While playing sketch the other day my 5 yr son was watching tv and piped up " mummy cos its sunny shall we go out today?" being full of cold and feeling like crap I replied "Im not feeling too well to go out anywhere today" he said " Thats ok mummy you can sit in the car while we enjoy ourselves" :rolleyes:

ROFL!!! Shows where his priority lies :smile:

When I worked as a nanny, this little boy's mum was busy and some visitors were talking and had to go. He however, wanted to play with them and because they were leaving, he couldn't. So he pipes up, shouting at the top of his voice so the world could hear it: "Fine! I'll play with myself then" :biggrin:

Bless him, meant nothing to him but we were all creased up for ages!!!

Mr BunE and I took lil bunE(3 at the time) to a really posh restaurant for lunch one day and she said she needed the loo so I took her. She finished what she was doing and we came out of the loo where she shouts across a very packed restaurant "Dad Ive done a big sh*t!" I just didnt know where to put my face!!

Not so much say, but do, in this case...

On holiday with my little neice, me and her mum were in Prada on Capri, having a look at all the nice stuff we couldn't afford, when I turned around and noticed Charlotte (2 years old) spit out her cherry pit onto the floor, and grind it into the rather posh looking carpet. It was terrible trying to pretend I was cross with her while I explained te correct thing to do, when all the while I was laughing my ass off inside.

Just to clear things up, my sister hasn't brought her up to be a litter bug, it's just that with things like cherry pits, she normally spits them out into mummy or daddy's hand... and with me and my sis both so engaged in looking at dresses, I guess she felt like she couldn't wait anymore :P

We we're having a picnic and my mum's friend brought her little darlings along. They we're so well mannered and polite. We started laughing too loud the oldest one came up, put his finger to his lip and said "It is very rude to those not talking with you". Poor little boy :( We started laughing harder.

I once caught my daughter (then 2) coloring all over my white door. I freaked out a bit, pointed to the mess and said:"What have you done? What is this?!!". And of course, she looked at me as though I must be a bit slow and calmly said, "Mommy, this is red and this is blue". Duh........

my 7 year old daughter was jumping up n down on her bed n i said to her " come on ive told u a million times before to stop that" she replied " but mum thats what children do n after all i am still a child and i cant help it" lmao she put me right in my place then didnt she:P

Not funny so much as cool -

I teach english to non-native kids. I have a class full of not-quite-2 year olds. I basically never expected this class to actually utter a word in English (most of them can't really speak their own language properly yet) but rather to pick up on the melody of English, understand what I say, dance around to the songs we sing, etc.

Anyways, every week I ask the kids where Lily is. Lily being my sheep puppet who sings some songs. The kids love her so much! So I say 'Where is Lily? Where is she? And make the appropriate hand/shoulder gestures, facial expressions etc to show I am asking a question. It usually takes a class a couple of weeks to understand this question, so I always answer myself, saying 'Oh! HERE she is, in the box' (I have a treasure chest where I keep all my 'props'). So, after a couple of weeks, the kids start to answer my question in their own language, saying 'she's inside, she's inside!'. I was happy with this, it shows they understand the qu, my tone of voice, etc.

So, there I was yesterday, saying 'Where is Lily? Where is she?' and one of the kids pipes up, in perfect English 'She's in the box!!'. I almost fell over in shock. Golden moment.

Later on in the lesson, another toddler pointed to some stickers saying 'here is the big mouth, and here is the little mouth!' This was a sentence of her own compilation. She knew the words 'mouth' 'big' 'little' and 'here is' all from separate instances, and she put them together. Needless to say, both kids got huge rounds of applause from me, and their mummies :)

*proud*

hahahah I love this thread.
Okay, here's one story that I tell a lot of people because it cracks me up.....sorry for the length...

My eldest (now 9) is highly gifted, IQ of 150. She was 6 at this time, and came home from school with a question: "How come when you add two even numbers together, you get an even number....but when you add two odd numbers together you don't get an odd number?"

Me: "Well, you need to think about what it is that makes a number even"
Her: "If it ends in 0,2,4,6 or 8"
Me: "Well, yes, that's how you identify that its even, but what does it actually mean to be an even number?"
Her: "Oh....hmmmm....I don't know...."
Me: "Well, if you split an even number into 2 equal groups, there will be nothing left over.....but if you split an odd number into two equal groups, you will have one left over.."

I then proceed to find a pile of stuff on the floor and we count it out into two piles of even numbers. I split the first pile into two even groups with nothing left over, then the second, and explain how if it had been all lumped in together in one pile, it would have the same result..... We then do the same thing for two odd piles, and she can see how the two 'ones' left over from each pile can be split into the equal groups.....(sorry it's a visual thing I know....) :rolleyes:

Her: "Ohhhh I see!"
I think to myself.....oh she seems to have cottoned onto that pretty quick, I'll just test her out to see if she really does understand....

So I put three odd numbered piles of stuff and ask her, if you added these three odd numbers together, would you get an even or odd number?
She divvies up the piles, and comes out with the answer...."odd"

So I try 4 piles of stuff......
Her: "that will be even..."

