On Wednesday, I was working on our clothes dryer – again – because, well, it likes to eat little baby-clothing snaps for lunch.  Anyway, Maddie was watching me work on it and she saw that I was wearing my wrist brace – which I wear when typing to keep from further damaging my wrists - and she told me that, “[I] must be a really old man if my wrist hurts.“  Nice.

 On a side note, for those of you that may consider working on your clothes dryer at home; be sure to UNPLUG the dryer before sticking your hands in it because the electrical-jolt you will get when you touch a bare wire connector is pretty strong.  Unfortunately, I learned this from personal experience.  I guess that’s what happens when someone gets so comfortable with taking apart their dryer that they forget such basic safety precautions.

Last night, while watching Animal Planet, Maddie asked Lynn and I what kind of whale we were seeing on the television.  I told her it was a Sperm Whale.  She looked up at Lynn, reached out her hand that was holding her rubber toy lizard and said, “This is a sperm lizard you know.”

I have saved these two quotes from Maddie because I thought they were funny; now I finally have a place to keep them for all to enjoy!

 12-29-2007 – After starting a Garth Brooks son on the i-Pod, Maddie asked me, “Is this another farmer song?”  (I told her earlier that day that Garth Brooks was a cowboy-song singer)

 12-17-2007 – After calling the driver in front of me a “moron” (surprise) and then having to explain to Maddie that calling someone a “moron” is not nice, she says, “Well, Daddy, Momma calls them ‘womans.’”