The Adventures of Lily and Logan: August 2009

Monday, August 31, 2009

the trouble with spaghetti

Lily: "No matter how hard I try to be ladylike, there's just no use with this stuff."

Logan: "But that's what makes it so fun."

Friday, August 28, 2009

drink faces

Lily : "Smile."

Lily: "Sip."

Lily: "Silly face!"

Logan: "She's just as easily amused as Mom."

Thursday, August 27, 2009

a novel idea

Lily: "Bye bye board books. Hello historical intrigue."

chocolate massacre

Logan: "The pudding didn't stand a chance."

Monday, August 24, 2009

jamming

Logan: "Well if you're not gonna pay attention, I'll be lead singer."

Logan: "I'm not sure I understand this game. But I sure love it."

Lily: "Aunt Melissa and I have your back on drums Lo."

drum solo

Friday, August 21, 2009

cooling off

Tuesday, August 18, 2009

party time: homeward bound

party time: food

Logan: "Gotta wait until just the right moment when no one is looking..."

"...before digging into this second slice beside me."

Lily: "The pizza was good. But the cake... oh the cake!"

Monday, August 17, 2009

party time: activities

Lily: "Just hanging..."

Logan: "Woah. I just found heaven. And it's in the office of The Little Gym."

Logan: "Totally rocking the balance beam."

Lily: "I continue to be amazed at how easily it is to entertain Mama with peek-a-boo."

Logan: "In the bouncer race, there can only be one winner. Must. Beat. Girl."

Lily: "I don't know whether I want to smile or growl. So I'll do both."

Logan: "Balls, bouncers and balloons... can't we just live here?"

Wednesday, August 12, 2009

fair play

Tuesday, August 11, 2009

what to do when your flight is delayed

play with toys

escape from parents making them chase you

window shop for ceramic chickens with drink in hand

request a second soy chai latte

tire out dad while amusing (annoying?) fellow travelers

Monday, August 10, 2009

two for the road

yogurt love

Logan: "Lily, Cousin Mia and I are all enjoying some yogurt. Want some?"

Logan: "Here I'm done. You can finish it."

Lily: "Best. Lunch. Ever."

hosed

Friday, August 7, 2009

play date, Texas style

an afternoon visit with Catherine: former Brooklyn BFF and current Dallas darling

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Real Quotes

Lily: "When we're outside the wind will get in my hair. And my hair will get in my eyes. And I won't see. So I'll lose you forever........ So.... I need a barrette."

Logan: "Can we eat lobsters one day? They look fun. But they'll chomp chomp me with their claws."

Lily: "I'm all tangled up... like a crazy person!"

Lily: "If I was a tree I'd be one with pink flowers!"

Logan: (looking perplexed) "But then you couldn't talk!"

Lily: "Oh. Well, I'd be a talking tree!"

Logan: "Why is that one fly giving that other fly a piggy back ride?"

Mommy: "Ummm....."

Logan: "Is it because it's fun?"

Mommy: "Yes! That's exactly why. It's fun."

Logan: "Can I play fairies with you Lily?"

Lily: "If you want to play with me, you have to listen to MY rules!"

Logan: "Ummm.... I'm going to play super heroes over here by myself."

Lily: "Babies are magical!"

Mom: "Why?"

Lily: "Because you have to wait and wait for them to come out!"

Logan: (exiting the Lincoln tunnel into the city)"This isn't New York City. Is this a different New York City? These are weird looking buildings? Where are the good looking buildings?"

Lily: "My sister loves my hop hop dance."

(Her imaginary sister Emily.)

Mom: "So what's a hip hop dance?"

Lily: "I don't know, but she loves it."

Logan: "I'm a superhero. And you're a superhero cat!"

Lily: "I'm a princess cat!"

Logan: "You're a princess FIGHTING cat! And that's so cool. Right Lily"

Lily: "Uh huh."

Logan: "Now let's go fight those bad cats under the curtains with our laser spoons."

Logan: "Say ahhh. Now I can put FIRE and BLOOD in your mouth!!"

Mommy: "What??"

Logan: "I'm the best kind of doctor. Now you disappeared!"

Lily: "My stroller is running out of power. I need to stop and get gas."

Logan: "I'm getting all the bad guys! All the bad chickens and all the bad crabs."

Lily: "I love everything that's so beautiful... rainbows and grocery stores and sparkly trees!"

Logan: "Where should I put my sunglasses? You know the best places Lily."

Lily (playing with a baby doll): "I better need to change my baby again. She's having so many poops!"

Lily (talking about her Hello Kitty lip balm she's had in the package since June): "I want to open it after we go to Texas. But not on Tuesday."

Logan (playing superheroes using his superhero voice): "My secret lair is in... my belly button!"

Logan (in the bath): "My tushy has a hole in it!"

Lily: "You know who has a hook? Captain Hook! He's a very angry person!"

Lily to Mommy: "You did a good job helping us... make rice christmas treats."

Logan: "I need you to buy me a papaya okay? And a new broom. I need to eat and sweep."

Lily: "Take everything off that [table]. I need to clean it with this towel. This is not a joke."

Logan to Lily: "I have an idea... why don't I make you happy by playing my guitar."

Lily: "Logan's impossible!"

Logan: "I'm hungry for school."

Lily: "I hate to say it Mommy, but I have to go now. See you later and don't be afraid. I will come back for you."

Logan: "Mommy, you're the best washer ever! Because you always wash my stuff!"

Lily: "My bunny's name is Cat. My cat's name is Bunny!"

Logan: "My monkey's name is Silly Billy. My dinosaur is named Helper. And my banana name is Silly Hair Banana!!"