And Im thinking wow, this kid really does understand this, feeling a little blown away at it all, when she comes out with:

"Ohhhhhh! I get it!!!! When you add an ODD number of odd numbers together you get an ODD number, but when you add an EVEN number of odd numbers together, you get an EVEN number!"

(Me: :eek:)

/me shudders at the thought of helping with her high school math homework......

My wife's sister and her husband are one-eyed Parramatta (Rugby League) fans and they have Season Tickets. Their daughter Mackenzie is 18 months old (that's her in the attachment) and has been brought up to do the chant "Pa - rra" (clap clap clap).

Being a Bulldogs fan, I have taught her to say "Bull - Dogs" (clap clap clap).

So were at their house for dinner when Parramatta played the Bulldogs and as she knew the footy was on, she knew that we all pile into the lounge room to watch the game. So she climbed up ont uncle BM's knee and was watching the game very contentedly, occasionally sprouting a cheer for their team.

So in a house full of Parramatta fans except me and Mrs BM, the Bulldogs are winning and the sister in law says "C'mon Kenzie - Go Parra!" to which she replied "No." Shook her head and said "Bull-Dogs! (clap clap clap)."

Uncle BM is Sooooooo Proud!!!

Ha - Have dug up this thread for a particularly amusing reason (Although, perhaps it was a had-to-be there thing)!

So I was sitting, innocently playing iSketch this afternoon, 'babysitting'. Small children were in the yard playing with friends. All is normal. 3 girls, and my baby brother, who's 6. They seem to be playing happily, although the girls appear to be leaving out Pat, my brother. Not such an uncommon phenomenon. So when my sister comes running in dobbing on him, I tell her to play nicely and involve him in the games. 5 minutes later, I hear my little brothers lovely yell from the front door:
"No wonder God made girls second, They're SO MEAN!!!"
I burst into bouts of laughter, as he proceeded to walk in, slam the door and plop himself in-front of the television. By far, the funniest comment I've heard from a kid in a LONG time :biggrin: Still making me giggle!

O dear its finally happened, my small son whos 3 and a half has just said that immortal word "B S" this is the end of innocence thank god we was in the house and not out and about.
/me goes and rings the men in white coats

LOL tuppence, I remember the first time my daughter said the F word....we were playing "Go Fish" and to make it a little more bearable for me, I was making her give the cards a description - so she would have to ask "Have you got a ....sensational six" or something like that.

Well she obviously didn't like it - pipes up with "Have you gota f***ulous five?" :eek:

How proud could a mother be - not only can she swear - but she can make up her own variation of the word.....:rolleyes:

Lol at some of these posts, very funny indeed.
Here is 1 min in the cherry household for you all.
Mummmm tell mell, OH WHAT NOW FFS, shes annoying me, WELL IGNORE HER THEN.
Mummmmmm shes still doing it, I WALK UPSTAIRS. STOP NOW.
Mum can i go out on my bike, NO ITS RAINING, but i wanna, NOOOO.
Mum plzzz I SAID NO GO WATCH A VIDEO OR PLAY ON THE GAMES CONSOL.
boreing boreing boreing, mum your so pants.WHATEVER SON GO PLAY.
This could go on all day in my house, somebody take me away.

This was the conversation in the back of the car on the way home from school yesterday:

M (son, age 6): Mummy, why don't women go to war?

J (daughter, age 9, butts in cos she knows everything): Well, Matthew, women DO go to war actually. It's just they don't fight, they go to be the healers. So it would be pretty bad if we had a war.

M: Why?

J: Well, think about it - Daddy would have to go and fight and get injured, and Mummy's not very good at healing, so he'd die, and that would be pretty bad woudn't it?

M: Yeh, I suppose so - who would make my eggs on Sunday then?

J: ExACTly - you know Mum hates cooking eggs....

There's this kid in one of my classes with a very doting mother. It's actually a joy to see them together, you really can feel the love - and she has all kind of cutesie nicknames for him (he's only 3, so it's ok :P). Anyways, we were in class, playing the 'Introductions game' which is where they throw a ball around and whoever has the ball has to say 'Hello! I am *insetnamehere*'.

So this kid gets the ball and yells

'Hello! I'm Kevin! and.. (rough translation) Kevi-sweetie aaaaaaaaand... Little sparrow Kevin aaaaaaaand... Kevi-baby aaaaaaaaaand... Treasure Kevi... unfortunately!'

hehe - I think this kid is going to get sick of the nicknames a lot quicker than his mummy :P

"Ohhhhhh! I get it!!!! When you add an ODD number of odd numbers together you get an ODD number, but when you add an EVEN number of odd numbers together, you get an EVEN number!"

:eek: DEJA VU - I just had this same conversation with my my 6 yr old son :eek:

Ok this story is actually about me, when I was about 7 years old.
We were at our first communion practice and the priest was asking us children to raise our hands and give reasons why we were thankful. Our parents sat proudly behind us in the back rows. One child raised his hand and said "I'm thankful for my family". Another raised her hand and said "I am thankful for my health". And then I raised my hand and said "I'm thankful that I am not a bug".
It was like the silence after someone tells a really bad joke. I half expected a tumbleweed to roll by and a cricket to be heard loudly. My parents shrank down visibly in their seats!! They laugh about it now, though.. XD

Hey, I'm still happy that I'm not a bug....

hahaha.

