Just for Fun :)

I'm a 53 year old mom of 4, and my baby is 20. One of my fondest memories is shopping with my now 24 yr old son. When he got tired of walking, he'd look up at me with his big brown pleading eyes..and say "carry me up, I'm getting heavy"!

My oldest, now almost 30, used to crawl out of her bed at night, and crawl into the living room with a blanket over her head. She thought if she could not see us, we could not see her.

Yea! A happy thread!

My favorite age is 4 and 5. Kids have enough of a vocabulary to communicate their ideas, but not enough understanding of the world to have it all fit together. It's when I hear them say the funniest things.

The other day my 5 year old was talking at the table while we were doing crafts and started telling me a story from preschool. He made a mistake in the retelling and said, "Oh, my bad" while he touched his hands to his chest then flicked them outward as if brushing off the error. I have no idea where he picked it up, as it's not a saying my husband or I use.

Other times I'll hear him use very grown up phrases that he has heard me use but in a very kid-like context. I'll often tell the kids I tutor in mathematics, "Well my technique for doing this is..." when I'm explaining a process. My 5 year old will use the same phrase when explaining how he is coloring or how he intends to pick up his room as in, "My technique is to pick up my dirty clothes then shove the rest of the stuff in my closet." ;) And he wonders why that wont fly with me.

M.

A few months ago, I was looking at the moon with my 3 1/2 year old daughter.

"Look," I said, "The moon is almost full."

"Oh," my daughter replied, "is it eating?"

Here recently my 6 year old has come up with a good one. The other day we are in the kitchen doing crafts and he turns to me and says, "Mom, my leg pit itches." I stopped and looked at him wondering where his leg pit was at. He pointed to the back of his knee and said you know mom right here on my leg. I got to laughing and said to him that most people just usually call it the back of you knee but leg pit was understandable reasoning.

K. and all,

Instead of hoping that you will remember all of these sweet things that your little ones say and do, write them down!

When my first son was born, I bought a spiral bound pack of index cards. As he started to talk, I wrote down the date and what he could say. Then, as the funny phrases started popping up, I would write them down, along with the situation surrounding it and made sure to date them. I chose the bound index cards because I thought they would hold up much longer than regular paper since it is more like cardstock.

My boys are now 10 and 12, and I still add things to their "quote books". They think it is hilarious to go back and read the silly things that they said when they were little!

I keep the books on my bedside table and flip through them every once in a while . . . especially when I am struggling with the pre-puberty issues or the "they aren't babies anymore" feelings!

My two year old is the only girl with 5 older brothers she has a very good vocabulary and talks in 3 or 4 word senteces but there are three words she refuses to expand on. One is water it means water, milk, juice or anything she see some one else drinking sometimes we play the guessing game to figure out just what she wants. two Cracker anything anyone is snacking on or wants to snack on and three Cheese anything really good is cheese it is her favorite food, so cheese is usually chocalate, cookies. And and last but not least, she knows everyones names grandma, grandpa, rosa, aunts and uncles. But she calls all of the brothers Bryce my middle sons name. She refuses to call them by anything but Bryce. She even knows the cat and dogs name but won't call her brothers by name. She makes us laugh alot because we know she is smart enough to say exactly what she means.

This is a great idea! My son is 2 1/2 and always says funny things. Right now his new thing to say is "new batteries" if anything isn't working right ... or as he says it... "new batties". We've also been teaching him please and thank you, so when he wants something or if you give him something he'll say "please dank you" all together. It's so funny. The best though was what he said several months ago .... if I was making dinner or giving food to our dog, I'd say - are you hungry or Mimi is hungry. So, he started to copy, naturally.... but he'd say hungry like horny. So, we'd hear him say Mimi horny, or Daddy horny. It was SO funny. He's got the word down better now - but it's something we'll never forget!! I can't believe how quickly these kids grow up. :)

My daughter often takes on an "adult" tone when we are talking at the table and likes to ask questions (generally "why...(repeating something my husband just said)") to integrate herself into the conversation. Sometimes her questions are pretty creative though. The other day my husband daughter (3.5) and I were having breakfast. It was the day before my husband's birthday so we were talking about birthdays. As serious as every she pipes in, "How next is everybody's birthday are?" My husband and just stopped and looked at her trying to contain the laughter. Of course she meant "whose birthday is next" but figuring that conjugation out under such adult pressure!

