I always thought Art Linkletter coached the kids on that old show, but maybe not.Kevin, age 3.
"When I grow up, I am going to drink coffee all day long."
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Nana: "What do you want to eat?"
Kevin: "Something that's not healthy. Do you have anything like that?"
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Nana, "If you take those cars home you'll have nothing to play with when you visit us next Monday."
Kevin, "It freaks me out thinking about them here so I'd better take them home."
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Nana. "I have to pick up a book at the library. Don't you want to come in, too?"
Kevin. "No. I can wait outside in the car with Poppop."
Nana, "Don't you want to come in and pick out a book or movie?"
Kevin, "No, you can pick one for me."
Nana. "How will I know if you like it?"
Kevin, "Call me on the cell phone."
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Nana. "Do you want to go take Aunt Megan to the airport?"
Kevin. "No, I want to build something big with these blocks?"
After Phil and Megan leave, Kevin builds a tower.
Kevin. "I can't wait to show Aunt Megan what I built. She will be so surprised."
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22 comments:
Kids think differently than adults. They are way more creative. Cultivate that difference in your grandson as long as you can!
I love what pops out of the mouths of my granchildren. I remember one morning James Patterson came on TV talking about his newest book and my granson looked at me and said,"Isn't he the guy who killed Alex Cross?"
They certainly think originally although I already see a lot of his parents' expressions in his speech-like "freaks me out."
Sandra-I hope he isn't three!
Patti - Oh these are *rich* Thanks for sharing. It reminds me of something one of my nieces once said when she was about three. My husband took her to the grocery store to pick out some cereal, and he asked her what kind she wanted. Her response: "You know - the kind with the toy inside."
Just getting this one to eat cereal is a feat. He wants the toy without cereal around it.
*snork* at 'call me on the cell phone'
Genius!
Jeff M.
When one of my nieces was two my brother-in-law (the joker) taught her a few things to say.
If she was sitting on the couch and you asked her, "Samantha, are you comfortable?" she'd answer, "I make a living."
Jeff M.
"I make a living" coming out of the mouth of a two-year old must have been hysterical.
Oh, I do that once in a while. Remember that I am a grown-up and can drink coffee & eat unhealthy stuff all day long (it is called holidays & weekends, I believe). But then before or later my bathroom scales will begin glaring at me until I come to my senses :(
Great to hear that American kids are just like our Danish produce. Recently a good friend of me was asked by her grandchild what she wanted for her 70th birthday. "A wrinkle cream," she suggested.
"I don´t think you need one, Granny. You have plenty of wrinkles already."
That's Reader's Digest worthy. Do you have one?
The piece that I got in the HInt fiction book is mostly something Josh said to me once. It's so cool to hear them express their strange thoughts.
Do I have a Readers´ Digest or a grandchild? We have the former, but I´ll let ´granny´ have her joke. Somehow they are also funnier when you know the people who are involved.
I forgot about that HINT fiction book. Is it out?
Love it, thanks for the smile.
I hope you're writing them down; I never did with my kids, and I wish I had now.
No, whenever possible, I like to repeat my mistakes. But they are on here, aren't they?
That's so smart and adorable!
There some X-rated ones I didn't post!
"It freaks me out thinking about them here.." d and I are still laughing here over how cute that is.
It scares me how manipulated we will be by the time he is ten.
I remember this episode where the kids had to finish off the following idiom: People in glass house shouldn't ....
One kid answered, " Throw stones!"
Hey Patti- thought I'd share just my daughter's side of a conversation we had at a local ribs joint when a blues tune came on:
Youngest daughter laments about her cornbread:
You don't play the blues about my muffin.
I said, you don't play the blues about my muffin.
No. I won't tell you something sad.
I don't want to do this
...Because I don't like doing songs.
Baba, I'm not playing the blues
When they make me feel so mad.
That is darn clever. She has a future in writing lyrics.
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