The Things Kids Say

[onyx]

I don't know if anyone has started a thread like this before, but I thought I might give it a try.

Some of the greatest joys in my experience as a parent have come through the things my children have said.
I thought of one this morning that just gave me the giggles all over again:

My husband has the habit of saying "For heavens sakes" whenever he has reached the point of total exasporation (sp?).

We were teaching my daughter (who was 3 at the time) the basics of saying a prayer.
She was having great success managing short prayers.
Anyway, one evening we were sitting down to dinner.
My daughter wanted to be the one to bless the food.

She folded her little arms, closed her eyes, and crinkled her little forehead in concentration.
She then very, very reverently said:

"Dear Heaven Sakes."

You can imagine our mirth!!!
It was extremely difficult not to howl laughing right on the spot.
We controlled ourselves until she finished her lovely little prayer.
Then gently reminded her that we say "Dear Heavenly Father" to start our prayers.

We had a great laugh about it later and still do from time to time.


Do any of you have any funny stories abnout the things the children in your lives have said?
If so, please share.

Thanks....Onyx

[Annabelli]

One of my child's favorite books was Harold and The Purple Crayon. He was about 4 years old.

We were preparing to have the interior of our house painted so we were moving everything around. I was in his room and decided to look behind the bedroom door for dust since it was always open.

I was very surprised at the drawing on the wall behind the door. It was a purple outline of a ghost with a halo. I asked my child if he wanted this wall painted explaining that the picture would be gone. He said "oh yes, we need all of our walls painted." The painter had a special spray for wall markings and zap, the picture was gone and the wall was painted.

A few months later, I was in his room collecting socks for the laundry and looking for a mate to one. When I looked behind the bedroom door, I was startled to see a purple outline of a ghost with a halo. I never mentioned it to him. But I can tell you that I forgot the sock and left the room. Who cares if the light was left on or not.

Maybe not funny but I thought it was interesting.

I went back into the room again probably a million times or so but I never looked behind the door again.

[Acez]

I remember a cousin of mine who was 3 at the time was looking through my Diary/Journal. As someone of that age, the most important date is that of your birthday. But yet she always kept forgetting when it was. I showed her the date which also had a birthday cake I had drawn on their as well. She suddenly realized something. She asked me, "Was I born on the same day?" to which I replied "Yes". With much shock she said, " Oh my Gosh, I was born on my birthday."

Never thought of it that way

Acez

[Jbs2763]

I think the best one i can remember, a couple years ago, wasn't my kid, but the deacons quorum advisor's kid, i was blessing with another guy that was sporting a beard and wearing sandels (differnt issue i know) but his (DQA) lil girl looked up and the other gent and said "JESUS!" and pointed at him..she was about 2 or 3 at the time and had been learning about Christ.....very hard not to laugh hystaricaly on the stand.....

[Brother Dorsey]

About a year ago my 5 year old slowly walked into the room I was in, sat down next to me and said."Daddy......(big sigh)....I'm boring". He meant to say he was bored. I laughed until I cried!

[Elphaba]

I remember a cousin of mine who was 3 at the time was looking through my Diary/Journal. As someone of that age, the most important date is that of your birthday. But yet she always kept forgetting when it was. I showed her the date which also had a birthday cake I had drawn on their as well. She suddenly realized something. She asked me, "Was I born on the same day?" to which I replied "Yes". With much shock she said, " Oh my Gosh, I was born on my birthday."

Never thought of it that way

Acez
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Elphie

I don't know if anyone has started a thread like this before, but I thought I might give it a try.

Some of the greatest joys in my experience as a parent have come through the things my children have said.
I thought of one this morning that just gave me the giggles all over again:

My husband has the habit of saying "For heavens sakes" whenever he has reached the point of total exasporation (sp?).

We were teaching my daughter (who was 3 at the time) the basics of saying a prayer.
She was having great success managing short prayers.
Anyway, one evening we were sitting down to dinner.
My daughter wanted to be the one to bless the food.

She folded her little arms, closed her eyes, and crinkled her little forehead in concentration.
She then very, very reverently said:

"Dear Heaven Sakes."

You can imagine our mirth!!!
It was extremely difficult not to howl laughing right on the spot.
We controlled ourselves until she finished her lovely little prayer.
Then gently reminded her that we say "Dear Heavenly Father" to start our prayers.

We had a great laugh about it later and still do from time to time.


Do any of you have any funny stories abnout the things the children in your lives have said?
If so, please share.

Thanks....Onyx
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Oh Onyx....I have tears in my eyes . . . What a sweetie!

Elphaba

[siouxz72]

When my oldest daughter was in 7th grade and her little brother in 6th they attended a middle school that included 6th, 7th and 8th grades. We had been teaching our kids how to play poker (..i know, i know) and Bryan decided it would be big fun to teach his friends. As we were driving home that day he asked me what the highest hand in poker was. I couldn't quite remember so I said... "I think it's 5 of a kind, but we'll go home and look". Ivy was sitting up in the front seat and was all... "no it's not. The highest hand in poker is weedemanwee". I said "what?!" She looked at me at was all..."you know mom.. whenever somebody has a good hand in the movies or on tv the go like this"... here she gives a great big flourish and says very forcefully... "weedemanwee!!" I had to pull over... once I could finally stop crying I told her that they actually say "read them and weep" man I love my kids!!

[onyx]

Oh my goodess you guys!
I was having a really bad day.
Then I got onto this thread to see how it was coming along.....

Still laughing hysterically.
Like you Elphie....tears in my eyes.
Thanks for the cheering up!!!

Keep 'em coming

[Elphaba]

Okay, I've told this one before, but most of you are fairly new, so my apologies to those who have already heard this.

When my son was about three, I decided to make a really healthy dinner. I picked some lettuce from" the garden" (veggies that sprang up out of nowhere) and was standing at the sink washing it when my little one came in, looked at the lettuce, and said "What's that?"

I told him it was lettuce for our salad that night. He said "What's a salad?" I explained how I'd cut up the lettuce into little pieces, put it in a bowl, and that was a salad!

He got this incredulous look on his face, pointed to the lettuce and cried out, "We're gonna eat that? (grossed out pause) Plants!?!"

I felt like the worst mother in the world. Keep in mind, he was THREE.

Elphie

[Gwen]

last night we were making our boys clean their room. the oldest of the group is 6 and has always been a talker (i've said many times he's my sales man or polititan one). but anyway last night hubby and i are putting away clothes listening to his protest about having to clean in the other room with his brother. he then proceeds to tell his little brother (5 yrs)

"I have a plan. you need to pick which one you are going to follow. you can pick mommy and daddy's plan and work forever, for the rest of your life. or you can pick my plan and play and never work again."

(it is absolutely impossible for me to convey here the tone and persuasion he used in his voice.)

hubby and i looked at eachother in disbelief. lol i'm not sure which was more shocking the image those words created or the fact that the was preping his brothers for a mutany against us. lol so i called from the other room, "oh the cunning plan of the advasary." he seemed rather confused so we stopped working and decided it was time for a great bedtime story, all about the pre-existance, and another brother that had "plans".

edit: i can't believe i forgot this part. lol after our story and discussion he then announced to us that when he got really old, he was going to be an apostle. but that he would have to start practicing now cause becoming an apostle isn't easy and will take a lot of practice. we thought that was a much better end to the evening than the plans of mutany against his parents. lol