Gondola

Zach: I know a new word.

Betsy: What?

Zach: GONDOLA. (smiles.)

Betsy: What's a gondola?

Zach: It's for when you're in love.

Betsy: Do you have to be in love?

Zach: Yes.

Betsy: What does it mean to be in love?

Zach: It's like when there's two mommies. When you love two girls.

Betsy: Can you just love one girl?

Zach: Well, you can't be in love like that.

Betsy: Are you in love with any girls?

Zach: Well, boys don't usually like being in love. Maybe you could go in a gondola someday.

Betsy: Who would I go with?

Zach: Well, maybe we can get another mommy someday. Like Timmy's mommy. I like gondolas.

Storm

Grandpa: What did you think of the thunder and lightning last night?

Zach: I turned it off.

Brown Nosing

Mommy, you and Katie are the best beautiful guys in the house.

Inclusive

Zach: Excuse me!

Betsy and Charlie, who are sitting on the couch: Yes Zach.

Zach: Mommy and Daddy... You both look pretty! (Pause.) Even you, Daddy.

Playing God

Zach put together an elaborate pretend scenario (involving black bean burritos and a huge ice storm), as he and I each assumed a character living in Richard Scarry's "Busy Town". (For the record, Zach can't stand black beans, and I love them):

Betsy: Thanks for the black bean burritos. Do you want one of them?

Zach: Ok.

Betsy: Do you like black beans?

Zach: Well, not usually, but...I can try.

Betsy: Yum, they're delicious. What do you think?

Zach: A little good. But not as good as cookies. (Pause) I'm going to be God now. But not the God you go to when you die. A different God.

Betsy: What kind of God?

Zach: One who can eat too many cookies and not get a stomach ache.

Dessert : ( -

(Posted by a chagrined Charlie)

After a lot of conflict regarding dinner time manners, Zach decides that even he has had enough...

Zach: I'm tired from all this. I want my desert now.