Our Grandson is
turning four-years-old in a few weeks and his little sister is
one-and-a-half-years-old right now and she idolizes her older brother. She bugs
him incessantly, mind you, but she idolizes him. She follows him everywhere and
copies everything he does. Actually, she might even think she’s a boy, too.
Case in point: their Mom was getting them ready for a bath one night and little
Ava, naked as a Jaybird, sidles up to the toilet bowl and makes like she’s
going to go pee so her Mom snatches her up and puts her on the seat (she hasn’t
started potty training yet) and little Ava scowls and fights to get down from
her perch and then her Mom sees what she’s trying to do…Ava turns, facing the
toilet, trying to go to the bathroom through her belly-button because she’s
smart enough to know she doesn’t have the same equipment as her brother but
she’s pretty sure he goes pee standing up so she must be able to do that, too.
Kids, eh?
One of the many
great things about Grandparenting is that you get to re-live some of the “kids
do, (or say), the darndest things”. I say re-live because there are some cute
and funny things that you remember your children saying as they were growing up
but it’s not nearly as fresh as listening to the little ones in the moment.
Another case in
point is just before we were to leave on our hot holiday vacation we FaceTimed
with our daughter and the Grandkiddies and it’s cute that we can see each other
in the iPhone but the sound is iffy some of the time and near the end of the
conversation my wife tells the kids that we will make sure we bring them back
some “Sea Shells” from our holiday by the sea. Well, our Grandson, Treyton,
doesn’t know what “Sea Shells” are, but he says “okay”, and then a little
later, just before we’re hanging up he yells into the phone, “don’t forget the
CHEESE SHELLS, Gramma!”
So in that vein
I will share some other cute little children stories with you. Enjoy:
“While walking
through the mall the other day my three-year-old son said, “Mama, is this the
mall?”
“Sure is,” I replied
and then he stopped in his tracks and said (with arms waving and a funny
British accent), “Mirror, mirror, on the wall, who is the most beautiful of
the-mall?”
I started
laughing and he said, “No, really, Mama who is the most beautiful?”
“At age five our
granddaughter, upon seeing airplane tailings in the sky, asked me if God minded
having those scratches across his sky.”
My five year old
daughter told my husband this morning that “It’s easy to raise kids, you just
lift up them.”
Says a Mom to
her three-and-a-half-year-old: Mom-“Trey, just a second!” Trey-“What’s a
second?”
Three year old
Jack was watching his Mom breast-feeding his new baby sister. After a while he
asked, “Mom, why have you got two? Is one for hot and one for cold milk?”
Five-year-old
Melanie asked her Granny how old she was. Granny replied she was so old she
didn’t remember any more. Melanie said, “If you don’t remember you must look in
the back of your panties. Mine say five to six.”
“The most
interesting information comes from children, for they tell all they know and
then stop.”-Mark Twain (1835-1910).
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