Darn

Brian: "Mommy, I'm so darn mad!"
Me: "Why?"
Brian: "Because we're not making cookies."

Let it be known there was no talk of making cookies before this conversation... :)

On Meleece's 25th Birthday...

Head hunched over the cake, fork in hand, in a fat kid's voice...
"No one's coming to your birthday party."

Brian telling Nana his family's nicknames . . .

Brian: "Chris is Critter. Max is Chunks . . ."
Nana: "Does your mom have a nickname?"
Brian: "No, but she's pretty."
Nana: "Oh."
Brian: "Are you pretty, Nana?"
Nana: "Well, uh, what do you think?"
Brian: ". . . Your earrings are pretty."

After the Christmas Party

Me: "Jesse's wife, Amber, she is so cute and skinny! She could be in commercials."
Jake: ". . . And that Jesse, what a hunk!"