Note: I found the following snippets while looking through old files on my computer. These are from back in the day in Africa...aah the simple life! ;-)
Funny Things That Our Kids Blurt Out
The other day I was telling Brandon (4 years old) a bit about all the relatives that he hasn't met yet. I told him that I would get out some photos and show him his uncles, aunties, and grandparents that he didn't know.
I said, "Brandon you have lots and lots of relatives!"
Then he said, "yes mommy, and I have lots of girlfriends too!"
"Really?" I answered, with a quizzical expression. "Where are they all?"
"Oh mommy" he said in a knowing way. "I haven't met them yet!"
Elena told me that one time, she asked Brandon to put his shoes on, but when she looked to see if he had done it, she noticed that the shoes were on the wrong feet. She said, "Brandon! You've got your shoes on the wrong feet!" Brandon slowly looked down at his feet, pondered a bit, and then looked up again. "But Elena" he said, "these are the only feet I have!"
A conversation overheard between Angali (9), Laura (5), and Kimby (3)…….(overheard by my sister in-law, Lili)
A: You shouldn’t swallow gum because it’s bad.
L: Yes really bad…but why is it bad Angali?
A: Um… because when you swallow the gum it gets stuck in your stomach …. Or somewhere… & then it gets stuck for seven days …. No longer than seven days, a longer time.
L: So Kimby shouldn’t have gum because it’s bad to swallow gum.
K: But then I’m sorry. But I bad because I swallow gum.
A: No but swallowing gum is bad because if it gets stuck then you can die. When it gets stuck then the white blood cells stick to the gum to try to unstick it but they can’t so it takes seven days or more.
Conversations between Lili and her daughter:
Kimby: Mommy when I was bigger than you I had shots.
Mommy: You were never as big as Mommy because you’re still growing.
K: But Jesus made me stop growing.
M: If you stop growing now then when you’re a Grandma you’ll be such a funny short Granny.
K: But little Grandmas still love you.
K: Mariah taught me to go pee in my pants.
M: You’re older than Mariah, how can she teach you to go pee in your pant?
K: She made me go pee.
M: How did she do that?
K: She pointed her finger at me or something funny like that and said "aaa doo-doo" and then I went. She made me.
More stuff from Brandon--
I told Brandon that after we finished lunch clean-up, we would start our diary. Later, I said to Brandon, "ok, let's go now!" He looked up with a very serious face and said, "are we doing our diarrheas now?"
I had to reprimand Brandon for putting his hand prints all over our newly painted wall. When I asked him why he had done it he said, "someone should paint the wall with hand prints! It'll look really nice!"
Brandon always has funny things to say. When he has a fever he says that a rhinoceros is running around in his head.
He also says that his feet sing when he runs (he's talking about the pattering sound they make when they hit the ground).
ISN'T LIFE FUN WITH KIDS ALL AROUND US??
