It always comes back to one thing...

[While I was rushing off to write down yet another funny saying:]
Laura: "From now on I'm not going to say funny things. I'm just going to thump you."

In case I might forget...

Laura: "Remind me to whack you later."

Because one threat wasn't enough

[Laura hates being tickled, but that doesn't stop her from tickling me. One time, after returning her tickles with some of my own:]
Laura: "Don't make me break your arm right off. And then beat you with it!"

I need to stay up for how long?!

[After cajoling me out of bed in the morning:]
Laura: "Once you get out of bed, you can't go back. For 24 hours."

Like Mother, Like Daughter

[After Jack observed that 3-year old Brianna is a lot like her mother: cute, stubborn, and likes to make up all the rules.]
Jack: "It will be fun to watch you two deal with each other."
Laura: "Brianna, go follow Dad. And give him a hard time."

A quick comeback

Jack (pleased that he could use one of Laura's favorite sayings against her): "I take back all those bad things I was saying about you."
Laura (without missing a beat): "I wouldn't just yet."

"Cute" goes a long way

Jack: "It's a good thing you're cute. Cause you get away with a lot!"
Laura: "It's a good thing you're a pushover."

Pillow talk

[Lying in bed one night, just before going to sleep...]
Laura: "Did you close the gate at the top of the stairs?"
Jack: "No, but Brianna never gets up in the middle of the night."
[Pause]
Jack: "Did you want me to close it?"
Laura: "No, that's okay...If I can't fall asleep and it's 2am then I'll wake you up and you can close it then."

Fans!

[After some people left comments on this web page:]
Jack: "See, you have fans!"
Laura: "I don't want fans. I want to live in ambiguity."

Laura

Here's Laura!

Quick, fall asleep!

[On the night before the first day of preschool when we realized we would have to get up early the next morning:]
Jack: "If we fall asleep right now, we'll get almost 8 hours of sleep."
Laura: "I'm almost happy."

Dictator-by-marriage

[After giving in, once again, to Laura's demands:]
Jack: "This is a marriage, right? Not a dictatorship."
Laura: "You're half right. This is a marriage...."

Warming up

[On a cold evening, upstairs]
Laura: "It's freezing up here. I thought heat rised....raised....went up!"

I knew that a house was a time-sink, but...

Laura: "Are we ever going to stop remodeling?"
Jack: "I think we will always be working on this house."
Laura: "But not like this, where we are working 24/8!"

Searching

Laura: "This is like searching for hay in a haystack."
[said while looking for a certain bill in an unorganized pile of old bills.]