Kids Say the Darndest Things
Jun 22nd 2009
LoriHandelandGoddess Grins & Lori Handeland
Anyone remember the television show with Art Linkletter and Bill Cosby? I wish they’d bring it back. Although my kids are too old to be on it anymore, they sure did say the darndest things.
I have a notebook where I write down the good lines, and I’ve used several in books. For instance, at the age of 4, #1 son asked, “Can I say ‘aw shucks!’?”
Mom-Sure, that’s okay.
Son–”Aw shucks. What the hell is this?”
And another family fave-”When my mommy went to the hospital I was supposed to get a baby brother. But they gave us Alex instead.”
#2 son has always been a laugh and a half–still is. At 6, in response to my yelling at the dog, he said, “Mom, why do you yell at Jake?
He doesn’t understand. All he knows is the truth.”
If that ain’t the perfect description of a dog, I don’t know what is,
In response to his dad’s question, “Do you think before you talk?” he replied, “I can’t. Otherwise I’d be a slow talker.”
He slays me.
Have any of the kids you’ve been around said the darndest things? I know they have! Let’s hear them!
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63 Responses to “Kids Say the Darndest Things”
Karen Rose on 22 Jun 2009 at 4:45 am #
Oldest at three when we’d gone on our first real vacation on a plane and rented a car. She was wide-eyed and silent as we pulled out of the rental car lot, then screeched, “Mommy, Daddy’s stealin’ this car! Stop him!”
We still laugh at that!
Cail on 22 Jun 2009 at 6:00 am #
my DH has a very young little brother from his dads 2nd marriage. the kid says the funniest things all the time. he even makes puns! there are far too many to quote, but my favorite has to be when he informed us that instead of peeing in the bathroom he was going to pee in the grass… in the grassroom.
Sabrina Jeffries on 22 Jun 2009 at 6:51 am #
My little brother once said, “This birthday has been just like a feather” when we were traveling on his birthday. My twin niece and nephew crack me up a lot. Like the time they were discussing what presents they were giving their mom on her upcoming birthday, and the boy said, “I’m going to give her a $100″ and his sister said, “I’m going to give her money. Mommy, what’s money?” Then they discussed where to get the cake, and my nephew said, “We’re going to leave that to the rednecks.” None of us have figured out why he associates rednecks with bakeries. Or where he learned the term redneck.
One of my older nephews, who would shoot me if he knew I was sharing this, said, “Daddy, sometimes my penis is just wicked.” He was three. We all went, “Uh oh, it’s starting already.”
My favorite, though, is when my last brother was born, in Thailand. We’d just seen a Thai baby born in the neighborhood that we adored. So when he was born blond and blue-eyed, we were SO disappointed that he wasn’t a cute little Thai baby. We were in Thailand; why was he born just like us? Imagine my parents trying to explain THAT one to kids of ages 4, 6, and 8.
Lorena on 22 Jun 2009 at 7:01 am #
My godson is autistic, and for the first several years one could never be sure what he heard, or what he understood of what he heard. Around the age of 3, though, he obviously heard his mother swearing, AND understood the context in which one would do that–he didn’t just walk around saying the words, he saved them. Like when he broke his (very cheap, plastic) sunglasses (the kind with the film that pops out) and promptly added “goddammit” to his usual “uh-oh.” Later that same year, I stayed over to help keep mommy sane through the THIRD hurricane to hit Orlando that year (2004). We had the weather on, watching the storm get closer, and finally the weather guy said “nothin’ left to do but hunker down.” H., without looking up or giving any other sign that he was even aware there were other people in the room, popped up with
“Hunkerin’ down, goddammit!”
Claudia Dain on 22 Jun 2009 at 7:12 am #
I love that show! I just watched an montage of clips on you-tube a few days ago.
I remember when Only Girl was a toddler and she saw Number One Son eating celery with peanut butter. She came running into the kitchen, eyes wide with excitement, “Mommy! Mommy! Can I…can I have…carrots and jam, too?”
