Getcher kids quotes here!

[indigo]

Note: We have satellite radio in the car and on the screen, there's not always enough room for the song titles or artist titles, so they get truncated.

K: Cool! It's Echo and the Bunny!

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C: Hey, look! Here's a math problem about gummy worms!
me: (groans)
C: What?
me: I thought you wouldn't like that one because last night the gummy worms made you sick.
C: Those were gummy BEARS.

[Peggyann]

I posted this one the other day

http://www.yaaps.com/forums/showthread.php?t=4184

~PA~

[indigo]

I posted this one the other day

http://www.yaaps.com/forums/showthread.php?t=4184

~PA~

I missed that! It's so funny, and definitely something C would have said.

[anastasia]

The other day Michael asked, after much thought, "What kind of a tree does wax paper come from?"

[Pensive]

My kids are a little odd but I like them like that. :loveit:

Ben took this bug day camp so now he's very into bugs (not all bugs are bugs, apparently, it's down to the # of legs they have). I keep finding him talking to what looks like...nobody?...and then I figure out that he's talking to a tiny little bug. "Oh, hello. You have wings, don't you? You're very small." It's so cute. Tommy is the polar opposite in that he's terrified of all bugs and even the possibility of bugs.

One day, they were looking at wasps outside our window. Tommy declared, "I'm going to NAME these wasps!" Then, Ben said, "I know! That one can be 'Waspy' and the other one can be 'Steve'." :spinning: Strange little guys, I tell ya.

Tommy's funny little thing lately is that his favorite number is 152. So, if you ask him anything that has a numeric answer, the answer will always be 152. If you ask him how much he loves you, he's going to tell you "152". The exception to this is regarding lunch. If I ask what he wants for lunch, it always includes cashews, to which he demands "and I want ten cashews. Count them!" God forbid I give him 9 or 11 cashews, he *will* call me on it and make me adjust the number.

I'm sure I had another one but now I can't think of it.

[Pensive]

It's those sorts of questions that kind of make your head explode sometimes, don't they? Ben recently asked, "How did they make the first factory machines if there weren't any machines to make them with?" Darnit, I don't know. I mean, I think I know the answer but it takes me off guard. The wax paper one would take me off guard before I could answer. Kids are amazing.

[indigo]

The other day Michael asked, after much thought, "What kind of a tree does wax paper come from?"

Wax myrtle!

[bannanabette]

Yesterday N was holding a flashlight when he needed his hands free for something, so he put the flashlight in his mouth, then took it out and looked at me and said, "I'm not a squid, so I have to do this." :)

[Jill]

Drew "Mom, explain infinity."
Me "uh, well, it's a word we use to say that something is never-ending"
Drew "Oh. Well, how do we KNOW it never ends?"
Me "That's a good question, Drew. I am not sure how to answer that"
Drew "Well I don't believe in infinity anyway because EVERYTHING has an end, sometime. We just might not be there to see it. Except for numbers. NUMBERS can never end because someone else might count one higher than the last person. But you know what I mean, right mommy?
Me "Oh for SURE I do."


Drew "Mom, how old is God?"
Me "Hmmmm...I don't think anybody knows the answer to that one"
Drew "God knows the answer though"
Me "yep I am sure He does."
Drew "Do you think He'll ever tell us? Maybe He'll write an autography"
Me "you mean autoBIOGRAPHY, right?"
Drew "yes, mom, that's a book that tells all"
Me "How do you know that"
Drew "I read about it in Star Magazine"
Me *cracking up and unable to respond, tears in my eyes!*


Jordan "Emmy, what's your name?"
Emmy "EMILY"
Jordan "Emily what? "
Emmy "Emily Claire"
Jordan "what's your WHOLE NAME?"
Emily "Emily Claire Geeford"
Jordan "say GIF-FORD"
Emily "no. FUGGER! Emmy Claire FUGGER!"
*ROFL*

Jordan "What does it mean to be green?"
Me "It means that you live your life in a way that is kind to the environment"
Jordan "Are we green?"
Me "Not like we should be, but I'm working on it"
Jordan "Why can't you just go get a Green Card? It works for lots of people"
gasping for air here...LOLOLOL!

[indigo]

Jill, those are hilarious. By the way, there's a pretty interesting novel called "The Autobiography of God."

