Kids say the darnedest things: "You were that small?"

On Sunday, while at my parents house, my dh Jay was telling my parents how on Saturday night I gave everyone a bath for church the next morning. He then tells them how he went in to check on Ali (2yr old) to see if she was asleep, just to find out that she had gotten hold of a red marker and had drawn all over her feet and legs.

Then my mom told about how she once found me, when I was about her age, with pen marks all over my body. When Lea (4yr old) heard this she asked me, "You were that small?" LMBO, yes I was once that small.

Kids say the darnedest things: "It's hot and it's summer"

So as I am sitting here with the kids watching Max and Ruby on Nick Jr., with the ground covered with frozen snow outside, Ruby says "There is nothing better on a hot and summer day then a nice glass of cold lemonade."
I then say "I don't remember what a hot summer day feels like," to which Lea replies, very matter of fact-ly, "It's hot and it's summer". She had me lmbo.

Kids say the darnedest things: "So we do need to go to the store today"

For Christmas my girls all got several gift cards to spend how they pleased. With those gift cards the three older ones all got a Zhu Zhu pet. Still having some money Mia decided that she wanted to get a bed and blanket for her Zhu Zhu pet. A few days latter Zoe decided that she would like one also. Since I was already making a trip to the store I let her come with me to pick one out. The next day Lea decided that she wanted one and asked me if I was going to the store. I told her that I was not going to the store that day because I just had went the day prior and there wasn't anything that we needed. She was disappointed but I told we would be going back some other time and that she could go with me then to pick one out.

About 10 minuets later Lea came to me and asked if she could have an apple. I said to her that she knew that we didn't have any apples because she ate the last one the day before. Without missing a beat she said "So we do need to go to the store today!".

So a few minuets later we were in the car heading to the store because, after all, we have to have apples.

Kids say the darnedest things: "I do have a big imagination"

Yesterday, Mia (who is 10) and I went to Staples so that I could pick up some office supplies. While we where there she wanted to look at the art stuff.

She just loves sketch books and was looking though all the different ones they had. On the bottom shelf they had a huge one. It was probably about 2 feet by 3 feet. Her eyes got so wide as she was pulling it out. I made the comment "Isn't that too big?"

She replied "Well, I do have a big imagination."

That she does. You can't have to big of an imagination

Kids say the darnedest things: "My Family"

Here is Lea and she is holding a toy microphone that echos when you talk into it. She was walking around the house singing into it to some random tune.

"When you in my heart, you my family
My family, my family"

She just kept singing that over and over maybe sometimes adding other things in that I could not catch and I just thought it was too cute.

A lesson learned from a 4 year old. When you are in my heart then you are my family.

Later on I caught her doing it again and was able to record it

Kids say the darnedest things: Fresh Bread

Ok, let me set this up for you. When I am grocery shopping and need to get a loaf of bread Zoe and Lea both insist that they must smell the bread to make sure that it is a good loaf. This process can take up to several minutes of them kneeling on the ground smelling all the loafs of bread (despite all the stares) to find the right one.

One of the kids favorite types of bread is the Sunbeam Bar-B-Q bread (known to us as good bread). It is the kind that is very soft and sticks to the roof of your mouth.

Well several days ago we went shopping and I was in a hurry so when it came time to get the bread I told then that we didn't have time to smell them today and to just grab one. So they did and we went on our merry way.

Several days later as we were eating supper we opened up the bag of "good bread" and handed everyone a slice. I took a bite of mine and complained that this loaf was dry. Mia complained about it being very crumbly (which it usually isn't).

Without missing a beat Zoe piped up and said "You should have let me smell the bread, mommy."

We all laughed and I told her that she was right and that I will never make that same mistake again. From now on we will make time to smell the bread.

Kids say the darnedest things: "I am not a fish..."

OK, ever since my children where little I have wanted to record the little cute things that they say but have never really done it (shame on me). So now that I have a venue to record these things I am going to start.

My kids love to swim any chance they get. They just love to be in the water. They get that from their dad. He grew up loving the water and had many opportunities to have access to a pool and stayed weeks at a time at the beach. I have always said that he was like a fish. Me? Well I am lucky enough to just float. I am good at floating and doggie paddling.

Some of you know that a few weekends ago we stayed in Virginia and had access to a pool. A nice big pool. Zoe, my 7 year old, is the worst as far as staying in the pool. She gets in as soon as we get there and would never get out if she didn't have to. I have to drag her out every few hours to reapply sunscreen.

But she will get out long enough to be thrown back in.
(This was taken last year and yes she is as high up in the air as it looks

So Zoe goes to the deep end of the pool and says "Look at me mommy I can swim the whole way." I then watch her do it and am very impressed because I certainly couldn't do that.

So she gets to the shallow end and says "Did you see me?" and I tell her how proud I am of her and that she is just like her daddy, a little fish.

She then matter of factly informs me "I am not a fish, I'm a mermaid." I then laughed and said "Oh yes, you are my little mermaid."

Who knew?