Normally I don’t share too many of Skylar’s little quips, stories, and various entertaining bits that come out of her mouth, but she’s had so many gems lately that have had me in stitches. If I don’t write them down, they will be lost and forgotten forever.
She’s four years old and I couldn’t make this stuff up if I tried.
So consider this as much for me and posterity as it is for you but I’m sure you’ll get a few chuckles.
1. We were at the pool earlier in the week and there was a man who was being loud and just generally obnoxious and disturbing the Zen.
He was a bit drunk and was telling loud, crass stories, and just one of those people who you wish would just zip it and enjoy the peace and quiet and beautiful day. And let everyone else do the same.
Skylar grabbed our keys and walked over to the man and touched his arm with the keys.
Scott jumped up and said, “Skylar we don’t put keys on people like that!”
And she said, “I know Dad, but I’m trying to turn this man off.“
Everyone in earshot busted out in laughter, including the man’s wife.
2. She is obsessed with weddings, marriages, and brides. One of the few channels we get in Aruba is the E! Channel and she’s just as excited about seeing the Kim & Kris Wedding re-run episodes every single time, as if it was the first time.
Every time she tells me, “Look Mom, Kim is getting married again!”
And I think to myself, yes, and the next time she does get married it will hopefully make for the third time’s a charm phenomenon.
3. Along with the wedding obsession, Skylar is also fascinated and intrigued about pregnancy, birth, babies, and reproduction in general.
She hasn’t actually asked how they are made or where they come from.
She knows that “Ladies grow them”, they “stay in for a long time and then they fall out”, and she tells me about the one boy and one girl she is going to have when she grows up and gets married.
Trust me when I say we don’t sit around looking at the latest issue of Brides Magazine with TLC’s Birth Story on in the background. I really believe some of this stuff is just hard-wired in her. She is just so drawn to weddings and babies; it’s unreal.
4. Not “funny” but shocking is when your child screams, “Awww, mom, look at the pregnant lady! I bet she’s going to have her baby any day now.”
But the lady isn’t pregnant.
Whoa.
5. She has also told Scott and I many times over the past two weeks that we’re amazing parents, that she really really really loves us, and she’s so glad we take her to Aruba and go as a family.
We ooh and ahh and melt and tell her how much that means to us and that she’s an amazing little girl and that we love her, too.
We’re just about ready to wipe up our Hallmark tears up when she asks us for (more) dessert. She has told me that she liked this one…
…better than this one…
…but always finishes up her request with a very nonchalant, “It’s okay Mom, whatever you want to give me, I’m sure I’ll like it.”
Such a little dessert thief!
Questions:
Do you have kids (or nieces, nephews, cousins, younger siblings, etc.) or are you around small children who say some really funny (or not so funny) things?
If you can remember anything off the top of your head, I’d love to hear it.
Do you remember saying anything funny, off the wall, or wildly inappropriate as a child?
I think we all did.
My mother has said that when my sister was about three years old she apparently made a few choice remarks about someone’s size in the grocery line and why were they buying all that ice cream anyway.
Sometimes the things kids say make no sense whatsoever. They’re kids, they have imaginations, and they just blabber and it’s very nonsensical.
Other times the things they say are rooted in honesty and common sense but they have no filter and just blurt out whatever is on their mind. They blurt things out that adults wouldn’t, and it can be pretty priceless.
Case in point, the #1 in this post. It was so spot on. Turning him off; everyone in earshot of him was wishing for it but no had the balls the heart to tell the guy to zip it, please.
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Ahhaha, those are too funny!
I can’t recall a funny thing I said at the moment, but I remember a story my Aunt told:
My grandma called my Aunt’s house and my cousin picked up the phone (she was probably about 7 years old). When my grandma asked if she could talk to my aunt, my cousin relpied: “mommy can’t come to the phone. Her and daddy are taking a shower”.
Haha, cracks me up every time.
Haha – that last one was too funny. You’ve got a cute little blonde con artist on your hands. Girl knows how to get what she wants ;-)
LOL!! This whole post made me laugh. Skylar sounds adorable! I love the funny (and often very true!) things that kids say.
My mom was on the bus with me when I was 3 and my sister was just a baby. There was a balding man across the aisle from us, and I asked her in that really LOUD voice that kids use: “Mom, how come that guy has no hair?” Apparently he went so beet red, all the way to the top of his head, and my mom couldn’t answer my question :P
Hahahhahahahaah I love it. So blunt, so awesome. When my niece was little she was terrified of other people’s dogs (they had a dog at the house, but anyone else’s was a threat for some reason). She came home from a friend’s house screaming one day “I DON’T WANT TO GO TO HEAVEN!” When my sister finally got out of her what was going on, the friend she was visiting’s dog had recently died, and she overheard the parents telling the kids that the dog was in heaven. My sister had to make up a story on the fly about how there is dog heaven and people heaven, and dog heaven is kind of like the pound and you can go visit and play with your dog if you want, but dogs can’t get into people heaven, etc. etc. Soooo funny! :)
When I was little and my dad was mowing the lawn, I always called it a “mow lawner” instead of a lawn mower. They haven’t let me forget about that one yet…..