LoriHandeland on 22 Jun 2009 at 7:14 am #
Love it, K-Ro. It’s so interesting to hear how little ones see the world.
Grassroom. That’s a good one, Cail. I’m sure he had dozens more like that. Some kids are so clever. Actually most kids.
A birthday like a feather. How sweet and imaginative, Sabrina. And I’ve got several pages full of penis comments. Houseful of men. ‘nough said.
Isn’t it interesting how they figure out the context of curse words so quickly, Lorena? It must be the emphasis we put on them that interests kids. Or the situation, which is charged with emotion.
SuzyQ on 22 Jun 2009 at 7:19 am #
My 7 year old just said to me yesterday “Mommy, I have too many memories in my head. I think I need to get rid of the ones I don’t want anymore”
Margaret on 22 Jun 2009 at 7:22 am #
When my grandfather was in his last days, he was in/out of the hospital frequently. My 3 yr old cousin was sitting in her grandmother’s lap. Apparently, the adult conversation had been about Grandpa most of the day. Sherry was being rocked, hopefully, to sleep when she sleepily said ‘Grandpa is so sick……..Damn it!’. I should mention that Grandpa was a Southern Baptist preacher of the hardshell variety. My grandmother read the Bible for entertainment. When she wasn’t reading True Detective magazine & it’s ilk. My aunt about fell out of the rocking chair to hear her angelic looking granddaughter swearing. It was one of her favorite stories for years.
One of my granddaughters mispronounced thing so that we still use them even tho she is 24. We heat at Bob’s Heaven, Red Monster and Burger Doodle. The last has the fat little guy who wears a crown.
I loved Art Linkletter. The kids were hysterical. He knew just how to get them to tell him the stuff their parents had coached them NOT to say. I could never get into Bill Cosby’s rendition of the show. It was so connected with Linkletter in my mind. I had a crush on his son, BTW.
Margaret on 22 Jun 2009 at 7:23 am #
Oops! Typos R Us. I meant we eat at those places, of course.
Pesky on 22 Jun 2009 at 7:26 am #
When asked why he had destroyed the room his mother had cleaned up not 10 minutes earlier my young nephew replied:
Cuz I three years old and I have two hands. (Can’t argue that logic)
When my sister was asked if she wanted a little brother or sister she replied:
Oh, I’d like a big dog please.
When my super analytical nephew was asked why he only liked cheese sandwiches we got in reply:
Because the bread is square and the cheese is square so that’s what works the best. (Hey, he’s 6′7″ now, and it’s still his favorite sandwich. Cheese it does a body good)
Margaret on 22 Jun 2009 at 7:26 am #
That was very profound of your 7 year old, SuzyQ. Wouldn’t it be nice if we could all do likewise with our unwanted memories.
SuzyQ on 22 Jun 2009 at 7:32 am #
Yes Margaret, but little does she know that one day she’ll want those memories but just won’t seem to find them -LOL!
LoriHandeland on 22 Jun 2009 at 7:35 am #
Did you give her carrots and jam, Claudia? And if so, did she like it? #1 son used to eat mayonnaise sandwiches. Shudder.
SuzyQ-wouldn’t it be great if we could do that? I’ve got a whole bunch of things I’d like to scour from my head.
#2 son used to call Burger Doodle, Berber King. We still call it that.
Pesky-I love it!! I’m 3 and I have 2 hands. Totally explains the situation to me.
TrishD on 22 Jun 2009 at 7:36 am #
My 7 year old daughter is autistic and her biggest issue is her speech. She gets therapy and she’s made great strides. Now that we can understand some of the things that pop out of her mouth, she make us laugh out loud quite a bit.
Right now her biggest one is telling us, “Homer not a butt head.” (Homer being our dog and him being a butt head when he gets into the garbage.) She’ll say “Burger, fry, chicken nugget” as her way to ask for McDonald’s. And like most kids she’ll tell us “I finished”, push her plate away then look at us and say “Cake!”
