"Now moving on to the next thing!"

Beatrice:

"Scientists better watch Dinosaur Train so they don't need to figure it out" (where "it" is science, or at least paleontology).

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Beatrice has been praying to Jesus asking him for the power to enter movies and books so that she can help the characters solve their problems. 

For example, "I would tell Elsa [from Frozen] not to be so worried.  She has a lot of responsibility so she is worried about her sister but also her land, so I would tell her [shouting] ELSA DON'T BE SO WORRIED!"

Also, Beatrice said she wished she could go back in time with a screwdriver to save Jesus (from the cross, presumably).  She added, "They gave him [Jesus] a time-out even though he wasn't bad."

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"My brain helps me remember all the good things I do. That's why my brain is my best friend."

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I asked B which of her school friends she liked and wanted to invite to her birthday party and she listed all of them.  When I pressed her on it, she said, "Even the kids I don't like, I still want them to have fun."

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I asked Arthur a trivia question the answer to which was "blue whale" and Beatrice said helpfully, "I'll give you a hint - it's blue and shaped like a whale."

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"This [toy] pony is a community helper. He decides who should go to jail. What is that called? Oh, a judge."

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"If you get me enough clothing I can go to Greenland. I want to go to Greenland and hunt a polar bear, but I will not eat its liver because that would be too much vitamin A and E." (This, of course, is a fact Dev taught her.)

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But best of all, the other day I told Beatrice to amuse herself while Arthur and William were napping and I was busy baking a cake.  So she spent two-and-a-half hours lecturing the dogs, who were napping in the living room, with a long running monologue on every possible topic, including puddles, space, dinosaurs, evolution, the "silent e," and the evils of littering, prefacing every new topic by saying, "Now moving on to the next thing!"

As part of this lecture, she explained Mother's Day to them: "It's her day!  If she wants to watch a TV show, she can watch a TV show!  If she wants to read a book, you have to let her read a book in peace! If she wants to take a nap, you have to let her take a nap in peace!"

And strangely, she told them not to take her stuffed animals away: "It really upsets me! I'm just a child! I don't have to give them up until I'm a grown-up. I'm almost five but I still like my stuffed animals, they're really important to me."

Arthur:

Arthur convinced Beatrice he had seen Star Wars and told her the whole [fake] plot.  "It involves a lot of play fighting!" he assured her, and "people fall down." (Play fighting isn't allowed at school - or at home - so it has the allure of the forbidden.)

Later Dev let them watch Star Wars for real and now Arthur's new goal is to be Princess Leia, whom he identifies as a "princess astronaut."

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Arthur, playing Frozen, assigned roles to everyone (including Shack, who was the reindeer). Then, to me, "Mommy, you're Hans's horse. Horses don't talk."

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Arthur kept asking Dev to let him drink Coke at a restaurant.  He must have asked ten times.  Finally Dev agreed and got Beatrice and Arthur each a small cup of Coke.

Arthur: Is this Coke?
Summer: Yes.
Arthur (scandalized): You shouldn't give us Coke! Coke is bad for children! It is dangerous!

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After falling off a ladder: "I'm Anna*! I'm okay!"

* From Frozen, of course.