OMG too funny!!! Love love hearing what kids say like that. My sister was the kid who’d say anything to anyway. She once told the preacher, “Hey hey mister…be quite.” after crawling under lines of pews to get to him. My mom was of course mortified. I learned very early on, “Mom, she’s barassing me.”
LMAO. This might be my favorite post of yours! Did the pregnant lady hear her? What did that zen-disturbing man say? I see the wife was sick of him as well lol.
Oh Skylar…I’ll bet you never have a moment’s boredom with her!
Pregnant lady..we pulled up to a stoplight and she was crossing the road so we were in the car and the woman was outside. Whew. Didn’t hear that comment. But we had a teaching moment about that.
And the man…he laughed but honestly was a drunky pants and so I don’t fully think he “got it”.
LOL i have a 4 yr old son..and the things that come out of his mouth are soo hilarious.
Last night i heard him playing angry birds on my moms phone on the rug next to our couch so i yell for him..
Me: Gabe is that you over there?
Gabe: “gabes not here, leave a message..beeeeeep”
love it…leave a msg. They’re 4. But in this day and age, leaving msgs is just what they know. My parent’s didn’t get an answering machine <-- antique... til I was in jr high!
I have 4 nieces and nephews that are all about 4 years old and I love when they start talking about something then something they say reminds them of something else and then just go off on another tangent. Seriously, hours of entertainment!
yes, hours and hours. Including on red eye flights that are 12 hour numbers :)
I actually have two stories I especially treasure of my youngest …
1. She was in first grade and let’s just say she did not do well at all in her wants vs. needs test. I asked her when she showed me her test … I explained wants vs. needs again … stating food, shelter and things you can’t live without are needs … to which she promptly replied … “but mommy, I CAN”T live without my bike!!!!”
2. I stopped to introduce myself to the new PE teacher … she said she loved my girls but that she had to push Valentina to run … I asked her … Valentina my youngest, the one in first grade (since I was surprised by her statement, being that V never stood still) to which she answered … I know perfectly who is Valentina … and smiled. I went home to ask her why she had to be pushed to run by her teacher and she looked at me with her beautiful green eyes and said …
“Mommy, why do I have to run when I get there walking just the same”
I will treasure these words forever … actually she was right on both accounts :)
Skylar is precious … I would have loved to have seen her turning off that loud man :)
“Mommy, why do I have to run when I get there walking just the same” <-- classic. And sometimes when I am having a hard run, I pretty much think the same thing to myself!
HAHA that is so hilarious and so CUTE! I have a little cousin who is 8 and since I don’t have a facebook I was on her moms trying to find my sister’s page. I was like why can’t I find her, I’m putting in her last name, as I was getting very frustrated… my little cousin says Um maybe try “Blank” which is my sister’s new married name. DUH! She came right up. HAHA!
Skylar has had to tell Scott what his business associate’s last name is before. Dad, you mean John so and so. That John? Yes, that one he’ll say! lol
Hahahaha, thanks for sharing. I especially loved that first one! And I’ve probably watched Kim;s wedding just as many times, its been just about the only show on for weeks as you’ve mentioned.
we get CNN, CNN Headline News, E Channel, and WGN Chicago…and a couple others but nothing you’d want to watch. But if you need any Venezuelan Tv, we’ve got that too :)
Oh my gawd, the keys story is hysterical!
My little sister and I both said some funny/crazy things when we were little, as did many of the kids I babysat at a teenager.
The first thing that comes to mind is a quip of my sister’s. My grandpa was one of nine kids, and four of his sisters were nuns. When she was four or five years old, my younger sister asked my mom, “Mom, if the nuns are none, when are they going to be some?” :)
I used to babysit this one kid that talked in his sleep CONSTANTLY, and said really hilarious and random things. Some highlights I still remember were:
“Where’s my meatball?”
“It gets personal, buddy.”
“Hand me a box of cowboys.”
I sleeptalked every once in awhile when I was little too, and a couple of my classics were:
“Show them somebody else’s handprint on the radio.”
“Everybody loves peanuts.”
I could go on and on. Haha, I love kid-quips.
Hand me a box of cowboys. <-- in my neighborhood in San Diego, this would go over big with the fellas! There is something to that...god, that could be a theme of some party or something. I love that!!
sweetest post ever!!! loved this, Skylar is so precious!!
Hope you have a wonderful Christmas!
xoxo
L & M
This post is great, lol. So cute and funny. She seems so smart for her age! You are going to have your hands very full in a few years, LOL. I think you’ll really enjoy it and have fun, though!
I already do which is why we expect big things from her and expect her to walk the line, so to speak. If you let smart children be little smartie pants’, they just walk all over you. You have to lay the law down at age 4, not at age 14. With love of course :)
My mother always said, to those who God gives great gifts, God expects great things. So I remember that when I am dealing with my little bundle of joy :)
My first joke as a little tot was, “What happens when a horse sticks his head through a fence? He sees a ghost on the other side!” HAHAHA HA HA HA HA A A A HA HA HAAAAAAAAAH A HAH AHAH A HAH
….oh.
Love it. And your sense of humor is what I adore about you :)