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What your child did/said that made you smile today.

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,659 ✭✭✭CrazyRabbit


    MrsD007 wrote: »
    I just found my six year old daughter sitting at the dining room table making paper jewellery while doing a piece to an imaginary camera. I stayed just outside the room but I could see and hear everything she was doing.

    She was giving step by step instructions on how to make her Christmas jewellery and was holding the jewellery up to the 'camera' and giving advice like "be very careful with the sissors and ask a grown-up for help etc.".

    When she had completed making the jewellery she said "If you would like more information on how to make fantastic jewellery like mine, just checkout my website - www.ruby.co.uk.com", (She has a bit to learn about web addresses yet) lol :D

    I have to say she was funny to watch but she really brought back lots of happy memories of Saturday mornings spent watching Mary Fitzgerald's Make & Do programme on RTE 1.

    Get that girl a Youtube channel!!


  • Registered Users Posts: 78 ✭✭L0ui5e


    I was explaining to my 4 year old about the SVP toy appeal..smallies who don't have as much money as we do who would like an extra present etc.
    So I was in the process of my spiel and I got as far we'll buy a child (a toy).. and mini me looked at me and said (in his high pitched curious tone) BUY A CHILD? !!!!!!


  • Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 17,231 Mod ✭✭✭✭Das Kitty


    3 year old crying in bed at 6am. I went in to him and pulled his blanket up again and gave him a kiss. In the saddest little voice he just said, "I don't like Frosty the Snowman."

    "Me neither," I said as I tucked him in.

    Wonder what he was dreaming about.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,174 ✭✭✭bulmersgal


    My daughter who's 32 months said to me this morning, clodagh not my best friend momma, your my best friend! Well my heart melted :-D

    Then she told me she needed to go doctor,as her mouth sore and she needed mecidine and for him to brush her teeth. There was a little bit of orange stuck in her teeth lol


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,426 ✭✭✭positron


    Short version: I was able to reason with my daughter last night, and she surprised me by doing one better than I expected, and she's not even two! :D

    Long version: She was up around 2 am last night and kept the wife up for 90 mins trying to get back to sleep in her own bed. Wife who is also 4 months pregnant with our second one, was well beyond knackered gave up and brought her to our bed as she wanted. She lies down, and tries to cuddle up to the wife again, who is literally about to cry from exhaustion. I explain to her that mamy is crying because she's is tired. Remember the baby inside mamy? Both baby and mamy needs sleep and she can't sleep when you are cuddling up like that. Mamy wants to sleep.

    She goes all silent for about 10 seconds and then goes "Dada up". And once I got up she wanted me to pick her up and goes "Mamy crying. Mamy tired. Mamy sleep. (in) Mamy bed. Dada come. (her name) bed."

    Off we went and slept in her bed together till 7 am!! I was gobsmacked how she fought for an hour to get into our bed, and somehow understood what she should really do for everyone, and got that done. She turns two in January. I felt extremely proud, and daft for underestimating her at the same time.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,937 ✭✭✭implausible


    The young fella (2 1/2) was eating his pasta and homemade sauce today and I heard him saying "pook, pook". Thinking he'd got sick, I came running, but realised he was pointing at the (admittedly not very attractive looking) sauce and saying "pook nice".

    Apparently, "puke" refers to any gloopy-looking substance in his world...


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,652 ✭✭✭CaraMay


    CaraMay wrote: »
    sHe walked..... :D:D

    Has been taking a few cautious steps over the last fortnight and then this evening just upped and walked from the kitchen into the sitting room. I nearly fell down.

    And yesterday kicked a ball out if the way while walking. Now mad for football games :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,426 ✭✭✭positron


    At the risk of sounding like pageant dad, another story... like I mentioned couple of posts back, 'sleep in mamy's bed' is an ongoing problem here. After another night of her staying up for a few hours trying to get into our bed, wife decided to confiscate her favorite toy - peppa pig tea set - for the entire day. We took took it off her and put in on the stairs where she could see it but not touch, and she knew she was being punished for acting up the night before.

