Today was a nice day for our family as we went to a reunion for the babies from the NICU where Maddie spent the first sixty-eight days of her life. It was great – a picnic with catered food, farm animals, and children’s performers. The best part was being able to show off Maddie now that she is healthy and smiling as opposed to fighting for her life as she was in those early dark days (which can be read more about here). I won’t say too much though because Heather is going to do a post on her site complete with photos!
In other news my sister and her family will be visiting this week which is great, and got me thinking about my nearly four-year-old nephew, Spencer, who often says incredibly charming and funny things. He is a big reason why I can’t wait for Maddie to start talking. There is no doubt in my mind that she will say crazy and wonderful things because the following anecdotes all sprung from the mouths of her then child-aged relatives.
Let’s start with Spencer…just last week my parents took him to see Kung Fu Panda. He was way into it when all of a sudden the film broke. The theater was plunged into darkness for a few moments until a theater employee came down and announced the film could not be screened, and that everyone would be given free passes to a future show. Slowly but surely, as parents explained to their kids what was up, the theater was filled with screams and tears and whimpering. My Dad winced, then did what he dreaded doing, which was to turn to Spencer in order to explain that the movie he was loving would not be finished. When my Dad did finally turn to Spencer, however, instead of looking concerned, Spencer was sliding off his seat and waving for my Dad (his Grandpa) to follow.
“Come on, Grandpa,” he said all matter of fact. “We have to leave now.”
My Dad nodded and followed Spencer up the aisle past the legions of weeping children.
The other story about Spencer I can remember right now is when, at a party, he tugged on the sleeve of some woman he didn’t know, then gestured across the room at my Dad and said, “‘Scuse me, ma’am. Have you met my friend, Grandpa?”
Maddie’s old man was known to say some wacky things himself back in the day. One example is when we were in London and riding on a bus. A policeman was on the bus with us and a Londoner, seeing me stare at the policeman, said, “In England we call our police Bobbies.” I wrinkled up my forehead, confused, then pointed to my mother’s chest and said, “In America we call those Bobbies.” This, as you can imagine, lead to much laughter at my expense.
Another time, my Dad hydro-planed his car during a storm and went off an embankment into a field of wheat. My Dad – who was okay – later called my Mom to come and pick him up from the mechanic’s shop. When we got there my Dad told me he broke his car. I looked at his car, which had tons of wheat sticking out of its grill, then nodded sagely.
“I can see that,” I said. “It’s stuffing is coming out.”
Maddie’s uncle Kyle also made a few humorous quotes as a little one. One example is when he was a first grader his Mom picked him up from school to see that someone had spray-painted “Fuck (the name of the Principal)” on the wall. Heather and Kyle’s Mom shook her head and said to Kyle, “That’s terrible.” Kyle nodded, solemn, and replied, “I know. They mispelled the principal’s name.”
Yup. Maddie is gonna say some crazy things. I’m sure of it!
Israeli Mom says:
Oh, you betcha she will! It’s true, kids do say the darnest things. My boys are soon to be 5 and 7, so about to end the cute saying phase too soon
carrie says:
Crazy statements are the BEST. they help you get through the rock times wihtthe little rug rats.
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Ms. Moon says:
It’s funny how even now that my kids are grown, we still remember some of the best things they said as children and still laugh about them.
My advice is to write down what Maddie says when it’s something you want to remember because we’ve probably forgotten some real gems.
Your nephew sounds extremely pragmatic. I would love to meet him. I adore those serious, wise little men.
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Rachel says:
Maddie will be talking in no time, melting your heart even more than you thought possible. It definitely becomes more entertaining when they begin to speak. Its like you finally get a little window into their brain. For example, I never knew how sympathetic Elizabeth was, until she dropped her play dough container, then picked it up and asked “Are you okay play blow?” then kissed it and said “All better!”
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Jamie says:
It is sooo fun when the little ones start talking. When we told Maggie she was going to meet Sponge Bob – She said “Pinch me I must be dreaming” I have no idea where she even heard that phrase but it was funny.
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HeatherPride says:
I can’t wait to hear what she has to say! My 4-year old comes up with some great ones!
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Maria says:
Chipmunk told me my nipples were “hot dogs” a couple of nights ago.
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Mandy says:
My little guy has just started talking! I can’t wait til I get to hear the funny stuff… I love. “Have you met my friend Grandpa” So cute!!
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Danielle says:
I friend of mine’s son had a belly ache.
He explained that he had “dire of the rear” (diarrhea)
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Andrea's Sweet Life says:
And arent’ we lucky that you’ll be blogging about it, so we can laugh too!
My 4 year-old daughter heard someone call another person “pathetic” in a movie the other day (yes, it’s a kids movie – but it could be worse!). So now her new thing is to call her little sister “prophetic”. It’s hilarious!
Kristin B says:
Cute stuff!! It’s the best when kids start saying hilarious stuff. Not so great when they say it in the middle of church. My godson yelled out in the middle of church once “stop touching my pee-pee!!” So you can just imagine…
Jen W says:
I love hearing the hilarious stuff kids say. Once my son was talking about decks on homes and comparing their size. He told me, “I like the ones with the big dicks.” It was pretty hard not to a laugh at that one.
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Raging Dad says:
I love it. My boys crack me up every day, and they just turned four. All this talk about bobbies is getting me worked up!
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Angela says:
I laughed so hard my Bobbies hurt.
I love hearing some of the things that come out of my kids mouth. I remember one time I had my middle daughter in a post office, quite crowded too. A well dressed man was in front of us and he ripped a Silent But Deadly one. I was busy hoping no one behind me thought it was me when my adorable child yelled “THAT MAN FARTED!”. Mr. Suit’s neck and ears turned blood red, I clapped my hand over her mouth to hush her and looked away or I would have peed myself laughing and everyone else behind me snickered.
Too bad you don’t have a boy (yet). My son tripped and gave a nice boo boo to his balls. He asked me to kiss it and make it feel better.
HAHAHAHAHA yea your gonna have fun!
Joe says:
Myself… I dread the day that Tyler starts learning to mimmick our talking. It’s been 4 months and I still can’t stop dropping “F” bombs. Sometimes, I look at him and say “You smell like s**t” just to get a reaction from Sarah. One of these days…. I’m going to truly regret my potty mouth.
Good luck with Maddie though. I can’t wait to hear the stories!!
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VegasDad says:
Our son blurted out “oh shit,” in the car yesterday. We discretely laughed about it.
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Kristin says:
I still remember when Meg fell down in the kitchen and said “crap, crap, crap” like it was nothing. I never laughed so hard in my life (ok, not true, but she was 3 and it was funny). The stuff that kids say is nothing short of miraculous and mind boggling.
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Carl says:
I have been watching my 4 year old struggle with the word Manatee for the last couple of days
him
man tit ees
me
no, man A tees