Out of the mouths of babes

Five things my kids have said recently that have made me melt, smile, laugh, laugh harder, and choke:

1. Tonight – what made me melt:
Breanna (throwing her arms around me): You my best friend!
Me: I am?
Breanna: Yes! I happy! You happy Mommy?
Me: Well, I sure am now.

2. All the time – what makes me smile:
Breanna: Look! I upsy-down!

All kids have words they mispronounce and eventually they get it right, but I think all parents have a few words they wish their kids would never learn to say properly. I will mourn the day that Breanna says “upside down” instead of “upsy-down” or when she says “spaghetti” instead up “suppa-ghetti”. To this day I’m still glad Hayley says “Old McDonald’s” when referring to McDonald’s restaurant.

3. Past couple of weeks – what made me laugh:
Hayley (singing): Don’t you wish your girlfriend was hot like me?

(She got it from Alvin and the Chipmunks. Which is actually a fairly cute movie.)

4. Tonight – what made me laugh harder:
Hayley (singing loudly): I like big butts and I can not lie!
Breanna (shouting): I like butts in a can!

(That one’s from Shark Tale. Even funnier was that Hayley misheard the line the first few times so I realized she’d been singing “I like big butts in a cannon now!” for ages.)

5. Earlier this week – what made me choke:
Breanna (out of sight in the hall near the bedroom): Cocksucker! Cocksucker!
Me (after pounding my chest to re-start my heart): Wh… What? What did you say?!
Breanna (running into the living room, kicking a foam soccer ball): Go soccer! Go soccer! Yay! Go soccer!
Me (slumping into chair): Oh thank GOD.

Life is never dull around here.

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5 thoughts on “Out of the mouths of babes”

my 3 year old says suppaghetti too! And bullzoder instead of bulldozer:o)

I love posts like this. So good for looking back on…
My son has some doozies too. Like you I hope some of them will last forever. Like when he’s asked to do something and he responds with, “in a few whiles.”

You know, I wish my daughter would have come away from Alvin and the Chipmunks with that line. Instead, I get “bwah chicka wow wow” all the time. SO not what I want my two year old running around saying!

Tammys last blog post..Food Network’s Next Biggest Star …

HAHAHA!!! I have tears in my eyes from that last one, too funny!!!

Nicholas still calls his Aunt line (my sister)”Matautine”, infact, we all call her that, even some of her highschool friends who have witnessed Nicholas calling her that too. I hope he never stops, but I get the sneaky suspicion that starting Highschool this fall might change that.

“Um, when I was younger my matautine, errrr I mean my aunt Line and I use to watch scary movies – uh yeah!” LOL

Heh. Grove calls “upside down” “up is down.” I honestly don’t think it is a case of him mispronouncing it, but more a case of him literally describing what it looks like. Cracks me up, and yeah, I do hope he never stops saying it.

kim on July 21, 2008 at 8:51 am said:

my 3 year old says suppaghetti too! And bullzoder instead of bulldozer:o)
Heather on July 21, 2008 at 2:22 pm said:

I love posts like this. So good for looking back on…
My son has some doozies too. Like you I hope some of them will last forever. Like when he’s asked to do something and he responds with, “in a few whiles.”
Tammy on July 21, 2008 at 3:18 pm said:

You know, I wish my daughter would have come away from Alvin and the Chipmunks with that line. Instead, I get “bwah chicka wow wow” all the time. SO not what I want my two year old running around saying!

Tammys last blog post..Food Network’s Next Biggest Star …
Cindy on July 22, 2008 at 2:47 pm said:

HAHAHA!!! I have tears in my eyes from that last one, too funny!!!

Nicholas still calls his Aunt line (my sister)”Matautine”, infact, we all call her that, even some of her highschool friends who have witnessed Nicholas calling her that too. I hope he never stops, but I get the sneaky suspicion that starting Highschool this fall might change that.

“Um, when I was younger my matautine, errrr I mean my aunt Line and I use to watch scary movies – uh yeah!” LOL
Melissa on July 22, 2008 at 8:36 pm said:

Heh. Grove calls “upside down” “up is down.” I honestly don’t think it is a case of him mispronouncing it, but more a case of him literally describing what it looks like. Cracks me up, and yeah, I do hope he never stops saying it.