Kids say the darndest things

Sunni should be "dunno"

i love that

I Sunni, I guess it's not terribly funny on its own, but its a little crazy to me that she understand the form and structure of a letter enough that she can make one up by herself.

― how's life, Tuesday, August 27, 2013 6:38 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I'd say that's pretty damned clever of her

Sort of relatedly, we always play a game with K where we ask her "What does the sheep say?" "What does the pig say?" and she makes the sounds. So K recently started to sort of pick up on this and now asks me "What does the...hat?" "What does the...strawberry?" "What does the...ice cream?"

Ha! That's cute.

Rrrai*! I'm a triceratops from the coconut**!

*she pronounces ending r's as a long "i". Car=Cai, Park = Pike, etc.
**Dinosaurs are often pictorially depicted with palm trees.

Beeps & Ham playing a video game together:

BEEPS: Just Follow ME. I won't let you get hurt. Do you want to fall? Do You WANT to Fall?

HAM: No.

BEEPS: Then you're going to have to FOLLOW ME. IF you go around that other way near the cliff, you're going to with that you had –

HAM: Oops, I fell. Let's try again!

~learning~

K learned to say "What color is this?" -- it's one of only a couple of full sentences she can say in English, and she loves saying it, like she literally says it over and over again about everything from the moment she wakes up in her crib, as in *opens eyes* *holds up blanket* "What color is this?"

But now she asks me things like "What color is Mommy?" and "What color is water?"

Beeps told me about a nightmare she had that scared the shit out of me.

She and her brother were at their grampa's house, one of those multi-story A-frames that looks over the river. However, the abandoned office at our house was over there.

There's a box with a button on it, and when they'd push it, as she said, "little night toys" would come out. They would move around and soon, would turn into gray monsters.

They get scared and in the dream, I step in and start shouting at them "GET OUT! RUN!" Or maybe the sequence in the dream was that I start shouting and then they get scared.

But Mama comes in and touches the monsters and says it's ok. So I say it's ok. But Beeps recounts that she never touched them, so she doesn't know what they felt like, besides she had been freaked out enough as it is.

(I asked her what "little night toys" looked like, and she said they were like "the men on the chessboards people play with." Ohhhh, those kind of knights... and even more fucked up.)

http://i612.photobucket.com/albums/tt203/pplains/beeps_zpsbff42d78.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWiyKgeGWx0

i recounted the nightmare on the sleep training thread but it a skeletal version because i didnt get that much detail from beeps. mom saves the day yet again.

whoa i got kinda scared just reading about it

K put a mesh laundry bag over her head and announced "Face pajama! Go to sleep."

She also keeps repeating the weirdest stuff from baby einstein videos, e.g. "Las Abejas" (spanish for "bees") and "Polar regions" (which comes out like 'Pola mmmjns') and "wombat" (which comes out "ombak")

Dalton noticing my arm hair: you have fur?
Me: I have arm hair. When you get older you will too.
D: when I am a daddy?
Me: yes.
D: when I am a daddy you will be Dalton and I will be Alex and mommy will be Jen.
Me: uh not quite.

hahaha

Woman wheeling crying 2-ish year old in a car through Target...

Woman leans over to kid and says in a pleading voice: You are being so loud!
Kid, wailing at the top of her lungs: I KNOOOOOOWWWWWWWWW!!!!!!

I felt bad for both of them but couldn't help but LOL.

<3

At daycare, Henry's class has been reading jack and the beanstalk. For the past two nights he has been yelling over and over "Be! Bi! Bo! Bum! I smell BLAH BLAH BLAH!"

loool

we were having a conversation the other day about how her mom's name was different before we got married, and how some people change their name when they get married but other people don't, and evie said "mommy, when you get married again, can you change your name to 'mommy'?"

hahahaha

When K's babysitter, Noni, came this morning, K said "Maybe Noni...is in...basket"

Evie's first response to the music of Kate Bush: "Is she a kid?"

