<p>I’m going to bring this post back up - these are all so sweet, funny and endearing.</p>
<p>My 6 yr old S was in the tub with the 2 yr old D - because bathtime was always so fun with the crayon soap and boats and 2 yr old toys, right?! They played until the water started getting a little chilly. Son stands up to get out, and the 2 yr old D points at his groin and says, “Mommy, look, “S” gots a acorn!”</p>
<p>I think that was the last time S took a bath with his little sister.</p>
<p>This is a happy thread!</p>
<p>My son’s most memorable sayings come from potty training. We would catch him hiding behind a piece of furniture with an “uh-oh” look on his face, which meant he was looking for a little privacy whilst filling his diaper. He would put up his finger in a scolding manner and chastise us for bothering him:</p>
<p>SON: Don’t look at me.
US: Why, what are you doing?
SON: Just go away.
US: Do you have to…
SON: No! Don’t say it!
US: …go potty?
SON: DON’T SAY THAT WORD! JUST GO AWAY!</p>
<p>To this day, my wife and I laugh about this frequently. I’ll say, “Excuse me, I’m going to the bathroom,” and she’ll put her finger up and exclaim, “DON’T SAY THAT WORD!” It cracks us up.</p>
<p>S2, age 2: We were driving through Marysville, CA and S2 was sound asleep. DH and I pull through a Burger King, order lunch for us, and as we get to the window, S2 announces (while still asleep): “cheeburger pees.” Every time we drive through that town we remind him of it.</p>
<p>S2, age 4: It’s late, and we are about to stop for the night. “That one has a 6 on it. We can stay there.” He has inherited our frugality.</p>
<p>S2, age 4.5: Tells his pre-K class what we do for a living: “Mommy sews and Daddy sues.” </p>
<p>S2, age 5: His kindergarten class was discussing Yom Kippur and everyone in the circle said what they were sorry for. S2: “I can’t tell you. I have to speak to a lawyer.”</p>
<p>He makes me laugh every day. Gee, I will miss him next year.</p>
<p>On long road trips our kids always had a cassette playing that had songs with words such as “When will we get there? Gotta use the bathroom…” and “Simon says, wiggle your toes…,” etc. After a long stretch on the road, when hubby took an exit to fill up the gas tank, D2 (now a senior, then 5) pipes up “Simon says, go to Red Lobster!”</p>
<p>Beginning of a long car trip. S was 6 or 7, D was 3 or 4. They started arguing about something, and of course soon all we heard from the two of them in the back seat was:
“Yes it is!”
“No it isn’t”
“YES IT IS!”
“NO IT IS NOT!”
Then D, getting frustrated, said, “Yes it is, you foopus!”
H & I look at each other: “Foopus?” To this day, we refer to stupid or annoying people as Foopuses. We discussed naming a pet Foopus. Still haven’t determined the correct plural of Foopus…</p>
<p>edit: just asked D, now 17. She says the plural of Foopus is Foopi (foop-eye).</p>
<p>Every time I hear Brenda Lee sing “Rockin Around the Christmas Tree” I crack up and think of my daughter’s version of one line in it:</p>
<p>“Maybe we’ll have some f*****g pie and we’ll do some caroling.”</p>
<p>This thread is great! </p>
<p>I was on the phone with a nun at my brother’s catholic college trying to sweet talk her into giving me my brother’s new room phone number (this was before cell phones) and my 2 year old daughter was eating her noodles. Right at the point I was about to get the information, my daughter dropped her noddles and started screaming I dropped my “fok n bowl” over and over again. After listening to my daughter’s pronounciation of fork, she decided not to give me the information.</p>
<p>Another daughter heard H and I talking at the dinner table one night about his need for running tights for the winter. We also talked about how much we liked one of the teachers at school My daughter’s first grade teacher called the next day and told me that at circle time that day my daughter shared that her dad likes to wear tights and loves another woman.</p>
<p>TonyK, I am spraying my drink all over the keyboard. Thanks!!</p>
<p>Santa Claus is Coming to town as sung by our S, “…you better watch out, you better not cry, I’m telling your wife”</p>
<p>When riding in the car with his grandmother, S coughed. When asked if he was okay, he replied that he had something stuck in his sarcophogus.</p>
<p>I’ve used several tissues reading this thread! LOL</p>
<p>Someone offered DS (3) a balloon. He vehemently shook his head and said “No fanks, I don wike bawwoons.”</p>
<p>Me, tucking DS (about 5) in one night: Good night, my angel.
