Kids say the darndest things

“I've lived somewhere in the south my entire life and I have never heard the term "tumping" over... falling over, or dumped over...but never tumping...Chili will you tump me over later????”

“chili - she was BORN(said in Ron White accent) in Alabama.”

“I think "tumping" originates in the deep south. It is a Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi kind of thing.

Neither Florida nor North Carolina qualify as deep south.

Appalachia has its own sub language and now that I think about it, I don't hear it much here either.

Damn right I will tump you over later. (although that is not the correct usage for the word tump)
last edited: 8/29/08 5:42:04 AM”

“Why hell, that makes her a southern girl then.”

“oh ok..well I guess I am a middle south girl then...FL, NC, SC, TX,..

Yeah it didnt really sound right as I typed it...but you get the idea..lol.”

“Sounds like chili is going to take a stroll to the old English vernacular later this evening.”

“Here's another, anyone know what caddiewhompus means?

That looks caddiewhompus.

I may not be spelling it correctly, because I've never actually seen it in writing.”

“Now I have heard that...it means skewed or out of whack...I believe...”

“Correct.


So is James talking with an English ascent this morning?”

“I say old chap, don't belittle my accent.”

“dayhiker, I think this how you spell it:

cattywhompas”

“He'll be breaking out a pipe and tweeds before we know it.


That looks like a more reasonable spelling.

Emma always thinks that the funniest word when I say it.”

“I've got a cousin that grew up in Abalama and she sez 'tumping', but nobody from my neck of the woods (NW Tn) ever did.

Appalachia is a whole 'nother language, but cattywhompus is universal southern.”

“Liam says "mama" now (in reference to me, whereas before he just used to babble it)! He's also been saying "milk" (via baby sign language)...for about 3 weeks I think? He usually does both at the same time!”

“well would hope he calls you Mama and not ENS.....


so in his eyes your a walking cow mama?”

“Very cool. Baby sign language is awesome.”

“Mooooo!

Now if he'd just learn the sign for "potty," LOL. I'm pretty sure he recognizes that and "bath," but he hasn't done them himself yet. When he has to go potty, one of his signals is that he goes over and starts playing with the DVD player (since he knows he's not supposed to, and that I'll pick him up right away). So yesterday I put his baby potty in front of it, and he went to that instead! And I put him on it, and he peed in it. :-)”

“Dang, how old is he? That's good.

baby Addie's big thing is doing everyone's hair. She went with my wife when she had hers cut. Now, she gets a brush and a play hair dryer and goes up to everyone like she's combing and drying your hair while saying, "hair cut, hair cut, Addie's hair cut, mommy's hair cut, daddy's hair cut...."”

“our son has been in his "mine" stage for a while...he's also been saying mommy for a while...lately he's been combining the two and calls my wife "minemy"...we think he's king of behind in his speach”

“Charles is not talking unless you consider ba ba ba ba ba talking. He is standing and leaning against objects he can pull himself up on.”

“He's not the only one, looks like! Well I guess king of something is good, if only of behinds. HAHA ;-D

Liam does his own version of "haircuts," it's called ripping it out by the roots. Addie's version sounds nicer.

He's 7.5 months old now. We've been doing baby potting since he was a month or so old! Sometimes it's better than others, but we generally do awesome at night...he wears baby undies that snap on the sides for nighttime now.”

“My oldest had such a speech lag we had to have his hearing tested. The audiologist recommended a book called, "Einstein Syndrome." He had a little bit of that going on. Really advanced in some areas but severe language delay. The book says that little boys with daddy's in technical fields sometimes have language delays but are ahead in their understanding of language, puzzles, and problem solving. That was him to a tee. The book shows dramatic examples which didn't fit us. For example, kids that wouldn't talk until age 4 but could take safet locks apart and put them back together.”

“If I put her on my shoulders she does the roots version. She thinks it's very funny. I have to hang onto the hair that I have.

Shoot, he'll be totally potty trained by a year. That wasn't something we really pressed. It's dang nice when they get out of diapers though. Congrats.”

“Liam is too, WK! How old is Charles now?”

“Well, the term wouldn't actually be "potty trained," since we didn't train him to do anything...we just help him eliminate when he needs to so that he doesn't have to soil himself. If they never get used to having to go in their diapers, they never have to re-learn not to. Not to be technical or anything. ;-D

But I will admit that not having to wash diapers anymore won't exactly make me cry.”

“Charles will be 7 months on the 17th. We joke that he will be walking before he sits up. His Dr. think he may be taking his first steps by 8 months.”

“Wow, DH, that sounds like our son to a T...i'll have to check that book out...we had him evaluated this summer and he was at the bottom of what is considered "normal" so he didn't qualify for help...we're probably going to have him reevaluated pretty soon”

“Dang, WK! I bet you're babyproofing like mad, LOL. That's our main project for the weekend.”

