Kids say the cutest things...

My sons are grown now, but I could write a book about the cute things they said when they were little.

I'll tell one of my favorites to get the ball rolling.:

Son was about three, and spent the weekend at a family campground with my sister snd her family. We picked him up on the last day and he took me for a walk to show me around. (My sister was called Bunny.)

"This is where Aunt Bunny pushed me on the swing." "This is where Aunt Bunny bought me an ice cream cone." etc, etc.....

We came to a pond with some swans floating leisurely. "And I feeded those things." I said "It's 'fed' honey." To which he replied..."And I feeded those feds."

Thirty years later, whenever we see swans, someone always asks if they can "feed the feds"!

Your turn.

I once was keeping my niece when she was about 3 years old. I was a beautiful day so I took her to a park just a block from my house. She wanted to swing, but the swing she went to was broken. I explained to her that she couldn't use that one because it was broken, but she could use the one next to it. She calmly walked to to good one, looked at the broken one and stated that "Daddy will fix it". Well, I had her again the following week, and again, we went to the park. The broken swing had been repaired. She went straight to it, climbed on, and said "Oh, good, Daddy fixed it for me". What could I say, except yes?! I did tell my brother about it in case she said anything. He told me later that she had, indeed, thanked him for fixing her swing. (He was so glad I had warned him, as he would have been clueless had I not mentioned it.)

I often wonder how many things parents "do" without ever knowing.

How sweet! Your brother must have been beaming!

The same son of mine came home from kindergarden one day and said they have a new nurse in school. She is a 'gentle-high-dentist'.

I used to keep my young grandson while his mother worked and one morning ,when she dropped him off, he came in with a baggie and said, " I brought you some cookies grandmom, but I knew you didn't like icing, so I licked it all off for you."
Sure enough, the oreos were in the bag, minus the icing.

He was just helping you watch your diet! Don't cha love 'em!

My son is now 35. When he was about 6 or 7 we were taking a cross country car trip in our old van. He was (and still is !) very curious and quite the talker. Needless to say he questioned EVERYTHING about life on that trip. Two questions he asked still stand out in my mind after all these years. We still laugh about them.
1. Do angels have bones?
2. Who INVENTED dogs?

My kids were about 4 and 6, now 21 and 23. It was Christmas morning, very early. I always hid the gifts up in the attic. Josh, the older of the two, says to Cristine. "I got bubble bathe and it's still frozen. Can you imagine how cold Santa must be?" Needless to say, my husband and I went hysterical. Thankfully we have it on video and veiw it periodically.

Last Sunday, after church, I took my granddaughter, Tory (will be 7 on Sunday), with me to have lunch with my Sunday School class at a nice restaurant. We were all sitting there talking and a discussion of marriages, good and bad came up. I said, "Ralph and I have a good marriage, we have our little spats, but we get along really well and rarely fight, if at all." Tory pipes up and says "That's not true, you and Gampy fight all the time!" After I finished choking on my drink, I said, "Tory, Gampy and I do not fight." So she replied, "Well, Gampy doesn't, but you sure fight with him an awful lot!" Everyone thought it was hysterical, I wanted to crawl under the table. Ralph loves the story, wonder why...:) Kathy

Oh boy, that must have sent you shades of red you've never been before! Yikes, that's embarrassing!

Carole, now you've got me wondering if angels DO have bones!

When my son Michael, now 37 and an Officer was in the Navy, was very young, we had horses. Every morning my older son, Jack, Jr. and my DH would get up very early to feed and water them before work and school. Michael was too young to go out that early so he stayed in and helped me fix breakfast.
We were planning a family get away and we kept hearing Michael talk about ther "crackerdawn". He was so excited about it, he giggled as 6 yr olds do. Finally, I couldn't stand it any longer and asked what "crackerdawn" was. He kept saying "you know what it is Mom". Finally, I sat him down and asked him where he had heard about this thing. He said his older brother was tired of crackerdawn. Well, his older brother was tired of getting up at "the crack of dawn" to feed our animals. We still laugh when someone has to get up early...we ask them if they are going to "crackerdawn".

That's cute! I love how these things hang around long after the kids grow up. Reminds me of "Harmon Dingit". My toddler neice used to say that all the time, sometimes very insistently, and her poor mother didn't know what she wanted. Turns out she was thirsty and wanted some of whatever was in anyone's glass. "I want drink it"

Same toddler sitting on the floor, chewing on something, no food in sight. When asked what was in her mouth she said, "Eaty bug". You never saw so many adults swarm in on a child so quickly!

My 9 year old neice has her own little phone list of family members and likes to call me and chit chat. She lives in OH and I don't get to see her as much as I'd like, so I love these phone calls. Last month she called me and asked very professionally "Mom told me that you were once an archaeologist and I am interested in being one. What can you tell me about it?" I was really impressed by her question so I explained in detail about the preparations we made, how we graphed out our sites into one meter squares, sifted the dirt, catalogued the artifacts, etc etc. She was quiet for a minute and then said 'Hmm, I didn't realize you had to touch dirt, maybe I'll be something else' ROFL!!! I told her that there are other things to do in the field, but that dirt is probably the least disgusting thing she would have to touch and she should do something she enjoys. She called me back later to let me know that she was designing Barbie clothes LOL

On Tuesday, she called and said she had a question 'If Eskimos kiss by rubbing their noses, how do they have babies?' Questions like that are why cell phones should be illegal while driving, I nearly ran off the road!!!

