Quotes

Isaiah, while scrambling barefoot up the slide: "This is hard for me because I am feeling my age.  I'm not young anymore."

A few minutes later: "Mama, I touched a little orange caterpillar!  It did not do me harm."

After kicking his little sister in a moment of pre-bedtime frenzy: "I thought it would be funny, but it wasn't."

Bernadette's first clearly distinguishable full sentence, uttered Friday morning: "I want some butter!"  It was followed up throughout the weekend by variations, including, "I want a cookie!" and "I want a balloon!"