"But you weren't afraid of that several months ago...."

"Will you recognize grandma and grandpa?"

" No cookie monster on Daddy's diaper. I will look at Mommy's."

"A doggie is not a duck. Even if it quacks."

"You understand foreshadowing."

"Your ability to communicate is soon going to interfere with my ability to listen to my walkman."

"I fear the grape I just ate was warm because you had just been sucking on it."

"You like to pretend to pout, because then I pout, and then you smile."

"Mommy's at work, Daddy's at work, Pappa's at work, Nana's here with me."

"This is the first of many battles we will lose, if you do not count all the battles we have already lost."

"The teeter-totter is not made for adult-sized crotches."

"I remember playing with the bicycle and also frogs."

"Don't mind me, I'm just going to flop on top of you!"

"Everyone keeps assuring me that you aren't disruptive."

"Gravity makes me happy."

"Gravity makes me happy."

"When I say "I love you," you say, "Mommy's at work."

"This is a child who likes to be tickled."

"You sing exactly as if you were a person."

"If I peek when I run, I can see Mommy chasing me."

"Sometimes you want to be picked up and sometimes you don't."

"I can tell you what I can see in the dark."

"Today, without warning, I will fear dirt and love vegetables."

"Someday, when you are all grown up, I'm going to ask you a question and you will answer "yes".

"If you show him the VHS box set, you have to expect him to sleep with it."

"I know Daddy's not here even when he isn't."