Kids say the darndest things

A week or so ago our 3 y/o, Henry, burst into prayer before we had lunch with a surprising degree of enthusiasm. The prayer was in no way imparted from me or PP.

Where do you think he got it?

My primary suspect is his daycare as it is associated with a Methodist church.

Same 3 y/o mocked me for the first time ever last night. He was super hungry before bed but I insisted it was "Too late for Hot dogs!". Not longer after I took him upstairs to put him to bed he spent a good two minutes bouncing on his bed and saying in the most mocking tone ever while imitating my voice. "ooooooo its too late for hot dogs! No hot dogs now. Its just tooo late!" etc etc. Our kids are such smartasses.

Nice!

When I sing Wheels on the Bus to K now, each verse she will call out the thing that is on the bus. Things that ride our bus include:

Chair
Bottle
Water
Cheese
Red (the color)
Hole

It's very difficult to figure out what some of these things *do* on a bus, especially when put on the spot

lool

can you get away with, like 'the cheese on the bus goes cheese cheese cheese?' or would you get side-eye

'Red" !!

Yeah, she'll accept pretty much any action from these inanimate objects, concepts, etc.

"the red on the bus whispers 'kill kill kill'"

hahah

Many of these things also shake an egg in the "Shake Your Egg" song, as well as "egg" himself, and any person we have ever met.

We were in a rush this morning so I told Evie we were going to break the world record for the fastest bath. After I bathed her and took her out, she wandered around looking confused and asked me "where's the smashed record?" She thought I meant a vinyl record.

hahaha aw

BUT YOU SAID

That reminds me of Ramona Quimby and sit here for the present.

White and yellow were on the bus this morning. Actually, it was the hebrew word for yellow, "Tsahov". "Tsahov on the bus?" I asked..."Yellow" she clarified.

I thought 'Sit here for the present' was from Cider With Rosie by Laurie Lee. That was 1959, but the some of the Ramona Quimby books were published around then too, so don't know who had the idea first.

K: Mama, utatte dame! ("Mama, don't sing!")
P: Koyu-chan! That's not nice. Mama is a good singer, she can sing. Are you the boss?
K: Bass?
P: Boss. Is Koyuki the boss?
K: Noooooooo.
P: Is Papa the boss?
K: Mama bass.
P: Right. Mama is the boss.
K: Mama bass. School bus, school bus.

haha cute

"sometimes when mom's in a bad mood, you just have to walk away"

4 years old, people

Kids are kids, they're like the stupid guys we see on chatroulettes (www.bazoocam.org)

so true

This morning K heard H say "hey sexy" to me when I walked into the room and started enthusiastically shouting "SEXY! SEXY!" -- kinda lol, kinda disturbing

"sometimes when mom's in a bad mood, you just have to walk away"

4 years old, people

― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Thursday, July 4, 2013 4:13 PM (4 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

AMAZING

i posted this on fb so sorry if you already saw it but evie's new thing is when she's really angry she yells COCK A DOODLE DOO

Oh man, that's precious.

My wife apparently was singing "On Top Of Spaghetti" to my son in the car and he starting apparently moaning at the end "my poor poor meatball, my poor meatball". To add injury to the whole thing a short time later our dog actually did eat his meatball (which to be fair to her, he put on the floor) which caused a complete breakdown and him to throw himself on the ground kicking and screaming and cursing her.

Not sure why I wrote apparently twice as though I do not believe this story hah.

Toddler: Bat-man cock!
Me: !
Me: ...
Me: oh, Bat-man CLOCK. CL-OCK.
Toddler: Cock.
Me: Clock. Batman clock.
Toddler: Cock, cock, cock.

ha, yeah

that reminds me of

"Do you hear that? Mommy is vaccuming. Vaccum. Mommy is vaccuuming"

"Mommy fuckyou"

"sometimes when mom's in a bad mood, you just have to walk away"

Preach it, kiddo.

xp for a while my son was seemingly convinced that fox was a plural so he kept talking about needing to get his "fock". Also kept referring to a bear as an "abutt" which with the "fock" resulted in a couple of exchanges I would have found mildly embarrassing had they occurred in public.

http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5541/9308135654_a093a79dcb_z.jpg

Those cursed tiny letters.

<3

Aw. Does she need glasses, maybe?

I think she means long words. Her sis needs glasses, but not for reading. Lulu is suddenly quite conscious of the fact that she can't really plough through a young-adult fiction book like Ava can, that she's still reading things that are intended for her age. Nothing wrong with that.

As a kid, I always made the distinction between books with big words (like most books aimed for anyone nine and younger) and the ones with the tiny words (usually without even pictures!)

Yeah, that's it! No pictures! At least those Roald Dahls have got Quentin Blake.

I had a children's book with no pictures, and I *so* wanted to be able to read it, so instead I got a pen and I tried to copy how it was written and practice in the margins

I still have the book, and the writing is just lots of wavy lines :)

VG that's precious! :)

I actually went back to reading more age-appropriate stuff with Ben and Owen. Ben can READ at a very high level, but his comprehension is more in-line with his age, so I think he's actually much happier just reading stuff at a lower level.

I got into a surreal conversation with Beeps this weekend about Mexico vs New Mexico. She couldn't understand that the state wasn't part of the country. I told her that the state was more or less named after the country. But why is it "new" then, if it's not really Mexico?

It is somewhat presumptuous, like naming your dog New Fido even though Fido is still alive and in the backyard.

oh when we were in montreal a couple of weeks ago we had so many confusing discussions about canada, montreal, illinois, chicago, the united states, etc. we had to constantly talk about where we were but she could never quite get it right. also she called the airbnb apt we were staying in our "country" like "after lunch we go back to our country?"

Ben can READ at a very high level, but his comprehension is more in-line with his age

Yeah, I do wonder about this with Ava. She's basically taken ownership of my Kindle and we're putting Dickens novels on there, but I wonder how much she's really getting. She goes much slower with than with Rowling or even Snicket, which is sort of encouraging.

I was an early reader, and I think my long-term reading got kind of screwed up by the fact that my parents and others kept pushing "classics" in front of me that I didn't really have the life experience or maturity to understand, even though I could decode every word. Advanced reading became this kind of trick I could do. I think it's good to encourage kids to mostly read what they like when they're young -- the motivation that comes from their enjoyment will develop their comprehension and reading habits at a good, natural pace.

Same goes for music. Beeps won't stop listening to "Istanbul (Not Constantinople)", but I'm letting her take it easy before springing "Ana Ng" on her.

My son hated reading and didn't really have much interest in being read to either. In the last year or so, he really started taking an interest in comic books and we're just like "here, have all the trade paperbacks you can read, kid."