    Last night, she slept the whole night in her own bed (woke up twice, but went straight back to sleep, no fuzz, no drama), and this mornings conversation went like this:

    her: "Maya 'wake." (declaring herself awake)
    wife: "Oh wow, look who sle...."
    her: "teeeee settttt...."
    wife: "that's right... you can have your te.."
    her: "one cupaa teee... for mamy. and dady. and naanaa... (pause) Noooo.... offeeee..." (Nana drinks coffee)

    On the way down, she picks up the tea-set, and with a ear-to-ear grin goes:

    "Maya did it" :D "Maya Happeeeeee" :D


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,652 ✭✭✭CaraMay


    Ah my little man has learned what 'cuddly for mammy' means and he now comes over to give me a hug. He is just gone one and its so cute as he sprints the last couple of steps into my arms.


  • Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 2,283 Mod ✭✭✭✭angeldaisy


    With the change in routine my son is having trouble going to sleep at night, three times this evening he came out, and I was beginning to get really annoyed at this, when he said to me "I don't feel too well over the last couple of weeks" so I said I know love theres alot of things going around. "Yes mammy, especially at christmas". So im looking at him thinking poor love, when he deadpans "yeh like humbugs" I cried with laughter... bless him hes been mad for telling jokes for the last few weeks and they're pretty brutal, so this was a beaut! !


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,340 ✭✭✭Please Kill Me


    I was cleaning up the kitchen earlier, then went into the living room to do a bit in there. The young lad (6) was in watching telly. He hadn't seen the new tatt I got done yesterday as he was away last night and only got home earlier. Conversation was something like this....

    Tom: Hey Dad, I love your new tattoo.
    Me: Thanks buddy.
    Tom: Dad, you look like Maroon 5 with all your tattoos now. (awwww) :D

    I told him I was getting Wolverine done soon and he said it was "awesome", he then asked if I was getting Iron Man done. Jokingly I said yes and he turns and says "Cool Dad, you'll be like a walking Marvel comic!"

    Kids!! rolleyes.png


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,652 ✭✭✭CaraMay


    He danced for the first time (to Brittany and will.i.am but will worry about that bit later :) ) and also was heading for the fire today and I said no and shook my head and he shook his head back at me. Do now when I say no he shakes his head :)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,449 ✭✭✭✭pwurple


    Has grown manners overnight! Bumped into a child in creche while running over to me at collection time, stopped and said "so sorry, excuse me please" to the other toddler. Big kisses and a bit of a chocolate snowman in the car on the way home for that one.


  • Registered Users Posts: 746 ✭✭✭ladypip


    My five year old just asked me how to spell A,B,C,D,E,F G hahaha.


  • Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 35,576 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    I'm not sure if 'smile' is appropriate to describe my reaction but ever since some unscrupulous visitor nicked my wife's umbrella from outside our apartment a couple of months back my three year old has been plotting his revenge in a series of ever more gruesome ways. It started out with a simple arse-kicking, graduating quickly to a stabbing in the stomach with a bread knife before becoming more intricate. Yesterday she imagined putting out another umbrella, this time with a bomb glued to it so he'd blow his hand off as soon as he opened it and today she explained how she was going to find out where he lived, break in, take all his food and replace it with poisoned bread and watch him slowly die...


  • Registered Users Posts: 651 ✭✭✭badgerhowlin


    I'm not sure if 'smile' is appropriate to describe my reaction but ever since some unscrupulous visitor nicked my wife's umbrella from outside our apartment a couple of months back my three year old has been plotting his revenge in a series of ever more gruesome ways. It started out with a simple arse-kicking, graduating quickly to a stabbing in the stomach with a bread knife before becoming more intricate. Yesterday she imagined putting out another umbrella, this time with a bomb glued to it so he'd blow his hand off as soon as he opened it and today she explained how she was going to find out where he lived, break in, take all his food and replace it with poisoned bread and watch him slowly die...

