Out of the Mouths Of Babes
by Jenners • 11/26/2008 • BB/The Little One • 9 Comments
For a blog entitled “Life With A Little One and More,” there has been remarkably few posts about the Little One…and whole lot about the more! Well, today I’m going to write about my little one and some of the amusing things he’s been coming out with lately. They’ve cracked us up and I hope you get a chuckle out of them too!
Exchange #1: How Mommy Is Messing Up The Little One
The other day, apropos of nothing, we had this little exchange, which goes to show you that they listen to everything you say and file it away as the gospel truth.
Little One: “I know a word that starts with E.”
Mommy: What is it, sweetie?
Little One: Angel.
Mommy: Well, honey. Angel doesn’t start with E. It starts with A. But those A and E sounds can be confusing.
Little One: Oh.
Mommy: Do you know what an angel is?
Note: We hadn’t talked much about angels that I could remember so I wasn’t sure exactly where this was coming from. Always fun to follow these non sequiturs to see where they lead.
Little One: Yeah…they roll balls around.
Mommy (confused): They roll balls around?
Little One: Yeah..up in the clouds. That is why there is thunder. Remember, Mommy?
Indeed Mommy does. It all came back to me. A while back during a thunderstorm that was scaring the bejeezus out of the Little One, I told him the old classic about how you don’t need to be scared of thunder because it is just angels bowling up in the clouds. (I remember being told this myself as a child.) Apparently he remembered that. It is just too cute to correct him for the time being…and how would I explain angels to a 4-year-old anyway?
Exchange #2: Thanks for Nothing, Kiddo!
The other day, my husband was building cool Lego things for my son. (I’ll post some of them sometime…they are really quite creative and interesting.) Anyway, the following exchange went down.
Little One: You are amazing, Daddy!
Daddy (blushing): Why thank you! I appreciate it. Why don’t you go tell Mommy what you just told me? (Meaning “go tell Mommy how great you think Daddy is.”)
Little One (misunderstanding): But Mommy isn’t amazing.
Long pause.
Little One: She is cute though.
Insert Daddy’s loud laughter here.
Exchange #3: That’s Not Why Daddy Likes Them…
This one came a few days after he watched a football game with his dad and saw cheerleaders.
Little One: Mommy, I like cheerleaders.
Mommy: Oh really. Why, honey?
Little One: Because they have those fluffy hands.
Have any cute kid exchanges to share? Please do so! I love stuff like this!
These are great! So funny. I love kid-isms.
Aw, I love these! My favorite is the ‘mommy’s not amazing, but she is cute’ comment. Love it! Of course I’m drawing a blank on any fun kid exchanges. And by the way, I hope you have a great Thanksgiving, too! I’m totally throwing all caution to the wind when it comes to food.
Oh my! These are so funny. I love kid convos. Hope you and your family have a fabulous Thanksgiving!
These are all so funny! I would need to drag out my old journals to share some of my sons’ witty sayings. Yours are delightful.
You know I love that amazing/cute one… made me laugh out loud again. The fluffy hands was a riot, too. I wish now I’d saved the old emails where I let all my family and friends know the funny things Ryan said when she was little… better yet, I wish I’d known about blogging back then!!! Keep posting them!!
haha, those are soooo funny and cute! I love the fluffy hands and the fact that your lil one thinks youre cute!
I dont have any kids of my own, but here are some various exchanges from my family:
3 year old me: Daddy, I love you.
dad: aww, thank you, Sweetie.
me: Daddy, I appreciate you.
dad: (surprised) wow, thank you, Sweetie.
me: but Daddy, I appreciate Huey more.
Huey was our dog.
my 5 year old cousin Nick: Dad, can you walk on water?
his dad: what??
Nick: well, in Sunday School, they told us that Jesus walked on water, and I figured that anything that Jesus could do, you could do.
Kid conversations crack me up!
Have a great Thanksgiving!
Hahaha… the fluffy hands comment did it for me. That’s great. Thanks for the smile!!
When I was small, we went on vacation for the first time. We saw a pool and an ocean. We also saw the chemicals getting poured into the pool. My little sister asked my mom after she first tasted the ocean, who puts the salt in the ocean every day. We still laugh about it.