Can I Quote You?

Me to Jack, when he was about 3-1/2: Jack, we're going to go to a baseball game! This will be your first Dodger Dog!

Jack: (Gets excited, but stops and thinks for a second...) Can I get a Dodger Cat, too?

Kids actually do say the darnedest things. Parents, however, have a hard time remembering some of those darned things. Kate, who's now 8, had a million of them – and right at this moment I can't recall a single one to recount here. There's hope for me and others with this cute new release from Chronicle Books: My Quotable Kid (hardcover, $14.95). This important little journal takes up just a small amount of shelf space while still allowing you to capture plenty of those cute quips for all of eternity – or at least until that child's first prom, when you're going to want to pull it out and relive them in front of his date.

The book offers plenty of space on each page, which also has an area for the "who, when, age and where" categories.

The trick for me now will just be remembering that I have the book.