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Buy a blank book for your kid's funny questions and comments
I'm not one of those moms who jumps into every spontaneous scene with a camera, and makes people line up and smile. I think it's much more fun, and less annoying, to capture what my kids are saying.
Someone bought me two blank, hard cover books. The covers are canvas, for a kid to draw on. I marked one for Creed, and one for Lily. And I've been writing their hilarious and ridiculous questions and comments in them for years.
When and if I ever deem them old enough and responsible enough to appreciate these keepsakes and not to lose them in a stack of school yearbooks, I will give them these treasures.
Lily gave me three more questions last week to add to her book:
"Why do we have to wear underwear, anyway? What does it do?''
"Has a dog ever peed on you?''
"Can a person be born with pierced ears?''
Hand me the pen!
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Comments
From my 4 year old-" Am I old enough for makeup? No? How a about a bird caller?
No idea how this came up :)
Posted by: DP | June 23, 2009 1:35 PM
From my 4 year old-" Am I old enough for makeup? No? How a about a bird caller?
No idea how this came up :)
Posted by: DP | June 23, 2009 1:35 PM
My daughter was 4 when she asked these; she's now 8 1/2.
Mommy, when are you gonna have another baby? (I was a single mom at the time and not dating anyone) She said, "Well, if you eat lots of good food, like the chicken nuggets that I like, you'll grow a really big tummy and then you'll have a baby!"
The other was a response to my question "Who are you and what have you done with my sweet little girl?" when she was acting up one day. She had responded, "Aliens came and took her away and left me in her place."
Posted by: 3rd gen native | June 23, 2009 4:01 PM
Those are hilarious. Even my older son has a funny one now and then, like his "I thought I had made up a word and then I found out Mongolia was a country.''
Posted by: Brittany Wallman | June 23, 2009 6:41 PM
My husband was putting Doritos in the food processor(to use as a "breading") and our 5 year old walked in and said "ooh, I never had a Dorito smoothie before!"
Posted by: DP | June 25, 2009 1:28 PM
And they just keep on coming! This is fun..I am going to buy a book, Brittany. Last night my daughter said "I love you more than the earth AND space!" Awwww
Posted by: DP | June 26, 2009 10:31 AM
Those are awesome comments. Sometimes I also throw in the embarrassing things the kids say in public (such as in the Publix line, next to a woman, my daughter saying, "Mommy, is that a man?''). I don't let them know I am writing these things down, because they really won't appreciate this stuff until they're older!
Posted by: Brittany Wallman | June 26, 2009 10:38 AM