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    Entries in kids say the darndest things (2)

    Friday
    Aug242012

    do you hear that, world?

    First, he said he was painting a picture of Mama. Here's one eye, and two eyes, and hair and some legs.


    I asked again: "What are you painting?" This is a tree. Here are some leaf-es.


    I'm painting like an artist, he said. "When you're painting, you are an artist," I told him. Do you hear that, world? I'm AM an artist, he replied. He doesn't quite grasp contractions yet.


    I couldn't make that shit up.


    When he was finished, he explained that he'd painted a picture of Mama and Zelda, when Zelda was in Mama's belly. It sure was purple in there, he told me.

    Friday
    Sep162011

    conversations with a 21 month old

     

    While reading Mysterious Thelonious

    Me (reading): "This is a story about the lovely music of Mister Monk"

    George: JAZZ!

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    While watching a National Geographic documentary on bears, which showed brown bears eating salmon:

    George (pretending to be on the phone): Mama...no, Papa bear! Eating sharks! Yeah? Yeah! Bye bye.

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    Me: Uh oh, you dropped your water!

    George: (gingerly picking up his water bottle) Uh oh! ...kay? Yeah. Good. Thank you! (copious kisses for the injured water bottle)

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    George: (shoving a graham cracker into the cat's face) "Happy birthday!...Hi, happy birthday!" (shoves the cracker a little more forcefully into the cat's face, now yelling) "HAPPY BIRTHDAY, HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!"

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    While reading a book wherein Eeyore loses his tail:

    Me: "Uh oh, did the donkey lose his tail?"

    George: (trying futilely to pick the [picture of the] tail up) "Help!" (pointing at the tail) "SEE?!"

    Me: "Um...he'll find it eventually!"

    George: (crying) "Hee haw sad! Help! Help!"