well, yes

Eric: "Here's a riddle: 'Brothers and sisters, I have none, / but this man's father is my father's son.' Who is this man?"

(Long pause.)

Evan: "HIM!"

dancing in her head

This morning when Sage woke up she told me she'd had the most wonderful dream about sugar-free gum.

what's on Evan's mind

you hear what you want to hear

Listening to the Gin Blossoms:

Sage: "Did he just sing 'When I was Cinderella'?"

Eric: "No, he sang 'On Allison Road.'"

Sage: "Oh. It really sounded like 'When I was Cinderella.'"

by the way, Evan is interested in cameras

I spent most of a recent parent-teacher conference discussing cameras and what to do about them. Evan's teacher finds them in the margins of spelling tests and math homework. Here's one in the hand of a simile skydiver:


And here's Evan in the shower this evening:

grounded

Evan: "Do you ever wish you were invisible? And could fly?"

Eric: "I sure do. I think invisibility and flight would be two of the coolest super-powers to have."

Evan: "Yeah, except then you'd feel obligated to go after bad guys all the time. If I were invisible and could fly, I'd be like, 'Hey, I'm only in third grade. Let the cops handle it.'"

the ultimate prank

I can say without risk of hyperbole that this is 10,000 times better than any other movie.