He Needs His Mama (and other Helen quotes)

Excuse the location here (bathroom at the Whites' cabin), but I wanted to share this video of Helen using one of her favorite phrases: "He needs his mama." Very often these days, she talks about how much people need their mamas: crying kids in stores, characters in books, giant beetles crawling through the grass in the back yard. You name it, they're looking for their mamas because once they find them, the mamas will "pick 'em up... and hold 'em tight."

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She's become quite a talker lately and I've started to write down some of her funnier quotes. Driving in the car the other day:

HELEN: Going Daddy's house.
ME: Where does Daddy live?
HELEN: Minneapolis
ME: Where do you live?
HELEN: Minnesota
ME: Where do I live?
HELEN: In the kitchen!

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This next quote is a little difficult to explain. Helen likes to pretend to be other people - either characters from books (Ladybug Girl, Sal from Blueberries for Sal, Trixie from Knuffle Bunny) or other kids she meets (usually big kids like Sully, Alexis, Mallory, etc.) Also, Eric introduced her to Harry Potter last month by showing her a few minutes of one of the movies. Now she runs around with her arms behind her (as an imaginary cape) and says, "whoa, Harry Potter." You'd kind of have to see it to appreciate how funny it is - I'll try to capture a video sometime. She often turns into Harry Potter when she's doing something especially adventurous like going down her little slide head first on her tummy. She sometimes needs the extra courage of wizardry, I guess. If she wants to be in character, she'll come up to us and say, "Hi, Mallory" or "Hi, Trixie" and we have to start calling her that name. The other day, she was trying to put on some shoes and she hollered, "Mama! Help Sully! He's fust-ated!"

And so the kid quotes begin...