DS: Don’t call me an angel - I don’t want to be an angel!
Me: Why?
DS I don’t wanna be dead.</p>
<p>DS (About 5-6) sobbing one evening getting into the tub - “I think I need new batteries.”</p>
<p>Me: I am so happy you came to live with us.
DS (about 4): It’s a good thing nobody else picked me. (he is our biological child) ;-)</p>
<p>When ds was 3 and an early reader (including every sign he saw, cereal boxes, words on toys etc.), he was saying his prayers one night, ending with “…and God bless all the people in China.”
When I asked him what had triggered his last addition, he answered “cuz they make everything.”</p>
<p>^^^^^bahahahahahah!!! :D</p>
<p>i was about to yell at my son about essays yet again, but just cant now!!! LOL… i must be a foopus!!</p>
<p>Son 3, around age 4. Complaining that he had a pain in all the diodes down his left side.</p>
<p>Too many HitchHikers Guide to the Galaxy tapes (original radio series that <em>I</em> listened to in college) on long car trips?</p>
<p>Still a funny kid with an offbeat sense of humor.</p>
<p>edit - this is the same kid, who after watching the Lion King, when asked what he wanted to be when he grew up (age 3 or 4) said he was going to be a silly man. When asked what a silly man did, he responded “fress in frag and do the hula!” (Remember Timon?)</p>
<p>Son 2, in the movie theater, just turned age 3. Big climactic scene of “Fern Gully.” The fairy or somebody saves the day, and the theater is silent, except for my son’s loud, relieved voice: “Whew! Dat was cwose!” Entire theater broke up.</p>
<p>We still say that around here.</p>
<p>There was this lovely Thanksgiving ceremony at school. All the KG students had to tell the audience what they were thankful for. It was so sweet to hear these kids thanking their grandparents, their parents, their siblings, their teachers, their dogs. It was my son’s turn. It was so embarrassing. “I’m thankful that there is Cartoon Network on television” When I asked him later on what he thought about it. “At least I was speaking the truth.”</p>
<p>Son, almost two. I am changing his diaper as he stands on a chair (as soon as he could stand, he refused to lie down for anything unless there was a cat next to him). </p>
<p>“Mom, that’s it. No more cloth diapers. Disposables only!”</p>
<p>His personality hasn’t changed. He still has strong opinions and isn’t afraid to express them.</p>
<p>I had just picked Kiddo, age 3, up from pre-school was driving her out to a friend’s house for a play date. She was seated in her car seat right behind me. At some point, she asked quite seriously, “Mommy, do you know everything?” I thought I should come clean and responded, “Well, no, there’s lots of things I don’t know.” Without missing a beat, she cheerfully said, “I do! Don’t worry, I’ll teach you.”</p>
<p>Her older sister was quite literal at that young age. Once we were standing in line at a store during the Christmas season and a little boy just learning to walk bumped into Sister. She got a little frown on her face and looked irritated, so I said, “Don’t worry, he just lost his balance. He didn’t mean to bump you.” Her face cleared up and she looked at the space all around her and said, “Where did it go?” She was looking for the ‘balance’ the little boy had ‘lost’.</p>
<p>Sister was cared for lovingly by an elderly couple while I worked. During the winter, John usually wore long underwear. He explained to Sister (age 2) that he had on his “long-johns”. We took her skiing that year and I bought her a pair of long underwear. I gave them to her explaining they were her ‘long-johns’. She said, “No, those are ‘long-Sisters’.” We still use that term.</p>
<p>I remember the Art Linkletter show from when I was a kid. I always loved that “Kids Say the Darndest Things” segment!</p>
<p>One Christmas just as we finished saying the blessing before the big family meal, S2, preschool age, burst into a hearty rendition of “I’m too sexy for my shirt”!<br>
I thought my MIL was going to fall out of the chair.</p>
<p>Here’s another (and not all of us have HS seniors now, doubt anyone minds us oldsters on this thread)- when son was 4 I took him to the ladies’ restroom in the mall and reminded him to wash his hands after he got out of the stall- his response- “But I didn’t touch.” I couldn’t argue with his logic and learned something about guys that day.</p>