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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I love these little stories about Skylar!! Especially about Kim Kardashian getting married “again.”
It’s true- kids have no filter and speak with honesty, and that’s something that we are taught to suppress (or I guess just be “appropriate” about as we age). My mom has told me many stories about me being very “honest” in public as a child. :)
Just a note- “Kardashian” was underlined by spell check on my comment. It recommended “Guardianship.” Haha!
spellcheck – classic what it said! :)
Aww- wow, she is so sweet and intelligent already at four!
You reminded me of a story my parents tell about me at about the same age as Skylar. My Dad was in the shower after doing a lot of hard yard work and naturally was moaning and groaning from sore muscles. I went to the bathroom door and shouted “What’s the matter Daddy? Are you having your period?”
I hope that your trip to Aruba is relaxing- it sure looks beautiful :)
She sounds absolutely adorable! I’m nowhere near having my own kids but I work with preschoolers, so I get to hear some cute stuff quite often.
Ah, kids are so wise and honest! After working with kids from ages 6 weeks to 16, I know I have a ton of funny things that have happened…but I can’t think of anything specific…When I was little I definitely thought anyone with a little belly was pregnant and called them on it, much to my mom’s horror!
Hahaha!!! I’m addicted to Weddings, Kim Kardashian and Babies just as much as she is I think!
I love hearing stories of your little dollface, please tell us more!! What a cutie!!! You could never make up what kids say….where do they get this stuff from?! The KEYS cracked my butt up!! OMG!
xxoo
What great stories :) Thanks for sharing!
I’m glad you’re writing these down–priceless. Especially the heartfelt honesty, ‘turning the guy off,’ totally in sync with what everyone else around was wishing too…
i love these!! shes so cute averie. you are one lucky mommy.
This is so great, Averie. You need to write this stuff down, on the blog or somewhere! My mom wrote my funny phrases in my baby book and I love reading them still. My favorite phrases that I said all the time (or so says my mom in my baby book) “I’m a lover” and “That’s not fair”.
The best story is when my older sister and I were about 5 and 3 and were fighting in a store about boys and girls parts. My mom was walking a bit ahead of us (my aunt was pushing us in a cart) and my sister, to prove she was right, yelled to my mom ‘Right mom, boys have penises and girls have vaginas!?” My mom was only 23 and MORTIFIED because the store was super busy!
When my son was little we used to watch Reading Rainbow, with Levar Burton as the host. For an entire year Storm thought every young black man we ran across was Levar Burton. I specifically remember one time when a black man held the door open for us at the bank and he started yelling “Levar! Levar!” and ran up and hugged him around the legs. (Fortunately he was not insulted when I explained the situation to him.)
oh my heck! that key comment is hysterical.
Too funny about he saying she was turning the man off! LOL! SO cute! Oh the things kids say!
She will always remember Aruba vacations, its so great you guys do that, memories she will never forget, so important! <3
and just like you make memories with your son all the time…your IG pics melt me :)
That first one with the guy at the pool is just hysterical! I’m constantly floored by our kids friends at how funny they can be at such a young age without even knowing it.
ha! So hilarious. I always think Skylar is older than she is – I don’t know why!
because she’s like a head taller than all kids her age…most people think she’s like 7 or 8. And her speech/vocabulary too…that throws them off!
I loved this post! Skylar is so clever!
ahh i love little kids! they have no idea about what is going on and will say anything! I was on the train coming home from work yesterday and a little kid (he was with his dad) turns to me and starts telling me about his fruit snacks that he was eating and abotu what he did at school, as if we had known each other for years. it was the cutest thing!
Skylar would talk your ear off on the train…captive audience!