Rachel

Ok, I have one to add. I'm telling on myself, but it's kind of funny anyway. My Mum and sister (sis is 20 years older than me) just love telling this story on me. I was attending Sunday school and the teacher asked what was God's name? I raised my hand and she called on me and I told her, "God's name is Howard!" "Howard? asked the teacher, why Howard?" I told her,"I know because it says so in the Lord's Prayer, you know, Our Father who art in Heaven, Howard be thy name....".

I apologize if this story offends anyone, it's not my intention, I just thought it was a cute one to share.

~Babs~

It is adorable, lol and very funny!

My 6 year old daughter just had major surgery. Last night, she told my husband that she was pretty sure she was adopted, he asked her what what made her think so. She told him that in two of her favorite shows (Twiches and Winx) there are girls who are adopted and they have magical powers.

Anyhow she told him that she was feeling "very magical" and therefore was sure she must be adopted.

We almost fell down laughing (in the other room) she felt magical all right, she had just taken her nightly dose of Percocet!

Oh Rachel ... got a good chuckle out of that one! LOL :)
... elaine

I do hope Tori is doing well.
My thoughts are with you all now I hope for a healthy holiday season and then on for her!!!!!!!

It took me 17 years to figure out something my eldest son would ask for at the grocery store. He would ask me if I was going to buy any....get this......pupu-ant-spray!!!! I always said no because I hadn't the slightest idea what he was talking about. He was 3-4 at the time.

Seventeen years later, I was still thinking about it. Then it dawned on me.....are you ready for the big revelation?????

He want to know if I was going to buy..


Antiperspirant.......

He just turned the syllables around....

Oh wellll......it's been a LONGGGGgg day.......

Hap

You know, that almost makes sense.

Maybe if you spell it phew phew? Either way it is darn funny!

I had to repost this one from 4/18/04. I still laugh very hard when I remember this one: (and RD never contacted me, their loss!!!)

"I was going to make my own post on this, but then I found this one. :) What timing. This is too funny not to share.

BTW, I've sent this to Reader's Digest, we'll see what happens.

My daughter decided to take a very long ride yesterday with her three young children. While on their "ride", my daughter was stopped and given a citation for doing 68 in a 55 (she thought it was 65). :)This morning I asked her 4 year old if she had a nice trip. She said yes. I asked her if she saw a policeman, she said No. I said, "You didn't see a policeman at all?" She said, "No, but I did see the mailman and he gave Mommy some mail!"

I almost lost it! I told her to hold true to that story if anyone asks, ha, ha..."

Oh, the *innocence* of childhood!!!

That's good...

Very cute! Question - did granddaughter perceive the policeman as the mailman or did your daughter tell her that's who it was?

well I am not sure how cute it is but my son when he was about four (while in an arguement over what he could or could not do) shook his finger in my face and said!!!!

"just remeber this is my world and your livin in it"

Not sure anyone wants to know what my reply was ROTFLOL

mags

That's pretty profound for four!

yes and got him into a heap of trouble!!!!

4 year old got mad be cause "mom" wouldn't allow something. Mom watched 4 y/o stomp outside, slam the door and get in the car. Five minutes later said 4 y/o stomped back inside and, hands on hips, shouted - S--T, Daddy took the car keys!

This *really* happened to a friend of mine. Needless to say, the language in that house got cleaner in a hurry!

(moral - watch what you say in front of kids)

ROTLFMAO!!!!
Yup better watch what you say it will come right back at you !!
LOL
That is tooo funny!

Oh is that ever funny!

Nap, She thought the policeman was a mailman :) LOL

This thread is a keeper. I've enjoyed it more than any other thread, I think. I roll with every new story. Kids are wonderful!
Sherri

Doesn't anyone realize that kids are just "Echos:??? Whatever we say or do................

Happy Thanksgiving to all...

Hap

did I hear you have some wonderful guests coming today hap??

Everyone have a great day!!!

Mags

Yup.....but 2 are very special......

The other 18 are special too, but not VERY SPECIAL....lol

This message was edited Nov 24, 2005 11:30 AM

gotcha send my happy wishes to all and to the 2 VERY special hope you all have a wonderful visit!!!

yup

LOL! That reminds me of a time I was a babysitting for 3 little boys back in college. The father owned a business and apparently was not happy with one of the gals in the office. I was making breakfast for the 3 year old who was in his booster seat at the table when the couple came in already in a heated debate. They didn't even see him sitting there, while the dad went on and on with one filthy word after another. He ended his tirade by saying 'she better watch out or she'll find her butt out on the street'. Then a little voice piped in 'Awwwwww! Daddy said BUTT, he's in BIG twubble!' I had to go outside I was laughing so hard! He didn't know what the bad words were, but he knew that one was taboo ROFL!!

Rachel

This thread is so funny! I have one to add:

When my daughter (now 7), was 3, we were driving home and she was eating Jelly Belly jelly beans. We were chatting and I asked her how she liked the jelly beans. Her reply: "I like most of them, but I had to spit one out because it tasted like s**t." I almost ran the car off the road! Needless to say, I later had a talk with my ex-husband about using appropriate language in front of our little parrot.

I nearly spit out my lunch just now when I read that last one! Too funny, PlantMom!