when we were driving to vegas about 8 mo. ago i had told charisma almost 3 then that we would be in the car a really long time, and it be hard but we just need to get there. we drove 2 and a half days. she was so good sitting there so patient didn't complain once. then we were going over the hoover damn A@ 2am about an hour from our destination. and out of nowhere she says "mommy this is to long just to long" we were so proud of her it must have been irritating to her long before but somehow barely 3 she had held out her objection that long.
aw! that's so good! kai's a road warrior, man. she's good in the car no matter what. probably because we've had to travel so much, it's just her paradigm. just a couple months ago, i went to the store, and i was getting kai outta her carseat, and she was looking at me with this kinda funny look, just kinda starting at me. and i said "what, honey?" she said "i'm jus' happy."
This morning I got stuck behind a garbage truck. The guy was driving right down the middle of the street even though he could have pulled over and let me pass. The longer it went on the more frustrated I got. Needless to say, the vocabulary got worse also. Dakota looked at me and said, "You not happy mama." I finally got around the truck and he said, "You happy now mama." The other day I told him he was a bad boy. He looked at me so seriously, "I not bad boy, I Kota." When we first started talking to him about where he comes from he couldn't say Guatemala. So when you asked him where he was from he said, "got a mama". It's so true we went to Guatemala and he got a mama and a daddy. What can you do but love em. Kathi
My 5 year old son, who will *sniff, sniff* be starting kindergarten in 10 days, says to me today "when I get home from school you won't have to worry about me anymore, right mommy?"
I don't have any children, but I love kids...more than I love adults, for the most part. I was in the grocery store and I was wearing a long, spinny patchowrk skirt with a white, off the shoulder top. I hear this little girl behind me go "Mommy! Look! It's a princess!". I smiled to myself and turned around and this little blonde girl, not more than about four or five, runs up to me and asks: "Are you a princess??" I didn't know what to say, but it was the sweetest thing a kid has ever said to me! I told her I was, and so was she! She turns to her mom and says, "See mom, I told you she was a princess. I'm a princess too!" It was better than the time I wore a hoop in my nose and one of my students told me I looked like a pirate. I laughed at that one too, though!
Everytime I ask Virginia to come see me because of something naughty that she's done she says "I'm not in twouble....It was an asssident....".
I don't have a kid, but when my sister was little she couldn't pronounce her L's. My mom would tell her to say "Larry Lobster had little legs" and my sister would say "Wary Wobster had widdow wegs". It was soooo cute!
my little sister had this project during their american indian studies week in the first or second grade. they made these sticks for chanting and stuff. anyway, my brother taught her the chant "OWA TANA SIAM" and she was so proud that she ran around chanting it, never knowing that she was saying "oh what an ass i am." who had the heart to tell her? still, seriously adorable.
Yesterday, Maddie (age 6) told me that she knew where babies came from. She said that a mommy and daddy get in bed at night and kiss alot.................... Then all the air mixes together and makes a tiny egg. Then the egg hatches and a teenytiny baby grows!
Do you own the David Shannon book too? David always says "It was an accident." when he gets in trouble. :0 Robert calls my fiance Wubbah. He says he "stepped on a bird," when he farts, Now we add adjectives, stinky bird, very quet bird. Today I asked him if he wanted something. He said, "No, thanks though." I know its not that funny it was just cute though. (he's two-and-a-half) Had
My son woke me up this morning (3.5y) by holding onto something and then STOMPING up and down the length of my body, going "CRUSH! CRUSH! CRUSH!" in sync with him stomping.
My son doesn't say much yet, but he has started figuring out his tongue already. He likes to stick his tongue out of his mouth and then give a smile
They aren't full smiles, but the Idea's there. It's More of a half smile, but I figure he's practicing for a happy childhood
All the same HL, that's really really really early, by a factor of MANY months, for him to be doing that.
This is what I have to look forward to? I hope you were laying face down, that could be really painful
I could be wrong, but it looks like smiles to me anyway. When he gets older I can tell him he was born smiling(and dizzy)