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A friend and I were chatting this week about all the amazing–and often hilarious–things children say. In the current book I’m writing the heroine has three small children.
That’s why I thought it might be fun this week to share stories of what we’ve heard kids say, things that have remained stuck in our memory. Perhaps I’ll find something that I can use in my current work-in-progress. Even if I don’t it should be entertaining. And everyone who comments this weekend will be entered into a drawing to win their choice of one of the books I picked up at the Moonlight and Magnolias conference in Atlanta last weekend!! I’ll draw on Sunday at 9 PM (so check back then).
Okay, here’s my story. When my daughter was seven, she attended a Lutheran Elementary school. In addition to all the scholarly stuff, they had Chapel every day where they talked about God and the Bible.
One night in the summer, we were standing outside looking up at a star-filled sky and she said to me “Doesn’t this remind you of God’s promise to Abraham?”
I’m standing there trying to think what that promise was…when my little darling…apparently sensing my distress said, “That your children shall number as many as the stars in the sky.” Wow. All I could think was Wow.
It’s not funny, but it was amazing.
Now, your turn….
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Oct 9th
2010
8:32 am
kris Said:
My daughter will still crack me up with some of the things she says, but I’ve forgotten alot of the specifics…wish I had written them down!! I do laugh when she gets the words wrong to song lyrics.
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Oct 9th
2010
10:01 am
Jessica Chambers Said:
I’ll never forget one time, probably someone’s birthday, when the whole family was seated around the table enjoying a curry. My younger cousin, only about five years old at the time, suddenly pointed to the poppadoms and asked, “Mummy, can I have one of those condoms?” Makes me chuckle even now!
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Oct 9th
2010
10:49 am
Karyn Gerrard Said:
A cousin of mine was laid off, they thought is was a good idea to sit down their 8 year old and explain.
“Daddy, are we going to starve?” he asked, all worried.
Then in a heart beat he smiled, ‘Maybe we can move back and be near Grammy and Grampie now!’
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Oct 9th
2010
11:33 am
Mary M Said:
When my friends told their six year old daughter she was going to have a little sister, she said, “Let’s name her Snow White or Thumbelina!”
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Oct 9th
2010
11:55 am
catslady Said:
Oh it’s been way too many years for me to remember. You really think you are going to remember everything and then it’s gone (sigh). I’m really not around any little ones right now but hopefully I hear my daughter who got married 2 yrs. ago is thinking about it for the near future. In the meantime, I enjoy hearing these stories.
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Oct 9th
2010
12:32 pm
Margo Maguire Said:
I never told my kids my real age – when they asked, I always said something like 21 or something entirely ridiculous. When my middle one was about 6, we were talking about somethings that had happened and when, and how old I was… well, he’d learned enough math to figure out my real age. He said “are you really [whatever it was]” when I said yes, he took a big gulp and said, “Does Dad know?”
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Oct 9th
2010
3:23 pm
Shana Said:
Oh, Margo! That’s so funny! Mine doesn’t talk yet, but maybe I can share next year.
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Oct 9th
2010
8:17 pm
Kristan Higgins Said:
I went up to see my niece when she was Person of the Week in her kindergarten class. The teacher asked her to introduce me, and she said, “This is Auntie.” The teacher asked if I had another name, and Olivia gave me a very confused look and said, “Auntie…Keenan?” (My husband’s last name!) She didn’t know my first name! I just loved that!
* Oh, and I have another one, Cindy (sorry, can’t resist). My daughter, who decided when she was 3 that she wanted to be a doctor, broke her ankle when she was 5 and just loved being around the nurses, seeing her leg in x-ray getting a cast (it was yellow, so exciting), the crutches. As the nurse wheeled her out of the ER, she said, very smugly, “This has been the best day of my life!”
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Oct 10th
2010
12:27 am
Kirsten Said:
The family was all together to celebrate my aunts b-day as well as the birth of a new baby boy. But how can you tell if a baby is a boy or a girl? a little girl wondered.
Before an adult could answer her one of the other girls explained, in a very serious voice, to the younger kid the difference between boys and girls:
“Girls are like us”, she said “and boys have two noses”.
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Oct 10th
2010
12:38 am
Christina Hollis Said:
I gave birth to my son when I was…well, mature.
One day, when he asked me how old I was, I said 21.
Spool forward a couple of years, and his teacher (who was barely out of her teens) couldn’t help laughing as she told me that my son thought I was only 23, saying: ‘She must be, because she was 21 when I was 6.’
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Oct 10th
2010
7:17 am
Kathryn in Montreal Said:
I struggled with my weight after the birth of my 4th child and was thrilled to wedge myself into my pre-pregnancy jeans when she was 9 months old (I couldn’t wear them, they were so tight, but I was IN them). My efforts to get into the jeans must have impressed my 4 year old daughter because when I picked her up from pre-school that day her teacher (who was a friend) told me that Amanda had said, “My Mom has the same jeans as you but she has to lie down on the bed to put them on and hold tight to the top to do them up!”.
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Oct 10th
2010
11:45 am
Cindy Kirk Said:
Kris and catslady,
I know what you mean about forgetting. Thankfully I recorded some of the comments…or they’d be gone forever.
Like when I asked my then 21 month old–Where do you think Santa Claus is? Her answer–Probably at the North Pole getting presents. I recorded that as an example of her vocabulary at that age.
Mary M.
Reminds me of a friend whose parents let his older sisters name him….thankfully not Thumbelina or Snow White…but they named him Lynn. Methinks the two girls wanted another sister.
Jessica,
Condoms….now that would be a comment that would be hard to forget lol
Karyn,
I bet his grandma and grandpa LOVED that comment. Shows just how close he was to them.
Margo,
Age is so relative. I can remember when I thought 21 was soooooo old. Not anymore.
Shana,
Be sure and write down those comments…or you’ll forget them! They’re such fun to look back and read.
Kristan,
Loved the stories. I can tell from your daughter’s comments that you’re raising an incurable optomist!!
Kirsten,
Two noses…lol I’m not touching that comment.
Christina,
My daughter taught kindergarten and first grade…and you can’t believe some of the stuff the kids would tell her.
Kathryn,
Too funny. There are no secrets when you have a child.
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Oct 10th
2010
11:48 am
catslady Said:
One story reminded me (I guess I still have a few brain cells lol) of when I was at the hospital ER with my oldest daughter I had to have my mom pick up my younger daughter. They had never met her so to be safe they asked my daughter what her name was – grandmal (note the “l”) and that was her “only” name. They let her take her home lol.
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