Kids say the darndest things

“;D

I only do that sort of thing when the boys aren't home. There are way too many instances where one of them crawls into bed with me in the middle of the night or I am called to their room by a sudden vomiting session.”

“So you're saying they learned it from.... whom? ;-)”

“I don't think they learn it from anyone. I find my little one nakid in bed often. She likes the feel of flanel sheets on her skin. Who can blame her?”

“I think you're right, Sass. Tuck's sheets are flannel, too.”

“My little one's a streaker too. I think all kids go through this. So do a lot of adults.”

“LOL, I slept for several years w/o anything, then decided I better go back to at least underwear in case a had a fart that got a little too aggressive, y'know?”

“Gabriel said "aaahgoo" this morning. He followed that up with "aahbuh".”

“How adorable, Hubcap!”

“Ruby, Sass told me what you posted about Tucker while I was driving. I had to slow down as I laughed, great stuff !!”

“Reece: Dad, do you know which letters are the vowels?
me: I'm not sure, could you tell them to me?
Reece: A, E, I, O, and U, and sometimes Y can come over and join the team.


Last Sat night Reece came downstairs in the middle of the night, which is rare. We asked him what was wrong and he said, "My walking parts hurt." Your walking parts, what are your walking parts? He pointed to his knees.”

“LOL”

“I bet my little buddy Reece would just LOVE a certain little plastic toy I found in Wal-Mart today. LOL


(see the find anything in Wal-Mart thread, LOL)”

“I can't remember - which animal call did Reece come home with from the Fall Creek Falls Sipsey trip - we should all chip in and send Reece a replacement for the one that "disappeared"”

“I don't think Mrs dayhiker allowed that to stick around long.”

“I can relate to the animal call thing. Laurel's very good at making foal/ colt calls and sounding like a pi$$ed off horse. Too many horse shows and movies for her!”

“Our daughter, Debi has Down Syndrome and when she was young used sign language a lot. One time she was giving her older sister some grief. I told her to calm down and she used sign language to respond. She kept signing: "No sheep", "No sheep". We eventually figured out what she meant to tell say was, "Don't have a cow!"

From then on in our family we said "No sheep" when we wanted to tell someone to "chill out"”

“Early Bart Simpson influence? ;-)”

“No sheep, that's hilarious.”

“The other day while driving Johnny Cash's Burning RIng of Fire came on the radio. To my surprise, both boys started singing it loudly. They knew all the words, better than me. Before I knew it, all three of us were singing it at the top of our lungs. It was a totally cool spontaneous moment. I guess they learned the song from playing the Tony Hawk video game.”

“That's cool!

If I sing Laurel tells to stop, because I sound silly.”

“Gracie waved and said, "bye daddy" this morning.”

“..and Daddy sure didn't want to leave after that, did he? :-)”

“I didn't want to, but I had to. I took off Monday so Barbie could go to the doctor. Strep is going around big time right now.

This is the first time Grace has combined Bye and Daddy. She usually only waves and says bye.

The kid is so damn cute, and she knows it!”

“LMAO...awwww! WK, are you going on the its all about the kids hike?”

“I hope. We will probably come on Saturday. We are going to try car camping with Grace this summer to see how she takes to it.”

“My brother in law told me he was pulling into their driveway the other day and my nephew(who is only 8) slumped down in his seat like he was hiding from someone. My brother in law asked him who he was hiding from and he said "My girlfriend, she broke up with me yesterday". My brother in law said "Why'd she do that", he said, "Who knows, girls are a mystery."”

“LOL Thrifty, that's pretty good!”

“This past weekend we went to the US Space and Rocket Museum in Huntsville, AL. The 2nd room we were in had 6' tall pictures of every female astronaut along with a short bio. I kneel down to Emma and tell her that everyone of these ladies were real astronauts and they had all been in space. I was about to proceed with the "you can do anything you want and this isn't just for boys" speel when Emma points over my shoulder and says, "That ones not, she's a boy...." I continued with what I was going to say and later turned around. The picture did look alot like a early 80's 20 something guy. So much for my message, the girl is worried about fashion sense.”

“My wife sent me this post from a pregnancy forum she posts on:

When driving in the car today with me and My Grandma, who is my son Liam's GREAT GRANDMA, Liam turned to her and sweetly asked " Great Gran, did you used to be new?"

