Stuff Kids Say « Living, Learning, and Loving Life

Kid Quotes (2/4)

Sometimes Bennett seems older than his years, such as when he dropped something in the car and told me, “I seem to have lost it.” Or when he told me, “Please don’t respond to me.” What? Turns out that one was supposed to be “interrupt”, which we figured out when he kept saying, “Don’t inter-respond [...]

Kid Quotes (12/30)

Jeffrey was talking how when he’s grown, he wants to have a farm. Bennett thought this was a great idea and asked him, “Can I be one of your kids?” A few Bennett-isms (aka the four-year-old’s dictionary): Ambliance – an emergency vehicle Igloo – where polar bears live South pool – where penguins live violent [...]

“But I’ve Never Had a Twinkie!”

Sooo, you may be a health-food freak if this is the response from your kids when you tell them that “the Twinkie company” is going out of business.

Jeffrey has had one, several years ago at a family reunion. My dad (aren’t grandparents usually the culprits?) gave him a Twinkie. Having never seen one before, [...]

Stuff Kids Said Long Ago

I’m going through old emails and I found this from Feb 2006. Jeffrey would have been 4 then.

As Jeffrey was getting ready for bed, out of nowhere he starts telling me about his class at church this morning. He says they learned about “loving each other.” “We should love people as we love each [...]

Kid Quotes (9/23)

Bennett to Jeffrey: When are you going to win the schoolwork process? Process? What? Where do they get this stuff?

The boys had applesauce for a snack last night. As he was going to sleep, Bennett told me he needed more to eat. “I only had eight pounces of applesauce. I should have had eleven [...]

Kid Quotes (8/18)

This morning, while I was buttoning his shorts, I gave Bennett a kiss on the cheek. “Careful, Mama, I’m sensibiv.” “You’re sensitive?” “Yeah, I have a broken bone in my belly button.”

Jeffrey and I get fever blisters. We make every effort to make sure that Bennett doesn’t. Jeffrey is a little anxious about it, [...]

Kid Quotes (7/19)

This is post #501! Does that mean I talk to much? Don’t answer that. On to the kid stuff.

Bennett’s been watching “Gaspard and Lisa”, a cute, if odd, cartoon on Disney, Jr. Gaspard and Lisa are both dogs, complete with walking, talking dog families. Which is normal for a cartoon, except that everyone else [...]