Kids say the darndest things

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!

“I don’t like fire fighters because they put fire everywhere.”

“Everyone in the Bible is tricky. I think it was written by tricky people.”

"It's a stab or be stabbed world"

speaking of the bible, the five-year-old pulled one out of the hotel desk drawer and tried to read the cover: "holly ... bubble?"

I did exactly that when I was a kid, at a hotel saying "why's this book here? the holly bibble?"

of course since i laughed she did the exact same thing at the next hotel

It was pretty funny hearing our nearly four year old daughter and her six year old friend trying to out lawyer each other when she was holding her red fishing rod in the bath:

him: "It's my turn to have a red thing as she had the red cup at dinner"
her: "It wasn't red it was pink"
him: "Pink is the closest colour to red"

It was less funny when he then had a full on unconsoleable meltdown, while she grimly clutched the rod to her chest the whole time. Was still a bit funny when he wailed, more than once, "I've never had anything red in my whole life!"

My two boys (5 and 8) had an actual fight yesterday about whether the menu screen of Minecraft said "Save and quit to desktop" or "Save and quit to the desktop"

who was right tho

The 8-year-old was right. He was also the one who steered it from a correction to a declaration of war, however, so is not getting any brownie points.

5yo to his dad - "remember when you used to sit in the car next to me to contain me?"
think he mean 'entertain' but he's kind of right

Almost 3 Opal was sick all week so lots of TV. We watched Toy Story 2, where Woody is reunited with his horse. When he gets in the horse Opal screams out angrily “no Woody is a cowboy, not a horseboy!”

!!
I just got given my first note from 5yo saying 'luv mum soree fo beeing notee'

<3

These are so great.

song (by ivy) : row row row your boat merrily down the stream, merrily merrily merrily merrily like a spider dream

doo rag!!

!!!! :D

YES

my daughter (9) is really into Clone Wars on Disney+, I was making dinner and she ran in, saying "daddy, there's a senator who looks like he's wearing a MERINO wool sweater"

Driving through cemetery, my five year old wanted to know the dates on the gravestones. A lot were from the 1800s.

kid: They just keep these dead people buried in here forever?

me: I guess so. What else are they going to do with them?

kid: I don't know. They could dig them up and cut the bodies into pieces and feed them to dogs.

I like the way he thinks :)

CUT MY CORPSE INTO PIECES
THIS IS NOW DOGGIE FOOD

coincidently(?) just posted to a politics thread: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2020/feb/16/human-composting-could-be-the-future-of-deathcare

Pedigree Chum is made of people!

CUT MY CORPSE INTO PIECES
THIS IS NOW DOGGIE FOOD

Didn't immediately see the song parody in this and instead read it in Tim Robinson's voice, which works just as well

A few weeks ago Casper (2) went through a phase, during nappy changes, of slapping his genitals and yelling “touch it!”. This has now ended, thankfully.

I used to lift my shirt and say “belly” because I wanted my belly rubbed so my parents taught me I could rub my own belly so by analogy uh

Casper’s Prince phase

Do you want to hear my new song? It starts out peaceful but it ends violent.

“We’re playing office fight”

"What do you mean, 'ow'?"

After I explained that Shakespeare’s plays use fancy language and old-fashioned words that people don’t use anymore:

“You mean they call girls, ‘Doll’?”

lol

good one

heh.

"This is one of the many books I'm gonna fill up with my ideas."

One of the many, huh?

"Yes. How do you spell 'idea'?"

haaa

A, 4, about her nearly one year old sister: "Can we die her? Come on do it now! She's a bad baby."

This was largely in jest. Couldn't decide whether or not to tell her "it's 'kill', not 'die'".

is she a bad baby

iyo

This was entirely a case of projection.

I had a “fake-out” one of these last night... after I scooped myself a bowl of ice cream in his presence (maybe a jerk move), and told him, No, you already had a donut today, and also your after-dinner snack, he said:

“Hmm. I can’t really argue with that, but I feel like I should.”

I laughed out loud; then he revealed it’s a line from Bone (a graphic novel he’s read four times). Guess if the kid’s old enough to be quoting things, he’s getting too old to fall into the “darndest things” category.

...and yet:

“AAA Insurance? Is that some kind of battery insurance?”

K (8) has been reading and talking about historical figures a lot, and as a result E (4) now regularly refers to "Susan Big Anthony"

Hahaha

At dinner 3yr 2 mo old Opal said she had a “creepy dream where a white flower with a white jacket walked up to her and pulled stinky cheese out of its pocket and threw it at her”. She reiterated that it was not a nightmare but it was creepy. I’ve never heard her say creepy before. I also don’t totally believe her because we were just talking about stinky cheese so I think she either made up the whole thing or just embellished her dream.

She’s been seriously stalling bedtime for a few months now, either screaming fuss fights or occasionally just silly chatter and questions. Tonight she called me back into her room and said “krystoff (frozen), I have a question. Where do baby bees come from?” I said they come from their mommies and daddies. She said “but where do they come out of?” I said I think bees have eggs. She said “oh. I didn’t know that. Like there are dinosaur eggs and bird eggs and bee eggs. I didn’t know about that.” I said I think so, now get some rest so you’ll be ready for the coronation (frozen again) and she said “Maybe in the morning we can look it up.” I said yes now get some sleep Anna (guess).

My 3yr 2mo old is currently calling avocado “water-cado,” because it’s “aguacate” in Spanish (which her g’ma speaks around the house).