(Presented just as they were gifted to us)

May 13, 2017 [on cat food]
S: Next time we should give them gravy.
R: Is that from where ghosts live?
M+S: Huh?
R: Because ghosts live at the graveyard!

May 26, 2017
Mommy, I’m not so much into Star Wars anymore. I’m into the real planets, like NASA.

May 26, 2017
R: Here’s an experiment you can do with your fingers! If this finger is the earth and this one is the sun, then they’d can go wheee eee eee eee until this one gets dizzy! And then they can switch!
M: But wait a minute, were going around the sun, right?
R: right!
M: so why aren’t we dizzy?!
R: Welllll, it’s because the gravity holds us on the earth so we don’t feel it.
M: …. Oh! Okay!

Jun 1, 2017
The moon gets two weeks of day and two weeks of night.
[It took us about five minutes to think through why that is exactly correct.]

Jun 16, 2017
Teddy’s watching “Bigbash – Yankees versus Oreos”. With Oreos Badhitter playing.

Jun 24, 2017 [Playing with Star Wars, after I had to coax him into not being afraid of the storm troopers and especially Kylo Ren]
I was born in the 1970s. Yup, nineteen hundred one. And Qui-Gon was born in 1980. You can stop this if you want. But I am so scared. But you have to, you have no other choice until you feel good.

Jun 28, 2017 [On eating still warm homemade apple sauce with yogurt]
It’s like eating apple sauce with with a breeze, because the apple sauce is hot and the yogurt is cool.

Jul 20, 2017
S: Is there a job (at school) you don’t like?
R: Ummm Library Helper. Because we don’t really need to arrange the books much, so it’s not a job you really DO.

Jul 29, 2017
Uncle Owen and Aunt Beru watched the birth of the two babies.
[A minute later]
The two Sith Lords watched the birth of the Death Star…. side by side.

Aug 3, 2017
Over the course of the day, Teddy and I will send messages back and forth.

Aug 23, 2017 [About Peg + Cat]
R: Why is Peg always doing math with Cat?
M: I guess she really likes math!
R: Maybe she should grow up to be a scientist?

Aug 24, 2017 [The next day, unprompted]
R: Daddy, do you think Peg should grow up to be a scientist?
M: If she wants to be a scientist, I think she should.
R: There are a billion reasons for her to grow up to be a scientist.

Sep 8, 2017
“I want to save the oatmeal!”
“No, you already have!”
“That was from the spoon.”

Nov 8, 2017
Mooses can count to 12! [Right-hand] 1, 2, [left-hand] 3, 4, [right side of head] 5, 6, 7, 8, [left side of head] 9, 10, 11, 12!

Nov 8, 2017 [later, passing a diner]
Look! An egg in toast in the shape of the United States of America! The United States of Eggmerica!!

Nov 17, 2017
Niko: Rowan, want me to tell you a joke?
R: Okay!
N: Why did the pink panda go to the doctor’s office?
R: Um…. Because it was hurt?
N: No, because it was pink! That’s the joke, it’s from Pinkalicious.
R: Niko, want me to tell you a joke?
N: Okay!
R: Knock knock.
N: Who’s there?
R: Who.
N: Who who?
R: Who!
N: … Who who who?
R: That’s the joke!

Dec 16, 2017
S: [looking at drawing] “Rebellion Goal”? What’s the Rebellion’s goal?
R: That’s the Rebellion’s goal, and this is the Imperial goal. And the Empire has zero points, and the Rebellion has one.
M: The Rebellion has won already?
R: Noooo?
M: But you said “the Rebellion has won”.
R: No, not “w-o-n” like won the game, but “o-n-e”.
M: Oh. Okay. That makes more sense.
M+S: [impressed glance]

Jan 10, 2018
R: What’s this white cracker?
S: That’s called a saltine.
R: Oh! I know saltines! They’re made of salt, and they cost in the teens! Like 13 dollars and 60 cents.
S: That’s an expensive cracker!

Jan 12, 2018
The end of ‘like’ is the beginning of ‘love’.

Jan 13, 2018
I *don’t* spy with my little eye, but I know it’s there with my little brain….

Feb 10, 2018
I’ll get it! The *stool* is my *tool*!

Feb 21, 2018
It’s not an “oh NO”, it’s an “oKAY”. Different “o”-words.

Feb 22, 2018 [narrating review-style while playing with that micro machines Star Destroyer]
Outside, there’s a sticker. Inside, there’s a sticker. Open it up? Even more stickers!
This is where the TIE Fighter goes. At my school, when I had a class project, I brought in that micro machine.
Next, I’ll show the MOC Star Destroyer I’ve been working on. See you next time!
[beat]
Welcome back! Here I have the MOC Star Destroyer I mentioned last time. You can see it’s not finished, but here we have the sides and they connect here.
Here are the engines, and this engine can spin! It doesn’t really do anything, but I kind of like it.

Mar 20, 2018 [Shyly puts pepper on an apple. Mitch tries it too.]
M: No, I don’t like pepper apple.
R: Daddy, you should try a salt apple! Or an Imperial Heavy A-*SALT* Walker!
*Groans*

Apr 7, 2018 [Listing what we brought to baseball practice]
And we also had hug. Everyone has hug with them all the time, inside their hearts.
Kisses also live inside your heart, and then they move through your blood and into your mouth and float out through the air.

Here’s to another year. We can’t wait to see what you say next!