/me knows someone (thing?) that would have liked you to be a bug:

Ok, so one time, there was this frog. It hopped, so I hopped behind it, then it hopped again, and so I hopped, but then...it didn't hop, but I did...with bare feet. I was young at the time, but the guilt is kind of haunting..

OK I don't think I made this clear, but I squished the frog and it died.. =SSSS

LMAO, I'm just seeing this now... XD

HAHAHAHAHA Im having another giggle at how that story fits in with your signature.....XD

Omg, LMAOOOO

Lisa's gonna be having froggy nightmares now :razz:

Okay, so the morning rush is happening, trying to get 3 kids ready for school. Other than the normal lunches, uniforms, hats, sunscreen, hairbrushing, helping with shoes, etc.....today a few other things are happening as well - eldest has an early tennis lesson, its banking day, there's a special canteen...lots of little extras to get ready as well.

So, after a few years of travelling the school road, we know the *best* time to leave to avoid the last minute work traffic, give or take 5 minutes.....so we are running a few minutes late...and I'm starting to worry that we are going to get caught up in traffic.....

They are finally ready (I mean - seriously - how can it take 10 minutes to get sunscreen on) but dawdling out the door ....Im behind them trying to gently herd them out, without giving indications that we are late (cos as any parent knows, that would slow them down even more)...

They get into the car, seatbelts on, I start wiping the condensation off the windows and Master 6 comes out with "Wait! Don't wipe my window yet!". Undoes his seatbelt and gets out of the car. :eek: We have maybe 1 minutes grace.....

I'm wiping the windows, shoving bags and hats and tennis racquets into the boot, listening to three conversations, trying to get the boy back into his seat explaining "We need to strap ourselves in NOW so we can get to school...." (starting to get a lil irritated by now)

And he goes "WAIT!! I just want to write something on the window" (in the condensation) "Close your eyes"

So I take a deep breath, thinking to myself "It's OK if we are late.....", and close my eyes, and when I open them, he has written:

I LOVE YOU MUMMY

:cry:

2/3 days ago I was playing Super Mario Galaxy (that was the day i got it) and my sister for some reason said the A word in a sentence. i was surprised! she wasn't even in elementary school!
I know this is short but i forgot the sentence and i don't want to write the mean reaction

Awww Saffron :cry: That choked me up too :biggrin: Makes it all worth it, doesn't it :biggrin:

**hugs**

Yesterday nerdy was teaching my one year old nephew not to go next to some glass ornament in our living room. So she pointed at it, waved her finger and said "bad" and he copied her for a bit.

Earlier today I went downstairs and sat on the sofa. My nephew crawled up to me, then stood up and I thought he wanted to play with me. Instead he points at me and went "baaad"

/me raises an eyebrow
Nerdy and everyone else find it hilarious...

haha!! AJ - too funny XD

When littlest one was 3, she loved to play "The Rhyming Game" in the car, which essentially meant I said a word and she would say a word that rhymed with it.

Only trouble was, she *always* used the letter P to start the rhyme. To be nice, I would select words that had a P word to rhyme with, but then one day, I got so over it...

Me: What rhymes with CAT?
C: PAT
Me: What rhymes with LIP?
C: PIP
Me: What rhymes with HOUSE?
C: POUSE
Me: What's a pouse?
C: You know, one of those things on the road....
Me OH. OK then. What rhymes with PUP? :twisted:
C: PU....oh!
[pause]
C: Muuummmmyyyyy!!

lol, meannnnnn saff :P, sounds like when my brother used to do that to me all the time :(

My four year old niece is playing with my nephew and she went:

"Quick Daleks! Exterminate him!"

Dr Who fan, me thinks...

Miss 5, playing Wii 10-pin bowling, and jumping around, doing the "I need to go to the toilet" dance.

Her: Mummmmyyyy.....I need to do a wee, but I'm Wii-ing.....

Aaaawe Safron that's the cutest thing ever with the "I love you Mummy" note, and MrsSquany's son is a legend. I don't have any kids. ^__^

safffff, that is so cute XD <3
/me is a kid :P
so i cant really contribute to this thread.....

Okay a long post, but it's been one of those mornings.....

Every school morning is the same old stress - "Mum I can't find my shoes...Muuum, where's my jumper...muuummmmm...I can't find....etc"

So on Tuesday (after 3 of them not being able to find various bits of their uniforms) I thought, there HAS to be a better way.....so I came up with THE PLAN

So I sat them all down and explained - from tomorrow, when you get home from school.....there will be no afternoon tea UNTIL your uniform for the next day is put in this basket under the ironing board.

They come home Wednesday after school, head toward the pantry, and I'm there smiling and pointing to the basket...so I get half an hour of "I can't find this or that.." but, hey I'm not stressing cos I've got all afternoon to wait now, I'm not in the morning rush! Eventually they find everything and can eat...

All evening, Im looking forward to how stress-free the next morning is going to be.....every time I walk past the ironing board....puffing my chest out a little and smiling to myself at my clever scheme.