To get sappy, the best thing to hear out of her mouth is “I love you mommy.” Took so long to hear it that I never take it for granted and it makes me smile all the time!
dbrown3400 on 22 Jun 2009 at 7:39 am #
We were stargazing one evening when my husband and I and DD#1, who must have been about five at the time saw a shooting star. She said, “That star just sh!tted across the sky.” We’re still laughing about that one.
TrishD on 22 Jun 2009 at 7:46 am #
I’ll tell one about me… when I was much younger and more innocent I begged my mom to let me wear nylons to church one Easter Sunday. She said yes and I was so proud that while putting them on I loudly proclaimed: “This is my first step into adultery!” My family still tells that story to this day!
Claudia Dain on 22 Jun 2009 at 8:28 am #
Lori, no, the poor kid! She was so excited that she couldn’t find the right words. I gave her celery and peanut butter, and was she happy!
Mayo sandwiches. Shudder. I had a friend who put mayo on her pizza. I couldn’t watch.
LoriHandeland on 22 Jun 2009 at 8:35 am #
Aw, Trish, that’s adorable. The I Love Yous are so special. And adultery! Snort. That’s priceless.
You made me LOL with that one, D.
Mayo on pizza? Ick! I think I need to do a blog on disgusting food combos.
or maybe not . . .
Cail on 22 Jun 2009 at 8:41 am #
Trish, that’s a great one!!!
My parents tell one about me a lot. My mom always had road rage, and being a NYer was well versed in the use of a car horn. I think she actually was toning it down a bit for us kiddos. she’d wail on the horn and angrily say stupid ass when people did stupid things while driving. anyways, my dad took me (around age 2 or 3) to go pick up my babysitter. He stopped in front of the house and tooted the horn to notify the sitter that we were there and she should come out. as soon as i heard “honk honk” i yelled from the back seat, STUPID ASS!
Julia London on 22 Jun 2009 at 10:02 am #
these are making me laugh! The Cutest Toddler Ever (who is 2.5) has some cute ones. He told me this weekend he was going to the seaside. As we live nowhere near the sea and wouldn’t call it that if we did, I have no idea where he got it. He is always going “lawning” (to mow the lawn) and really likes clock-o-lot (chocolate) and thinks oatmeal and spaghetti are the same thing.
When I was a kid, and we were on some vacation road trip from hell (four kids, station wagon, the back seat facing backwards, remember that one?) my parents decided we would play a game of ghost. This is a game where one person starts with a letter. The next person continues. But the person who actually spells a word is out, a ghost, and can’t talk. So we’re riding along, and my father starts with an F. My sister gives it a U. My brother, who was probably 8 or so, said C.
Dead silence.
My mom asks him what he was trying to spell — Vacuum cleaner. And I’m not sure his spelling skills really improved over the years! hahaa!
Julia London on 22 Jun 2009 at 10:04 am #
Oh Cail — CTE has repeated some of mine, too! One day we are driving and a guy pulls in front of me, and he shouts, “Just drive the truck, dude!”
But this is the best: I laughed so hard: Jack London takes him grocery shopping–on a Sunday, no less. He’s looking at some boxes and the CTE says, “Papa, you farted.” Jack says, “No, I didn’t!” “Yes you did, Papa. You farted!” Jack was mortified. He said for once in his life, he really truly hadn’t, but that no one on that aisle believed it. HE said they all looked like they sided with the CTE. Oh, I laughed and I laughed and I laughed!
LoriHandeland on 22 Jun 2009 at 10:06 am #
I have a similar one, Cail. When #1 son was in a car seat I was driving a plymouth grand fury that DHs grampa got at a cop auction–used to be an unmarked cop car. At any rate it was OLD and very used and liked to stall.
#1 son’s godmother took him for the day and when she brought him back she said, “Having problems with your car?”
“Why?” I ask warily.
Because when she started hers, #1 son reached over and smacked the dashboard and said, “Start, you mother.”
Ouch.
