Michael: Mama, a twinkle was in my eye, so it made it harder for me to see.

Nikki: I was thinking, when I’m a parent, I would like to fly to America to pick up snow.

[while the kids were looking at the globe...]
Nikki: Mama, what is this country?
Mama: Antarctica. [Ben informs me it's not technically a country.]
Michael: ANTS!!!
[Nikki, Michael and Vi start crawling all over the house pretending to be giant ants...]

Nikki: Something a little surprising and a little bit nice… Vi has started sleeping next to my bed [at naptime]! She got her blanket and curled up on the floor next to my bed. When I saw that, I started up my smile.

Michael[demonstrating with two wind-up toys Robin sent us]: There goes the space shovel! So fast! Then the crab tried to catch him, but… he couldn’t! The space shovel had zoomed away.

Vi: 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 12… BLAST OFF!!