Lily to Daddy: "I want an iPad... yesterday."

Logan to Mommy: "Your armpits smell like roses. That's cool."

Lily: "I love Bailey too. Though... he's a pooper. He's stinky. He poops all the times!"

Lily: "We're having hot coffee milk. It's called hot coffee milk. Say it with me Mama... Cof-f-ee milk. Good. Now please pour some more for me."

Logan: "Lily, do you want to go on an adventure with me?"

Lily: "Uh huh."

Logan: "We can shoot bad guys, and ride in a truck and watch the cars... like the red ones and the blue ones. Won't it be so exciting Lily?"

Lily: "Well.... maybe."

Lily: "Crabs. I'm scared of the strawberry crabs!"

Logan: "You scared of the crabs?"

Lily: "Yes!!"

Logan: "That's ok, I'll protect you with my super super power. I guess."

Lily: (To Logan) "Uh oh. You just drank the magic!"

Lily: "My eyeeee. It huurrrts!"

Mommy: "Why does it hurt?"

Lily: "Cause I'm poking it."

Logan: "The carrot is gonna get sad in the trash because carrots don't like smelly trash."

Logan: "Daddy's window is closed because we don't want the scary spiders to climb on the trees."

Lily: "I'm not watching you guys. I'm doing my job. My job is cleaning... all the animals."

This one is for Grandma...

Lily: "These are our muscles (points to biceps) and these are our stinky pits! (points to armpits)"

Logan: (in the airport men's room) "Lots of things in the bathroom are automagic!"

Logan: "Look at my big nose!"

Lily: "If you say so."

Logan: "Daddy's train has got dirt on it... disgusting!"

Lily: "If you want cupcakes you have to give me money... from your piggy bank."

Logan: "Ok, but if I give you all my money then you have all the money."

Lily: "Yep."

Logan: "How 'bout I give you this yellow frog instead?"

Lily: "Why you getting regular? I want strawberry gas."

Mommy: "They don't make strawberry gas."

Lily: "It would taste better."

Mommy: "But we don't drink gas."

Lily: "Well... the car does."

Lily (to Logan): "I just patted your head 'cause you're cute."

Lily: "I love babies. Babies are my favorite. You have to be nice to babies. Don't scare them."

Logan: "Yeah when we to Texas we can't scare babies."

Lily: "Because babies are sweet."

Lily: "I don't want to talk to Logan anymore because I talk to Logan a lot!... Logan talks SO much!"

Logan: "Oh Lily but I want to talk to you some more."

Lily: "Ok. One talking!"

Logan: "Um. Um. Um, eyebrows are like worms. On my head."

Lily: "Ok. No more talking now. You can talk to me again tomorrow."

Logan: "If I don't brush my teeth my teeth are going to DROP... on the carpet!"

Ants on the sidewalk:

Logan: "There are so many of them!"

Lily: "Ew!"

Logan: "Look at that one!"

Lily: "Oh gross!"

Logan: "I want to touch one!"

Lily: "Oh no, there's one trying to get on my shoe!"

Logan: "They're so cool!!"

Lily: "I just don't like the ants!"

Logan: "Horses are horses and people are farmers."

Lily: "When I'm bigger I can have flowers on my phone."

Logan (to Mommy): "When you exercise outside and you run do you chase yourself?"

Lily: "I want to do ballet in a class and I want to do ballet at home. I want to do ballet all the time. Because I love it."

Logan: "Is Daddy naked at the gym?"

Mommy: "No silly."

Logan: "Oh. He put on a shirt?"

Mommy: "Yes."

Logan: "Good."

Lily: "I want a baby sister. And until... until I get one I'm pretending Logan's a girl."

Mommy: "Sorry hon but I'm all done having babies."

Lily: "You won't have any more babies in your belly?"

Mommy: "Nope."

Lily: "Oh. Maybe I'll get a baby sister in my belly."

Logan: "I love you Lily. You're my best friend!"

Lily: (Looking at Mommy's plate) "An artichoke is a vegetable that looks like an ice cream."

Mommy: "What's your raccoon's name?"

Logan: "Uh... C... L... R"

Mommy: "As in clear?"

Logan: "No! C. L. R."

Mommy: "Does it stand for crazy little raccoon?"

Logan: "No, he's just C.L.R."

Mommy: "Ok."

Lily: "I only like warm weather clouds. Because the cold clouds aren't nice. Not one bit!"

Logan: "That car has a mustache!"

(pointing to the front of this car: http://www.bmwusa.com/standard/content/vehicles/2012/1/default.aspx)

Logan: (five minutes later): "Mustaches are scary. Especially on elephants."

Lily: "That's a moon rock. It's so pretty and white. The moon must be broken."

Logan: "I'm gonna be a space pirate!"

Lily: "But I'm scared of the space pirate."

Logan: "Oh. Me toooo."

Logan: "I made something for you. It's a scary ghost washing machine! And there's something inside of there."

Mommy: "Is it scary dirty laundry?"

Logan: (laughs) "You're so silly Mommy. No. It's the big bad wolf."

Lily: "Ms. Daddy! Ms. Daddy!"

Daddy: "I'm not 'Ms.' Daddy. I'm just Daddy."

Lily: "Just Daddy! Just Daddy!"

Logan: "I really do not like that little black bug. It wants to take my underwear!"

Lily: "I like home. It's my favorite place to live."

Logan: "That rock is staring at me!"

Lily: "I have a bag with books and I'm going to work. I'm taking the bus to work in New York City!"

Logan: "Can I come too?"

Lily: "No. You work in the kitchen."

Logan: "Can I be a chef?"

Lily: "Um... yeah. Ok. Make me chocolate pudding."