Freedom Writer on 22 Jun 2009 at 10:06 am #
Lori, my 3 year old gd asks for peanut butter, jelly, mayonnaise and mustard sandwiches. Yes, I will admit it, we deceive the poor child. We distract her while we make the sandwich so we can leave off the mayo and mustard. She will also ask for just a mayo and mustard sandwich. We have to make a happy face with the mustard.
Once dh used one of gd’s kiddie forks and she caught him. She told him “Now you’re in trouble.” Then she said to me “Pop’s rude, he needs to say please.”
LoriHandeland on 22 Jun 2009 at 10:08 am #
Julia, do you think CTE was messing with him? I’d have laughed my head off too.
Clock-o-lot! So cute. I hate it when they stop using those “so close” words.
Suzanne Enoch on 22 Jun 2009 at 10:11 am #
A few weeks ago my 7-yr-old nephew got the flu. He lay down on my sister’s couch, through an arm over his forehead, and said “mom, you’d better call the family. I’m dyin’.”
Oh, and he has a toy police car that says “you are under arrest. You have the right to remain silent.” When he says it, though, it’s “you are under arrest. You have the right to remain stylish.”*g*
Freedom Writer on 22 Jun 2009 at 10:13 am #
When my kids were little I would tell them that if they didn’t wear their seatbelts that the cops would throw them in jail. Once when I was driving a loaner care while ours was being fixed a police officer stopped me because the loaner had a rear light out. The loaner also had only 2 working seat belts in the back and I had three kids so my eldest rode without a seat belt. She was 6 and as the police officer approached the car my 4 year old son start to cry. He kept saying “Don’t arrest Rachel. Don’t arrest Rachel.” We got him quieted down before the officer got to the open window. Now that they are 25 and 23 he wishes that she would have been carted her away.
Emmanuelle on 22 Jun 2009 at 10:21 am #
When I was pregnant with my 2nd son, my older one (he was 5 at the time) really wanted a little brother. One day I told him “you know honey, it may be a little sister inside mommy’s tummy”. His response just cracked me up, he said “that’s ok mom, if it’s girl we’ll just have to give her away and try again”… yeah RIGHT !!
A good thing I had a boy…
Kerri on 22 Jun 2009 at 10:29 am #
They don’t have to be toddlers for strange things to come out of their mouths. When my daughter was around 11, and just starting puberty, she came to me one evening and said, “Mother, there is is horrible stench coming from my armpits!” She never calls me “Mother” and I don’t know where the word stench entered her vocabulary, but it was quite descriptive and sadly true (if also rather gross!)
LoriHandeland on 22 Jun 2009 at 10:34 am #
It would be interesting to hear a 7 year old’s interpretation of stylish, Suzie.
Did the cop even notice the kid without the seatbelt, Free?
LOL, Emmanuelle. Yeah, sure. That would work. Just keep trying.
Oy, Kerri. Kids do say the darndest things!
Mooslady on 22 Jun 2009 at 10:43 am #
Last January we went to SC to watch a friend graduated from Marine Boot camp. We were on a tight budget as usual and were staying at Motel 6 which in the off season was only $30/ night. My newly 4 yr old was so excited about being able to recognize the number on the sign and went around announcing to everyone “We’re staying at the SEX motel!”. I can imagine what people must have thought.
Of course she is prone to odd utterences. Last week she announced to me that she was going on vacation with the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. I turned to my oldest and commented that it did make one ponder where exactly God would go on vacation.
From the time she was a toddler she has always called farting, Butt-butt talking. I often threaten my husband with a kitchen sink stopper when he gets too bad about it, so now she will call me saying “Daddy’s butt-butt is talking get the plug”
One time when she wet the bed she told us it wasn’t her, it was the green watchpocket who had come in the night with a little hole where the pee came out. I don’t even know where she had heard of a watchpocket although her father does have a pocket watch.
Freedom Writer on 22 Jun 2009 at 10:58 am #
Lori, fortunately the cop did not see the child without a seat belt. She sat still and pretended to have a seat belt on.
