how old are the boys, trayce?
― SEEMS TO ME (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 31 August 2014 15:11 (nine years ago) link
This was related to me by a friend over dinner:
My friend's husband, Mark, does sound at their church. He was busy at the soundboard during a service and my friend and their 16 month old daughter were sitting nearby. The kid really wanted her father's attention and kept saying, "Papa! Papa! Papa!" My friend would say, "Not now, Papa's busy" and try to distract her. But the kid wasn't having it. "Papa! Papa! Papa!" Finally after five or six unsuccessful tries to get Papa's attention, the kid just shouts out loud enough for the whole congregation to hear, "HEY! MARK!"
― carl agatha, Sunday, 31 August 2014 17:53 (nine years ago) link
Veg: they're six and nine. smart funny lil buggers they is. dad farts, and the six year old shouts SMELL THE GLORY!
― the Bronski Review (Trayce), Monday, 1 September 2014 12:19 (nine years ago) link
Excellent!
― schwantz, Monday, 1 September 2014 15:58 (nine years ago) link
loool
― SEEMS TO ME (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 1 September 2014 16:04 (nine years ago) link
Yesterday Evie was singing "Rude" but just the line "I'm gonna marry her anyway" over and over. I asked her if they played it at her school (this is how she heard "Call Me Maybe" and that terrible One Direction song) and she said no, her friend Cameron told her about it. I wish I had been there when one four-year-old was teaching another about the song "Rude." Then when she was going to bed she asked me to play "gonna marry her anyway" on my phone and I lied and said it wasn't on Spotify.
― Immediate Follower (NA), Friday, 5 September 2014 20:03 (nine years ago) link
now you can tell that story when you toast her on her wedding day
― ╲╱\/╲/\╱╲╱\/\ (gr8080), Friday, 5 September 2014 20:07 (nine years ago) link
it's a weird thing when young kids start singing random pop songs (especially when they're songs you haven't heard yourself). My son was singing that "moves like jagger" song all the time a couple of years ago. He probably just heard it on the radio or whatever, but for like a couple of weeks the only version of that song that I was familiar with was the one sung by a 4 year old.
― Untitled Female Spiderverse (silverfish), Friday, 5 September 2014 20:11 (nine years ago) link
Oh, this is the version that I learned first. Thanks again, kids.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_93QVNSCmg
― how's life, Friday, 5 September 2014 22:35 (nine years ago) link
I don't think I've ever heard the original song before! That seems impossible, though.
― carl agatha, Saturday, 6 September 2014 12:33 (nine years ago) link
H: "Look! I'm talking!" *moves jaws and lips silently in exaggerated fashion.*
― pplains, Sunday, 14 September 2014 17:49 (nine years ago) link
This, while I'm sitting here reading the weird twitter thread.
― pplains, Sunday, 14 September 2014 17:50 (nine years ago) link
Ella at 19 months, practising sounds to herself: "duck luck wuck nuck fuck (sees our amused reaction) fuck FUCK FUCK FUCK!"
― ornamental cabbage (James Morrison), Monday, 15 September 2014 11:10 (nine years ago) link
"WUP! WUP! WUP! GANG MUSTACHE STYLE!"
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Monday, 15 September 2014 11:18 (nine years ago) link
my youngest has gotten into use/mention fun with cussing, e.g. "I saw a graffiti today that said "fuck", that's a bad word"
― droit au butt (Euler), Monday, 15 September 2014 12:50 (nine years ago) link
a joke my son told me the other day:
Q: Why are pumpkins orange?A: Because they don't have any butts
― Untitled Female Spiderverse (silverfish), Monday, 15 September 2014 16:32 (nine years ago) link
I loled.
― carl agatha, Monday, 15 September 2014 16:34 (nine years ago) link
That's great! There has been a resurgence of my girl's butt drawings (as pictured here: Kids say the darndest things)
https://scontent-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpa1/v/t1.0-9/10649979_10152761422748783_2192251034107899275_n.jpg?oh=d359291813669507707383a5f085f92f&oe=5486D5C3
This weekend she announced that she was going to draw "the perfect butt" (not pictured). It's become an obsession.
― how's life, Monday, 15 September 2014 17:21 (nine years ago) link
You can see how the butts have progressed from two circles with a line drawn in-between to one oblong with a line down the middle. She obviously has spent some time in reflective thought and observation.
― how's life, Monday, 15 September 2014 17:26 (nine years ago) link
last yr I took a trip and my youngest made me a goodbye card. she drew a toilet with floating turds. "Daddy, I drew something you'd like," she told me.
― droit au butt (Euler), Monday, 15 September 2014 17:32 (nine years ago) link
lol.
― how's life, Monday, 15 September 2014 17:33 (nine years ago) link
She was...right?
― droit au butt (Euler), Monday, 15 September 2014 17:34 (nine years ago) link
PP: Pete and Repeat go into a store. Pete comes out. Who's left?BEEPS: Uh... Ree?PP: Ree? OK, listen. Pete and Repeat go into a store. Pete comes out. Who's left inside the store?BEEPS: You're saying it again.PP: You know this one?BEEPS: Know what?PP: Just tell me... Pete and Repeat, ok, go inside the store. Pete comes back outside. Now who's left in the store?BEEPS: Ree.PP: WHY ARE YOU SAYING JUST "REE"?BEEPS: BECAUSE YOU SAID THAT "PEAT" CAME OUT. THAT LEAVES THE "RE-" PART IN THE STORE.
I got sonned (or daughtered) by my own dumb-ass joke.
― pplains, Tuesday, 16 September 2014 03:21 (nine years ago) link
Oh snap.
