Explaining it is sorta like killing Santa!!!

8, 8, and 11 and loads of fun.

I love being able to interact with them on a higher level than when they were toddlers.


Anyway, my youngest sister has two girls, 12 and about 8. The 8 year old isn't feeling well.

She said to her mom this AM that her dad (remarried) told her that she has "swollen nymph toads".

hahahahahhaha!!

I love it!

Cute!

Kids' innocence is a never-ending source of hilarity.

My 3.5 year old grandson has a four month old baby brother. New baby is nursing, and older brother nurses before bed only. He actually completely weaned last month but this happened a few weeks before that.

So my daughter in law said "after dinner we're going to have "family clean-up time.". 3.5 year old says "not me!". Pause...."baby brother and I will clean the ducts out where the milk comes from"

That is super hilarious, and also scarily intelligent!

Earth? My son said "why do you ask?". He said "who gave birth to all these people?"

to him, and explaining things simply, and my daughter in law is fortunate to be able to stay home, and she is quite smart the same way- so I think it is just the level of connection, physically and verbally that has resulted in his verbal skills being so high. Then again, we're a talkative family!

This was a few months ago, so I'm paraphrasing a bit, but it was pretty close to this.
talking with my 5-year-old about seeing the tigers at the zoo...

Me: It's a good thing that tigers aren't as smart as we are, or they would take over the world.
D: What do you mean?
Me: Well, they're larger, stronger and faster than we are, with powerful jaws and sharp claws, so if they were also intelligent, we'd be doomed.
D: Could we shoot them with poison blowguns? (the zoo has those rainbow poison dart frogs)
Me: But remember, the tigers are smart, so they can shoot back at us, and they have thick fur, so the tigers win again.
D: We can wear clothes to block the darts.
Me: Smart tigers - they can wear clothes too.
D: Shoot them in the butt while they're putting their pants on.
Me: Touche kid.

Today, he somehow ended up brainstorming ways that hair could have superpowers (being able to grab things like a prehensile tail, falling out and assembling itself into a hair golem, transforming into dragons, etc.)

Please jot these funny things kids say in a little notebook!
You think you'll remember, but then you don't.

I'm 61 and my brain isn't quite what it used to be, and I regret not writing some of the things my son said when he was little.

When I was a teenager I babysat for a family with three kids who brought out a book for us to read and laugh about. It was the book in which their parents had written funny things their children had said. It was priceless.