I was helping her the other day make a card for her dad and guiding her arm from stamp pad to paper and she told me, "Let go! You are hoggin' all my arm!"

I keep a journal for my kids (typed) of all the great stuff like this. I scribble it down on shopping lists, mail, calendars etc, whatever is closest when I hear or experience it and then type them up in the evenings. It is a hoot and like someone else said, we DO forget as much as we don't want to; so find a way to collect your child's gems. It's too fun. I actually even keep all the dumb stuff my husband and I say and put it in an anniversary book every year.

My daughter just turned three and some of the cute things she has said crack me up.

She said yeah dad! That really piss Mom off! I had no clue where that came form.
When she was potty training she would constantly yell "No accidents"
When she wants to sit on my lap she always says, "Mommy, I want to Cuddle with you!" It melts my heart!

I love the way kids learn to speak - when they are trying so hard, but yet don't get the words quite right. Like my daughter currently asks me to hold her hand, but it comes out, "Hold you my hand, Mommy." And things like, "No me didn't!" and one of my favorites, "I love you you!"

It doesn't last but a year or two and it's so cute.
Thanks for asking a fun question!

Just the other weekend my son what throwing a fit about not wanting to take a nap. My husband scooped him up into his arms while saying "Payton, your not being very cute!" That was the end of that. About 25 minutes later after they layed his sister down and changed his diaper and were laying down themselves. Payton announces to his dad " Daddy, I am cute." and rolled over to take a nap! This is so funny to me that as I'm writting it I'm laughing out loud. He is my little ham!!!

My daughter is only 4 months and not that many cute stories yet but I do have one. We where in church for my daughters baptism and my 5 year old niece was standig next to me and looked at the alter and on the ceiling was a large round wood thing with squares in it. She said to me look a giant waffle. I asked her if she was hungry.

My daughters are 16 & 18, and the younger often has really creative ways of phrasing things - she picks up jargon and slang from all over, and makes up her own. Not to long ago she said, in jest to a friend over some silly banter, 'you're bending my happy feelings.'

I love her creativity with words!

My DD takes med's for her asthma/allergies and a flinstone every night at dinner time, this is also the same time I take my Birth control pill.
I give her her meds and If I don't take mine she will tell me,"mommy take your medicine," I guess she doesn't want any siblings :)

Hi K.,

Your post was pretty funny.I have a 5 year old son who comes up with the funniest comments sometimes. Whenever he misbehaves, I have to remember his comments and it brings a smile to my face. The other day he saw a picture of his ultrasound that we have on the refrigerator and he asked if that was his picture when he was in my tummy. I said that yes, it was and he said, with a very serious face, "Mommy why did you eat me? I was not quite sure how to answer that so I told him, mommy was really hungry. He then smiles at me and says "Ok". In a few years I will let him know that Mom did not actually eat him :)

I love the words kids come up with for "real" words! For the longest time oatmeal was "oak-a-milk", cartoons were "tarcoons", and dog was "dog-dog". Now that they're getting older (4 and 6)they don't have too many made up words =( Thank god I wrote them all down so I can now refer back to the baby book.

Hi K.,

I think its a great idea to share the good and cute things about our children as well. I have two boys also, Tyler who's 9 and Trevin who's 3.

Not so long ago (right before christmas) My husband and I and kids were getting ready to go some where and my youngest was whinning about something. My husband asked me what was wrong and I said I'm not sure but he is driving me crazy (I wasnt aware that he was standing right behind me) and out of the blue he says "no mom I drive you nuts!" with the biggest grin on his face. I will never forget that, I laugh everytime I think about saying that to the kids now.

