Lauren: Five more minutes, then you'll need to quit playing with LEGOs and get dressed for bed.
Ezra: I'm not PLAYING, I'm BUILDING.

Ezra's making a list of things to do with his friend after school today. My favorites are "spy on Zach's mom" and "see what we both know and what we both do not know."

Me: Do you know your initials?
Ezra: E...G...L.
Me: The E and the L are right. What's your middle name?
Ezra: Granny Cope.

Ezra brought home a mysterious art project wrapped safely in many layers of paper and plastic bags. I unwrapped it when we got home and it was an awesome fired clay hand bent like a little dish and colored with blue and yellow glazes.
Me: "Ezra, this is beautiful! I love the colors you chose for your hand dish!"
Ezra: "I was absent. Brynn did it."

Today was Ezra's classmate's last day.
Me: Did you figure out where Josh is moving to?
Ezra: Yes. He's moving to Hisami.
Me: Hisami?
Ezra: Hisami.
Me: ...
Ezra: Or maybe it's Miami. He said Miami.

Bathtime.
Ezra: The water isn't high enough.
Me: It's fine. It'll get higher when you get in.
Ezra: What? Why?
Me: Because you guys will displace some of the water and the water level will be higher.
Ezra: Where did you learn that? Because wherever you learned it, that must be fiction.
Me: I learned it in school.
Ezra: Well I've been in school over 110 days and I've never heard that.

Ezra, showing me his LEGO village: That's the Jinese restaurant. That's why I put the "J" on it, for "Jinese."