Amanda: My fashion sense is a little off today. 🙂
Emily: A little? 🙂
Me: Today? 🙂
Amanda:

Amanda, with sudden curiosity:  “What is cilantro?”

Mama, hoping to be helpful: “It’s an herb.”

Emily, in a completely dead-pan tone, straight-faced: “Italian parsley, 4889.”

Talking to Emily about biology lab, and she tells me: “… and sometimes [the instructor] looks at our answers and laughs, because we were just completely grasping at straws, and that wasn’t even a straw– that was a pickle– but we put it in there anyway, because we had no idea what we were doing.”

But, Emily also scored a 101/100 on her 2nd biology exam, so I’m not going to sweat the pickles.