Toby and Anton in Conversation

I just stumbled across these from another newer post. I had a rough day, but am now smiling ear to ear. I teach third grade and my favorite part of my job is their little comments all day. Thank you for this beautiful community. I look forward to your posts and the comments daily! :) Sending much love to you.

Realizing this is now a late comment, however; there is one from today, that I feel worth sharing…”we have a one story house, I wish we could have a two story house so it could hold more stories”

For my than 2.5 year old – currently 4.

“Mom. You got a new blue nipple container”

I’m also blessed with baby twin girls so there was a lot of nipple talk. Ha

My boys (8 & “almost 5″) are big wildlife fans and we usually watch wild animal/ nature shows for our movie nights. I didn’t realize how much was being absorbed by them. We have always been straightforward about body parts but at age 6 our eldest let our extended family know, at Thanksgiving, how babies were made….Cue our curious looks…”If you put a boy lizard and a girl lizard together, like in a box, you’re gonna get baby lizards so watch out!” The entire table erupted in laughter, which mystified him. “It’s a fact! What’s so funny?!” It’s still one of his favorite holiday stories to tell around the holidays.

These comments (and the children) are all so brilliant, I am enjoying reading them all :)
My, now 4 year old has begun asking where babies come from, and more importantly – HOW do they get in a Mamas tummy? I just gave him the general ‘when a mum and a dad love each other they can make a baby’ line, thinking he was too young to grasp the reality of it and thinking I need a book to better help me explain this delicate subject that I know he is going to soak up every word of. So then he says to me “so why does the Mum need the Dad to put the baby in there? Does he have to lift it in?” ohhhh son hahahaha some things I’m already discovering I miss dearly, like when he would refer to eyebrows as “eyebrellas” – which makes complete sense, doesn’t it?
Recently his Dad played some old mickey mouse cartoons for him while I was outside…later on just the two of us are driving and he says “Mum why did Mickey get resurgery (electrocuted)? And why did he get run over by a car? And why did his ear fall off?” Me: Whhhhhy would your father let you watch that!?
The worst, is when he asks me “is Nana is all done in Heaven now?”
I wish sweets, I wish.

My nephew is a year and a bit and when I babysat him last weekend he started calling me Annie (not but name, but somehow even more fun than Auntie) on repeat. It made me SO excited to hear what else he’ll have to say soon! Ugh, kids! The best.

My 2.5 year old son called Batman “matban” the other day, made me laugh.

These are always some of my favorite posts! They sound like such sweet boys! Now that our son is a chatty almost 3 year old, we love comparing notes on the funny, creative, profound, or head scratching things he says!

Some days I am so sad about my 15 month old growing up so quickly, but this post made me excited for fun and magical days ahead <3

My 2.5 year old to his toy firetruck after it fell from the couch: “Are you okay, firetruck? Are you okay?”

He would always say “Thank you, Mama” whenever I hand him anything. Melts my heart every time.

My parents live 1.5 hours away and we try to time our trips so we leave our house at my kids nap time and they can sleep in the car. During a recent trip:

Me: bud, I think it would be a good idea for you to close your eyes and take a little nap while we drive to grandma and grandpa’s.

3.5 yo: I am going to take that idea and put it in the trash. That idea is gone now.

Shut down! How was I supposed to recover from that?!

My husband is a full time stay at home parent and I work full time. My eldest daughter, who is 9, was watching a cooking show and she said, “This show is so weird! The mum knows how to cook and the dad doesn’t! She actually has to explain to him how to cook! So. Weird.” Ha! Made me think about the gender perspectives they’ve grown up with and also, how if it seems so wild a mum is the one who cooks and can cook, maybe I need to improve my kitchen skills! Haha!

Your kids are the cutest! My 4 year old is also hillarious, can’t wait for my 1 year old to start talking too :)

My youngest, at not quite 4, is a bit of a trash talker even though we’ve been careful about our language – he doesn’t swear, but when he got upset at his big brother he said “You don’t say another word to me, or I will put you in the TRASH. With the banana peels and the dirty, dirty diapers.” I told him it wasn’t ok to say that, and then reminded him that there are no dirty diapers in our trash since everyone uses the toilet. “I’ll find some,” he said darkly.

It’s a very effective insult.

The scariest thing is having my toddler repeat things that I say, like I didn’t realise how frequently I say “ugh” until he started doing it. He’s st the stage where he’s in everything, so “don’t touch” I’d used a LOT. His baby sister was touching something she shouldn’t and he said “Baby! No touch it! So many times I say it”

My nearly three-year-old, to his sister (8) who’s upset: ‘Cheer up, sausage.’ (After he hit her.)

At naptime: ‘Mummy, I missed you! Mummy, you’re my best friend.’

I took my kids to a Slimming World meeting in a church hall near us. So, empty room, folding chairs set up, kind of sparse and bleak. Three-year-old, scrambling onto a chair and looking around, ‘I like this pub!’

Holden (5 yo): Mom, if I were you what would I be doing?

Me: Drinking coffee and reading a book?

Holden: No, I would stop bossing my son around.

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My nephew just started kindergarten and was telling my husband how he had had two “specials” in one day (gym and art or something like that). My husband was kidding around and replied, “oh, you must be exhausted!” My nephew, quite emphatically, replied “you have NO idea.”

I asked my 4 year old son to ask his classmate what she’d like as a birthday gift (her birthday party was coming up). When he got home from school he told me he had asked her but totally forgot what it was.
A few minutes later he remembered what toys she wanted and I asked “Good! How did you remember?!”.
Him: “I google searched with ALL my body!”