Out of The Mouths of Babes

My middle child was thoughtfully eating her pumpkin, when she suddenly burst out, "The pumpkin is hiding from the flies in my tummy!"

Both Mummy and Daddy were very good and did not burst out into laughter like they so desperatly wanted to do, but seriously nodded, and said, "yes, you are probably right."

Well, how can you be sure the pumpkin wasn't hiding from the flies in her tummy?

LOL!!!!!!!!!!

Sophie & her Grandad were playing dice today with a giant die and Grandad was getting Soph to guess what number he would roll next.

Her first guess?

35!

It might have been a giant one, but it still only has six sides LOL!

I was making biscuits with Sophie today and because they were quite sticky we kept having to shake extra flour on them so we could roll them without the rolling pin sticking too much.

Except Sophie kept asking for the "cauliflower" shaker!

I don't think I fancy cauliflower biscuits, DO YOU?

We all know the rhyme, This little piggy went to market.

I was playing with Amy yesterday while getting her dressed and i got her toes and started saying this little piggy went to market. Josh comes over and decides to take over before i got to the next toe. When it came to the piggy that ate the roast beef Josh says "this little piggy ate gross peas" and this little piggy had none, he then said lucky piggy i hate gross peas too.

I had to stop myself from laughing because i thought it was so cute the way he really thinks these are the words.

Just thought I'd share how completely opposite kids can hear/say things sometimes.

On CBeebies TV one of our favourite shows at the moment is Gigglebiz, with our favourite (Mr CBeebies himself) Justin Fletcher. One of the many characters Justin plays in this sketch show is the hopeless superhero Captain Adorable. Except Sophie can't get her tongue round "adorable" and has therefore christened him "Captain Horrible"!

My kids have discovered boysenberry jam and it reminds me of an incident that happened when my bro and I were growing up! I'm not sure if I've shared it before but if I have I apologise......sincerely!

My bro was about 4 maybe 5. I was 8 or 9 at the time.

My dad use to eat boysenberry jam on his toast every morning. One day my bro ticked me off, I think he'd got me into heaps trouble that resulted in me being smacked with a wooden spoon or belt anyway...........this one morning before dad sat down to his toast and boysenberry jam, I told him that boysenberry jam was actually posion berry jam and dad would die if he ate it! Pretty nasty, but the results were so funny......

Dad sat down to his toast and boysenberry jam and my little bro ran up, stole the jam and ran as fast his little legs could, screaming "I don't want you to die daddy" "No daddy, it's posion" etc. He ran outside!!!!

It took my parents an hour or so to calm him down and explain that I had played a trick on him and that the jam was ok, dad eats everyday and nothing has ever happened.

Fast forward to today and my bro insists on making sure every girlfriend and all his friends know about the posion berry incident! It still brings a good laugh.

And yes I copped quite a belting for it!!!!!

Cheers Raven

I hope no one takes offence to this reference,  in our family we've always commentted about Jessie being our blonde girl. This incident still sticks in my mind. She was around 9 years old.

We were driving somewhere with a friends little girl 5 years old in our car with us. The little girl Brooke was in the back with Jessie. I heard Jessie explain to Brooke "See that man walking over there, he's blind. And you see the dog walking with him, well the dog it's blind too."   Jessica, I exclaimed. Not really believing what I had just heard her say, yet knowing she'd actually said it. "What mum." I said the dogs not blind. "Yes, mum, blind people have blind dogs." No I explained they just call them that. The dogs can see. "Are you sure Mum. Oh yes. She really took some convincing. I had to explain that is just a nickname for seeing eye dogs. And that their job was to guide the people around. Otherwise when crossing the road if they were both blind they would get run over. Or not be able to find thier way home or anywhere.

Jessie is now a Mum herself and 25 years old. But when the subject comes up about silly things said most of our family will remind her about blind dogs. She's not amused.   

Sophie is quite good with numbers already, and can reel off a whole load of ages of friends and family. However, she misunderstood what DH was saying tonight when he said to Emma "you'd better hurry up eating your dinner - you've got to be out in an hour and a quarter." "no, daddy" says Sophie, "Emma 7 not 1 and a quarter!"

My son Simon has a record out in November and when he was putting Jakob to bed he leaned over to him and said, " Daddy's record will be heard all over the world" Jakob's eyes went big and bright and he said, "What the big Round One "

I just had to share this with you all

Love Pauline

Anytime MicroMe can add this word (& action) to a story or sentence, he whacks it in!  At the moment he tells stories to 'Scooter'  (the belly bump) & he manages to get a fart in within the first few sentences, "Today I went to school and I did lots of farts..."  He tries to back up to Scooter & let rip, he is a right little shocker! 

Nanna has advised him that saying that is not appropriate when you are out & about, when you visit the great grandparents, (who would probably giggle anyway), nor when you visit any other senior citizens.  She took him on an outing the other day & all went well until he got in the car.  He asked if he could now say fart now... She said yes, so 'fart fart fart fart... farty fart fart' was repeated on the entire journey home ; )

The little stinker & his cousin looking oh so innocent, (at this time the hall did not smell so good!).