This morning (Thursday - Day 1 implementing new plan) I'm getting lunches ready and I find the school newsletter:

DON'T FORGET : FREE DRESS DAY THURSDAY. GOLD COIN DONATION. :rolleyes:

"Muummm.....where's my blue shirt...you know, the one with........muuummmmmm...I can't find my socks with the pink flowers on them......."

Playing "Guess my animal" in the car on the way to school. (This, for those who haven't played it, is where one person thinks of an animal, and the others ask questions to try and guess what it is. The questions have to be able to be answered with only "yes" or "no"). Miss 5's turn.

Master 6 who has just done a unit on dinosuars: "Is your animal extinct?"
Miss 5: "What's that mean?"
Miss 9: "It means its dead..."

Miss 5: "Oh...yes....well of course it's stinked if it's dead......"

/me thinks Saffron's kids should have their own show :smile: They're brilliant.

Conversation with a 9 year old:

Little miss: 'That Russell's always picking at my scabs'.

Me: *what are you on about look*

Little Miss: 'I don't mean literally, I mean figuratively.'

:eek:

My sister's always telling me about the things her kids do and say at home. Yesterday she told me her youngest, aged 7 was in a play for school. The play is about the things they do to help their mothers at home and it's to show to the whole school.

So kids write things like "I help my mum wash the dishes, I massage her, I tidy my room, I listen to her" and so on. My nephew wrote "I tell my dad to get my mum a takeaway" and in the play he has to look at his dad in the audience and put his thumb up lol!

My sister's pregnant atm so she was put off home made food for a while, hence her only being able to eat takeaways half the time.

My friend's daughter has learnt her "abcd" and it goes like this....

A, b, c, d, e, f, g, h, i, j, k, yelllowmen, o, p... :razz:

She's so cute <3

LOL AJ I love those kind of things XD

Probably not so much a ‘what kids say’ but this is my normal madhouse family:

Friday’s we all go in one car, so we are playing ‘I Spy’ on the trip into school.
It’s my turn.

Me: I spy with my little eye, something beginning with B.
Mr7: Bag?
Me: No
Mr7: Bush?
Me: No
Miss10: Bushes?
Mr7: No, we aren’t being pedantic!
Miss5: Ball?
Me: No
Miss10: Building?
Me: No
Mr7: Can we have a hint?
Me: The second letter is I. Making an ‘i’ sound like in Pig
Mr Saff: BIRD
Me: ……… ‘I’ as in PIG. P…I…G
Miss10: Big bird?
Me: No
Mr7: Can we have another hint?
Me: It has 3 syllables
Mr Saff: Bin?
Me: O_O ….. 3 syllables CLAP CLAP CLAP
Mr Saff : Yeh yeh alright
Miss10: Billycart?(CLAP CLAP CLAP)
Me: No
Mr7: Is it inside the car?
Me: No
Miss5: Is it outside the car?
Me: Surprisingly…….yes
Mr7: Oh I give up, just tell us what it is
Miss10: NO I DON’T GIVE UP!!
Miss10: Give us another hint!
Me: … First syllable sounds like a female dog.
Miss5: (who has just had a visit at Kindergarten by a Guide Dog called Millie-Mae) MILLIEMAE!!
Me: er…nope
Mr Saff: Bitumen
Me: YES
Mr7 andMiss10 together: I was just going to say that!!!!

When I take mine to school theres a gift (sweet (s) on the way home) for the first ready. Only got two, so may not work with more.

Ooo I could go on and on in this thread! But I wont...I will share 1 story now and I will share more later

So when my now 7 yr old was 3 I was at a wedding and it was outdoors and the only restrooms they had were port-o-potty's. My son asks to go potty so I said sure and I start heading toward the port-o-potty and my son goes "Where are we going?" so I say "Over here" and I point to the port-o-potty and he gives me the strangest look ever and goes "In the refrigerator?!" I couldn't do anything but laugh for a good couple minutes. :biggrin:

Ok time for another story.

When my niece was 3 yrs old and I was at their house with my 1 yr old son and he needed a diaper change. Now she had never seen boy parts before so she was very curious as I was changing his diaper and watched the whole time and when I opened the diaper up she says "Why does he have a nose on his butt?!" :biggrin:

Lmao, kids say the craziest things! :razz:

/me waves to spam :/

Ok so we were in church the other day and we got there early so we were only like the second people there and when the next couple people arrived it was a lady and her teenage son and when the teenage boy walks in for some reason my 2 yr old blurts out "Mom....it's Heavenly Father!" and points at the boy! lol....I had no clue God walked around as a teenage boy! :eek:

Ok so I was at my parents house yesterday and my 3 yr old pipes up and says "Mom their house doesn't stink!!!" like it's a miracle or something! Cracked me up. We figure it's because the day before when we went there they had just cooked some salmon and their house did stink! But it was cute!:biggrin:

We need some more kidlet stories; this thread was nearly on page two :o

My sister, her hubby and 5 year old went to Birmingham this weekend. They travelled by car and the journey was 2-3 hours long so they thought they'd put the 5 year old in the passenger's seat cos she's always left at the back.

On their way there my niece turns around and asks her mum "You OK mummy?" and my sister didn't reply. My niece then asked "Are you bored?" Again, my sister didn't reply. Then my niece said "Now you know how I feel" :razz:

Hehe cute!

