Things My Kids Do

[anni]

I didn't go through thanking posts just for making me laugh- they were genuinely helpful today, so thanks SO much! :) Kids are just what it's all about, sometimes.

 

[popeye]

Note to self do not say the word pour when child is holding sugar container over carpeting. Tends to make a large mess that the dog licked up most of because I had to rewire the vacuum cord again. Dog is now running around as if on crack. And I have no sugar for my coffee. Today is going to be splenda. (splendid)

 

[catjudo]

Girls Have To Do Things Their Own Way...

My five-year-old daughter is good friends and plays often with my best friend's son who just turned four-years-old. My daughter is all girl...everything fancy, fairies, princess...you get the idea. Her little friend is all boy...dinosaurs, Star Wars/Clone Wars, Transformers, etc...again, you get the idea. Yet they play together fabulously.

His recent birthday party was Star Wars/Clone Wars themed. My friend spent so much time sewing Jedi robes for each child. There were inflatable light sabers they could play with in the bounce house, along with many other clone wars themed details throughout the day.

One of the days prior to the party, the two kids grabbed a couple of finished Jedi robes and ran off to play. Remember, my daughter knows nothing about Star Wars (neither do I, for that matter) but she was trying to play with her friend and keep up with the game he was wanting to play. So she's running through the house on the attack yelling that she is "Agent Skywalker". We all repeatedly attempt to correct her and tell her that it is "Anakin Skywalker". Still she continues to call herself Agent Skywalker. Eventually she got tired of us correcting her and turned around to say, "Yeah, yeah, yeah...I get it! It's Anakin Skywalker! Okay!" Then turns around to play with her friend and yells, "I'm Agent Skywalker."

She's a girl...we have to do things our own way!

 

[Deleted member 541]

When my daughter was about 4 or 5 (many years ago LOL) we were shopping in a clothing store. Deb was being a kid, and sort of playing in the clothing rack under the clothes.... Well, in our town we had a set of twins that were elderly ladies, and they were also dwarfs....OMG, to this day, every time I think of this, I giggle a bit, but also feel awful....

My daughter, being just a kid, spotted them, and YELLED to me, Hey Mommy, LOOK, a couple of little kid grandmas........You could have heard a pin drop in the store. They both looked at me, and I could read their faces, that I needed to teach my daughter some manners....I sort of limped out of the store, with my kid in tow.......

 

[Clydiechick]

The other day when Ghost was being himself and having a go at me about Machu Picchu (on by Bucket list) and talking about Nacho Macho land or something. I asked my kids where the chocolate factory was in the movie "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory". I thought there might have been an imaginery town where they made the chocolate, I told Ghost it was called Wonkaland.

Anyway... When I went and asked my 5 year old "Where is the chocolate factory in Willy Wonka?" (wanting to know the name of the town if there was one) He looked at me and said, "I think I know, it's just down the road." He pointed east! I had to laugh.

 

[anni]

I had the first kids in the family. My sisters were also fresh out of college and all fired up with feminist ideals. They both gave my sons dolls to play with, in the spirit of children having neutral play tendencies. I personally think they do, to a point, but my boys just liked trucks at that point, and things that blew up. It's 25 years later, and they're still annoyed because the boys immediately chopped their heads off, used ketchup for blood, and dissolved them with laser beams. No, they were not fledgling psychokillers, just boys.

I have to say, my daughter never played with Barbie, either. She had this little kid's science kit and there were always dead bugs all over the house pasted onto bits of paper with scotch tape and mispelled Latin names. She's still a little odd... :)

 

[ISupportHer]

I'd transition this to adolescent stories but I don't want to scare anyone. :rofl:

ISH

 

[anni]

Oh my ISH, you can't leave it there!! Those are the best ones, unless the potty training is incomplete by this juncture..... . That would be scary.

 

[popeye]

Good one tonight. We turned off the T.V. tonight after 7 p.m. And instead of turning on the radio or reading a book we were entertained by the 4 year old. she made a big announcement that she wanted to sing for us. She decided to make up her own song. She sang "Everyone to get the party started we have to the do the armpit dance. Everybody to get the party started we need the party martian. Everybody to get the party started I think Riley farted." (Riley is the dog.) Nifty song if I do say so myself. Although I did not hear the end of it because I was laughing to hard at the crazy dance steps.

 

[Tiger Kitten]

My niece pulled a stunt recently. My mom and sister took her kids to Florida for a week. While they were in the elevator at their hotel, there was this woman who was in a bikini wearing one of those see through wraps. My niece reached up and pinched the underneath part of this woman's cheek. My niece is almost four. The woman turned around and glared at my sister. My mom said my sister turned about seven shades of red. The woman got out of the elevator and my mom burst out laughing.

 

[ISupportHer]

At church on easter sunday, my 6 year old granddaughter was sitting with me. Before church started, she was playful and put her easter bonnet on my head and I kept it on, getting smiles from all around us. On woman said "I like your bonnet" and my granddaughter responded with a sheepish "thank you". I replied "She's talking to ME, I'm wearing the bonnet!". So my granddaughter quickly snatched it back and I didn't get it again!

:rofl:

ISH

 

[popeye]

Here is 2 more. #1 Last week Thursday the whole family was outside and I was cooking on the grill because it was 85 degrees here. (today is 41 go figure) Anyway we have a porch swing in the back yard that is made of metal. The 2 year old was playing by herself while the other two kids played catch. The 2 year old was playing with the porch swing and pushed it back and tried to get out of the way and didn't. She got hit with the metal pipe on the bottom right smack in the nose. She never cried just crawled up to be held by my wife on the picnic table.( I was busy at the time removing a stick that my puppy wedged in his mouth.) While my wife was holding her she began to sniffle. So my Wife said it's ok hunny let me take a look at you. The poor girl leans back and her entire face is covered in blood from a bloody nose. Still she didn't cry just said to her mom "Look, What's that?" She even went inside and got her own paper towel to clean herself up. Anyway the bleeding stopped right away and she was back playing with the dogs in minutes. I learned a lesson that day. No matter what happens don't panic.

#2 For Easter all of my kids got those punching balloon things. You know the type with the rubber band on one end and you punch it with your hand. Well tonight right before dinner my goofy son was walking around the house with the rubber band part in his mouth using his head to punch the balloon. I didn't learn anything from that one. But I do feel dumber for having witnessed it.