It’s fun having a 9 year old…

Maya: I like looking at pictures.
Mama: Pictures of family?
Maya: All pictures.
Mama: Pictures of flowers?
Maya: ALL PICTURES.
Mama: Pictures of buttholes?
Maya: That’s it! You’re Going Down!
(commence the tickle fight…)

Then again…she has always been fun. When she was about 5, and I was tickling her, she came out with this:
“Get your hands off of me, you Damn Dirty Ape!”
(that stopped the tickling…I was laughing too hard.)