Ok here is one. So my 7 yr old (6 at the time) is a little smarty. He likes to use big words and sometimes he doesn't exactly know what they mean but he has heard them used. So he was helping me 1 day carry something out to my sisters car and it was rainy and he was walking through the mud and he was barefoot so he makes this face and says "Ew ew ew this is so not implicated!" lol he had no clue what implicated even meant but it sounded right so he used it. To this day whenever anything is not very fun or stupid or anything like that everyone in my family (extended family included) say "This is so not implicated!" lol :razz: Even my sisters college friends use it!

So my mother in-law took my kids out to the store and bought them each a thing of candy. My 2 yr old came in with a thing of mini M&M's. So I asked him if I could have some and he says yes and gets 1 out and says "Just 1!" So then my husband says "Can I have 1?" and he gives him this look like "Not you too!" and finally he says "It's all gone" and snaps the lid shut on it and then says "It's full of spiders and ants!" rofl. Apparently daddy couldn't have any! Cracked me up!

So we bought Mr Saff a WiiFit for Fathers Day.

On it, you set up a Mii, which records your weight and runs you through a series of fitness tests to determine a "WiiFit Age". And then it adjusts the look of the Mii (which is like a Wii caricature of yourself) in accordance with your WiiFit Age.

Well Mr Saff, who likes his beer, was a little overweight - the Mii kinda expanded around the tummy area and he happened to comment (in front of little ears, the silly sod):

"God, look at me, I'm such a fat bastard"

So Miss 5 is next.
She does her weight and fitness test and lo and behold she is pretty normal weight etc and her Mii looks really really thin standing next to Mr Saff, so she says:

"God, look at me, Im such a Skinny Basket"

Mr Saff... happened to comment (in front of little ears, the silly sod)
I read that and thought you named one of your kids "Little ears". Maybe it's just nerdy who names ears... or just mine :/

/me pets elfy and eggy

Getting Mr 7 and Miss 5 to bed (who sleep in the same room).

Mr 7: I wish I didn't have to go to school tomorrow. It's not fair. I have to go every day.
Me: But that's OK, you've got friends to play with at school, and if you didn't go, you wouldn't see them!
Miss 5: I only have 2 friends. And sometimes, when they're not there, I have no-one to play with.
Me: Well, then, you look around, and see who else is on their own, and you go over to them and say "Can I play with you?"
Miss 5: Really?
Mr 7: Yes! Just like the lonely bench! If you have no-one to play with that day, you can sit on the lonely bench, and people will come over and ask you to play.
Me: Have you ever sat on the lonely bench?
Mr 7: Yes. Two times. And I sat there all day and no-one came to play with me...
(at which point my heart is breaking) :cry:
Miss 5: I would have come to play with you!
(at which point I was just so glad the light was off) :cry: :cry: :cry:

awwwwww...kids are so sweet!

A couple of weekends ago my parents, brother, sister-in-law, and 3-yr old niece drove to where there is a market garden owned by a local guy. Well the store is run out of a really old house, and every fall they set up a "Pumpkin Room" at the top of the rickety old staircase, complete with all kinds of Halloween decorations.

Well they got to the top of the stairs and my niece insisted on my brother carrying her. After a few minutes she realized that the Halloween decorations were pretty cool, and she gets down. A few minutes later, she comes back to my brother and says "Daddy, I wasn't scared before, I was just frustrated"

!!!

Not necessarily what they say, but what they do sometimes - makes you think you are doing something right.....

Today is 'sausage sizzle' day at school - $1 per sausage.
Miss 5 wants to hold her $1 in her hand in the car on the way to school. So I tell her to hold it very tightly because it was my last coin......and if she lost it, I coudn't replace it and she would not be able to have a sausage.

Of course, 3 minutes into the trip...."uh oh.....Mummy.....I dropped my dollar and it's gone down behind the car seat and I can't reach it....."

When we get to school, we all look and look and it's disappeared, and, as the realisation hits her that she isn't going to get a sausage now.....her little eyes start to well up, and her lip is trembling... and she is trying to be strong and brave, but she can't.

So Miss 10 reaches into her own pocket and places her $1 in Caitie's hand.
"It's alright, here.....you can have mine...."

:cry::cry::cry:

awwwwww, thats so sweetttt <3

LOL, this one is not really a kid, but I first met him when he was 7 so I still think of him that way :P

Mr Saff's eldest boy from his first marriage (MasterNow19) comes over for a visit. He is playing crosswords with my kids......and Master7 can't think of a word.....MasterNow19 can't get it either.........finally Miss10 works it out, and MasterNow19 says "Ohhhhh, yeh.....that's how you spell it....."