[lunita]

I *love* the picture of B. I wish I could see the whole head of hair. nt

[Pensive]

I *love* the picture of B. I wish I could see the whole head of hair. nt

Oh, thank you! I took this one on the same day as the sig pic (yesterday) and it shows most of his hair.
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3193/2626347648_06d3a48a85_m.jpg

I made an appt with my hairdresser for him so she can shape his hair. It's so thick and randomly wavy (like mine) that he's going to look like a wild man before it's over. I just want her to make some rhyme and reason to his hair so it will continue to grow out nicely.

[indigo]

Oh, thank you! I took this one on the same day as the sig pic (yesterday) and it shows most of his hair.
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3193/2626347648_06d3a48a85_m.jpg

I made an appt with my hairdresser for him so she can shape his hair. It's so thick and randomly wavy (like mine) that he's going to look like a wild man before it's over. I just want her to make some rhyme and reason to his hair so it will continue to grow out nicely.

He looks adorable. I love his hair.

[Jill]

Oh, thank you! I took this one on the same day as the sig pic (yesterday) and it shows most of his hair.
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3193/2626347648_06d3a48a85_m.jpg

I made an appt with my hairdresser for him so she can shape his hair. It's so thick and randomly wavy (like mine) that he's going to look like a wild man before it's over. I just want her to make some rhyme and reason to his hair so it will continue to grow out nicely.

OMG that is one gorgeous head of hair!
He is *beautiful*, K. And Tommy's EYES my GOSH so soulful.
You are a great photographer. You do such a wonderful job capturing the spirit of your subjects!

[Jill]

Yesterday N was holding a flashlight when he needed his hands free for something, so he put the flashlight in his mouth, then took it out and looked at me and said, "I'm not a squid, so I have to do this." :)

OK so that one is so freaking funny- what I love is that I can "hear" his nonchalance. I mean, obviously he just HAS to do that. I mean cause he's not a squid. You know, because that is what would come to most people's minds when faced with such a task. :jester:
HIL-ARIOUS!

[Pensive]

OMG that is one gorgeous head of hair!
He is *beautiful*, K. And Tommy's EYES my GOSH so soulful.
You are a great photographer. You do such a wonderful job capturing the spirit of your subjects!
Oh, thank you so much. *blush* You know how it is with your own kids. You get so intimately familiar with their personalities that I think you learn what to look for in pictures. For Ben, I like his serious expressions because he is generally a serious person. For Tommy, I don't like the serious expressions at all unless he looks like he's brooding or thinking of some sort of mischief; the Ben pictures don't work on him because he has a different personality. I love taking pictures of people and I enjoy taking pictures of my sister's kids too but I don't think I do a good job with other people's kids because I don't know them as well as my own. It's like a labor of love or something (I mean, I love my sister's kids so much but a mother's love is unrivaled). I usually take more pictures of Ben simply because he patiently sits there and bears with me. Tommy is usually gone after 30 seconds so I have to be quick with him!

[Pensive]

He looks adorable. I love his hair.

Thank you.

[lunita]

He's got great hair. A lot of the 6-9 yo boys I know (and probably the older ones too, but I don't know any. lOL) have longish hair these days and I think it looks really cute.

Is T day dreaming or just waiting for you to get done with the photo?

[Pensive]

He's got great hair. A lot of the 6-9 yo boys I know (and probably the older ones too, but I don't know any. lOL) have longish hair these days and I think it looks really cute.

Is T day dreaming or just waiting for you to get done with the photo?

Thank you! I keep telling dh that it's popular but he still doesn't like it. Oh well, Ben's hair and all that. We agree to that. I don't know what Tommy is doing but I'm going to guess that he was contemplating doing a monster face or something like that. I came *this* close to putting one of his monster faces in my sig file simply because it's what he usually does when I take his picture and it probably more accurately represents him than the I one I chose. I might do that next time.

[Storymama]

I don't get to do this very much with big kids, but I do have one from Monday.

Amelia's Boy visited for six weeks, and Monday was the day he was leaving. I had to drive him up to Boston Monday afternoon, which is never a picnic. (The Boston part, not the driving *him* part LOL.) In particular, I find the octopus of interchanges near Logan a little intimidating.

Amelia waited until I was in the throes of negotiating all those interchanges to say, in a very serious voice, that she had come up with a plan. She said it just like that, too - very momentous. As we've been kind of nudging her to think about a summer job, and also a campus job in the Fall - I figured she was going to say something along those lines. I mean, her boy is on the cusp of leaving, her time is going to be free now, that is sort of the context I was using. Although I was a little overwhelmed with the driving just then, I didn't stop her because getting teens to talk about serious stuff can be like pulling teeth.

