Thursday, June 25, 2009

I have no idea where they get this stuff!

I'm hooked on the funny things children say! Getting to hear what's on their minds is definitely a finer thing about spending a lot of time around children. Here are some little gems I've heard around my home in the last couple weeks:

  • My daughter and I were sharing a snack of Pringles. She needed to go potty and as she got up from the table she patted the Pringles can and instructed me, "Don't touch it because you might accidentally eat all of it!"

  • Granted we live in Texas, but I do not believe my husband and I have particularly noticeable accents, but my toddler? Is constantly asking me to "swang" him on the swings!

  • My 6 year old needed 62 points or more to qualify for our school district's Gifted and Talented Program, he scored a 94, but somehow he still cannot tie his own shoes! I was recently trying to work with him on this life skill and after 2 attempts he told me he didn't want to practice anymore. I said, "Don't you want to be able to go to 1st grade in big kid shoes, without Velcro?" He replied, "I've seen an adult with Velcro shoes before." So there you go, someday we'll be dropping him off at Harvard or Yale in his Velcro shoes!

  • If you are ever at our house and my 2 year old shouts "All done Candy Lamb!" this means he is all done playing Candy Land.

  • This toddler also calls muffins, "nuffins". We had the following conversation on Sunday morning: When toddler asked for 3rd muffin (granted they were super, yummy made-from-scratch-with-fresh-blueberries blueberry zucchini muffins), "Haven't you had enough muffins?" He replied, "No, not 'nough nuffins! Want more nuffins!"

  • I have the most profound conversations with my 3 year old daughter as I'm tucking her into bed at night. She's our kid who doesn't like to go to sleep. The other night when I pointed out that it was getting dark and time to go to bed, she said she wants "a remote control with buttons to turn the sun on and off"! She doesn't ask for much, does she?!!!

  • Then last night she decided she wants a sister, because her brothers sleep in the same room at night and she wants a sister to sleep in her room. She told me we should go ask someone who has a sister if they don't need the sister anymore then we could just take her!

I have no idea where they get this stuff!


Find more Finer Things Friday at The Finer Things in Life, Hooked on Fridays at Hooked on Houses, 7 Quick Takes Friday at Conversion Diary, and Friday Funnies at The Run-A-Muck.

16 comments:

  1. It's great that you write down the cute things your children say. In only a few years you will read them, chuckle and say, "Where did the time go?"

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  2. Those are so great! How wonderful to have a list of cute things to remind you of this special time when they get older.

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  3. Very cute. Kids say the darndest things, don't they?

    BTW-You and your daughter could totally whip out that dress. The smock part is already in the fabric! Seriously, it's one seam up the back, a hem at the bottom and the ribbons or fabric for straps. Good luck!

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  4. What a darling post.

    My children seldom talked "baby talk" I was at heart, very disappointed. but on a very rare occation they would say something unique... like my oldest hated the hot weather because it made him so "hot and Schwetty"... so we always said Schwetty. :) kids in grade school finally told him it was SWEATY ... yah we heard about it over dinner that night! :)


    TTFN~~Claudia ♥

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  5. lovely post! I'm sure your kids would love to read them someday. kids do say the cutest things!

    Thanks for visiting my blog.

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  6. Too cute! I love it when my boys say things like that!

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  7. How precious! So glad you will have them written down to remember. I have some of my girls' cute sayings on paper but wish I had captured more!

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  8. I have wooden boxes my father-in-law made for each of the kids and when they would say something really cute I would write it on a piece of paper and put the date on it and drop it in the box. We recently went through the box organizing them by date and the kids loved it!

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  9. Love it! And Lori I LOVE your idea as many of my blog entries are me preserving what my kids said.

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  10. Love it... and good for you for getting those words recorded. So important!

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  11. I love the velcro shoes one- that sounds like my youngest (who at 11 does finally tie his own shoes :-)

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  12. Hi, found you through Conversion Diary. Your life sounds a lot like mine! My 7-year-old still can't tie shoes - but it's mostly because he never wears anything but flip-flops. We live in Asia, so we can get away with it. They do say wild things, don't they!

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  13. These comments bring a smile -- and good for you for tracking them. My husband, Donnie, and I keep saying that we should do the same with our retarded son (now an adult), whose unique expressions often give us an insight into his simple (and down-to-earth) understanding of the world. Here are some: count-down day (New Year's Day), rainbrella (umbrella), cold heat (air conditioning -- as opposed to hot heat). Wish I had written down more; perhaps you will inspire me to take the time to do that! (Then there was my oldest daughter who, at age 5, could not say Sister Beatrice, the only nun at her school who did not dress in street clothes. She always referred to her as "the sister with the habit!)

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  14. What is funny is that we have heard somethings so long...they sound right to us and we say them now.

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  15. It is great that you are writing down/remembering the things that your children say at this age. One of the things we laugh at now, when our progeny are 22,21 and 18, are some of the hilarious things that they used to say when they were growing up. It brings a smile to my day when I think about my oldest saying to me, "I need a sweet snack aaaaaaaaaaaand a healthy snack". She said it every day.

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