<p>as son gets ready for college, memories of his childhood keep flooding in.
What were some of the funny things or as Art Linkletter used to say “the darndest” your kids said</p>
<p>some of the funnier things he said as a toddler:</p>
<p>son knew i loved jazz music (age 3-4) he said "ah mommy i heard Elephant Gerald died to day…(Ella Fitzgerald)</p>
<p>we adopted a bi-racial child and friends would often comment on his skin color (which is beautiful) but apparently son heard someone say “dark”… took us months to figure out why he kept asking when baby would TURN ON? [it finally came to us dark to him meant ie lights were off, On would mean he would be light.]</p>
<p>D1 (now a college graduate) apparently mastered sarcasm at an early age. For a while there when I would tell her (at age 3) to do something she would answer “Yes, your majesty.”</p>
<p>S, now a college graduate, was a serious devotee of both Ninja Turtles and Ghostbusters, and had a large collection of the various “vehicles” related to both. He pronounced the word as “veagle” though. We still say “veagle” in our family to this day.</p>
<p>When DS was little we lived in S. Florida and DH worked in Miami. DS always wanted to go down and see Daddy at work in “Mommy’s Ami” - as in My-Ami, Your-Ami, Mommy’s-Ami!</p>
<p>Waah, I miss my little squirts. D and I were in Borders yesterday and we wandered into the kids’ section, and I remembered:
My D’s favorite book was “The Very Hungry Carrot-Pillow”.</p>
<p>schmoo you just reminded me of one for the youngest… in kindergarten he just had to put his first name on papers, grade 1 required 1st and last. all his papers came home with Ander as his last name… he is always called alex unless trouble is brewing in which case it is alexANDER!</p>
<p>eggson at age 3, all ready for bed – brushed teeth, in jammies, etc:</p>
<p>wily son: "mom, can I brush my teeth twice tonight?’
gullible mom: “uh, sure if you want to.”
wily son: “then i guess I’ll have another one of those brownies now.”</p>
<p>D was a big fan of Disney princess movies and apparently the whole wicked step mother thing made an impact on her. We were looking at old pictures of my h’s mom, who passed away before we met. D then said, “If that’s daddy’s mom, who is Nana?” We explained that Nana was daddy’s stepmom. She thought for a few moments and then said, “Gee, that’s funny. She doesn’t seem very evil.”</p>
<p>D2 was always good with words, even as a toddler. She couldn’t say “street” very well. It always sounded like “shree.” It was very cute, so D1 (5 years older) always tried to find ways to get her to say “street.” Sitting in her car seat one day, when asked to say “street” again, she said, “road.”</p>
<p>We always say “lets take a short cut.” My dad, who always got lost, was driving D2 home. They came home later than we expected. I asked what happened. My 3 year old D2 said, “Grandpa took a long cut.”</p>
<p>When my youngest was in preschool, we went to San Antonio for spring break. We had just turned out the lights and were laying in our hotel room when he asked, “Who will fix the spring break?”</p>
<p>As a toddler, DS would kiss his baby sister on the forehead. A few times, I had to say “that’s enough.” and he thought I was saying “That’s a nuff.” So, when we’d ask him, he’d call his forhead a “nuff”.</p>
<p>When my first son was 2 years old, he started taking way too many toys to bed with him at night. So we made a new rule: you can only take one thing to bed with you. He would go around the room trying to pick up the sofa, then the wall, then the fireplace and then would grin at us.</p>
<p>When my daughter was young she always asked for “dressing room” on her salad. Guess I must’ve shopped a lot with her.</p>
<p>ooo, lilmom reminded me of my D. When she was a toddler and we went somewhere, I would ask her “do you want me to carry you?” So when she wanted to be carried, she would put her arms up toward me and say “carry you”. LOL, I remember wondering how I was going to teach her. It all worked out!</p>
<p>One day when DS was three, I was nursing his brand-new baby brother. I must have just gotten out of bed, because I didn’t have any clothes on. DS came in and said, “Mommy!! You’re not wearing any SOCKS!”</p>
<p>My husband is from Spain. When S1 was 3, he used to say that “Daddy has a Spanish accident” – he meant a Spanish accent!</p>
<p>Another time he asked me if I ever had to call 911. I told him yes, I called 911 one time when our house got broken into. He looked at me funny and said “It got broken in two? How did it get fixed?”</p>