What Funny Things Are Your Kids Into?

When I was in primary school I told my friends that I had x ray glasses. Some of them went to my older sister at playtime and asked if it was true, and she said yes. What loyalty, I was touched, and my friends were so impressed!

I babysit a lot and the kids say the cutest things! Once a little boy told me how he had been a zombie zucchini for Halloween, and the next time I was there he painted black face paint all over himself (he’s three), looked at himself in the mirror and said, “I’m a zombie cow!” I don’t know how he came up with it but he was very confident about it.
Another time a 5 year old told me that “I don’t want to grow up, because then I’m going to die and Mommy and Daddy will be sad.” Broke my heart!

My kids love chatting to each other at night. They share a room and they hang out and laugh together after lights out thinking we can’t hear them but we totally know what they’re up to. But it’s hard to get mad when they’re being so sweet with each other!

When I was in Kindergarten I came home and told my mom that I had been sent to the principals office. She was shocked and asked why to which I responded that I didn’t know. The next day when she was dropping me off she asked my teacher about it, and I immediately started sobbing and said “Why would you ruin this for me!?” I had made the whole thing up in hopes of being cool.

My almost-two-year old son is so hungry for words and questions and knowledge. I like to talk to him before bed about all the things we did and saw that day, and after every sentence he says “more, more, more”. He loves to go through every single detail again. I think he is so fascinated by all the details of this beautiful life that he finds each one amazing and interesting. I wish I could look back at my own day sometimes with such wonder!

I remember thinking that braces were unbelievably cool when I was about 7 or 8, because they made you look older (like someone in MIDDLE SCHOOL). By the time I actually had to have them, of course, I was 12 and they were not cool at all.

My almost 2 year old has a new ritual: at night she looks out our darkened picture window, then turns to me and very seriously assures me that there are “no people mommy.” It’s hard to shake the feeling that she is saying this because at one point there WERE people out there!?

When I was about 7, I thought the COOLEST THING in the entire world was to drink soda (specifically Diet Coke). Only cool people drank it! You looked cool doing it! Even though my mom happily let me try some, I hated the taste of carbonation (still do). Undeterred in my quest to be cool, I went through the recycling bin (at our own home, thank goodness), found Diet Coke cans, rinsed them (not well), filled them with water, and then insisted on only drinking syrupy-tasting water out of OLD DIET COKE CANS, fully satisfied that I’d reached the epitome of cool.