Conversations With Toby and Anton

I love, love, love kids dialogues! They are so precious. My son, Indy, is seven years old and I just wrote a blog post about the absolutely essential lessons I learned through his dialogues with me and my husband, Markus: http://obermeierandobermeier.com/indys-absolutely-essential/

I hope you like them as much as we did.

These posts are such a great way to keep track of your fabulous family history. My mom has a notebook that she has all of our funny quotes in. It was always in the kitchen easy to access if something funny came up. When me or any of my 3 siblings said anything hilarious, someone in the family would say, “That goes In the book!” As we got older, the kids did the writing.
I’m 32 now and its so fun to look over the quotes and topics over the years. My mom still adds to this book to this day. The most recent add was a hilarious autocorrect conversation.

Oh my lord, so cute.
My three year old had the hiccups recently and told me she had the “hip hops”.

Recently while camping with my fiance’s family, I was chatting with my 2-year-old niece. She loves sharing things, especially food and drink, always offering hers to you, or taking from your plate. I was drinking champagne, and she asked for some. I said, “No, this is a drink for adults only. I’m sorry.” To which she replied, in a disappointed tone, “I’m sorry too.”

We were also out on a putting course, and my fiance was “riding the bull” with his golf club. She has a mini wooden golf set, so she picked up her tiny wood putter, points at me and demands “Stacy do it!” So yes, I momentarily “rode the bull” with an 14″ stick between my legs in public. You can’t say no to a 2-year-old!

The things that little kids say bring me endless joy. Our 3.5-year-old daughter is really into magic lately. She asks us if we want to see a magic trick. The answer is always yes. Then, she runs from the room full speed. A few minutes later, she strolls into the room nonchalantly and says, “I disappeareded.”

When she was 2, she would say “I’m glad _____” about anything she loved. One day, she looked at my husband with the gushiest eyes and said, “I’m glad my dad.” Our hearts melted and I had a the quote framed for him for Father’s Day that year. What a joy!

I love these posts, so darn cute! The other day, my two year old was pretending to leave to go to work. Curious what she thinks her daddy does all day, I asked her what she does at work. And she replied, “eat beans and sing songs.” Sounds like a pretty great job!

I share an apartment with my brother, and we go to Mass together. After church, my friend’s 6yo said ‘Miss Katie is here with her husband!!’ and my friend corrected him, saying, ‘No, that’s her brother.’ And he was so perplexed and exclaimed, ‘She’s married to her brother??!’ I DIEEEED.

My step-kids have been on a roll these days with just the most hilarious comments! My hubby-to-be got up from our sun-damaged hammock and ripped it. We all laughed, but our youngest came to his defense to say “it’s not daddy’s fault! It’s just his weight!”.

We were also listening to the Shakira song “Hips Don’t Lie” and he looked at us, puzzled, and then exclaimed: “My hips don’t lie? They don’t even talk! How can they lie?”.

I love these posts, keep them coming please! :) You’ve inspired me to keep better track of all the funny things they say!

My boyfriend’s 4-year-old and I were talking about cats, to which he is allergic. He said “I want a cat… but one with no hair… and no skin.” I nearly died inside.

My little 4-year-old, saying his morning prayers- ‘please bless that Mom won’t be crabby all day and please bless that she won’t eat all the brownies before we get home from school’-

Though my four-year-old has heard his birth story many a time, I didn’t realize, until recently, he misunderstood one key component…

Riding along in the car, discussing when he was a baby (one of his current favorite topics to converse about), August says to me, “So after you got pregnant you went around looking for a papa and found our papa cause you thought he’d be a good papa to me?”

I died laughing the rest of the way home.

You’re so good at capturing these conversations. Do you write them down immediately? What’s your strategy?!?!? Whenever my kids say something unbearable sweet I swear I’ll remember it….guess what? I never do. Or I remember kind of what they said, which is never nearly as sweet…

haha i love them!! so dear

As I’m choosing an outfit to wear to work, my 8 year old pulls a black lacy dress from my closet: “This! This! Wear this!” “No, sweetie, that’s an evening dress.” She looks utterly perplexed. “You have outfits just for nighttime?! I want to know about that!”

haha, these are so great! My Daughter who is now 12 asked me when she was like 5- ‘Mom, when you were little so so long ago, was there color or no?’ I said ‘color?’ she said, it looks like back then everything was black and white and then maybe we got color later. oy vey.

Pfft!!! That letter and that casual body language with those arm tattoos!? get outta here.

My three year old daughter in conversation with me over lunch last week…

Ruby: My name is Ruby Joy and my big sister is Joy Joy Pumpkin.
Me: You know what? Joy’s real name is Joy Elizabeth.
Ruby (looking pensive): Is Joy a lizard?

My boys are now 16 and 18 and while cleaning up I found 2 notebooks I kept. In the books was a page every now and then and then of funny thing they said, worss they used for certain things — so no long journaling – no time for that! Just a few notes! Then Every year there was a page of “interview” questions I would ask them on or around there birthday – from how old are you to favorite food to what will you be when you grow up. My oldest and I recently sat reading his book rolling with laughter – and of course me ending in tears. What joy these books brought us! Also I know it’s the digital age and we do so much less on paper but just seeing my handwriting brought me bank to that time of our lives. I just may reinstate the books – the teenage years!

Aaaaah! So cute!

Those are great, can I use them on my website (it collects cute stuff kids day: http://www.itsybitsay.com)?!

Sometimes when my 3yr old is tired he says ‘get for it’ instead of ‘I forget’

Makes me smile every time!

The other day we were driving and my almost 4 year old was looking out her window at a car next to us and exclaimed, “mommy why does that man have a candle (it was a cigarette) in his mouth?! That is not safe! He is going to burn his face!”

Love the innocence of having no clue what a cigarette is and assigning something familiar to it. And as she starts to understand the “rules” of the world and what is safe to do and not this was perfect!

I love how verbal and imaginative Anton is as a 3-year-old! I feel like his relationship with Toby must have really contributed to that :)

Love when you post conversations with Toby and Anton, please keep them coming!

Me: What are you thinking about sweetie, you’ve gone all dreamy?
2 year old: Farts.

Yup, definitely raising a boy!

Sweetest stories. I laughed out loud at Alex’s tooth fairy save. That story reminds me that although my husband doesn’t do things as -ahem- efficiently or thoughtfully as I do, at the end of the day he still gets the job done. That’s really all I can ask for in a partner. Thanks for the laughs!

My three year old is the funniest person I know. While grocery shopping, he pointed to the frozen corn dogs as we passed by them and said “Can we buy those chicken lollipops?” Another time he was hungry and pointed to the VERY ripe bananas on the counter and said “I’ll have one of those chocolate bananas, please.”