Kids Sayings

I, again, have three books going at once. So a bit of a hiatus between book reports. In the interim I thought I would post a list of "Kids Sayings" I have been collecting:


Sophie (age 4 and 2 months): As the long caravan of bumper-to-bumper cars enter the grave yard narrow drive for Great Grandma’s burial, with no way to get out, Sophie frantically announces: “Mommy, Mommy…where are the bathrooms?”. When both parents throw up their hands and ask why she did not make this request before they left the church, Sophie smiles & exclaims: “Just kidding!!”

Cassie (age 10): “I’m more in to praying than Abe” Trying to pry a religious book out of Grammas possession as Gramma indicated she was thinking of giving it away.

Sophie (age 4): “Daddy…Is this where dreams come true?” July 4th watching fireworks from our dock, sitting in her daddy’s arms as the fireworks burst above our heads.

Sophie (4): when she stays with us it is constantly “My Daddy says…” (e.g. “My Daddy says if I get scared can just come and sleep with you” as she pulls the covers back at 1 AM and crawls in). Apparently we are now going to have Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, and MY DADDY as New Testament guides.

Sophie (age 4): writing her own music, then telling Danny to move over so she can play it on the piano. The music score is rather unusual: multiple, squiqqly lines covering the paper. Only Sophie can read the notes.

Julie: When Julie was about two years old, I had a brilliant idea about how to get ahead of the curve on the potty training thing. I bought her a deluxe model chair--with padding, no less-- and had her sit next to my chair as we watched TV just so she could get used to it. This using-it-as-a-chair-ONLY went on for a good 9 months or so. I then decided it was time to activate the full-function of this potty chair. As I began explaining this to Julie I got the LOOK. She didn’t say it, but I could tell that I would first have to do to my chair what I was proposing she should do to her TV chair. So the chair remained her TV chair and she never did use a potty chair.

Julie (3):”…deliver us from Eagles.” Was her version of the Lord’s prayer. I still say it that way.

Julie (4): I must have spoken severely to Julie when she loudly responded: “Don’t you call me sweetheart” while stomping her foot.

Annamarie age 4: “..not Swip…(long pause)…Swip” after I had repeated a comment she had made about her slip…which she, of course, pronounced as “Swip.”
Annamarie age 4: When Annamarie was informed that Julie could not come and join her during a visit to Milwaukee, she hung her head and momentarily looked sad. Then she perked up and said: “We have pictures don’t WE?”

Annamarie age 4: I bought her an ice cream cone even though her Mother had said not to. I exclaimed: “You’re not going to tell your Mommy, are you?” Long Pause, as she licks up one side then the other. “Yup… I have to”.

Sophie (age 3): “ I don’t never know” when asked by her Mommy if she was going to be a good girl that day after a particularly bad previous day. Absolute proof that a double negative does not cancel the meaning.

Abe (age 11) 2008 coming home after cutting off head of the pig for the next day pig roast: “Grampa, I’,m really proud of myself” says Abe.
“Why?”
“Cause I didn’t even throw up.”

Leo: “Uh..Oh” just before he fires plates from his high chair.
• At age 2 vocabulary: door, boom, yummy, Uh-Oh, Mommy, Da-Da, and Bye-Bye

Leo (age 1.5): would walk along holding onto the coffee table headed for grandma’s pile of magazines. When within 3 feet, he would begin shaking his head side to side as if signaling NO while his little hand would begin to raise and reach out for the pile of magazines. Truly, a “Devil made me do it” episode.

Sophie (age 4): in the car with Mother and Father: “Mommy, speak with kind words and gentle hands”.