My grandmother, who we all called Mam, had a neighbor who called her a lot during the day. One day she called and my sister and I were able to reach the phone on the wall in the kitchen so we answered it. The lady said, "let me speak to your granny" and we laughed and hung up on her. We went and told Mam that somebody had the wrong number. I couldn't figure out for years how come every clerk in every store knew her name. I asked her once and she said she didn't think they did. I said, "sure they do Mam. Every time you pay they say thank you Ma'am." She loved telling that one.
My grandmother used to tease me about the time I said that I was "Grandma's little feet fart". I also got razzed by her for an incident where she told me "that's the way the ball bounces" and I replied "well then, let that ball bounce right out the window!". Apparently I was about 3 at the time. The other night I was talking to my mom on the phone and she had my brother's daughter. She was chattering in the background like always when all of a sudden she burst into tears. My mom and I had been talking about the spanking law and my neice was bawling saying "I don't want to go to jail! I'll never see my daddy again!". She was so upset but I guess she picked up on the remark about 4 yr olds and that is how old she is. One day my mom told her she was going to lose the privilege of watching a certain video when my neice informed her that that was okay because she had other ones she could watch. My mom told her that was grounds for losing the tv too!
My daughter who adopted by us when she was seven was watching the movie 13TH YEAR with Katie and me when all of a sudden she burst into tears and threw herself across Katie sobbing, "I don't want to turn into a mermaid!" The movie is about a boy merman baby who is adopted by humans and doesn't know he is a merman until he turns 13. According to the movie mermaid babies start growing gills, scales and tails at the age of 13. Crystal thought since she was adopted she would turn into a mermaid when she turned 13! She was pitiful!!!
Oh yeah, my uncle, my dad's little brother was hilarious too! One time his older brother (not my dad) was helping him learn his abc's. The older brother would show him a letter and say, "What letter is that?" And my uncle (probably around 4 or so) would say what he thought it was. But he couldn't think of one of them, and the older brother said, "C'mon, what is this?" My uncle said, "I dunno!" So the older brother said, "It's a u." My uncle looked at his big brother, then back at the u and said, "Awww, that's not a me!"
when dd11 was 3, she was with her granma, who she heard say "I think I'll call myself a taxi". quick as a flash, dd replied "You're a taxi Grandma!"
My dgs has a keyboard in his room. My dgd wanted to listen to the music that is on the keyboard. You push some buttons and it plays songs. Well, my dgs pushed some buttons and it started playing the song. My dgs said to my dgd, "Thats a sad song". He left her in the room and my dh went in to check on her. She was laying on the bed sobbing, big tears. He didn't know what was going on - he asked her what's the matter and she said "It's a sad song" He could hardly keep from laughing. I went in later and we played it again and she started sobbing again. We don't play that song any more. The funny thing about it is - it's not a sad song, he just told her that. She's is our drama queen
The power of suggestion, huh? That's so cute! It reminds me of what my mom said my sister used to do when she was little. At dinnertime, my sis would look at the food placed before her. If it wasn't something familiar she would ask, "Mommy, do I like this?" My mom always said, "Yes you do!" My sister would say, "Okay" and eat it! One time my parents were driving somewhere with my brother and sister iin the back seat. My mom handed them a couple of oatmeal cookies with raisins. Pretty soon she looked back back and realized my brother was taking all the raisins out and saying, "Eeuuww, bugs! We don't like to eat bugs!" So my sister had started doing and saying that also! They didn't eat raisins again until they were adults!
yea when I was growing up my dad told my older sister that raisins were dead flys, he told her they took the wings off of them and put them in pies and cookies. My sister has never eatten raisins since.
We were having mixed beans one night for supper. For anyone that doesn't know, that is white beans and pinto beans cooked together. One of my twins was eating very quietly and when I looked over at her, she had all the pintos pushed to one side of her plate. She looked so proud and said, "Mama I took out all the bad ones."
I just love the stories I'm hearing about the children. My dgd has a cold/cough and I was just in rubbing vicks on her chest. she was just giggling, she thought I was tickleing her. Then she said "You stink" I thought me??? Little did she know she was the one
One more story. My dgs and I was talking the other day and he said "but I'm a man now" he's 11. I looked at him and said no your not. His respond was well, I'm half a man, in 10 years I'll be 21.
We've watched Disney movies from day one and my dd8 used to call Sleeping Beauty "Sleeping Doody" and when she sang the 7 dwarfs song from Snow White, she would proudly sing "My HO, My HO, it's off to work you go!!!" She still calls a car accident a "car attack". We have one of those bird clocks that chirps a different bird every hour that was once my Mom's. Since my dd8 stayed w/ my Mom a LOT while I was finishing college and working, playing with that clock and naming the bird w/ the sound it made was one of their favorite activities. My dh, dd(then maybe 2?), and I were eating dinner at Ryan's and my dh & I were talking about something when one of us must have said "knock on wood" then knocked on the table for emphasis. With the biggest grin, and loudest voice, my dd proudly showed off her bird knowledge and exclaimed for ALL to hear... "PECKER!!" over and over! Everyone's head turned and eyes grew, and I (beet red!) replied, "YES, honey. That's right a WOODpecker makes this noise (knocking on the table), doesn't it? A WOOD pecker (knock knock knock)" Thankfully, the elderly man behind us just busted out laughing, breaking the silence and causing everyone else to chuckle then turn back to their dinners. :lol:
My neighbor took the family to this exhibit at one of the museums here in Houston. The exhibit was about the body and I can't remember what it was called right now but there were bodies of humans and horses and all kind of things without the skin. Well her daughter was 6 and pointed to the male part and asked what it was called. She told her it was a penis and the little girl thought she said peanut. She called it a peanut all day and got home looked at her male dog on the floor, pointed to "it" and said Look mommy skip has a peanut too just like daddy does!
I have never been one for using curse words but occasionally one will slip. My mom's version was "sugar tit" and I've hear "sheep" in place of s**t. I thought I was slick and used the German form of it when the kids were little. One day I was in line at Kmart and my 2 yr old son started saying it over and over. I hear this chuckling behind me, turn around and it is a tiny older woman. She said that her mil was German and had taught her curse words in German. So much for that!