Kerri on 22 Jun 2009 at 11:00 am #
Oh, yeah, the mispronunciations at inappropriate times are the worst! When my daughter was around 3, my dad shared a Snickers bar with her that made her throw up. We assumed it was the peanuts, and just forgot about it. Of course, she couldn’t really pronounce “peanuts” Imagine what we looked like when she told people at swim lessons that “her grandpa’s penis made me throw up!” EEEKK! We tried our best to explain, but people were still giving us the stink eye!
Nicole Jordan on 22 Jun 2009 at 11:13 am #
Oh, these are too cute, y’all! And hilarious.
Fun blog, Lori! I ought to follow your example about writing lol moments down since I can never remember them when I need them.
colinfirthfan on 22 Jun 2009 at 11:14 am #
My younger son, age 5, cracks me up.
A few weeks back I was telling my DH something and I told him that our youngest hadn’t even been born as yet.
)
So the little fellow immediately pipes up – Mama was I in your tummy?
I said – No, you were still in Heaven with God.
(who sends the kiddies down to their parents
So he says – Is Heaven behind your tummy??
I think I laughed for about half an hour.
Janae on 22 Jun 2009 at 11:18 am #
My 5yo dd comes up with some great stuff all the time. Recently, I painted a room, while was at school. When she saw it, she said, ‘ I like it. Is the color blonde or something?’ It’s Ralph Lauren’s Ivory Coast. Last month we were walking up the side of my ds’s school. There’s someone in the neighborhood, who doesn’t clean up after their very large dog. As we’re avoiding the dog poo, my dd says, ‘Are these people a$$wipes since they don’t clean up after their dog?’ When I asked her where she heard THAT word, she said, ‘I just made it up.’ I just told her she shouldn’t use this word, while I didn’t laugh, even though, she was dead on.
Across the street from our house is a parent participation, where the parents micromanage their children’s education in our amazing district. And yet, they have problems reading the street signs that say, “No Parking between 2:30-3:30. On a day when there were 5 cars in front of the signs at 2:45, my 9yo ds said, ‘Those parents need to go back to school to learn how to read, so they won’t break the law anymore.’
Rachel Gibson on 22 Jun 2009 at 11:29 am #
When my oldest daughter was little, she thought all pink Mary Kay cars were made of bubble gum. She also thought the world used to be black and white until one day, like magic, everything got color. She got that notion from looking through my mom’s photo albums. All the pictures are in black and white, until bam, turn a page and they’re in color.
rachel
Kathy/Cookiedough on 22 Jun 2009 at 11:30 am #
I’ve looked after children for 20+ yrs and my mind is blank on this subject!
Too. many. thoughts!
once while looking after a young boy just getting used to the whole potty training thing, he was enjoying my special chocolate carrot cake. He had icing all over his face and both hands when suddenly he yells at me “I hafta PEE!” we run into the bathroom and i help him down with his pants. I suggested that since his hands were dirty, he could sit on the toilet or quickly wash his hands to hold himself. he looked at each hand in turn, looked up at me and said” you can hold my penis”
uh, no way kiddo!
His mother was mortified but his dad thought it was the funniest and most practical response a boy could have.
Kathy/Cookiedough on 22 Jun 2009 at 11:36 am #
another time while watching an evening movie with “my girlies”, young 3 yr old Sami was driving us crazy by not staying put in her bed. I gave up and let her stay up with the older girls and all 5 of us settled on the couch to watch Pirates of the Caribbean 2. Sami was a wiggling, questioning distraction. A roasted suckling pig on a tray went past on the screen and Sami asked what that was.
Her eldest sister Laura, then 10, said, ” your future”. Laura and I burst out laughing but poor Sami just didn’t get the joke.
Pesky on 22 Jun 2009 at 11:47 am #
Kid logic is the best:
When the older nephew was about 3 we noticed he’d get visibly upset if we parked on the grass or parked anywhere but in the driveway or a parking lot. We finally figured out after some conversations with him that he was sure that your car would break if you parked on the grass because he’d always see broken down cars parked on the grass median in the middle of the road.