A. M

I love that idea. I will remember to post the wonderful, fun adn quirky memories also!

I was baking a ton of cookies and my 3 year old walked into the kitchen and saw this HUGE stack of his favorite snack piled high.

His eyes lit up as he pulled up a chair, staring at the cookies and declared,

"Now, this is what a call a feast!"

:o)

D. in milwaukee

My daughter (19mo)and I were cleaning up her toys in the evening before her bath. She strolled her "baby" in and parked it (perfectly) next to the bed. When DD goes to sleep, she always pulls the blanket over her head, so of course she put a blanket over her baby's head.

I keep a journal of the funny things my kids say. DD, who is now six, was talking with her dad when she was about two. They were talking about driving and he asked if Mommy was a good driver. She paused a bit and said,"Well, things happen..."

Hubby nearly drive off the road and couldn't wait to tell me! I have no idea where that came from! Things DO NOT happen! We still giggle over that one.

Our son, who is 3 1/2, said last Sunday, "Mom! I'm sitting on the THIRTEEN step and my feet are on the SECONDTEEN step!"
Well, it's logical... ;)

My 7 year old son was playing "Roller Coaster Tycoon," a computer game where you build an amusement park. He made a ride that turned out to be the most popular and his comment was, "This ride is my main subtraction!!"

My 2 year old daughter is bi-lingual in English and Spanish. At night when it is time to say goodnight to her dad they exchange kisses. A lot of nights after giving daddy a kiss, and he asks for more, she will say "se cabo". Meaning "all gone". Essentially saying she has run out of kisses. I think this is the cutest thing I have ever heard her say!

Ok I do have a funny one!

When my kids were little and hurt themselves I would say "let me kiss it and make it feel better", as most of us do. When potty training my son, one day while at the toilet he slammed the seat down and well caught his "manhood" in between the seat and edge of toilet--You guessed it. He turned to me in tears and said "kiss it and make it feel better" While trying not to laugh, I explained that I could not, but a kiss on the forhead would be best!!! I will remember that day as long as I live!!!

My 6 year old daughter for whatever reason, calls mirrors, re-mirrors!!She also says actually as actualla!! She is the silliest girl!! When she was about 3-4, she came up with this dance she deemed the "Daddy Dance", it was actually quite provocative for a 3-4 yr. old, but everyone thought it was the funniest thing and would always ask her to do the "Daddy Dance"!!!!

My 2 1/2 yr old daughter has been into Princess' lately. She came out one day and said "Princess Mommy, I am little princess dear". Later that night, when her Dad got home she walked up to him and said " Hello, King Daddy". She has stuck to these roles for a about a week know and my husband is now King Daddy to our whole family!!

This isn't really a repetitive thing my son does, but my husband and I were rolling with laughter for quite awhile after my son learned to open doors and get out of his bedroom one night.

It was a weekend and my husband and I were watching a movie a couple hours after putting my son to bed. All of a sudden we started to hear Logan knocking on the door then a louder bang. We looked down the hallway and he had pulled a chair up to his door, turned the door knob and was trying to open the door. Unfortunately the wooden chair was in the way and he kept knocking into it.

We put him to bed and continued on with our movie when Logan woke up and started the same routine. This time he was able to open the door without knocking into the chair and came out to the living room to show us how proud he was. We put him back to bed, again, and then.....

We had a spy sneaking out of his bedroom a few minutes later with flashlight in hand and blanket over his head so we couldn't 'see' him. If that didn't make us laugh he was hauling his wooden stool, set it down on the other side of the living room from us and sat down without a peep. He wouldn't look at us for several seconds until my husband and I both started cracking up at the whole scene.

Needless to say Logan got to stay up with his laughing mommy and daddy to watch the movie until he fell asleep!

- S.

