
- "There it goes again — that funny feeling about bare behinds, syringes, needles, pain and tears. Talk about having deja vu all over again!" (Scott, 12/23/09)
- "Just great! Does anybody whip out a cell-phone camera when YOU go into the doctor's office and have to take off YOUR clothes? I didn't think so!" (Scott, 12/23/09)
- "No wonder I'm in the 55 percentile for height when they measure me here — I don't have any hips, legs or feet. I'm just half a boy!" (Scott, 12/23/09)

- "What gives, Mom? Dad keeps saying stuff about 'cheese' and 'pickles' and watching the 'birdie," but I don't see any food or feathered animals in here." (Scott, 12/23/09)

- "No, really — when I see ziti and steamed vegetables and fresh salad and more on everyone else's dinner plates, I can't help but get excited eating lukewarm, mushy cereal of some sort." (Scott, 12/23/09)
- "I'm calling it 'Carter's Law of Infant Physics: What goes down may very well come back up within the next hour.' " (Scott, 12/23/09(

- "OK, Mom, one more time — watch and learn. Whenever you're tired of talking with someone, all you do is close your eyes and pretend to fall asleep. Like this. Works every time. I suspect I'll be doing this a lot during next week's trip to Utah — especially with my uncles!" (Scott, 12/23/09)
- "Rats! I always blink when Dad takes my picture. Let's try again." (Scott, 12/23/09)

- "Hey, you've heard of a toothbrush. Well, this is a gum-brush, to clean those hard-to-reach, pre-teething places." (Scott, 12/23/09)
- "Doesn't this suggest that maybe I'm ready for some solid foods now?" (Scott, 12/23/09)

- "So, Mom, is today the day you promised I could back the car out of the garage all by myself?" (Scott, 12/19/09)

- "Welcome to my view of the world, with your chin an inch off the carpet." (Scott, 12/18/09)

- "Boy, Dad, you're right — pretending to be in a coma is a great way to get out of doing the dishes!" (Scott, 12/18/09)

- "Hmmmm. I have this funny premonition — something about a bare behind . . . and a nurse . . . and a needle . . . and a sharp pain." (Scott, 12/18/09)
- "I'll bet if I cry loud and long enough after my shots, Mom will feel bad enough to take me out to eat after the doctor's visit." (Scott, 12/18/09)

- "Then you close your eyes like this and really, really concentrate and -- presto! -- you can make the pacifier float in the air above your head!" (Scott, 12/10/09)

- "I've got this funny feeling that I'll be having traumatic nightmares about round, polka-dotted animals with long, orange legs." (Scott, 12/10/09)
- "I was hoping for either a pair of fuzzy dice or maybe a pine-tree-shaped air freshener." (Scott, 12/10/09)

- "Honest, Dad, that's what happened — Mom turned on this chick flick and then hid the remote." (Scott, 12/10/09)
- "What's the name of this horror show again, Dad — 'The 2009-10 New Jersey Nets?' " (Scott, 12/10/09)
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- "So, Mom, how do you think I'd look with a goatee?" (Scott, 12/10/09)

- "OK, Seneca, let's go over it one more time ... at the appointed time, I'll scream, I'll fuss, I'll have a tantrum and then a messy diaper. And while the adults are distracted, you go and peek into your Christmas presents and mine. Got it?" (Scott, 12/10/09)
- Listen, Seneca, I'll concede that you're bigger and tougher and that you can walk and talk. But tell me, who's the one who gets picked up and cuddled and cooed at all the time, huh?" (Scott, 12/10/09)

- "Hey, Mom, if you don't want me to drool in public, all you've got to do is ask." (Scott, 12/04/09)
- "When I said I wanted a dress up like Jesse James for Halloween, I was hoping for more authentic Western attire ... and a cowboy hat, too." (Scott, 12/04/09)

- "Mom, are you serious? Dad, help me out here ... get me out of this!" (Tyrel, 12/05/09)
- "Wearing the costume without being allowed to trick-or-treat is bad enough, but can't my parents turn me right-side-up to take the photo?" (Scott, 12/04/09)
- "I've heard I'll be meeting up tonight with another baby wearing a SCORPION costume!" (Scott, 12/04/09)
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- "Man, these photo shoots are getting old ..." (Tyrel, 12/05/09)
- "Hey, Mom, isn't this what the baby birds do in the National Geographic videos when they're hungry and want to be fed?" (Scott, 12/04/09)
- "Why learn to speak when you can ... YODEL !" (Scott, 12/04/09)

- "Dad, I know you're obsessed with the Nets, but matching slippers -- really?" (Tyrel, 12/05/09)
- "If my name's 'Carter,' shouldn't I be wearing a Magic jersey?" (Scott, 12/04/09)
- "Dad, did you say this was a throwback jersey ... or a throw-up one?" (Scott, 12/04/09)

- "Whatcha talkin' 'bout, Willis?" (Scott, 12/4/09)
- "Hey, wait a minute there, guys -- you're eating pizza and you haven't even offered me any yet?" (Scott, 12/4/09)