He also had an amazing imagination, so my sister and BIL were suprised when they went for teacher conferences when he was in kindergarten and the teacher expressed concern about the fact Sprat didn’t seem to play many “imaginary” games and that he seemed to be very factual about everything. She felt he spent a lot of time with the man down the road in the yellow house with the red truck and the two daughters and maybe they should think about setting up play dates to help him develop his imagination a little more. My Sister and BIL looked at her for a moment before Deb leaned across the table and said very concernedly… “You do realize that the man in the house is his imaginary friend?” The teacher just looked for a moment before saying “Oh, well then. Sprats good.”
Freshechelle on 22 Jun 2009 at 11:51 am #
My cousin’s kid looked at her sweetly in the supermarket and said “F*^% you, Mommy”. She struggled to keep from laughing so he wouldn’t be encouraged.
Another time, he was misbehaving and said mumbled something like “I hate you. You’re mean.” She said “What did you say to me?” He responded “It’s Spanish for I love you.”
You all have great stories. Thanks for the laughs.
LoriHandeland on 22 Jun 2009 at 12:06 pm #
Moos-The SEX motel. Classic.
Smart kid, Free. Got out of that one!
I’d never remember anything if I didn’t write it down, Nicole. It’s sad.
Isn’t Heaven behind your tummy, Colinf? Too cute.
LoriHandeland on 22 Jun 2009 at 12:10 pm #
I can see blonde walls, Janae. Perfect description.
That’s adorable, Rachel. Like Wizard of Oz or Pleasantville, where B & W suddenly becomes color. It’s so neat to see.
Kathy–Your future! Ha. Very clever comeback.
Pesky–I love the story about the imaginary friends. Darn right the kid’s got imagination.
Spanish for “I love you” Gotta remember that one.
Jessica on 22 Jun 2009 at 12:14 pm #
I don’t have any children so I’ll share a story from when I was little. Once when I was about 7 or 8 my family went to Walmart. When we got inside I just stopped walking and stood staring at the price sign. My mom came and asked me what I was doing, and I said I’m waiting for the prices to fall. Everyone just started to laugh and she dragged me away. LOL
Kathy/Cookiedough on 22 Jun 2009 at 12:53 pm #
my nephew, now 34, had an imaginary pet chipmunk that he used to hold in his hand.
We all used to take turns holding and petting it ,treating it as a real family pet.
He was about 3 or 4 when his father took him and his twin brother with him to coach the high school basketball team. Little Jay started to cry sitting on the bleachers. A woman asked him what was wrong and he told the story of his chipmunk and how the pet had gotten away from him. The search was on! this kid got the entire section to look for a non-existant pet.
Dad noticed the commotion in the stands and came to see what was happening. Picture his face red as he explained to everyone that Jay’s pet was imaginary.
Jay was the wise one of the twins too. Casey was game for anything, so Jay used to get him
to grab the cookies from the cupboards. Getting Casey caught while being the “innocent” one. sigh.
We adored telling the chipmunk story at his wedding 10 yrs ago!
Margaret on 22 Jun 2009 at 1:44 pm #
I have a couple of funny kid bits from many years before I was born. My favorite aunt was about 4 when “The Wizard of Oz” was first published in June 1908. Along with many other kids, she was entranced. She used to say that, until she was a teenager, she thought the book was “The Wizardy Was”.
A friend of hers who was apparently jealous of the family traveling so much, claimed that she and her family went to Catalina in a Pierce-Arrow. If you all don’t know what that is, Google it. LOL
I have a tendency to fuss at the TSTL drivers on the road. They can’t hear me but the folks in my car can. I drive my DD nuts. When 11 year old Shannon was with me one day, I must have been in fine form. She looked at me and said “They must work at the Duh Factory!” I shared the story with my on-line quilt group and the idea spread. People either worked there are, were the company president or knew someone who worked there. I still see the Duh Factory crop up now and again even tho the group is long disbanded. BTW, Shannon is now 24.
