Carrots are not a favorite thing.

DADDY: What's your favorite thing that happened today?

ADDIE: My favorite thing? [She taps her temple, silently thinking for a good twenty seconds.]

D: Okay, how about--

A: My favorite thing was very fun today, do you all want to hear it?  Okay then.  Let's hear it.  It is playing on the playground after school.  Well, I did play catch with one of the teachers.  When he catches us, when he gets us, we have to try to get him.  Not anyone else.  When he gets one of the people on my team, that means that were all taggers.  Once, know what?  He tagged everyone and everyone came up to him and he tagged like this [makes a frantic tagging motion], even me!

Daddy, I love you from the moon to my heart a hundred times.  I'm going to go watch TV in the living room now, can I? [Exit, stage living room.]

MAEVE: Can we talk about me now?

D: We can talk about you so long as you eat your carrots while we do.

M [Eating, with a very sour face.  She pulls a little, porcelain unicorn and a dolphin up onto the table.]: Nana got me a unicorn and a dolphin from Alabama.  This dolphin is like almost as big as my thumb.  And then the unicorn is almost as big as my thumb too.  Actually, I think it is as big as my thumb.  The dolphin has paper on its tail and it has a blue beak and it has a tiny tiny hole on her neck and she's white from the ankle of her tail on the bottom up to her beak and she has black eyes.  She has a little white on her beak. [Maeve's eating carrots with about a gallon of ranch on each one.  Here she actually wretches for a second and, of course, she blames the carrot, not the dressing.]

And they're really special glass.  And this unicorn is white and it has a white mane. It has four gold hooves.  One is tilted.  She has a blue necklace with a golden jewel in the middle. And her horn is gold.  Her eyes are black. And that's probably it.  Bye!