Sad, but the cutest thing ever. About 1 year ago, my then 3 1/2 year old was able to bring his new baby brother home from the hospital after not being able to see the baby or his mommy for about 6 weeks. I was very nervous about what big brother would do to the baby. These boys are #3 & 4 and the older two at this age with the new baby were typical not to happy to have competition in the house kids. But my 3 year old would sit on the floor next to his baby brother and just rub his baby's head saying "This is my baby, I love my baby" over and over. He has been the best big brother that any baby could ever have. I never dealt with jealousy with him. He is very mindful of his baby and I have found him in tears over his baby's "hurts".

Sad but beautiful!

Hi K.! Great question!

When my son John was about three we were taking a walk when we came upon a woolly caterpiller in the middle of the road, flat as a pancake and all dried out. John hunkered down next to it and said, "Poor woolly bear. He must not have looked both ways before he crossed the street."

Or... When my daughter was about three we were driving along and I could tell she was thinking. After a while she said, "Mother, the trouble with ice cream is that it often slides off the spoon onto a child's body."

I hope when I'm old and someone has to wipe my chin I still remember stuff like this!

My Father-in-law got a b-day card that sings "Ring of Fire" (last June) since then my son (almost 3) will bust out singing Ring of Fire. Then he will follow up by telling me he's Johnny Cash.
Also just recently whenever I clean something with a "wipe" he will ask me if it is a Clorox Dissinfecting Wipe "cabuz (his because) it kills the germs that make kids sick, mamma". My Mom fell on the floor laughing when she heard that one!

First one is my mom and I were talking to my 3 year old niece Amelia and we were telling her that she had her mommy's eyes. She had a puzzle look on her face and said..... NO I have my eyes. We laughed so hard.

When my first daughter was like 4 she kept telling us that she wanted tickle toes for her birthday. We were like okiee what is it. She said u know the things u push on the toes. We were puzzled. We thought it was the things u put between ur toes so u could paint them. OH boy were we wrong lol come to find out it was a game like the good old simon game. It was shaped like a foot with toes. The toes light up and u have to copy them. We laughed our butts off when we seen it on tv and she was sooo excited.

My youngest has picked up alot of things from his older sisters. Like he learned to growl at every thing. Infact when he would mean yes he would growl instead of sayin yes. One night we were at dinner with my parents at a pizza place. He decided to fall asleep with crust hanging out of his mouth. I tried to take the piece out so he wouldn't choke on it and he decided that he was goin to growl at me like ........... DON'T TOUCH MY FOOD !!! It was soo funny ... he was soo tired. The little things like this is what makes kids unconditional love.

My son Connor and my hubby were waiting for me in the car while I ran in the house. Just for fun my husband honked the horn at me. When I came out I could tell Connor was trying to get my attention so I opened his car door and he said "Mommy, Daddy homped you!" We laughed until we cried....until later that day when he started telling EVERYBODY at a family function that "Daddy homped Mommy"! It was priceless...

~L.

My 5 year old will change my 16 month old's wet diaper. It is so cute to watch them interact well together. Plus it is one less diaper I have to change. It amazes me how my little one will be so patient. She sure doesn't hold that still for me to change a diaper.

Also, when pregnant for my second child, my daughter would look in my bellybuttin and say "hello in there, can you see me?"

Single mom of 5 1/2 yr old and 16 month old girls

My daugter Claire whom is 2 started to become chatty recently. She will say " I lub you momma" or she will try to sing the twinkle twinkle little star song. She comes up with the darndest things and my hubby and I just look at eachother not believing what she just said.

My 2 year old couldn't find her "binkie" (pacifier) and asked me where it was. I told her that I didn't know where the binkie was so she started calling for it and looking under the furniture..."binkiee, binkiee". She was calling for it like it was a lost pet. It was priceless. One of the many things I wished I could have videoed.

My DD of 3yrs (almost 4) has a wonderful imagination. We went on a mommy/daughter dinner at Red Lobster (she loves crab) and I got her a smoothie. She drank most of it before the meal came and told me she was cold. So I told her to eat some biscuit and maybe it would warm her up. She did and told me "the biscuit is attacking the ice and warming my belly up"
She also likes to pretend to be animals and on a recent Saturday as my husband and I laid in bed she came in our room hopped on the bed and told us she was a cow and then mooed a long slow mooooo. She was wearing all pink and I told her
"I've never seen a pink cow, do you give pink milk?"
"No, cows only give white milk and I am brown and white, not pink."
"Dad here is your pail to milk me, put it on the bed right here."
He does and she crawls on her hands and feet until standing over the pail and says "now you have to milk me, pull on my pink parts."
We could not stop laughing!

