Kids say the darndest things

“"why, then, didn't I push the tractor around"

LMFAO!”

“MDS - great.

We have a full spring coming up, but I want to find a way to do this. Plus, since it's a father son thing, I don't think this counts against my yearly trip total, imo!

The boys get a guys trip and the girls get a guhhhhls (Emma pronounciation) trip.”

“Last night I went to dinner at a friends and her 2.5 yo daughter is the cutest. There was a particular part of a Pooh book that she thought was so funny it kept cracking her up. Pooh is telling Rabbit they are going on an adventure with Christopher Robin and says they are going to discover "a pole, or maybe a mole." She could not stop laughing. Then she started to slap her knee each time her mom read the line. It's funny to see a toddler laughing and slapping her knee!”

“all these are hilarious!!

the last time i saw my little cousin, he told me i wear "boy shoes." thanks a lot you little SOB!”

“This thread is putting a big grin on my face today, thanks everyone.”

“I go home for lunch, sure enough, Snow White costume. The shoe have low heels and are literally 4" longer than her foot. That gurrrrl could run hurdles in those shoes. Amazing.

Before I leave to got back to work I have to kiss both kids and my wife on the cheek. Then, just before I leave, Emma calls me back and makes me do a butterfly kiss. Then I walk out the door and Reece always comes racing out the door for another kiss on the cheek. THis is every day. It's gotten to be a game where I'll shut the garage door and then hide until he finds me.”

“My daughter will run downstairs to hug me when I come home at the end of the day. I took to hiding from her to make it more fun.

Once, I hid in the bathroom down there. I heard her and her brother searching through the basement for me. Eventually she worked her way to the bathroom, and opened the door. I just stood there and said "Boo!". Scared the living daylights out of her and she screamed. I think she likes it.”

“Cute cute cute!”

“My brother started taking piano lessons at about 5 years old. I think it depends upon the children. Obviously, with a 5 yo, you will need spend a lot of time with them while they are learning, so that they don't get frustrated... It also depends upon the teacher-- if the teacher is patient, then I don't think it would be a bad idea--especially if the child is musically inclined...

Also, Music really helps the math skills later on in life-- after all, notes are basically fractions... :-)”

“He was a late talker. I think he was almost 2 1/2 before he really talked much. Almost immediatley he could count over 20 and recognize the numbers and alphabet.”

“"pass the potatoes"”

“Friday night we went out to eat and had a sitter keep the kids. Sat morning Reece comes into our bedroom and mom asks him if he had fun last night and what they did. He said that he had fun with Ms Jennifer and they watched the "Lizard of Ice!!!" The Lizard of Ice? Yeah, with Dorothy and Toto, you know mom.

In the South it's said you can say anything about anyone if you preface it with, "Bless Their Heart." One day Emma was really getting in trouble. She was crying, with tears streaming down her face and she didn't feel that she was getting a proper amount of pity. She yells out, "Well, Bless My Heart."

My kids call the motion detector toilets, "Magic Potties." They cointed this phrase at Cades Cove. My daughter used to be afraid of them and it took a good bit of coaxing to get her to do her business on one. At Disney this past fall we found out to just what lengths we'd gone to for her to use one. At a potty break Mrs dayhiker and Emma are in the stall. We would frequently have to kneel in front of Emma and calm her down about the Magic potty. After Emma goes, it's Mrs. dayhiker's turn. Emma kneels down in front of her and says, "Come on Mommy, you can do it, let me hear some Tee-Tee." My wife roars with laughter in the middle of the restroom.”

“LMAO!!!”

“LOL! I always look forward to your stories dayhiker.”

“My wife and I still joke about the, "...let me hear some TT mommy...."”

“wow, that's a classic.”

“LOL, dayhiker, you are a blessed man.”

“We rewatched the Lizard of Ice on Sat morning. When it came on, Emma went nuts. She was yelling, "Not that one, the other one..." She was talking about it being in b&w. After a while she decided she could tolerate it, then when they landed in Oz and it changed to color she was pretty happy.”

“I've got a story too.

My 9 year old nephew shot and killed his first deer during a hunt a few weeks ago.
My sister took several pictures of him and the deer.
She could never get him to smile in any of the pictures.

My sister emailed the pictures to Grandma, my mother, and she just had to call him to congratulate him.
After he told her the tale of the hunt and how excited and proud he was, she asked him why he wasn't smiling in the pictures.