My grandma got such a kick out of that!!!

Then he said to her..." I love your old hands, they're so beatiful"

That must have made my Grandma's day.”

“Last weekend we had 3 b'day parties to go to. The 2nd one was a pool party. We were late leaving and Reece didn't want to leave. I catch him putting his floaties back on a running to the edge. I'm yelling at him to not jump in. He looks me square in the eyes and jumps. I get him out and he does it again. I look at him in the water and say, "You're getting a spanking when we get home." We did go to the next party mainly because it was a b'day/going away party since the family was moving. Otherwise we'd have skipped the party and let that be the punishment. He was on his best behaviour at the party. We get home and I remind him of what's coming. He'd been really good and I decided to take it easy on him but I had to still follow through with the threat. I ask him how many times he disobeid and he said 2x. I asked if he knew what that meant? Yes, 2 licks. I really did it light. After the 2nd lick he turned around and said, "Dad, that was a little bit gentle." I just had to bust out laughing at that.”

“that's hilarious...wait, you spank your kids...what's the number for child welfare”

“205.xxx.xxxx

I thought of a pregnancy thing I was going to send to you and I've forgotten it. I thought about it last night. Oh well, it'll come to me.”

“my wife says i already owe our kid a couple of whacks when he comes out for kicking his mom so much”

“"I thought of a pregnancy thing I was going to send to you and I've forgotten it. I thought about it last night. Oh well, it'll come to me."


Dang, that happens all the time with me for this thread. My kids will say something perfect and the next day sitting in front of my computer... nothing.

Good stories.”

“This is one of my favorite threads.
You slackers need to remember these things! ;-)”

“not to bring everyone down but...

One night when my middle daughter (4) was crying and missing her mother, my oldest (7)says to her "Well, sissy, Mommy lived with us for a little while and then moved away, and we should just be glad for the time we got to have both our parent here, because that is all we will ever get.
I had to leave the room, nearly broke me.
Kids can be amazing sometimes. Dont underestimate them.”

“And this is just GROSS....

http://www.guardian.co.uk/russia/article/0,,1783637,00.html”

“Very bittersweet meangreen. Thanks for sharing.”

“that's a good story MG...i was watching a good show the other day, Shalom(sp) In The Home, and there was a family that lost their dad...the two little girls were handling it much better than the mom”

“Kids are tough, and smart. Mine still see their mom once in a while when she feels like playing mommy, but that's not that often. I think they have had an easier adjustment than I have though. My oldest would be the next closest. The other two were 2.5, and 11 months when she left so they really dont even have memories of her being at home.”

“Often when we are waiting for the food in a restaraunt we scratch the back of our 6yo since she has some attention deficit issues and it helps her sit still. For a change she starts scratching my back as we were waiting this weekend. Then she gets up under my t-shirt and scratches all the way up my back. Felt good and put a smile on my face until...




(too loudly) "I feel a pimple on Daddy's back!!!"



Oh joy.”

“Another trip to Hooters, ruined.”

“my wife was standing in line for ice cream at a baseball game yesterday and a little girl asked her "Do you have a baby in your belly?"...her mom was so relieved when my wife said yes...she said you can't imagine how many times she's asked and the answer was no”

“thrify - my 4 year old interogated my wife extensively about how the baby in her tummy gets OUT of her tummy. She said that mommies have a magic trap door that appears before it's time for the baby to arrive. A friend told her 5 year old daughter the truth about all that and totally freaked out the child.”

“No dayhiker, it's true: that door IS a trap.”

“LOL, it looks like they're going to create a brand new door for ours to come out of”

“Noncon is wise beyond his years. ;-)”

“Last week the dog was finishing her supper as Barbie was trying to put Gracie down for bed. The dog can into the living room, laid down and started making the sounds that usually mean the vomit is coming next. Gracie looks over in the dogs direction, points and says, "Oh Oh!"

We lost it! It was the funniest thing I have ever seen.”

“We family camped at Smokemont in the Smokies this weekend. Reece asked if we were putting our tent on a "box of rocks." Box of Rocks? It finally hit me that he meant the way state and NP campsites have wood around the tent area packed with gravel. That cracked me up.”

“I would have understood what Reese meant.
Box of Rocks is a good description.
I've thought that myself.

Tell my little hiking buddy, Mr. Kevin said 'Hi'.”