Michael, holding a paper back mouse with whiskers on one side:
“I’m naming my mouse ABCMouse.com!”
Me: “I’m definitely raising 21st century children.”
Julianna, holding a baby doll:
“Mom, my baby name, is, Dzustin…Bieber!”
Me: speechless.
Nicholas, at prayer time following an ice storm:
“I pray for good roads and a lot of snow.”
Me: “You do realize those two prayers are completely at odds with each other.”
Alex: “No they aren’t! I don’t want ice, I just want a lot of…well…I don’t care if it’s on the SIDEWALKS, I just want it not on the STREET!”
Christian: “Alex wants twenty inches of snow to fall only on the yard.”
Our Advent season car soundtrack:
Michael: “BLAH BLAH BLAH BLEE BLEE BLEE!”
Nicholas and Julianna: “You’re a grand old flag! If you like to talk to tomatoes….Veggie ta-a-ales, veggie ta-a-ales, there’s never ever ever ever (ever ever…ever…ever) been a show like…”
Alex: “NO, NOT AGAIN!
Nicholas and Julianna: “Fine. O SAY CAN YOU SEE?”
Alex: “Aaagh!”
Me: “Alex, you should start singing the theme to the Flash. You’ve got to fight back!”
Alex: “But they LIKE the theme to the flash.”
Me: “You’re thinking about this all wrong. You’re not trying to find something they don’t like. You’re trying to find something YOU DO. Like…like this.”
Me:
In the car:
Dead silence.
Ha-ha! I won!
Kathleen M. Basi 
Kids should hear opera early and often.
Ha! Alex said, “Wow, that was actually pretty good.” 🙂