On the way back from the mailbox, I dropped a scrap of paper, and Ezra picked it up.
Me: Thanks for picking that up for me.
Ezra: Yeah. I did it 'cause I don't want us to be bugs.
Me:...what?
Ezra: To be litterbugs.

Ezra and I were almost done with an alphabet project, and he wanted to watch TV.
Me: Do you mind if I finish up this project myself?
Ezra: Yeah, I think you can do it 'cause you're a big girl.

After I named some of Jude's favorite words (no, wawa, ball, no, block, no, nuss!), I asked Ezra what some of his favorite words were.
Ezra: I like medium words, like 'thank you,' 'please,' 'hungry,' 'sleepy,' and 'Can I watch a TV show while Jude takes a nap?'

I made Ezra a spend/save/give bank, and tried to explain it to him.
Me:You can give money to the church, orto buy food for people who need it, or...
Ezra: I want to give money to the church that look like a skyscraper.
Me: Baby, any church that looks like a skyscraper doesn't need your money.
Ezra: No, that church skyscraper that we spend the night in and go to the 'quarium.
Me: That was a hotel.

Ezra: Mommy, when Jude gets bigger, is the next baby going to be a boy or a girl?

Ezra: Mommy, I was born first, right? I was born first, then Jude.
Mommy: That's right.
Ezra: But where did you come from?
Mommy: I grew in Nana's belly, and then I was born.
Ezra: But where did the first Mommy come from? She didn't come from someone's belly.

Ezra: Mommy, I was born first, right? I was born first, then Jude.
Mommy: That's right.
Ezra: But where did you come from?
Mommy: I grew in Nana's belly, and then I was born.
Ezra: But where did the first Mommy come from? She didn't come from someone's belly.

Ezra: Mommy, I made you a puppet! This is his eyes, and and this is his nose, and this is his mouth, and this is the back of his eyes, and you put your hand through his brain.

Ezra, Lauren, and I settled down to watch Toy Story 2 last night and when Lauren offered Ezra some popcorn, he said, "Ooh, did you get that from the hospital?" (where she sometimes brings home food from the doctors' lounge). It was his second dig on her cooking skills that day, although I don't think either of them was intentional.

Me: You haven't been potty in a long time. Do you have to pee?
Ezra: Um, are you talking to me or yourself?

Me: ...and that's how you swaddle babies.
Ezra (alarmed): Why people swallow babies??

Ezra, making his stuffed animals talk to each other: I don't like when you do things I don't like.

Ezra's new year's resolutions:
1) "To try to dance better. Because now when I dance, it's kind of boring."
2) "To get tattoos on."
(...like the temporary robot tattoos Santa brought him.)