― carl agatha, Tuesday, 16 September 2014 03:26 (nine years ago) link
awesome
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 16 September 2014 03:53 (nine years ago) link
Rad
― Immediate Follower (NA), Tuesday, 16 September 2014 14:36 (nine years ago) link
Poor pplains.
― how's life, Tuesday, 16 September 2014 14:39 (nine years ago) link
"HEY! MARK!"
Yeah, I've had that one: Alice age two.
"Hey! I'm your dad, right? I'm not your mother's boyfriend!"
Alice: "Ha ha ha"
― Mark G, Tuesday, 16 September 2014 15:25 (nine years ago) link
it's a weird thing when young kids start singing random pop songs (especially when they're songs you haven't heard yourself).
Yeah, one time I was driving along, and Amber (5 then) says "Can I sing a song?" "OK" i say, and then she breaks into "To dream the impossible dream" from Man of La Mancha, full voice. I nearly crash..
"Where did you get that song from?""Oh, Milo sang it on The Tweenies"
― Mark G, Tuesday, 16 September 2014 15:27 (nine years ago) link
Molly's been watching too many youtube videos of people talking about toys. On the bus this morning she was playing with her Princess Anna toy, taking her dress off and saying 'I love the detailing on this, and it's got a velcro fastening so it's easy to get off' There are so many words in her vocabulary that wouldn't be there if it wasn't for youtube, I feel quite ashamed
― vickyp, Wednesday, 17 September 2014 10:09 (nine years ago) link
I don't listen to the radio much. I worked in radio all my working years until I was almost 40 and I'm just done with it. Besides, I like being able to hear the kids in the backseat and I don't get so distracted as easily.
But out of nowhere, now they both want to hear the radio in the car. Beeps wants pop. Hank wants rock and roll. "Until It Sleeps" by Metallica was actually somewhat of a hit for him yesterday.
This morning, they want it on again. Fine. We land right at the intro of "Beast of Burden".
HANK: This is sad music. I WANT ROCK & ROLL!
― pplains, Thursday, 18 September 2014 16:22 (nine years ago) link
― sleeve, Thursday, 18 September 2014 16:39 (nine years ago) link
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 18 September 2014 18:30 (nine years ago) link
Ben: What's a PAC?
Me: P-A-C-K or P-A-C?
Ben: P-A-C
Me: Well, a PAC is a political organization that you can donate money to. Then, they can give that money to politicians that have the same views.
Owen: Then why is he called Pac-Man?
― schwantz, Sunday, 21 September 2014 20:15 (nine years ago) link
hahaha
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 21 September 2014 20:47 (nine years ago) link
nice.
― how's life, Sunday, 21 September 2014 21:42 (nine years ago) link
"this store smells like my vagina"
― Οὖτις, Monday, 22 September 2014 16:36 (nine years ago) link
whaaaaaat
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 22 September 2014 16:47 (nine years ago) link
Please tell me she said that loudly.
― schwantz, Monday, 22 September 2014 16:47 (nine years ago) link
tbf this quote was related to me by my wife
― Οὖτις, Monday, 22 September 2014 17:00 (nine years ago) link
omg omg omg
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Tuesday, 23 September 2014 15:12 (nine years ago) link
the best
― smoochy-woochy touchy-wouchy, (sunny successor), Tuesday, 23 September 2014 22:25 (nine years ago) link
This weekend we stopped in Hastings-on-Hudson, which is one of those *charming towns* in the Hudson Valley north of NYC. We sat down for brunch at a yuppie farm-to-table restaurant and Keren exclaimed "This is the Berkshires!"
― my jaw left (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 24 September 2014 01:25 (nine years ago) link
We're sitting at Ella's drawing table, which is by the front windows, and an extremely loud, rumbling-engined motorbike roars past.
Ella says, "Fart! Fart!"
― ornamental cabbage (James Morrison), Wednesday, 1 October 2014 06:29 (nine years ago) link
Beeps comes running from the far end of the playground, leaps off the step onto the ground by the bench I'm sitting on. "Look at me, Daddy!" "I see you!"
Hank tries the same thing, but stumbles before he reaches the step, sorta veers off to the side into a fall– enough where I put my hands up to catch him and go WHOA – somehow regains his footing through some unintentional parkour and stops.
Without making eye-contact, he shuffles past me and mumbles "What did you think of my trick, Dad?"
― pplains, Thursday, 2 October 2014 13:54 (nine years ago) link
*pointing to easel* "Mommy did painting of teacher susan. She's a good guy."
― my jaw left (Hurting 2), Thursday, 2 October 2014 14:03 (nine years ago) link
About gumballs again:
HENRY: I like Blueberry. Orange hurt me.
PP: It was a little strong, huh?
HENRY: Orange beat me up in my mouth!
― pplains, Sunday, 5 October 2014 03:45 (nine years ago) link
We went to see "The Box Trolls" and there was a preview for the Paddington Bear movie before. There's a scene where Paddington is in the bathroom and he picks up two toothbrushes and sticks them in his ears, pulls them out with a bunch of brown goop on them, then looks around and tastes the goop. Now Evie keeps walking around looking mad saying "ARGH. Stop thinking about the bear and the toothbrushes. I don't want to think about the bear anymore! Stop it, brain!"
― Immediate Follower (NA), Monday, 6 October 2014 15:05 (nine years ago) link
I know how she feels.
― how's life, Monday, 6 October 2014 15:15 (nine years ago) link
God me too.
― carl agatha, Monday, 6 October 2014 15:30 (nine years ago) link