Mr Saff says laughingly "Can't you spell anything?!!!"
To which MasterNow19AndStudyingComputingAtUniversity replies
"Yes. I can spell all the important words!"
"IF....AND....ELSE....NOT....."
:razz::razz::razz::razz:

Every night my 2yr old AND 3 yr old end up in bed with me and my husband (Thank goodness for CA King sized beds). My husband is getting quite sick of it and has said we need to start making them go back to their own bed if we notice them climbing in bed with us. So my 3 yr old comes in the night before last and starts wanting in bed with us and when I say no he says "But mommy I love you, and your bed is so comfortable and mines not it's just cold!" How are you supposed to resist that?!!!!! =P

I love reading these :P I do a lot of babysitting, and I may end up going into a career with children, so haha.
Anyway, I was baby sitting a girl who was about six the other day. It was my first time taking care of her, so she had a bunch of questions, and things.
Her: "I'm six. Oh. How old are you?"
Me: "I'm 18."
Her: "Oh... You look 8, 'cause you're little!"
;) Besides laughing a bit, I don't think I had any response to that. Mind you, I'm 5'1 :) But, I think I'd rather be called little than the other, ha.

So every day I go to my parents house cause they have a Daycare and my Dad does preschool with the older kids so I take my kids over there to get some socialization and so that my 3 yr old can do preschool. Usually I bring my dog too but the other day my mom called and said not to bring our dog because my brothers dog named Princess was over and my parents have 2 dogs already and she just thought it would be too many dogs running around. So I told my 2 and 3 yr old that we couldn't bring our dog to Grandma and Grandpa's because "Princess is over and it is too many dogs!" and my 2 yr old looked very confused and says "But Cinderella likes dogs...?". =P =D =) Made me laugh anyway! Hehe

Mr Saff is showing Miss 10 how to load songs onto her newly won iPod, and he says "I'm not sure how many songs you can load onto this thing..." to which her reply was:
"You can put as many on until it's full!"
Well.....DUH!!

Was spring-cleaning Miss 10's room today (with her help) and we came across an old book from when she was in Grade 1. It was a compilation of drawings where each child had to draw a picture of what their family enjoyed doing.

Obligatory background information here: Just before she did this, I was a stall holder at a local event for my business, held at Wrest Point Casino function rooms. Other than this day, we have not set foot in any casino or gambling institution.....

So, we are looking through the book - the NNN family like to watch movies, the MMM family like to go to the park, the DDD family like to go to Church, and THE SAFFRON FAMILY LIKE TO GO TO THE CASINO!!!!! :eek::eek::eek:

Hahahaha, so many smiles and laughs I got from this thread:D

I'm only 17 but I remember (well mainly my mother telling me this story) that one day, when I was maybe 9 or 10 there was a cake fundraising sale at school and the cakes there were 20c - $2 a piece. So I asked my mother if I could have $1 and a container that day, and she was thinking "why a container?" and deciding that 50c was enough she told me that she didn't want me to get "fat on cake" (!) so she gave me a 50c coin and a plastic container.

I aparrently borrowed 50c from a friend and bought a big slice of black forest cake for $1, and put it in the container, and brought it home. I gave it to mum and said "I know you like black forest cake.."

She tears up every time she tells the story :P

I'm not surprised.
It's a huge milestone in emotional maturity for a child to be able to to think outside their own wants and consider what someone else might like. Some people never even get that far! :P

My eight year old nephew's a bit of a monkey. Really cheeky and sometimes a bit slow but it's really sweet. Anyway, my sister (his mum) always has nicknames for her kids, really random. My nephew has a hair cut and my sister decides to call him "falafal head". Eventually he gets fed up of it and his dad comes home and he says "Mum keeps calling me fal... flaf.... fala... fa.. fa.. fl.. fluffy head!" It was so funny, I just wish I was there to see him say it. He pulls the best confused expressions you've ever seen! <3

This little girl (4) that goes to my parents Day Care started singing "Skip to My Lou" except that is not what she sang! What she sang went like this...

(To the tune of Skip to My Lou)

Glue glue stick to the glue
Glue glue stick to the glue
Glue glue stick to the glue
Stick to the glue my darlin'

Lol was so cute.

I have a 3 year old son who isn't much of a talker at the moment. He does have some words, but he prefers to garble on in some little language that nobody else can understand. One of his favourite words (in English, not gibberish!) at the moment is 'Bob', as he's a total Bob the builder fanatic. As a result, 'Bob' is generally the answer he gives to anything I ask him, which gets really annoying at times!

However, on the rare occasion that he does grace us with some proper English, he always ends up either making me laugh or melts my heart. The other day he was laid with me watching a DVD (Bob the builder, of course) and turned round and said 'Bob and me loves you daddy'. It's times like that when I can see that it's all worth it.

Awwww!

Ok so little kids bottoms are totally cute. I'm sayin like ages newborn - 3 or so....I dunno why they are just so pinchable! Lol Anyway...my sister told my niece once that she had a cute bottom. (My niece was 3 at the time) Anyway her response to that was "Yeah and it has a hole and poop comes out!" Rofl, cracked me up.

I live with a 6 year old here as well as my own son. Today he came home from school with a piece of work he did. The topic was 'Jobs'. He's drawn a picture of all of us (his dad has 3 arms for some reason. He's not much of an artist :P), and underneath he has wrote:

'My daddy is a teacher, my mumma is a shop person and my daddy says that Zach is just a lazy bast head.'

Made me laugh lol. And it's oh so true. :P

^ :O lol!!! "bast head" hahahahahaaaaaaa!! Love it. You bast head :p *hugs*

Conversation between my two year old nephew and me since last night...