Margaret on 22 Jun 2009 at 1:48 pm #
Y’all are killing me today! I have laughed so much, I’m wearing my glasses out from cleaning the laugh tears off of them.
SuzyQ, the reason we can’t remember the good memories is because our brains are cluttered up with the stuff we don’t need anymore. I can clearly remember things from 50 years ago but not where I left my bra and car keys just a few hours ago! See? Brain clutter.
Paula on 22 Jun 2009 at 2:25 pm #
Julia the CTE probably got ‘the seaside’ from Thomas the Tank Engine?
My 2 boys crack me up, especially the youngest one. His latest thing is: he will come up and kiss us on both cheeks and say ‘I’ve just given you a french kiss!’ it always makes me laugh and I’m glad that he doesn’t know what a real french kiss is. The other thing he says is ‘I’m going to wee french style’ what he means by that is when you are driving along the raods in france sometimes you will see the French men having a wee by the side of the road, they both think that this is funny.
When I was almost a teenager I went home from school one day and told my mum and older brother I was going to have ‘electrocution’ lessons!! I meant elocution lessons.
jenifer on 22 Jun 2009 at 2:51 pm #
No kids, but we’ve enjoyed laughing at things our nephews have said.
One, around age 5, was dancing on the coffee table to James Brown’s “Sex Machine” and singing along. Only he was singing “Fax Machine”.
The other, around age 3, was watching the episode of the Muppet Show that had the original Star Wars characters on it. Chewbacca was in one sketch, and my nephew sighed loudly and said, “I love Chewy. I wish you named me Chewy.”
LoriHandeland on 22 Jun 2009 at 2:52 pm #
Wal Mart should do a commercial like that, Jessica. It would be great.
Kathy-An imaginary chipmunk is a new one. #1 son used to talk to the old man in the back yard, which really creeped me out. Imaginary friend or a ghost? Or are they often the same?
I could make extensive use of the “duh factory,” Margaret. Our family phrase for driving idiots is “drive it like you own it!”
I didn’t know that about the French, Paula. I think you might get arrested, or at least a ticket for that in certain parts of the US.
Michelle B on 22 Jun 2009 at 3:17 pm #
We were tent camping in Colorado 13 years ago when our kids were 10, 6 and 2. Breakfast for a couple of mornings was Pop tarts. I guess DD#2, 6 years old, was tired of them because she was walking back from the bathhouse and came into the tent all excited. “Those people next to our camp site are having cereal…WITH milk!” DH and I were so cracked up. The people camping next to us had this nifty fridge thing they plugged in, we didn’t have one therefore no real cold storage for things like milk. DD#2 was convinced otherwise. It’s a running joke on all of our fishing trips today.
Julia London on 22 Jun 2009 at 3:23 pm #
Oh!! Paula, I bet you’re right! I didn’t even think of that!
His swim teacher is British and I thought maybe she said something like that to him. I don’t think I have ever said “seaside” in my life. At the coast, on the coast, down around the coast, yes–but never seaside, and when he announced he was going, it took me a aback.
I bet it is Thomas. Paula, you’re brilliant. I am going to ask him today if Thomas ever goes to the seaside.
Judy F on 22 Jun 2009 at 3:26 pm #
These are great.
When my nephew was little he swore that people lived inside the atm machines. And one day we came up to one that was being serviced and of course someone came out from inside of it. LOL
Another time we were taking him to get shoes at the mall and he kept saying the store with the yellow seats right? My sister and I had no clue. Yup the store had yellow seats.
I had my niece in the car once and someone cut me off. I had to restrain myself from saying something bad. Megan looks at me and says. You can say what mommy says and tells me you call them darn jerks.