Last night K exclaimed "Ha Yalda Pasta!" (basically "the pasta girl" or "the girl who is pasta") and laughed hysterically. This made me laugh, which only made her laugh more and continue to exclaim "HaYalda Pasta!" again and again.

D: "MOMMY read me a book."
Mom: "Mommy is getting ready to go. Daddy can read you a book!"
D: "NOOOOOOO."
Me: "Maebelle (our dog) can you read a book then."
D: "Nooo she doesn't have HANDS!" *displays hands to demonstrate the dog's lack*
Maebelle: *looks hurt*

Aidan, 6 concocted his own pudding out of of Jelly that I'd made, with frozen fruit on top and around the plate it was on. Then he got me to pretend to bring it to him as if we were on Masterchef:

A eats a spoonful
A: The taste is good, nice and clean
A takes another spoonful and examines the glass, scraping the jelly around
A: The colour is good
A takes another mouthful
A: I think it would have worked better if you'd put some of the fruit inside the jelly though
A takes another spoonful and looks at the glass
A: Nice presentation, it does look good. Pretty good dish, I like that. but.......you're through to the next round, congratulations.

I think he must have been watching tv with his Mama at the end of the summer holidays as he's not been watching masterchef at home!

Pretty good dish, I like that. but.......you're through to the next round, congratulations.

Haw!

Love the fake-out!

Owen at dinner, thoughtfully:

"Have I had enough sugar today? Hmmmm. I don't think I have."

Kathy: "What about the yogurt in your lunch, and the bar."

Owen: "Those don't have any sugar. Ok, the bar does. 9 grams."

aiden is 6??? wow. 6 and awesome.

schwantz, bee assesses her sugar mintake too but more in a 'i havent had something sweet all day' while acting like her body is withering and dying.

omg vickyp that exchange is killing me

Evie's first response to the music of Kate Bush: "Is she a kid?"

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dying

Ben: "I wish I wasn't Jewish so they won't cut off my penis like a little jerk."

loool

this morning I was driving k and to keep her happy while stuck in traffic I was pointing stuff out.

Me: "Look at that. That's a cement truck."
K: "Samantha!"

Bedtime ritual.

D: Mommy thank you for that kiss.
D: Mama that kiss was super duper special.
D: Mama you're welcome for that kiss too.
D: Mommy that song is super duper special.
D: Mama can you put my blanket back on. Thanks.

Aw.

Lulu decided to sell her own newspapers, price one old penny. She had the layout pretty down but the articles were just scribbled in.

Me: "What's the headline here?"
Lulu: "This paper is from 1666. Just before the Great Fire. It says 'Fire Coming Tomorrow'."
(When I told Ava this she fell down laughing).
Later...
Me: "Ah, what's this one?"
Lulu: "It says there's plan to demolish Gatwick Airport and put a disco in its place."
Me: "Wow, that's radical. So this is a modern one, then?"
Lulu: "No, still 1666."
Me: "I think people from then might struggle to understand terms like 'airport' and 'disco', Lulu."
Lulu: "Yeah! They'd just say 'place with big birds' and 'floor with lights'."

Then we spent a while pretending to be 17th-century people terrified by a floor which lights up.

I want very much to subscribe to that newsletter

Esp. since it predicts the future.

irl lols @ 'fire coming tomorrow'

floor with lights!

Well in to our "What was in space before there was space? Who was here before God was here? How do we know what happened before Earth was made?" phase with Beeps.

Now I know why Evangelicals are what they are. It sure would be easy just to say "Everything is 6000 years old. We know because it says this in the Bible. The End."

Evie's been into using big words without knowing what they mean lately. I was trying to get her socks on her yesterday and she kept screaming "Noooo they're too gorgeous. THEY'RE TOO GORGEOUS!" She also said something was "too community" the other day.

:D

K now likes to raise her arms and go up on her toes and say "Yoga! Yoga!"

Not actual speech, but endless lovely laughter from Ella yesterday as she watched our dog play with a balloon. Not sure why this cracked her up so much, but she was in hysterics.