My little boy would call ketchup "check-but" It was so cute, I couldn't correct him for a long time!

I am loving this- what a great idea, K.!
My almost 18 month old is really into construction trucks and vehicles and he has lots of picture books with bulldozers and dumptrucks etc. We were driving on the interstate last weekend and came upon a convoy of a half dozen flatbed semi trucks hauling construction vehicles. So, of course we called his attention to them, naming them off as we drove by each one. After we passed the last one, my husband and I went back to chatting with one another. Suddenly from the back seat we hear, "Dad! Dad!" we turn around and look and Harvey is signing "more." It was so cute- and it felt so empowering to think my son thought we had the power to get more trucks for him to look at.
Can't wait to read more stories!

Just about a week ago my three year old daughter was standing next to me and she tooted, so she said, "Excuse me. Excuse my bottom." It's good to have those moments once in a while so I don't go crazy the rest of the time. :)

These are great!!! I heard a story once where a mom had a jar and she would write all the cute things her kids said down with the date and their age, and then throw them in to read later. she said that the family had a blast reading them as the children grew and that she now reads them with her grandchildren and they love to hear about things their parents did and said. I REALLY NEED ONE OF THOSE JARS!!!

I know my kids have said a ton of cute and funny things but sitting here thinking of them some I have lost. :( You think you will remember but sometimes don't.

one that does come to mind is the day my daughter stepped in a "muddle of pudd"

This is great idea. I just read the other responses and couldn't help but laugh and smile.
Here is something my son does that I think is very sweet. When it is time for bed we go through the same ritual that he has come up with over the last couple of weeks.
He first has to give Mommy, Daddy, and Papa a hug. Then he starts over and gives each of us a kiss on each cheek. I then pick him up and he waves and says bye bye to Daddy and Papa. He continues doing this until they respond. He next tells them night night. Finally he says I Love You while making an "L" with his thumb and finger (at this age he isn't able to make the I love you symbol in sign language so he improvised.)
I know that he is just trying to stay up later, but every night I can't help but smile.
On the cute side, when you ask my son if he is a good boy he looks at you very seriously and says NO! I then ask him what type of boy he is and he replies while pointing to himself "naughee boy". If you ask him directly if he is a naughty boy he laughs and tilts his head and gets this wicked grin on his face and says "yes, me a naughee boy". Then he runs to you and gives you a hug laughing.

I really loved reading all the responses. Kids are sooooo cute sometimes.

My daughter, Logan, is going to be 3 in two weeks and of the many funny and adorable things that she says and does, I have chosen to share this one with you guys.

We live over 700 miles away from any family, so my kids see their grandma(who actually lives in Australia) via webcam. Or we talk to her Aunts or grandpa on the phone . Well, My daughter doesn't seem to know the difference between the two. when she talks to her aunts on the phone she just goes on and on about everything. She walks around the house telling them about everything she sees. if she is looking at a houseplant, she tells them about the houseplant. If she sees the dog, she tells them about the dog. Then she holds the phone out to whatever it is she is talking about and says "you see?" As if they can see it through the phone. My sisters have learned to just play along and pretend that they can see it.

Thanks K.. I have a 13 year old son I homeschool. I enjoy being with him. He sometimes sends me computer voice e-mails, which are always humorous. Lately he's been giving me a hug before I go to bed. Nice having a tall sweet boy in the house.
See you have something to look forward to, all you folks with pre-schoolers. : )

Blessings,
S.
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My 5 year old son was asking me to read his children's Bible while I was folding clothes... I told him I didn't have time to read right now,but he asked me what something said.. I told him it said "Adam names the animals".. Then he said "now I remember the first people on Earth's name's, Adam and Steve" He was close but I couldn't stop laughing!!!