Once I was watching my niece Mandy and we were playing a board game. She threw the dice and says Damn it. I was like Mandy you can’t say that, she tells me but I didn’t get the Number I wanted. LOL
Judy F on 22 Jun 2009 at 3:28 pm #
Oh I just thought of another. My sister had her oldest at the grocery years ago and Shelly starts singing loudly… Bad bad bad boys, make me feel so good. My sister said this little old lady said kids say the darnest things. LOL
Kathy/Cookiedough on 22 Jun 2009 at 3:37 pm #
oh! I remember watching Beauty and The Beast with Laura and Julia before their sisters were born.
Laura burst into tears at the end, and sobbing hysterically, told me she wished they were real.
She just rolls her eyes now that she is a worldy 13 and I mention that.
boy, I’ve been looked after that family for a long time and going to see them all on Friday. haven’t seen them since well before Christmas
LoriHandeland on 22 Jun 2009 at 3:42 pm #
It’s amazing what some people have for camping isn’t it, Michelle?
You mean there aren’t people in the ATM machines, Judyf? Just kidding. I would like that job.
And why is it that bad boys make us feel so good? That’s a romance author question if ever I heard one.
Had to laugh at that Kathy. #1 son used to be in love with the Little Mermaid. He doesn’t find that as funny as I do these days.
Freshechelle on 22 Jun 2009 at 3:57 pm #
when I was a kid, I thought there were people inside the radio and I also wanted to know why you never heard people sneeze or cough on a record.
Aly on 22 Jun 2009 at 4:34 pm #
I know there are so many things that both of my kids have said but the most recent still has me laughing!
I had bilateral knee surgery 3 weeks ago. My 4.5 year old daughter went around telling everyone “My mommy got both her knees cutted off!” LOL!
colinfirthfan on 22 Jun 2009 at 4:48 pm #
Here’s another one from when my youngest was 4 (last year). He was sitting on the potty going poo when he farted. He told me – Mama, my bummies growledED.
He also told me once when his eyes were watering – Mama, my eyes are sad.
Kathleen O on 22 Jun 2009 at 4:51 pm #
I think my brother Pat, as the age of about 7 i think he was at the time. Could have been younger he is now 45 yrs old when he dropped this little gem. We were on our way one weekend to our cottage and we went through this small town, and on the out skirts of the the town was their funneral home.. It looked like a house and Pat in hs innocents says “gee mom, I like that house, do you think we could buy it”. We all started to laugh and told him why we could not live there… And oddlly enough a friend of the family was burried from there not too long ago and we told his kids the story and they have teased him about it every since.
Out of the mouths of babes……Thanks for making me think of this long ago funny memory.
LoriHandeland on 22 Jun 2009 at 6:27 pm #
Ouch, Aly! Hope you’re feeling better soon.
Sad eyes, makes perfect sense to me, Colinf.
This has been a nice memory day. Thanks for sharing yours, Kathleen.
Jessica on 23 Jun 2009 at 2:07 am #
A little late on this, but apparently when I was about 4 years old I said outloud (at the doctor’s office), “I wish my mom would go to the dentist so she could get English speaking teeth.” My mom was from Mexico and didn’t speak much English at the time so at that age I thought a dentist could give you the type of teeth to make you speak a language. If only it was that easy.
My sister didn’t know her colors very well as a child and thus wanted to name our black dog blue, but she went around telling everyone our dad was black and people would look at her funny because she was white. My dad was brown not black! LOL! Oh and when she heard the dryer buzzer she’d say to my mom, “The dryer is calling you!” I still laugh when I hear the dryer buzzer.
LoriHandeland on 23 Jun 2009 at 4:53 am #
Wouldn’t it be great if speaking another language was that easy, Jessica? I could use some Italian teeth.
TinaLouiseF on 23 Jun 2009 at 8:10 pm #
Apparently when I was 5, a lady asked me if I could speak French. I replied with “French Toast”.
The 2 kindergarten kids that my mom watched after school would see the yellow Schwan’s Ice Cream truck and thought it had a duck on it. When they saw the truck, they would tell my mom that the Duck Man was here.