Not the response he was going for

Jeremiah to Colin:

I love you so much.

Colin to Jeremiah:

I love Mommy so much.

You too.

You love Mommy so much too.

Let's try that again...

Jeremiah to Colin:

I love you so much.

Colin to Jeremiah:

I love gardeners so much.

Wish I could say the same

We recently got a new au pair, and we needed her to be able to drive the kids around as soon as possible. We did some practice driving - which required having all of the kids in the car with us because Jeremiah was out of town - and it scared me to pieces. She had a habit of not stopping at stop signs and seemed extremely tentative and nervous. I have no idea what made fiona say this, but as we pulled into the driveway she said:

That wasn't as bad as I expected.