Me: I love you
Nephew: (shaking his head) I dun fink so

Finally today I came home from work, said "I love you" and got an "I luyoo" back, lol.

Driving to school today....and it's started raining last night after a few weeks of hot weather, so the roads are fairly slippery and dangerous. Mister 7 is in the back asking to "play a game" (we usually play word games or such in an attempt to stop fights and bickering)...but I can't concentrate on the game as i'm concentrating on driving, and keep missing my turn. "Muuu-u-uuuuuum.....you're not playing properly!!" So I say:
"OK. I've got a good game to play. Why don't we play 'who can keep quiet the longest so that Mummy can concentrate on driving the car in these dangerous conditions....?"
So there is silence in the car for...oooh....15 seconds before a little 5 year old voice pipes up: "Well this is a boring game, then!"

I just read Charlotte's 'Good Friday' thread and it reminded me of something my mum told me that my niece said over the weekend.

She'd learned the easter story in her pre-school class and she was out shopping with my mum and suddenly she pointed to a war memorial and yelled:

'Look Nana!!! Look! An 'X'! THAT'S where Jesus died!!!!!!!!'

Haha Vik. That's funny xD

My two year old nephew this morning yelling upstairs for his sister...

XXXX where yar yoooo? Come down. XXXX come down now!! 1....2....6! Ugh! *walks into the living room and holds his head in his hands* Yoo give me headache! Ugh!

And at a wedding on Friday, after frustration out of not being able to push a stranger away from his dad's side he yells "Oh for God's sake!"

Mother's Day is coming up in Australia (on May 10) and today, my kids were discussing what they might buy me as a present.
Miss 10: "OOh I hope we get to go shopping with Daddy for your present. Shopping with Daddy is FUN!"
Me (knowing how little patience Mr Saff has with shopping for anything) ".....oh is it?"
Miss 10: "Yes. We go into the shop, go straight to where the Wii stuff is. I find something I want. If Daddy wants it too, then we buy it for you."

Was talking to a friend at school yesterday and she told me this story, from her 5 yr old daughter:

5 yr old: "Mummy, does Daddy love you?"
Mum: "Yes, he does."
5 yr old: "Does Daddy love me?"
Mum: "Yes, of course he does!"
5 yr old: "Does he love Luke?" (older brother)
Mum: "He sure does"
5 yr old: "Ew. GAY!"

Picked up Miss 10 from Orchestra this afternoon - I had to wait for Miss 6 to finish her Gymnastics class before I could get into town, and then there was a small accident on the Outlet, so I was a little late. So it's pretty cold, and one other girl is still waiting (with the tutor) for her Mum, in a short T-shirt, shivering, as she has left her jumper at school.
Miss 10 gets into the heated car, and looks at this girl still waiting in the cold.
"Wait, Mum" she says.
Opens the door, and offers her jumper to the waiting girl.
Moments like these, I feel I have done something right with them.......

Another proud moment in the Saff household.
Getting the order forms ready for canteen the following day, and Miss 6 asks for 2 bags of popcorn instead of 1. I'm thinking...."hmmm...that's a bit greedy...." and ask her why she needs 2.
She says "Because Mattie is going on an excursion tomorrow and he won't get one, so I want to bring one home for him!"
<3

As requested by AJ I am bumping this thread with some silly stories of my boys.

So my boys are always wearing t-shirts with super hero's on them or sports etc. and they decided that whichever shirt they are wearing that day, they ARE that guy! So we were getting out of the car and I said "Ok come on guys." and my 2 year old says "No mom, you're posed to say 'Come on Buzz Light Year (the shirt his brother was wearing) and...'" at this point he looks down at his shirt. He was wearing a plain blue shirt that day so he says "...and blue guy." Lol

And another 1 from my 2 year old. (What can I say 2 year olds are cute) So I come in from the garage where I was changing the laundry loads and I see my son getting into the peanutbutter jar with peanutbutter all over his face. So I asked him "Who said you could have peanutbutter?!" and he tells me "Daddy!" and I knew his daddy would not have said that so I said "He did not!" and he says "Well....he saw me and he didn't get mad...so I can have some!" Perfect logic right?! lol

Ok so my 2 yr old and 4 yr old were playing in the backyard and my 2 yr old had a toy dinosaur that he kept throwing against the fence. My 4 yr old had a plastic slinky in his hands and every time my 2 yr old would throw the dinosaur against the fence my 4 yr old would stretch the slinky out and say "Waa waa waaaaaaaa". Like the sound you make when someone 'loses'? Lol it cracked ME up anyway.

So my 8 year old is in Boy Scouts and all this week he is going to a Day Camp. Well they do a bunch of different activities at the Day Camp, including Archery and shooting a BB gun etc. Well the day that I was there to help out he did this thing called the board walk where 3 of the boys would stand on 2 long boards with straps for their feet and ropes to hold onto and they all had to work together to get the boards moving and "walk" to the other side. So it was my sons teams turn and they got on and it was kind of slow going because on his team was the little autistic boy, but they finally made it across. So later in the car I was talking about the day and he said "Yeah but it was SO slow on the board walk." and I told him it was because it wasn't so easy for ___ because he is autistic. So he says "You mean it was hard for him just cause he likes to draw and paint?!" Lol So then I had to explain autism!

