I guess that all of us with young children are always trying to remember the funny things that they have said and done. Tommy called our pantry the “eat closet” and the name has stuck.
Very close friends of ours have adopted two little girls from China. When the first one came to this country, she was too young to be talking yet. Matthew Walter was really worried about what our friends would do when she finally started talking in Chinese.
On our first Christmas morning as a family, an excited Matthew Walter asked us, “Is today tomorrow?” It has become a family tradition that I announce as they come downstairs, “Today is tomorrow.”
When Tommy was younger, he would occasionally fall and say that he had dropped himself. His best line was when he sneezed several times and announced that he had “God bless you” all over his hands.
Recently our oldest grown son visited us and brought our only grandchild with him. She is a very pretty, petite little girl. The boys line up to see who gets to play with her first.
Since everybody in our house, except for Nancy, is male, bath time is a pretty public event. One evening, our son was preparing his little girl for a bath. Matthew Walter happened to go through the bathroom while this was going on.
He was suddenly looking for me and making a lot of noise. He found me and said, “Something terrible has happened to Emma!” Of course, that led to our first elementary father and son “birds and the bees” discussion. Afterwards, he did verify with his mother that she looks the way that Emma does.
Jacob is our resident genius. Right now, he spends a lot of his time taking things apart and I spend a lot of time trying to put them back together. The boys had always talked about flying on an airplane. Last year, I arranged to have a flight instructor take us up in a little Cessna and fly us around the community where we live. All of us had ear phones on so that we could listen to the pilot.
I could not see Jacob while we were in the air. The other boys went wild looking out the windows and having a lot of fun. Jacob spent all of the flight taking the ear phones apart. We could have stayed at the airport and he would have still had a great time. We all got out of the plane and I paid for the flight in the office. When we left, the pilot was still trying to put the ear phones back together. The next time he flies with a four year old, he probably will give him ear plugs instead.
Please tell us about funny things your little ones have said.
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