Kids say the darndest things

“Wonder how much the wife paid her? ;-)”

“Well....my SON said when he was 4 (I might of told this before) while taking his godmother to see his new brother in the nursery hospital "that isn't where Eric is, that is where they keep the ugly babies" He pointed to a window that had the curtains drawn!”

“LOL, that's a goodie CG”

“No, Grace is just smart. She has been in the car twice now when it has gone dead on the road. That should not happen to a Volvo which is why I am getting rid of it. Too damn costly to fix!

After we dropped the car off, I transfered Grace into my Jeep. She said, why don't we ever leave daddies car here to get fixed mommy?

Have I told you lately that I love this kid?

What child would fall asleep in a Jeep Wrangler with the top off and while driving on the highway? Not many, but Grace sleeps soundly.”

“All TT's kids are above average.”

“Of course...they have above average parents!”

“SS - do you listen to Garrison Keilor?”

“Welcome to Lake Wobegon, where all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average.
Garrison Keillor”

““SS - do you listen to Garrison Keilor?”
dayhiker
2:38:02 PM

How did you guess? ;-)”

“Over the weekend we went camping with my brother, sister-in-law and their four kids. On Sunday morning Tucker rolled out of his tent and stumbled across the trail and into the woods. My 3-year-old niece, Amelia, shrieked, "Tucker, you're going the wrong way!"

I told her, "Millie, he's just going pee. He'll be right back."

Then she said, "I can't do it like Tucker because I don't have a horn."

I asked my sister-in-law what she meant. Kary didn't know either.

Millie pipes up again and said, "Only boys have horns."

Ahhhhh....I get it now. =D”

“3 year old might be a bit young but you could get her a Freshette and call it a horn ;-)”

“My little pookie niece said my name for the first time last night! "Auntie Karen" :)”

“anti-carin'?”

“"Auntie Karen" is nice to hear, isn't it Pixie?

I felt so proud when my first nephew called me "Uncle Kav-en".

:-)”

“During the morning news here, there's a little cooking blurb where a local presents some tasty recipe. Laurel always watches this and says every time, no fail, "When you're old I'll that for you and you'll eat it!" I said I'd eat her cooking if she ate mine. Her response? "That's okay Mommy, you keep your cooking and I'll make my own food." Harumph!”

“What have you been feeding that kid, treebait? ;-)”

“LOL, they do say the darndest things!”

“Laurel and I drive past a graveyard every morning on the way to school. Lately when Laurel sees it she shouts out "Hey look! More dead people!" There's at least one interment there each day lately.”

“Abby always mentions the dead folks too. Weird little kids.”

“Last night was interesting.

We went out to visit the house. 2 days ago Reece got a new stuffed animal as a reward for good grades. He took the toy with him. He immediately gravitated to the pool which now has a safety trampoline cover over it. I've told him several times to stay off the cover. I'm in the house and hear him yelling for help. I walk out on the deck and see the toy in the middle of the pool. I also see a huge wet spot at the edge of the pool. I realize he's thrown the toy onto the cover and then tried to slip out to get it and got wet. The toy was put in timeout and he freaked. We're wrapping up homework and getting ready for bed when I find a sheet of paper in his room that says, "I'm angry and I never want to see you again." I quiz him on it and he wrote it when he got home because he was mad at me. We have the talk about hurting peoples feelings, blah, blah, blah. Later, after I get him out of tub he said he wants to sleep with the toy. I say it's in timeout. He starts crying and says, "If you don't let me sleep with it, I'll make another mean note for you." You can imagine where that went.”

“The line between acknowledging and affirming a child's feelings and yet requiring appropriate expression is sometimes a very fine one. It's tough to watch your kid get angry and yet not take it personally but still require appropriate expression of those feelings. Feelings that are not allowed create problems in the future, but feelings inappropriately expressed do the same. Parenting is not for sissies.”

“I did a good job of holding my temper. I talked to him about him doing something that was obviously intended to hurt another persons feelings and how that was wasn't acceptible and that it was ok to be mad at me. We really talked to him about how he did this to himself. He disobyed several things that caused all of this to happen. He only has himself to be mad at. He chose to not obey and now he gets to live with the consequences. It was about 5 minutes after that speech I found the letter. When I got him out of the tub and he made the threat we had another talk. I told him I loved him more than anything in the whole world and then included mommie and my two daughters in that too. It was actually a good moment. I was glad he wasn't facing me when he made his threat because I had a hard time not laughing.”

“:-0”

“Yep DH, we're going through that with Laurel, too. Poor thing has my temper.”

“Yesterday I went and had lunch with Emma at school. Today I went to see Reece. I'm the good guy again. He was so excited to see me he grabbed his milk and came back to sit with me without paying. At the end of lunch we went and settled up which put us late getting back to class. The teacher was at the door and I explained. As I walked off I heard, "By Dad." (he was already in his class.) I yelled back, "By Reece," and continued walking. I heard footsteps, turned and he was running towards him. I got a big hug and a big "I Love You." Good times, good times.
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“There is simply nothing better than a hug and an "I love you".”

