The philosopher is in

Here are some more words of wisdom from the ever-insightful Elle. (and some from Chris too!)
1. Chris was saying that cars should have two steering wheels and Elle piped up with "Then one person could steer and the other one could honk!"

2. When Chris and I were about to curl Elle's hair, she asked how we could both do it at the same time. I showed her the little barrel iron and told her it was Dad's. "Does he use it to curl HIS hair?" she asked.

3. Elle wasn't very excited to sleep on her curlers, so I told her what my mom always told me when I slept in sponge curlers--that SHE had to sleep in knotted rags to have her hair curly and it hurt, so I was lucky to have soft curlers.
The next day, Elle and I were playing her favorite game of role-reversal. She was the mom and she took me to the doctor to get a shot. I "cried" when I didn't get a lollipop, so Elle told me, "When I was a kid, they didn't even HAVE lollipops, so how lucky are YOU?!"

4. I asked Elle what she wanted for her birthday and she said, "A laptop"

5. I don't know about you, but when I was almost six, I did not ask like Elle did the other day, "Ooh! Is that brie? Can I have some?"

6. We were playing another time and Elle said, "We're teenagers. I'm ten and you're 8."

7. Chris and Elle were having fun taking apart my broken hair dryer, and they left it in the bathroom to look at later. Elle saw that one tooth from my claw clip was missing and she said, "Dad will probably want to take it apart now--he likes to take apart EVERYTHING that's broken!"