Mercy, as she's dressed up in her princess dress (backwards): "I'm getting married."
Me: "Really? Who are you marrying?"
Mercy: "Judah, because he's wearing handsome clothes."
Okay, well, we are West Virginians.
*****
Me: "Mercy, you look disgruntled."
Mercy, testily: " NO. That means grumpy and I'm not grumpy."
Mercy, testily: " NO. That means grumpy and I'm not grumpy."
*****
Mercy, as she was watching me struggle to get a typically uncooperative Judah dressed: "Is he being a 'temptible boy?"
Me: "Yes, I guess he is being contemptible."
Note to self: be very careful what you say in front of the girl.