“Laurel keeps asking if I can come in to her class with her.”

“That's sweet that she wants you to come to her class.

For the first parent-teacher conference with my son's first grade teacher my son decided that I should really dress up for the occassion. So he went into my closet and picked out a red sequence number that I had worn for New Year's Eve! I had a hard time convincing him that I should really wear something else.
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“My wife did that a good bit when Reece was in kindergarten. She didn't go much in first grade because of the newborn. She's starting to go back a little now that baby Addie is 1.”

“That's cute about the New Years dress. Emma gave my wife the highest compliment she knows how to give a few weeks back. "Mommy, you look like a rock star."


tb - I was saying that about going to the schools without completing the thought...the teachers love the help and the kids love mommy being there. She chapperaoned (bad spelling) a few events and loved it.”

“So, last night, BowlderSon (GhoulderSon?) decided he would crawl into bed with BowlderGal while I watched a bit more of whatever episode of "The War" I was watching. I came upstairs 15 minutes later and went to drag B-Son out of bed and escort him to his own room. He had fallen asleep, so I had to wake him up. He climbed out of bed and headed toward his room.

"Dad."

"I'm right here."

"Dad!"

"I'm standing right here behind you."

"No. Dad!" (pointing down the stairs)

"I'm already upstairs. I'm right here."

"No, the other Dad!"

(stifling a laugh)"It's OK, I'm right here."

(walking to his room)"I meant Marty. The old guy."

"I know. Good night."


I asked him this morning how many dads he had. Of course, he had no idea what I was talking about, but thought it was pretty funny when I told him what he had said.”

“Lol, Old Guy!”

“:-)”

“My 6yo does that kind of thing. LOL! She falls as leep on the couch, and when I wake her and send her to bed, instead of going up to her room she will walk into the kitchen, or bathroom, and just stand there like she's lost. Poor kid...”

“My daughter used to sleep walk. One Halloween night after putting her to be I found her on top of the washing machine. She said she was looking for the Great Pumpkin! I think she had way too much candy.”

“HA! Now that's funny!”

“Laurel does the totally disoriented thing when she wakes up too, just like her father.”

“Grace fell asleep on the couch over the weekend while we were watching TV. I picked her up and started carrying her back. About halfway down the hall, she opened her eyes, looked at me and said...who are you?

I almost dropped her trying to hold the laughter in.”

“From about 2 minutes ago:

Dad, can I get a printout (he likes to printout pictures of Pokemon from the internet)

Did you pull a buck today? (Conduct system at school)

No sir.

Whaaaaat?

Dad, you can pretty much tell if I smile after I tell you something if I'm lying or not?

Oh, really, run that by me again.”

“No sir? WOW!”

“He sirs and ma'am's about 60% of the time. He gets corrected each time he doesn't do it. Yeah and Oh get corrected immediately.”

“Reece is on a Van Gogh kick. I googled Van Gogh and we looked at some images. I asked if he'd heard of Picasso? "Yeah, he's pretty good."

There's that yeah again.”

“Laurel's "yeah" and "neah" drive me insane.

It wasn't something she said, but something she did this past weekend that had me laughing so hard I had to sit down. Saturday afternoon we were working out in the back yard on the Great Pond Project of 2007 when I decided to take a break and take photos of Laurel playing. She was crouching down at the top of the hill in the tall grass (its a steep slope to the bottom of our yard) when I took her picture. Next thing I knew, I heard a loud little girl's "WHOOP!" and she disappeared from sight. She rolled backwards down the hill several feet and got stuck in the tall grass! I was laughing so much that it was very difficult for me to ask her if she needed help getting up. It quickly went from a firm "no" to a very sulky "yes." I think it was the high point of the weekend. I don't know if HPM posted that particular photo to webshots yet, either.”

“Dang, those are all funny stories. We haven't run into any sleep walking at our house yet.

TB - I'll look for that on yall folder.”

“I didn't post it yet.
I think I'll create another album this weekend and put that in it.”

“The story reminded me of the photos from the kids Nordhouse trip this past summer.”

“Reese like any of Claude Monet's works?
Monet is my favorite French Impressionist.

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All you parents are very rich people.”

“I'll have to show him some Monet. Come to think of it, I ought to take him to the Birmingham Museum of Art.

I kept him at the office for a couple hours yesterday. He said, you're the best dad. I want to be an engineer when I grow up. I liked that. I'm afraid he has


The Knack:

http://www.flixxy.com/dilbert-the-knack.htm”

“LOL great vid!”

“Poor kid. It's a burdem most us Engineers share. ;-)”