In the spirit of keeping this thread going.....here's a good one!

I was giving my almost two year old a bath tonight and he's being silly as usual (oh and a little background before the story gets started, his name is Kaspar and he calls himself Bapper)...The tub at my parents' house is an old clawfoot with its original chrome plumbing, and the faucet can get pretty hot so I'm always warning him not to touch it. Anyway, he backed up into it and touched the faucet to his back (it wasn't hot this time) and he said "Uh oh, very hot a little Bappers!" He saw his reflection in the two sides of the faucet, so the little Bappers were very hot!

LOL I just had to giggle at that one :razz:

so i dont have any kid stories... but i have to say this thread is awesome! thanks for sharing!

Little Bappers has been coming out with all kinds of things lately...I don't really have any one specific story, but he says some hilarious things.

All this week, he's been remembering the one time in the summer that he got to ride on a quad for about 2 minutes...and he keeps saying "Have fun a-Jay on da quaaaaad...is it scary?" And then I have to ask him "Ohh, was it scary, Kaspar?" and he says "Uh-huh" And that's the conversation.

Yesterday, we were driving behind a cyclist who had the oddest form on his bike, and I said "Jeez that guy looks like a goof on his bike!" and Kaspar says "Guy a goooof! On da bike da guy a gooof!" Haha.

And then he's always a great one to give me instructions on how to get his breakfast/any meal ready. Say for breakfast, I pull out a box of cereal...
Kaspar: "Have a bowl?"
Me: "Yep, I'll get you a bowl for your cereal...just a second"
Kaspar: "Just a second....maybe some milk?"
Me: *laughs* "Yes, should we get some milk, Kaspar?"
Kaspar: "Uh-huh....and a foon?" (spoon)
Me: "Yep, and a spoon...okay lets go sit in your chair"
Kaspar: "Sitta mum's chair?"
Me: "Nooo sit on Kaspar's chair"
Kaspar: "Sitta Bapper's chair da cereal and da foon"

My 3 year old told me to guess what he wants to be when he grows up the other day. Now every other time we have talked about this it has been a football player so naturally the first thing I say is that. "Nope" he says. So I guess soccer player? "Nope" baseball player "Nope" so finally I say "Ok I give up what?" and he says "Yoda!" what an aspiration! lol I guess he doesn't have to grow much more that way though! lol

We often play word games in the car on the way to and from school (to keep them distracted and therefore not bickering....)
Recently, it was a spelling game - we were coming up with harder and harder words for someone else to spell. I asked Mr 8 (whose name is Matthew) to spell 'onomatopoiea'.

He suddenly starts giggling and can't stop.
Me: "What's so funny"
Miss 11 (Justine) joins in - apparently this word is the funniest word in the English language.
I am perplexed, until she explains:

Onomatapoiea:
Oh No! Matt-a Pee-a!! You know, like - Oh No! Juss-a Fart-a!

Tonight I was putting Kaspar to bed and he was taking a sip of his water cup. He was talking about one of the girls at his daycare, F:

Kaspar: F has some water!
Me: Ohh really? That's pretty cool.
Kaspar: Bapper has booze.
Me: What?! Kaspar doesn't have booze in his cup!
Kaspar: Grandpa has booze.

*sigh*

I hope he's not telling his daycare teachers that he has booze in his cup!

Sooo.... this is a mahoosive bump - but I have to share with you a great conversation I had with my son today (who sadly is incapacitated at the moment with a broken leg - in two places no less :sad:).

We were doing some art and craft this afternoon when he advised me that it is very unlikely that anyone could draw a perfect circle (bear in mind that he is only seven). I agreed and asked him what instrument he could use to make a perfect circle.

He thought about this for a couple of seconds and proudly said "I know, a tamborine!"

Altogether now..... Awwwwwwwww!!!!!!

When I gave him the answer - he then told me off... he said I should have been more specific (seriously :eek:).

That put me straight then - lol.

Hehe thanks for the bump of this thread, TF! I had forgotten about it...and a tambourine would make a very interesting circle! :)

K and I went camping last weekend and we were playing at a playground...K has been right into the characters from a kind of comedic heavy metal band, GWAR (which my brothers are into, and introduced K to) and he's always pretending to be these characters. I think he kind of thinks that they are Transformers.

So anyway, he's running around the jungle gym going "I'm Oderus!!!!" and the other kids are looking at him like he's gone slightly mad. Then he says it to a girl little girl,

"I'm Oderus!!!" and she says to him
"No! I'm olderest, I'm five...you're little!"
"I'm Oderus!"
"I'm olderest!"
"No, I'm Oderus, you're Beefcake!"
"Hmm...okay, I'll be a piece of cake...I will be chocolate cake"
"Yeah! I'm Oderus, you're Beefcake!"

So that dilemma has been apparently solved...and he's still running around doing the same thing. Runs up to a mom and her little 18 month old baby and says the same thing, "I'm Oderus!!" and she says "Oh, hi Boris :)"

lol...I was wondering what kind of parent in this day and age might name their child Boris...but hey, I'm sure she was too!