If I were president, I would….." For her response, Sophia said "I would get some snow."
- February 25, 2013
Amy was wearing a red bandana on her head and Sophia said "you have a curtain on your head."
- March 12, 2013
Sophia loves to dance, so we have a radio in her room that we regularly listen to and dance to. The classical station was on and she started jumping around and then looked at Daniel and said "This isn’t jumping music. Find some jumping music, please." She was asking for some pop music.
- February 4, 2013
Sophia has developed a love for the movie Snow White. At the point where the 7 dwarfs are running back home with the animals (and riding on some of the animals) because Snow White is in danger, Sophia asked "Why are the little Santas riding the reindeer?"
- February 3, 2013
Sophia likes to watch videos on youtube and will sometimes select videos in another language, so we'll tell her that the video isn't in English and ask her if she'd like to watch another video (sometimes she does and sometimes she doesn't). She saw a video clip of Jim Tom (famous Graham County moonshiner) talking and said "that's not English."
- January 19, 2013
Sophia was playing with "her" cellphone (an old cellphone that we keep charged, but isn’t activated) and Daniel asked who she was calling. Sophia said: "no one, I’m just texting."
- November 14, 2012
Daniel’s first and only attempt at putting a ponytail in Sophia’s hair was not a pleasant experience for Sophia, so when Rachel was putting a ponytail in for her, Sophia said to Rachel, "Daddy isn’t very good at putting in a pony because he’s not gentle."
- November 7, 2012
Pop, grandma, and Sophia were eating burger king chicken nuggets. Grandma said to Pop, "yum! these are real chicken!" Sophia replied "they are not real."
- October 14, 2012
