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July 14th, 2008

I was driving in the car last Thursday with both Siena and Elliot in their seats.

Siena: Daddy, do you know how to play the game Not a Carrot?
Matt: No, sweety, how do you?
Siena: It’s when you’re next to a boy who’s one or zero, and you put your finger up to his mouth and if he tries to bite it, you say, “That’s not a carrot.”
Matt: I hope he never gets the carrot.
Siena: No, the finger.
Matt: Of course.

Also, Siena was on fire this past Saturday afternoon.

We were flipping channels, watching different sports on tv. We saw Tiger Woods in an ad for golf.

Siena: Is Tiger Woods playing?
Matt: No. Tiger hurt his knee. He plays next year.
Siena: What happened to his knee?
Matt: In your body, besides bone, you have ligaments that stretch and bend and hold things together. Tiger hurt a ligament in his knee, had to have surgery and needs to rest until next year.
Siena: Daddy, Barbie’s grandma was playing and she broke her knee.
Matt: Oh, that’s too bad.
Siena: Yeah, it was.

These next few rolled off her tongue in about a 10-minute stretch.

Daddy, wouldn’t it be funny if I was older than you and you weren’t going to be older than me? Wouldn’t it be funny if there was a door on the way to upstairs and we had to open it? Barbie’s at school right now, and she has a teacher named Sam. Sam is a really good teacher. She, Barbie, always makes pretty pictures for me at school.

Daddy, one time I took Barbie to a game, a Puma game, and they only handed out balls that grownups and kids could have. Siena has been to a MN Lynx basketball game with her friend, Avery. Lynx and puma are related, right? Continuing:

Siena: Daddy, sometimes I have to not feel happy for Barbie?
Matt: Why?
Siena: Because when she was napping, I heard her saying and doing some bad things to her little sister. And I couldn’t even go in her room to do anything, because I didn’t have time. I only heard her little sister.

Siena was excited for her sleepover at Laura’s mom’s house Saturday night.
Siena: It’s been a long time since I’ve had a sleepover at grandma’s house.
Matt: I know. It’s been a few months.
Siena: Daddy, what if every these days, I have a sleepover at grandma’s?
Matt: These days?
Siena: Yep.
Matt: I’ll look at the calendar.

And finally…after she came out of the bathroom.
Siena: Daddy, did you know I had a snake poop this time?
Matt: What is that, Siena?
Siena: It’s when it is really long. It was this big…and this big…and this wide (as she makes her arms even wider and wider).
Matt: I think I hear Elliot awake.

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