I know we've done this before, but I came across some little notes I'd scribbled on things the kids said when they were little and thought I'd share them, and ask for more from you and your kids! Remember the "One day only at the Bon Marche'" commercial? When ds13 was 4 he would go around the house singing, "One day only at the Farmer shave!" ----------------------------------------------------- When my boys were little they loved some of the PBS programs, which was channel 9 here. I overheard this conversation between my two boys when the youngest (ds2) was 4 and the oldest(ds1) was 6 1/2: ds2: We love channel 9, huh? ds1: Yeah, but not when it's the "Nightly Business Report"! ------------------------------------------------------ When ds13 was 5 he came and told me very seriously: "Mommy, when I was pulling my pants on I recognized that I still had my shorts on, so I knew I had to take care of that!" ------------------------------------------------------ ds13 again (he said the most funny things!), at age 5: We were going with Daddy to the Barber shop, and he asked, "Where are we going, to the barbecue shop?" ------------------------------------------------------ When dd was 5, she stated very matter-of-factly to me: "Mommy, I might still live with you when I'm 20. But don't count on it, cuz you never know!"
My son kept coming home from school when he was six talking about a boy everyone called germy. I was very upset about everyone picking on the little boy. I asked Matthew if he called the child germy and he said yes even the teacher did. I said Matthew why do they call him such an awful name. He looked real confused and said because his Mama and Daddy named him that. I got our the annual from the year before and had him point germy out to me. Sure enough there he was. Jeremy! And his parents did pronounce it JUR-ME!
My nephew loved preschool and especially loved show and tell except when his friend Kate shared. He would get so upset when it was her turn. He said she alway brought a Barbie doll. I said well Ian what is wrong with that. He looked at me as serious as can be and said Barbies give me headaches.
My daughter Emily has a friend named Molly. Molly knows that Emily has twin sisters but she only knew Katie when she and Emily were five. One day Molly came swimming at my sister's house and Emily told her Katie's twin, Maggie, was going to be there too and Emily said Maggie isn't as friendly as Katie. Molly told her mother she was going to meet Katie's twin evil.
We planned on our grandson Beau calling us Papa and Gran like our older grandson Austin. Beau decided that didn't suit him and he insists on calling us Mama's Mama and Mama's Daddy. It is cute when he says it.
When I was pretty young, there were some much older girls at the park one afternoon. They knew my older brothers and wanted to get even with them by embarassing them or something. Only problem was that they ended up punishing my parents not my brothers. They told me that there was a party drink called an o****m. They said that is was white and that you made it by shaking the glass such and so, with the wrist. They further told me that everyone that was a teenager or adult just loved them and that I should ask everyone at home if they had ever had one. It turned out that my parents had a large group of folks over that night. Great a party so I just had to show off my new knowledge. You can imagine the rest.
I heard this story, I don't know who it was, though. A little boy was in the hospital many, many years ago, and had never heard of an intercom. He used the call button to call the nurse. The nurse was busy with something, so she used the intercom to his room and asked him what he wanted. No answer. So she said, "Tommy, are you there?" Then a little voice said, "Watcha want wall?!"
My oldest dd when she was 2 we went to walmart and shopping when we got to the check out I was putting stuff on the belt and she notice my pads and her sister diapers she said daddy look we are big we don't wear diapers. See theres diapers for mommy and diapers for sissy. Nothing for me and you. I turned every color red you could think of. She said it loud everyone was laughing but me.
One day when kissing my eldest daughter on the cheek (we exchange LOTS of hugs and kisses at our house all day long!), She had been particularly unhappy with me that day - I think she was about 4 at the time. After kissing her she appeared to be wiping it away....well, I said "man, so upset with mommy today that you're wiping away my kisses". She said "Oh, no, mommy, I wasn't wiping it away, I was rubbing it in so it reached all the way down to my bones!". For my son. Soon after he was potty trained, I had taken my kids to the Play area at McDs. Our McD's was indoor...and to leave, you had to go thru a big door. Well, I was caring for the new baby...and didn't notice him leaving. Well, of course after realizing he was gone, I was panicked that he had been taken, etc. About 10 minutes later, he walked back into the room and proudly announced he had gone potty! I was soooo thankful he was back. I held him and kissed him and explained why he should never leave without telling me, etc. I also said that if anyhthing had happened to him that my heart would break in two. He got really upset and started crying and say "Oh, No, Mommy, then Jesus would fall out!". Those are my 2!
My mom said that when I was very little all animals were horsey-goggies (even if they weren't horses or doggies!), and swimming pools and swimming suits were fimming-poots. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ When my brother was little, and my sister even littler, they were taking a car trip. My parents had told him what things were as they passed them: That's a field of wheat, that is corn growing, that's an oak tree, etc. Awhile later they heard him telling his little sister, "That's corn growing, that's a cottage cheese tree...!" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- My brother was a great one for one-liners when he was little! In one area they lived, there weren't many black people at all, in fact he'd never seen one. He was about 3 when he went with my mom to the grocery store. They were in line to check out when a black man got in line near them. My brother, who was learning his colors at the time, stared and stared. Then he said LOUDLY (of course!), "Mommy, look at that funny GREEN man!" My mom was so embarrassed, she said, but the man just laughed and came and talked with my brother. By the time my mom was through checking out, my brother and the "green" man were buddies!
