May 19, 2013  |  6:22am
Beth: [age 4] "Let's play a game."
Me: "Okay. What do you want to play?"
Beth: "Let's play that aliens are attacking us. And we're tigers who have to fight them. And I'm your sidekick."
Me: "That sounds cool. Do we have names?"
Beth: "Yes! Your name is Azore."
Me: "Azore... that sounds cool. So what's your name?"
Beth: "Scratchypants."
Me: "Scratchypants? My sidekick's name is Scratchypants?"
Beth: "If this is going to be a problem, then maybe you should find a new sidekick."
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February 5, 2013  |  11:15am
"I wonder if anyone could go a whole day without farting. I don’t think so. They would need a superpower to do that, some kind of amazing superhuman control over their butt. I definitely couldn’t do it."

— Luke, age 8

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November 9, 2012  |  9:00am
"I didn’t like Spike Cannon anymore. So I put it back in my brain and said, ‘Brain, give me a new name!’ And out came Flower Power."

— Beth, age 4, explaining why she is now ‘Flower Power’ instead of ‘Spike Cannon’

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September 9, 2012  |  9:00am
"Don’t mess with me. I! AM! SPIKE! CANNON! Don’t even think about laughing. IT! IS! NOT! FUNNY!"

— Beth, age 4, sternly referring to this and this

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August 21, 2012  |  8:56am
Spike Cannon, Part 2
Beth: [age 4] "Remember, I'm Spike Cannon, the superhero!"
Mom: "What does Spike Cannon wear?"
Beth: "She has a cape that is brown and blue, and she has black hair."
Luke: [age 7] "Does she wear anything else besides a cape? Or is she a naked superhero?"
Beth: "She's not naked! But her cape is sparkly. She has a dress with all these fire decorations and power decorations on it. And a hat."
Mom: "What kind of hat?"
Beth: "It's like that hat you wear to the beach..."
Mom: "A sun hat?"
Beth: "Yes! A sun hat. But it has fire decorations and sparkles."
Luke: "Does she wear boots?"
Beth: "She doesn't wear boots. She wears a special kind of shoes that I made up. I can fly with them. They have fire wings this wide." [stretches hands out] "She also wears pants. And socks! I almost forgot socks."
Mom: "You can fly?!"
Beth: "Yes. I'll show you sometime. But not today."
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August 18, 2012  |  11:46am
This is apparently the secret message that Fairy Prince Edward hacked. (per Beth’s quote)

This is apparently the secret message that Fairy Prince Edward hacked. (per Beth’s quote)

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