Here are some questions I asked the girls tonight.

What do you want to be when you grow up?

A: A gymnast and a ballerina.

M: 150,000 ballerinas and one doctor.

What is your favorite book?

A: What Are You So Grumpy About? and Clifford

M: What Are You So Grumpy About? and Egg to Butterfly

How does this computer work?

A: It breaks.

M: When you press a button.

What's the best thing about winter?

A: Being outside roasting marshmallows and eating them outside on a bench. (Note: she's never done that before.)

M: Making a snowman and catching snow on your tongue, and eating ice cream out of snow with sugar and milk, and the funnest thing of all is making snow angels, and going sledding and skiiing and ice skating.

Do you need to take a bath every day?

A: Yes, because if you don't then you'll be dirty and if you do, you'll be clean.

M: Yes, to make you all nice and clean and you can make games and do things that's in the bath, like we pretended our toenails were clean and shiny.

What does Allie think about?

A: Us.

M: Us, and you being a singer in a really good theater.

Any favorite TV shows these days?

A: Charlie and Lola and Backyardigans and Little Einsteins and all the others except Doodlebops. Doodlebops I don't like.

M: Charlie and Lola, Doodlebops, Wiggles and Little Einsteins.

Should we send a rocket back to the moon?

A: What moon? A rocket? Send a rocket to go to the moon? OK…. But why should a rocket go to the moon with people inside?

M: Yes, because it will be too big to fit in our house.

What city would you like to visit?

A: A different place. Paris. Do you need shots to go there? No jungles. And Boston.

M: Baltimore. London. Paris. And San Francisco. And Boston.

Is Barack Obama doing a good job?

A: Yes. I don't know what he's done. He got into the White House.

M: Yes. Like, he's saved stuff, and he keeps stuff that are good and doesn't let strangers take it. He makes the earth all nice and clean and healthy – but NOT George Bush.

Last question. If you could eat only one thing for lunch every day for a whole year, what would it be?

A: Strawberries.

M: Pasta, rice and fruit.