A little boy, who had just learned to read, was carefully examining the cookies from a box of Animal Crackers. His mother questioned what he was doing. "Well, the box says you can't eat them if the seal is broken. I'm looking for the seal!"
Dd4 wanted some cookies. She said "Mommy can I have a cookie?" I said sure. She then said "Well I certianly can't have two!" and then "Actually I think I can have two." It was too cute. She brought me instructions for a new game she got for her b-day and asked me to read the constructions. At Christmas this year she began to sing Jingle Bells and the words were "Oh what fun it is to ride in an oughten sloughten sleigh." We gave her a hard time about that one! When dd10 was 3 we had just moved into a new house and she had a play room. I was unpacking and walked in to check on her and she had colored on the wall and floor with a blue crayon. I asked her why she did it. She looked at me and said "I didn't do it. My brother did it." She was an only child. One year when my niece was about 4 (she is 12 now) she started crying hysterically when their family was about to leave to visit my parents. They asked her what was wrong and she said "I can't find my budda rider!" and she was really upset. We never did fingure out what a budda rider was. We should start a thread about crazy things adults say. I have a ton of things courtesy of my mother.
Well, it's not really a quote, but my youngest DS loves Bobby Labonte in Nascar (his favorite color is green and Bobby used to drive the green 18 car). Anyway, he would look at the race on tv and ask where "Bobbily Dabont-ay" was. My boys call the directions in a box "destructions". (when they were little) One day my little brother was out shopping with my mother and sister. (My brother is much younger than my sisters and I). Anyway, he got seperated from Mom, and an employee took him to customer service to page Mom. Only, he knew he wasn't supposed to tell strangers his name, so Mom heard-- "Would Catwoman please come pick up Batman at the service desk?" My mom was so embarassed she sent my sister!! LOL MT3
MT3 - Now that had to be hillarious!!! Dd10 used to call M&M's anym's; Dorothy Gayle was Dorfy Gayle, and mayonaise was nanaise. For some reason my brother used to call broccoli cumpy. Never figured that one out.
When the older three were younger (I found out I was prego with Joyce at this time) my means of transportation was an extremely sorry looking Datsun B210. This would have been 1994 and this car was from the 70's and had alot of problems and it didn't look any better. My dh had bought it for parts and when our other car put us down he used this one to run to the parts store and realized it had a pretty decent engine so we put it on the road. I was going to a local Tech school at the time and hauling three kids in it. Well, I always laughingly called it my "$50 hunk of junk". One day we were in a parking lot and Jane, who was 4 at the time pointed to another vehicle and asked "is that a hunk of junk too?" She thought that was a make of a vehicle. I still tease her too that she called the car model Lexus, "Alexis". She kept telling me "I want an Alexis when I grow up". It took me awhile to figure that one out. My dgd is 13 mo and has a verrry limited vocabulary but she can still make me laugh. She had one of Joyce's Fisher Price family people the other day trying to get it to stay on top of her head. Finally she came over to me and kept repeating "do it, do it!". I finally had to put one of the man's legs through her hair bow so he would stay. My brother is a Jeremy but my cousin could never pronounce it right and called him "Germany". My little sis couldn't say my name right and I ended up being called "Jeffer" by all my friends. When Joyce was little she had been bitten by fire ants and told me the baby ants needed to go to school to learn some manners and not bite people. She also had an imaginary friend named Tobby and was bound determined I would buy him a pair of rain boots. I didn't think I would make it out of the store if I didn't by them. She still trips on the word vinegar and will ask for salt and viganar chips. A hippo was called a hippolapotamus.
My oldest said pooftaste for toothpaste, my middle one said mazageen for magazine. ----------------------------------------------------- Some dear friends have a boy a few months younger than my ds13. When he was younger his dad drove a gold Intrepid. The boy would say, "Dad let's go in your golden trumpet!"
My oldest son didn't have an imaginary friend- he had LOTS of them!!! They were called "Chon-a-lonks" and he would make me hold doors for them and everything. Once we got in the car after the grocery store and he started crying because I shut the door too fast- I told him to check again cuz they were quick and sneaky.... what a relief that he found them "hidin' in da back!" He scolded them in his 2 1/2 yr old vocabulary all the way home for scaring him!! I make meatloaf patties with a ketchup sauce baked on, and they are DS #2's absolute favorite meal! Except he STILL calls them "burgers with the dried ketchup" which earns me odd looks for my cooking skills from strangers!! MT3
