Election Day

Mommy, can I come with you to America?

-- Daisy, to Jane, who had been talking about voting.

We explained that we don't have to leave San Francisco to vote.

The kid who wouldn't laugh at anything

Who had the best Halloween costume at your school today?
Buster: There's this guy, and you can't make him laugh at anything. He had a ninja costume, and that was the best one.
He never laughs at anything?
Well, you can't make him laugh.
I'll be I could make him laugh.
No.
I'll bet I could.
How would you?
I'd tell him a joke.
What joke would you tell?
Knock knock.
Who's there?
Butt.
Butt who?
Buttsy McButtbutt.

Don't know if it would work on that kid, but Buster and Daisy have been laughing for two days, and Dad just stopped.

Buster's muscles

[Making muscle gesture]
Look at my strong heart.
Yeah!
It looks almost like a real man's.
Well you are a real man.
Nah.
You're a young man, and that's the first step.
Well, I am able to have a conversation with kids when they're not doing the right thing. And I use a quiet voice, and they're kind of long.

He means with his kids, Tiger Ethan the tiger and Lilka the rabbit.

Daisy checks Mom's health

Four of the 2,976,483,769,085,321 questions she asked yesterday.

Are you not feeling good?
I'm feeling better than I was yesterday but I'm still a little sick.
Why?
Well, I have some germs that got inside my body and they're still there
Why did they get there?
I don't know, they just got in there somehow.
What are their names?

Song by Daisy

Oh the houses, oh the houses
Oh the sun in my eyes
Oh the sun on the houses
Oh rain on the houses
At the park! At the park!
You can go on the big-kid swings on Friday
At the park

It feels like St. Louis!

-- Buster, upon going outside to check this crazy-hot San Francisco weather.

"Smells like St. Louis too."