Conversations with Minty and Turi...

On vertebrates in fiction... 

Me [with disdain]: This book is terrible.

Minty: Why?

Me: There's no plot tension or character development.  It's all so saccharine, stereotyped and cliche.  I'm all for stories about unicorns and fairies but these just don't have any backbone.

Minty: they have lots of backbones in them.  The bunnies have backbones, and the puppy and the unicorn has a backbone.

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Turi: Can I have a snack?

Me: Do you want some nuts… almonds, walnuts?

Turi: I want a different kind of nuts… I want doughnuts.