Ghost

We're watching Ghost with Patrick Swayze and Demi Moore.

Eva: Why do you and Dad have wet eyes?

Playing Horace

Shooting basketballs with Tom and Grandma.

Dad: Okay Tom, you're beating Grandma. You have H O R and have almost spelled horse.
Tom: Yeah, now I only need three more baskets to get A C E.
Dad: You think the game is called Horace? It's horse, like the animal.

The lyin' king

Grandma is reading Eva a story.

Grandma: And then Simba convinced Nay-la to gobwirh him to the dark place.
Eva: Uh, it's pronounced Nah-la.

Doing the washing machine

Watching Top Gun with the kids.  It's the Tom Cruise, Kelly McGillis love scene.

Eva: Ewwww, Maverick put his tongue in her mouth.
Tom: Yeah, he's doing the washing machine with his tongue (he then make a crude noise).

Dogs don't drive

Eva: Look Dad, the neighbour has a lot of cars.  There are four of them.
Dad: Yes Eva. Everyone in that house has their own car.
Eva: You mean, their dog drives a car?
Dad: No Eva, there are four PEOPLE in that house.  Dogs don't drive cars.

Colour of Jesus

<p dir=ltr>Eva: Jesus was born in Bethlehem wasn't he dad? <br>
Dad: Yes, do you know where that is? In Israel, in the Middle East. <br>
Tom: If Jesus is from the Middle East, why is he white? <br>
Dad: Who says he was white? <br>
Tom: All the pictures show he's white. <br>
Dad: Pictures painted by white Europeans hundreds of years ago obviously portrayed him white. <br>
Eva: Yeah Tom, he was actually peachy black. </p>

Garth Vader.

Playing Star Wars Angry Birds.

Eva: Look Dad, Garth Vader.

Black lung

*Mom has made a model of a lung with a plastic bottle and some balloons*

Tom: Wow mom, you’re an artist.
Eva: Your lungs are pink.  But when you smoke, they go black.

Breakfast jokes

*Over breakfast, Tom is reading the jokes on the cereal boxes.   Eva is trying, but finding it easier to invent jokes*

Eva: Tom, why do hedgehogs drink water?
Tom: Eat.
Eva: Tom, why do hedgehogs eat eggs?
Tom: Eva, eat your breakfast!

Sleep or play?

Eva: I told my friend that you said I can't sleep over.
Mom: Well, you're too young to have a sleepover Eva.
Eva: She said I could come over for other things like to play. Either for six minutes, or an hour.

Memory staff

Eva: At school, if you're rude, the teacher says "Are you talking to memory staff"?
Mom: Do you mean "member of staff"?
Eva: Yeah.

Save your voice

*Rushing out the door to swimming lessons. *

Dad: Why aren't the bathing suits in this bag.
Eva: We're wearing them under our clothes.
Dad: No one checked with me.
Eva: We thought it was a good idea so you didn't need to ask us. This way it saves your voice so you don't have to shout at us.

Stay close to your siblits

Mom: Kids, do you know what siblings are?
Tom: They're clones!
Mom: No, they're brother and sister like you and Eva.
Eva: Mom, who's your siblit?

Ballerina dog walking

*While walking the dog*

Eva: Dad, when the dog walks behind you and you have to twist around with the leash you look like a ballerina.

Holiday camp. Now with fewer volcanoes

Mom: Maybe we'll go on a holiday to Pontins.
Eva: What's that?
Mom: It's like a Butlins UK Holiday camp.
Tom: I hope there are no volcanoes there.

Food bag

Eva: When you eat, your food goes into a bag in your lungs.
Mom: No Eva, it goes into a different bag called a stomach.

Star named Gary

Mom: Kids, when it's nice outside we'll sit under the stars and look for constellations. They all have names you know.
Tom: Like Gary and Nathan?
Mom: More like Orion.

Three mosquitoes

*Putting on tonight's film*

Tom: We're watching The Three Mosquitoes?
Dad: Not mosquitoes Tom, musketeers. The Three Musketeers.

Have a break, have a Kit-Kat

Tom: why is dad taking so long in the shop?
Mom: he is probably buying his favourite treats.
Tom: What, like Kit-Kats?
Mom: Tom, your Dad rarely buys or eats Kit-Kats.

Life is not fair

After discussing school activities with Tom

Eva: Tom gets to do that? That's not fair!
Tom: Eva, life is not fair.