The things they say

I was out for a walk today with DD and three yr old DGS1. I realised my shoelace was undone and rested my foot up on the low wall of a garden so I could reach it better.
DGS said "You should not do that Nanan that's not your wall to climb on."
He may have a point but I was not intending to climb it. That was me told.

Our friend was in the card shop with her little boy (five year old) and she sent him to the Mothers Day section to buy her card. He came back with a slightly worried look on his face and said, "I've got enough for the card Mummy, but how much is the envelope?". Bless.

My dgs was at my house and suddenly stripped off his trousers and pants, when asked why, he said 'My bottom's ouchy' !!!

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I looked after my 3 year old DGD today - we made some fairy cakes, and as we had just finished icing them our postman arrived and I asked DGD if she would like to give him one of them. She leapt off enthusiastically and gave him a cake, but returned to the kitchen looking a bit gloomy. "That was my cake I gave him" says she. "No" says I "there are lots here for you." "No - that was mine - I licked it!"

Don't you just love 'em!

Last week my 4 year old DGD told me that I was her very best Nana. "Oh thank you. That's very nice of you," said I, "But why do you think that?"

"Because you're not dead!" was her reply!

(By the way she has two other living Nanas)

DS was very tired one day recently, after a late shift and very little sleep. DGS (age 4) wanted to know why he was lying on the sofa, so DS explained, then said, "I'm lazy, aren't I!". DGS's immediate response was "No - that's Grandad!".

Hmm - I've thought for a long time that DH spends far too much lounging around on the sofa, and now I know that I'm not the only one who's noticed.

My 3 yr old DGS was taking ages on the loo. I was getting a bit tired just standing there, but when asked whether he'd finished he told me that he was just relaxing !

My DGD, 4 last week, had mislaid her "lipstick", actually a little girls' play lip salve that she applies liberally to and around her lips. She was really upset, and told me it was an "absolute nightmare". Well a girl really needs her lippie, doesn't she?!

My DGD, aged 6 at the time, has 2 little sisters who are a nuisance to her at times! She solemnly announced to me one day that when Mummy and Daddy get very old and die, then she will be in charge of her little sisters and will send them to bed very, very early!

GD4 must have been looking at my face while she was lying on the settee with her feet on my lap. "Grandma, do I have any cracks on my face, like you?"

A quick squirt with a very expensive perfume my husband had bought me, before going to lunch at my son's. My 2 yr. old granddaughter sitting beside me said" Grandma smells"

At the moment, I can't go into the bathroom without DGD (just turned three) calling through the door, "Grandma, are you having a wee or are you having a poo as well?"
That's bad enough when we are at home, but she piped up with exactly the same question when I took her into some public toilets with me!

I will be quite pleased when this phase passes.

Pity this thread has no "like" button.

I decided that I disliked cute terms for various bodily parts but was a bit put out when my six year old, in clear piping tones announced on the top deck of a crowded bus that her "cl------" was a bit itchy.

She is now 29 and expecting her first baby. I hope we can come up with some code which suits us all !

The things they say. So funny

I went to see my little grandsons today and my daughter told me a tale about DGS1 who is three and a bit.

His Dad often takes him to soft play and runs about "chasing" him etc last time they went SIL was not feeling too well and was just watching him and not playing.

DGS then told his Daddy that "There is a notice that said grown ups have to play with their children at soft play".

He can't actually read and just made this up in the hope his Daddy might believe him. Full marks for creative thinking, none for truthfulness.

He is a bright little chap.

DD2 (3) was fascinated by waterskiing while on holiday in the Lake District and shouted 'Look mummy, a man on sticks pushing a boat with a rope!'

Such a lovely thread .....

Oldest granddaughter (she's now 8) when aged 3 and desperate to have a sleepover at our house, threw a real tantrum and her mummy told her that if she was naughty like that, Granddad and Grandma wouldn't want her to stay. With hands on hips she said "Well, I'm not going to be naughty at THEIR house, am I?"

A couple of years later she informed me and Granddad that we were old and were going to die. Then she looked us up and down and said "But I don't think it's going to be soon" (for which we were very grateful!)

Her little sister and I were discussing names and I told her my first name - she thought about it for a moment, shook her head and said "No, Grandma, your name is Grandma". End of discussion and collapse of stout party!

At school the children always said Ginger Turtles and Light Saver as used in Star Wars

DS 1, now 37, used to call nipples "ee bars" due to a silly game played when having a bath with exdh, in which DS would press one, dh would go "ee" then when the other was pressed he would go "bar"

As he was about to start school, I thought he really should know the proper word, so while bathing him I pointed to his and asked what they were called "Ee bars" came the response.

I explained that they were actually called "nipples".

Not long after starting school, I thought I would see if he remembered the proper word, so again while he was having his bath, I asked if he could remember what they were called.

He looked up at me with those big blue eyes and said............

" Is it tits?"

When my granddaughter was 2 she asked me what her toy was called.

'It's a unicorn.' I replied.
'A menicorn ' she said, pointing to herself.

I was at a loss to explain why she was wrong.

Years ago a little girl I used to look after was asked, at playgroup, where she would like to go on holiday. She replied "I want to go to Heaven, I've heard it's very nice there"

Cagsy that reminds me of when DGS2 asked me about who my Mum was. I said she'd died and he said "oh no! Who killed her?"

Last year I bought DGS age 3 some slippers with the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles on them. When I told him, he corrected me: "you mean Ginger turtles, Grandma!". I tried to convince him that I was right, but he wouldn't have it: "I do assure you, Grandma, that it's Ginger. And I know that for a fact!"

Hmm - needless to say that they will always be the Teenage Mutant Ginger Turtles to me now, even when DGS learns otherwise

DD has never been allowed to forget the time we drove past a hardware shop. There was a giant swiss army knife revolving in the window, it was about 3 feet tall and had all its blades extended. She stared at it and said " but where would you have a pocket big enough?" She was about 12 at the time!

GS1 (9) had successfully auditioned for the lead in the school play. He said he wasn't surprised that another boy hadn't got it because "at his audition he kept including ellipses that just weren't appropriate" I had to go and look up ellipse