I Love You Mommy

Sera: "Mom?"
Rachel: "Yes, dear?"
Sera: "I love you."
Rachel: "Aww. That's nice. Thank-you, sweetie. You should tell that to Daddy, too."
Sera: "Daddy?"
Me (anticipating a lovely father/daughter moment): "Yes, dear?"
Sera: "I love mommy."
[... sound of my ego deflating slightly...]

No farmers, please

(at the beach I sometimes wear a floppy straw hat that came free with a case of beer. Sera doesn't like it.)
Me: "You don't like my hat, do you?"
Sera: "No. You look like a farmer."
Me: "What's wrong with looking like a farmer?"
Sera: "Are you a farmer?"
Me: "No."
Sera: "I don't want you to be a farmer."
Me: "Why not?"
Sera: "I don't want to talk about that right now."

Sneaky Bagpipes

(walking back to the cottage from the beach, I could hear somebody playing the bagpipes in the distance)
Me: "Sera. Do you hear that?"
Sera: "What?"
Me: "Bagpipes! Man, I love the bagpipes."
Sera: "Me too. They're so sneaky."

Capital C

(Sera's sitting on the toilet.)
Me: "Are you done going pee?"
Sera: "I just had to go poo, too."
(after the requisite bowl check)
Me: "Wow, that's a big one."
Sera: "Let me see . . . It looks like a capital C."

Too Tired

Sera: "I'm too tired to go to bed."

The Perfect Segue

(Sera was watching me bathe Ceilidh this morning and pointed to the plastic strainer covering the bath drain.)
Sera: "Why do you use that thing?"
Me: "It keeps Ceilidh's fur from clogging the drain."
Sera: "Clog? I clogged the toilet once because I had a big, big, BIG poop."

Darth Vader's Light Saber

(Sera's cousin, Aleksander, was over at the cottage, proudly wielding his toy blue light saber)
Me: "Wow, Aleksander, that's a pretty cool light saber. Is that the same as Luke Skywalker's?"
Aleksander: "No, not Luke's. This is Darth Vader's."
Sera: "No! Darth Vader's is red!"
(My daughter is SO cool!!)