Kids say the darndest things

well now we know where she gets her counting skills from

We get stuff like that. Opal was just sitting in a duck ride. The kind on a sidewalk. It wasn’t moving. We said let’s go to the playground and she said something like “I’ll stay here for just a little more hours”.

Last night Opal overheard me talking about uber and shouted out "a goober is a chocolate covered peanut!"

Tonight as I was trying to floss her teeth she ran out of the bathroom and jumped on the couch w/ mommy, turned around and said "floss my tushy".

“Papa. Which to you like better. Coffee. Or working?”

Explaining the Voyager golden record to 6yo.
HER: But they should have sent food for the aliens!
ME: I don't think the food would last for millions of years.
HER; Cheese! Cheese lasts a LONG time.

Re. pre-schoolers at music festivals: Nora had more than one awful pre-schooler tantrum, including an immense one at half past midnight at the festival toilets which culminated in her yelling at me “it’s my body! It’s my decision! Don’t touch me!” when I was trying to get her onesie off and get her to have the wee that she’d requested I take her for. Yes, there were other people present. No, no one said anything. Yes, some people looked sympathetic, albeit in that ‘stupid fucker kept a 4-year-old up after midnight’ way.

she's right tbh

Oh absolutely.

Ella has learned from us the "not naming any names, but SOMEBODY [broke/lost/forgot whatever]" phrase, and now SOMEBODY is responsible for a hell of a lot of bad shit in our house.

"I'm a vegetarian except for McDonald's"

Ha, my 7yo daughter recently announced that she's a vegetarian but will still eat a chicken leg because "a chicken could still live if it lost a leg"

i mean she’s not wrong tbf

true! Snapshot of morality development in vivo

Chicken fingers are okay too, because chickens don't need fingers at all.

Chickens have zero use for their nuggets iirc.

“Hey dad. What’s your favorite color of the alphabet?”

Hmm

“The answer is square!”

That’s good. I’m going to use that in job interviews

“No dad, post it to ILX!”

Meta-kids!

pfft Tombot if your kid wants to be on ilx they should get their own account

The other day opal (2 and a half) called her vagina her “tushy penis”

get tombot jr a login, stat, that's the kind of unconventional thinking we sorely need more of on these boards

Me: Please pick up your Legos

4yo: Daddy, you're kind of putting me into slavery.

(Phone rings, it's Fox News offering my son a prime time slot)

We had an elderly neighbour over for coffee. Somehow it was mentioned that he grew up during World War 2.

My son: "Wow! Did you survive?"

my wife explained to Opal that Vampires are made up creatures that suck blood out of necks, after seeing them in the halloween book Sheep Trick or Treat.

she also recently learned about the little beach birds called Sandpipers.

A few weeks ago we were going to Rockaway Beach off-season to play in the sand and she freaked out. "No, I don't wanna see sandpipers don't want my blood sucked"

“no”

“later”

“why are you still talking “

Me: Come on, it's bath time then bed time
3.5yo: Then sleeping time, then morning time, then playtime, then bath time, then bed time, then sleeping time, then morning time...
Me: Oh shit you've figured it out already, how come you're not massively depressed

give it another year and a half :\

4yo: Whenever I scribbled on my paper Julianna used to tattletale on me to the teacher.

me: Does she still do that?

4yo: No, she stopped. Like how those girls used to scream for the Beatles all the time and then they stopped forever.

Brilliant!

wife: What would you like for your birthday?
daughter: Spiders!

otm

came home the other day with a haircut. Opal says "daddy got a haircut!"

The next day Opal wakes up and says "does daddy still have his haircut?"

For the Dutchies:

"Elf november is de dag
Dat mijn nichtje branden mag"

(3yo)

Any help on the last couple of words?

That my niece may burn

Instead of 'that my light may burn' (lichtje/nichtje mistake)

Ta! And cute!

My youngest son, shrugging: “I can’t clean up a fart!”

Needs to be a horrible 70s album title tbh

singer shrugging, guitarist holding his nose, bassist spraying air freshener, drummer passed out

kid's birthday party is saturday, and he has a white noise machine on in his room at night; he got out of bed and came downstairs to say "i'm too excited about my birthday party and am scared that my sound machine is going to turn into a human head"

Whoa!

last christmas, i pooed in my pants
the very next day, i peed in my pants

hahahah!

This year, I’ll stick with a fart
And give it to someone special

File that under posts you immediately regret

This is going to make the next few weeks tolerable. Thanks guys!

I’m lovin it

this has really cheered me up

Driving in the car, Can's "Dizzy Dizzy" comes on the CD.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXm-Xco5BWA

The boy goes, "What is this, Spongebob back from a commercial?"

I go into "incredulous dad mode" - What? This is CAN.

The girl goes, "If it's from Spongebob, they should've called it 'Gary's Theme'."

I DIED nearly from being told this today, by a friend who is mother of three boys, who at the time were probably approx 10-8-8. They had been visiting some family or acquaintance in winter, and on coming home, mom helps free one of the twins from multiple lower-body layers, when it turns out he has within the back of one of the legs of his outermost waterproofs a long shoehorn, as in grown-up, foot-plus length.

MOM (bewildered): How did this happen??
SON (conspiratorial): I was lightning quick!