“our 7 month old is right there with you WK...i hope she starts walking early, her legs are as big as the michalin man's”

“The book is written by Thomas Sowell, the economist that's in the Sunday paper. His son had these issues, he got to looking into it and there was no info out there. People are quick to put an autistic label on the little one and they're not autistic. He wrote a column or two about it and had an outpouring of letters and parents saying they went through the same thing. Basically, instead of all parts of the brain developing equally, you have one part that takes off and another part that doesn't. Eventually the other stuff catches up but not before ever family member you have scares the hell out of you. We didn't have that part, but the book talks about it. The book was a huge comfort. I think we had Reece's hearing checked at about 27 months and at about 30 months he went from saying maybe a dozen words to a normal vocabulary. When he started talking it happened quick. He hasn't shut up since.”

“Interesting lyra. I remember wondering what folks did about all of this in early times. I imagine that's what they did. Diapers came out and then we got lazy because of the convienence.”

“my wife, who worries about everything, worried that he might be autistic at first but we've had several "experts" tell us there's pretty much no way he is...the speech delay is the only symptom he has...all kids develop at different rates and at different times...like you said, i'm just waiting for that "click" and he'll be off, never shutting up LOL”

“Diapers came out and then we got lazy because of the convienence.”
dayhiker
11:28:10 AM

hey now, let's not forget that in most families now both parents are working”

“We have not baby proofed anything. Second child syndrome I guess.”

“Yeah, it's not like the tribespeople or whatever went out and bought a pack of Pampers, LOL.

Personally I've never even read anything about babies' development, I just figured they do what they're supposed to, whenever it's right for that particular baby. They all do things at such different ages, it seems!”

“Haha, I'm a nervous wreck about the babyproofing!! First child syndrome I guess.

We do both work full-time (okay me not so much at the moment, case of the Fridays).”

“lyra, i need you to talk to my wife”

“We didn't read any development books either until the speech issue popped up. We read the one book mentioned above, did the hearing testing, and everything worked out. Stuff happens. All 3 of ours have done time at Children's Hospital, you just deal with what comes up and keep going. Emma is the only one that didn't have anything that was a big or semi-big deal, but is the only one that had general anesthesia. She had a clogged tear duct that had to be surgically opened.”

“PS, agreed lyra, I think reading the development books could make someone a little crazy. The book said he should be doing x by 8 months and it's been 8 months and......”

“He is standing and leaning against objects he can pull himself up on.”
Wounded Knee
10:31:03 AM
10/10/08

are you sure youre not thinking of yourself at ruby's wedding?”

“baby books are nothing more than a general guide. generally designed to make parents nuts. i might have freaked out that ErinAnne didn't walk until she was 15 months old. except that she was a fantastic climber and could scale objects far taller than herself at the age of 8 months. she still climbs. you have to look at the overall picture.”

“Baby Addie loves Hello Kitty. She can't quite pull of the pronunciation. Emma's class had a project where you took the outline of a pumpkin, decorated, and made it not quite look like a pumpkin. I'm sort of messing up the description, but anyway, they took faux fur and glued it to the pumpkin and made the pumpkin look like Hello Kitty. Last night we were at the school for a reading program. While there we went down the hall to see the pumpkins. Addie immediately sees Emma's pumpkin. She starts pointing and yelling out, "Hello Titty! Hello Titty! Hello Titty! Hello Titty! Hello Titty! Hello Titty!"

It was pretty hilarious. My wife didn't appreciate me using the same line later than night when she was changing clothes.”

“LMAO...hahahahahaaaaa”

“That was a good one. =D Thanks for the laugh.”

“my daughter sent me this....
http://www.metacafe.com/watch/489771/what_happens_when_you_ask_a_little_girl_about_monsters/”

“I was waking my son up for school this morning, he rolls over and says he is not feeling well. So I ask him, whats the matter.
He replies, "I have a headache and I am nausea"
So I ask him if he was pregnant?

He asid, "Yes"


it gave me a giigle. He did to after I explained to him why I was laughing.
feel better little one..”

“So I toss Charles up into the air and try to catch him, however Gracie interferes and tries as well. His head hit a part of her, however she laughed and walked over to the couch.

Then I hear her scream like someone pulled out her heart. At this point her head is buried in the couch. I ask what is wrong. She turns and blood is pouring from her nose.

Okay, now to what she said. As I am trying to stop the blood, She says, Daddy please stop it...I don't want to loose all my blood!" I got it to stop and about 10 minutes she sneezes and it starts up again. "Aw #&%!$ daddy, there it goes again!" I tried not to laugh, but I could not stop.”

“i just made a call

child services is on their way now”

“that's fargin hilarious...it's gonna be hard not to laugh when i hear my child's first cuss word...we've been watching ourselves cause Max is starting to repeat things...currently he walks around the house saying "Ohhh Man"...our kid friendly version of "Ohhh shlt".”

“I admit that the #&%!$ comment is probably my fault, althought Barbie drops her share of F-Bombs.

As long as it does not happen in public! (although it did)

We were at Universal in Cali last summer. There is a indoor water ride there that ends up exiting down a slide that goes outside the minute you hit the slide part. She asked me why the water was going down the slide. I told her to watch. When she saw the boat going down the slide she said, "OH #&%!$!"

A few other people heard and laughed the pee out of themselves.”