Funny Kids
(Background) I'm trying to get everyone out of the house in the AM when the baby comes to me with a missing shoe (at least the fifth one of the morning).
ME: Where is your shoe!? You just had it.
2 year old: I nuh no. (translation: I don't know)
ME: Alright everyone look for his shoe too.
(5 min later)
Me- at the end of my rope: BABY! WHERE... IS... YOUR... SHOE!
2 year old: I... NUH... NO!!!
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(Background) I'm trying to get 6 y/o to read to me.
Me: I think that says 'thirty butterflies'
Him (exasperated): No! That says ten.
Me: Oh, ten butterflies.
Him: NO! There's no 'b' ... see it's got an L-E-G- and S... That spells legs, not butterflies. See... ten legs! You really should know that Mom.
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7 year old daughter: Maybe the reason your heads been hurting so much is because of how much you yell.
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6y/o: Being angry is bad, when you're angry you get screws.
Me: What?
6 y/o: At Guidance, when you are angry they put the screws in and when you're not, they take them out.
Me (still confused but sure I'm getting it wrong) acting shocked: They put screws in you at guidance!!!?
6y/o: No! We put them in the wood, silly.
ME: Where is your shoe!? You just had it.
2 year old: I nuh no. (translation: I don't know)
ME: Alright everyone look for his shoe too.
(5 min later)
Me- at the end of my rope: BABY! WHERE... IS... YOUR... SHOE!
2 year old: I... NUH... NO!!!
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(Background) I'm trying to get 6 y/o to read to me.
Me: I think that says 'thirty butterflies'
Him (exasperated): No! That says ten.
Me: Oh, ten butterflies.
Him: NO! There's no 'b' ... see it's got an L-E-G- and S... That spells legs, not butterflies. See... ten legs! You really should know that Mom.
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This one doesn't need background.
7 year old daughter: Maybe the reason your heads been hurting so much is because of how much you yell.
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6y/o: Being angry is bad, when you're angry you get screws.
Me: What?
6 y/o: At Guidance, when you are angry they put the screws in and when you're not, they take them out.
Me (still confused but sure I'm getting it wrong) acting shocked: They put screws in you at guidance!!!?
6y/o: No! We put them in the wood, silly.
Comments
It boggles the mind to try and figure out why they say the things they do.
I don't do baby books I do baby quotes. lol
Lisa, I completely agree. sometimes we'll have a 'dry spell' and they don't say anything for a while and then we go through these phases when it's every other conversation, I can only imagine what their teachers think when they say things like "my dad is the meanest dad in the world!" as if it's something to be proud of.