Kids Say the Darndest Things

two highlights from thanksgiving day...
in second place, sarah...my eldest neice. we are playing our traditional thanksgiving day game of trivial pursuit. sarah insisted on reading all the questions, which was quite cute. but then came one she could answer.

q: what ballet term literally means arab.
beth: sarah, what word from ballet sounds like arab.
sarah: nutcracker??
family: laughs
beth: no, sarah. sounds like a-r-a-b.
sarah: arabesque??
family: cheers.

and, then the grand prize...awarded to my youngest niece, rebbeca.

throughout the evening, rebbeca asked every one of the twenty guests or so for a quarter. no one had one to offer her. but she kept asking. finally, my father...the generous individual that he is said to her, i dont have a quarter, but here's a dollar. rebbeca took it eagerly and went on her way.

about an hour later, she came out to ask her dad to come back to the room where she and sarah had been playing. in the room, there was a gumball machine left over from the family's days in retail. the gumballs were probably twenty years old. rebbeca took her father over to the machine.

she had torn the dollar into several pieces, and she had taken one of the pieces into the gumball machine's slots. she told her father that she thought that would help her get a piece of gum.

we all had a good laugh, and i gave rebbeca a piece of trident...which i did have, despite not having a quarter.