A couple of weeks ago my 22month daughter was playing and let a little toot. She looks over at me and says "scuse you daddy!!" I laughed super hard and then had to call my husband to tell him. Then just a couple of days ago she and I were sitting on the floor doing a puzzle and she looks up at me and says "I smart, Sage smart!!" what a delight she is!! thanks for letting me share just a couple of the many funny things that come out of my precious girls mouth.

What a cool question. My son, Stanley, has his own way of showing affection. It is his happy noise. He likes to put his mouth on the top of my head and make this sweet noise that is like "aaahhhhhhh". He will make the noise until he is out of breath. Then I will do it back to him. It is so cute and he only does it with me, never my mom or the sitter or his dad. When I go to pick him up from daycare he will see me and put his face in his arm (like blocking a sneeze) and he will make the noise until I pick him up. It is so unique (just like him) and I love that it is reserved for just his mommy!!!

I love this.Too much fun!

I write down a lot of what my 5 year old, Ethan has said because he cracks us up to no end. He says "bewember" for remember, "tomorrow ago" for yesterday and when he means that his hands are full, he says "I need help...I'm full of hands." Those are my favorites. My favorite story is when he came up to me and said "Ya know mom.....when I speak Spanish, I don't understand myself!" I laughed so hard I made him cry because he thought I was making fun of him.

My daughter Lara is almost 7. When she was 5 she asked me what craisins were. I told her that they were like raisins, except they were made out of cranberries instead of grapes. She was quiet for about 2 minutes and then she said, "Well if these are called craisins, why aren't raisins called graisins?" GOOD POINT!

My youngest, Kaitlyn will be 1 in a few weeks. She doesn't say a lot, but when we scold the dog, she points at him, shaking her index finger, smiling away. If she even hears us say "NO no doggie." she does that.

Kids are hilarious!

Well, my daughter does tons of cute things. For 17 1/2 months, she has TONS of personality. The first this that popped into my head after reading your post, however, is that my daughter LOVES to dance. I mean it doesn't even need to really be a song. It can be a jingle in a commercial or a brief tune in a TV show. Anything really.. she's been doing this since almost about the same time she could walk. Have to say also that she has a good beat/rhythm. She goes just about exactly in time to the song/tune. I have found, though, that she tends to crack me up daily :)

I love this question. My kids are now 11 and 7 yrs of age.

When my daughter was about 3yrs old, We had just bought a baby kitten named Snickers. When we were driveing somewhere, She said" out of the blue. Snickers is horney... My husband and I look at one another and said" what... We were actually looking at eachother with an evil eye, thinking which one of us would ever use that word and who tought her that word. She said" it again.. I was shocked, what she meant to be saying is ...Snickers Hungry... They say it the most inocent way and a baby talk. We laughed so hard. We just didnt understand what she was trying to say to us. She probley thought we were crazy.

Thanks for letting us laugh and think of the funny things.

T. H.

My daughter, Riley, was "reading" one of my son's library books last night. BTW, she will be 4 in March. Anyway, she really doesn't know how to read, but her memory is pretty good and she just says what she remembers. There is a picture of a penquin in the book and is referred to a Macaroni Penguin and when she got to the picture, she said, "Macaroni and Cheese Penquin". I thought it was cute!

My 2 year old daughter has a sweet tooth like no one I've ever seen. A few funnies that have come of this are:
The other day, while on a "date" with her grandparents, headed for dinner, she boldly stated, "First, we'll have sugar..." As if that should be everyone's top priority!

One day while helping her say a prayer, she started inserting her own ideas, as she often does. In the middle of all this, she said, "and please bless that we can eat chocolate today." A girl after my own heart!

Fun question!

If you would ask my daughter, who turned 2 in November, if she was going to be a "big girl", she would yell, "NO! Daddy Baby!" She did that so much we had a t-shirt made that says "Daddy's Baby" on it for Christmas.