He said "I wanted to look cool." LOL”

“yeah, my cousins used to do some funny stuff. one day we were asking my oldest cousin some questions. she was 7 at the time. For some reason, the talk was on snakes, and she said they had a forted tongue. My uncle and i looked at each other, and asked again. She goes yep they got a forted tongue.”

“He wanted to look COOOOOOOL. Very funny.

At least it wasn't a farted tongue instead of forted. Funny.”

“Dayhiker...you have a wonderful family.......you are truely blessed!!!”

“Another Emmaism: My wife is upstairs doing something in the kids rooms. Emma is downstairs. My wife calls out to her. Emma goes to the bottom of the stairs and puts one hand on the post for the handrail and the other on her hip and says, "I'm a busy woman." She then turns around and walks off.”

“LOL”

“dayhiker, you know kids imitate the parents. Does your wife do that to you =)”

“Not at all. My daugher is a combo of my sister and my sister in law. They are both prissy girlie girls, as is Emma. My wife is not. She's down to earth, heck, she even likes to camp.”

“LOL Pretty cute!”

“Bwahahahahahahaha!”

“This girl is gonna be something around 16. My secretary keeps saying she hopes shes around to see it. That's not really comforting for what's to come.”

“This is what I get to look forward too?”

“My daughter you have to stalk, capture and hogtie just to brush her hair.”

“Yes and I wouldn't trade it for anything. Reece is so fired up to go hiking with me that he can't stand it. I can't wait to take him again. I'm sure they will be tales to tell.”

“Mine is all about bows in here hair. Now if you try to take away her Snow White costume you're gonna come back with a bloody nub.”

“Just now I noticed that Luke, my 4 year old, was rather stuffed up. So I told him that I would help him blow his nose and that would make him feel better, which he did.

He then said to me, "Blowing my nose doesn't get out the boogers, just the juice. The only way to get the boogers out is to pick your nose."”

“True Dat!
LOL”

“That's great.

The other day Emma is really upset in the back seat of the car. Reece looks over and says, "Emma, save the drama for your mama." Mom isn't too happy about this. The previous night was my bath night with the kids and I had them wound up and laughing by saying that same phrase. When Reece gets in trouble he answers that he was just trying to get Emma to the other side. The other side? Yeah, the other side so she'd laugh. He was trying to say that he was trying to cheer her up.”

“LOL”

“Last weekend I took my 10-year-old son to see Blue Man Group in Chicago. (It was WAY cool)

The other night he and I were talking about how much we liked the show. I said to him, "Wasn't it cool the way they did a two hour show without talking one time and yet we still could understand completely everything they were communicating to us?"

He said, "Yep. Just like fish."”

“LOL
I love this thread!”

“That's funny. I'll bet he really enjoyed that.


A few nights ago I was laying on the bed reading, my son was on the bed with me playing his game boy and my daughter was going nuts since she wasn't up there with us. My wife comes in the room and says, "What's going on in here?" My daughter replies, "chaos." My wife laughed til she cried.
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“HA HA Dayhiker!!!

But what were you doing on the roof? (j/k)”

“Oops, can't type today. I edited it.”

““Oops, can't type today. I edited it.”

dayhiker
9:37:15 AM
3/04/05

Not before you got on the Out-of-context quotes thread ;)”

“So I'm sitting at the PC and I hear the rattle of pots and pans downstairs. Then a crash and a certain little girl voice say i great distress "OH NO!"

Hmmm, looks like Laurel got into something. So I call down to her with the line all parents know oh so well "What happened Laurel?"

I hear "It's Broken!" and little feet tromping up the stairs. "I broke Mommys pot!"

Uh oh. So I ask her to show me. Sure enough she's toting (We tote things down here y'all.) our backpacking pot and lid. So once again I ask whats wrong. Laurel again insists the she broke Mommys pot.

Show me where it broke dear.

Laurel holds up the pot to me opens the lid and says......








It doesn't have any grits in it.”

“Too funny HPM. How old is she?”

“LOL! Oh, wow! That is so cute!”

“2.5 years old, and way too cute.”

“And thus, the importance of grits in Southern society is proven.

Grits! Soul of the South.”

“Great story, that's hilarious.”

“Very funny! Nice chuckle to start my day.”