So she backstories a little bit, something about the movie night they had last night, and snacks, and I start to think, "Where the hell is she going with this?" So she sums up with, "So, I have a plan, like I said - for the cheese."

Uh . . . . hunh. For the cheese.

At that point, I did stop her so I could focus on the driving, telling her I couldn't really listen to her plan for CHEESE just at this very moment, but we could talk about it as soon as I was parked. She was a little huffy, and asked why I'd let her go on about it in the first place, if I needed quiet for driving? I told her I thought she was going to say that she had a plan for spending the rest of her time this summer, or what to do about a job in the fall at school, or something like that. I didn't think she was going to talk about cheese.

Fortunately, they did laugh too. It is kind of nice that they are old enough to see how that could be funny to me.

She brought it back up on the way home, though. She was serious about her plan for this (queso) cheese - who knew? (She wants to make empanadas.)

I know I post a lot of the cool things they do, so I thought I'd post for once, that they can be kind of bubbleheads sometimes too :loveit:.

[Storymama]

Except for numbers. NUMBERS can never end because someone else might count one higher than the last person.
Tell him how there infinite smallness, too - no matter how small you specify, someone else could cut that in half. This is all very important when he gets to Calculus next week :loveit:.

The rest of the quotes cracked me up too. LOL especially at Emily's, uh, name revision.

[Anne]

We were at a Starbucks today (the kind that's inside Barnes & Noble). Sophie looked in the pastry case and announced, "Look, Mommy, they have plain donuts--with hamburger seeds!" She was referring to the sesame seed bagels. :rofl:

[Kim]

We took our nightly walk around the neighborhood; Mairin calls it going on a "bunny hunt" because there are so many rabbits in the yards at that time of the evening. Usually we see at least 5, but often 8- 10.

Well, we had only counted 3 and we were almost home. M turned and asked me to pick her up, then she tucked her head on my shoulder and murmured, "This was the worst bunny hunt ever."

[Amanda_Reyasmom]

We took our nightly walk around the neighborhood; Mairin calls it going on a "bunny hunt" because there are so many rabbits in the yards at that time of the evening. Usually we see at least 5, but often 8- 10.

Well, we had only counted 3 and we were almost home. M turned and asked me to pick her up, then she tucked her head on my shoulder and murmured, "This was the worst bunny hunt ever."

Awww

[ecilA]

Last night as I was putting P. to bed we were being lions and had this conversation:

P.-Pop is Mufasa and I am Simba. Am I a boy?
Me-I think you are a girl.
P.-No mom, boys have eyelashes. Do you have eyelashes?
Me-Yes, I have eyelashes, see? Boys AND girls have eyelashes.
P.-That's why I'm a lion!

[Nicke]

C was upset because today was her swimming day at daycamp and she was due to start her period. Since she hadn't started her period this morning, I was trying to encourage her to go anyway (thinking the nerves alone would probably hold it off!). She said "Noooo, Mom! I'm feeling tiny cramps! I can't go!" So, I talked to her counselor at school and got her excused from swimming. When she got out of xh's car this evening, the first thing she said to me (with a big grin on her face) was "I went swimming, Mom! It was just GAS!"


R asked if she could have a snack while I was cooking dinner. She got out the salsa and started pouring it into a little bowl. I said "Did you make sure we have some tortilla chips to go with that?" She said "Yeah, I found some under my bed!"

[bannanabette]

C was upset because today was her swimming day at daycamp and she was due to start her period. Since she hadn't started her period this morning, I was trying to encourage her to go anyway (thinking the nerves alone would probably hold it off!). She said "Noooo, Mom! I'm feeling tiny cramps! I can't go!" So, I talked to her counselor at school and got her excused from swimming. When she got out of xh's car this evening, the first thing she said to me (with a big grin on her face) was "I went swimming, Mom! It was just GAS!"


R asked if she could have a snack while I was cooking dinner. She got out the salsa and started pouring it into a little bowl. I said "Did you make sure we have some tortilla chips to go with that?" She said "Yeah, I found some under my bed!"

I'm LOL at the second one! (We just re-read Henry and Mudge and the Careful Cousin last night and the boys were perplexed as to why the careful cousin would object to eating cookies that had been stored in a dusty, gum-stuck bag under the bed)

[gaia]

This may seem in poor taste, but it cracked us all up, including the subject of said quote. My 3yo DGD Lorna's Uncle Goran got his leg blown off when he stepped on a land mine. One day Lorna said "Goran only has one leg because he stepped on his landlord.":hide:



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