    I will never get on the wrong side of your little one!


  • Registered Users Posts: 651 ✭✭✭badgerhowlin


    My 1 year old now for the past week has learnd how to say tuc(stuck), she did only say it when she was stuck but now, she is always tuc. Even in the middle of the floor with nothing around her.

    She has also pick up saying O God and Lord God. Which she says O Gody Gody Gody or Lordy GodGodGod.
    May got onto the wife about what she is saying during the day.


  • Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 17,231 Mod ✭✭✭✭Das Kitty


    3 year old is a scut for hopping out of bed after bedtime. The last night I heard the telltale patter of his feet and went up to put him back into bed. I could hear him leg it when he heard me on the stairs and he just about managed to get back to bed before I got there. He hadn't managed to get under the covers though.

    So he was lying on his bed with one arm slung behind his head and his legs crossed. "Mama," he said, cool as you like. "I've been expecting you."

    He and pika's little one would probably get along famously as a pair of super-villains.


  • Registered Users Posts: 5 charliesangel


    My two year old sticking her fingers in her ears and shouting "can you hear me?". Love it.


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  • Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 35,576 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    Das Kitty wrote: »
    3 year old is a scut for hopping out of bed after bedtime. The last night I heard the telltale patter of his feet and went up to put him back into bed. I could hear him leg it when he heard me on the stairs and he just about managed to get back to bed before I got there. He hadn't managed to get under the covers though.

    So he was lying on his bed with one arm slung behind his head and his legs crossed. "Mama," he said, cool as you like. "I've been expecting you."

    He and pika's little one would probably get along famously as a pair of super-villains.

    Do you have a white cat at home at all? :D


  • Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 17,231 Mod ✭✭✭✭Das Kitty


    Do you have a white cat at home at all? :D

    He's been asking for a cat a lot recently, actually. Hmm!

    And he likes when I sing Goldfinger to him.


  • Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 35,576 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    Das Kitty wrote: »
    And he likes when I sing Goldfinger to him.

    Who wouldn't like that, in fairness?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,449 ✭✭✭✭pwurple


    My 1 year old now for the past week has learnd how to say tuc(stuck), she did only say it when she was stuck but now, she is always tuc. Even in the middle of the floor with nothing around her.

    Hah, mine loves telling me she is stuck as well. We got her this picture book, current fav.
    http://www.amazon.co.uk/Stuck-Oliver-Jeffers/dp/0007263899/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1358418154&sr=1-1


  • Registered Users Posts: 9,349 ✭✭✭nozzferrahhtoo


    Just got an email from by OH who says our daughter (2.5 year old) just said:

    "I'm just going to check if some wolves are coming in our house, ok Mammy?"

    the other day she came out with:

    "Mammy.... bunnies are just.... so.... complicated!"


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,175 ✭✭✭hoodwinked


    My daughter 3.5 years old, was listening to her ipod this morning on the way to school, when she realised i had put olly murs troublemaker on it for her, she smiled from ear to ear singing it all the way out to the car,

    i strapped the seat belt on her seat and as i leaned over her to reach the buckle to plug it in she just kissed me on the cheek and said "thank you mommy i love that song"

    :D made my heart melt so she did.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 12 lou the wrench


    just before xmas my 4 yr old daughter asked me with a really serious face "DADDY how does santy get down the chimney when hes so fat " so i said its magic she then started singing that song by pilot "whoa whoa whoa its magic you know " me and the missus burst out laughing havent a clue where she got it from

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96kwILL35ig


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,175 ✭✭✭hoodwinked


    just before xmas my 4 yr old daughter asked me with a really serious face "DADDY how does santy get down the chimney when hes so fat " so i said its magic she then started singing that song by pilot "whoa whoa whoa its magic you know " me and the missus burst out laughing havent a clue where she got it from

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96kwILL35ig

    lol does she watch disney channel at all? for the Wizards of Waverly place movie they were using it in an ad for the movie, the song also featured in the movie.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,514 ✭✭✭Sunny Dayz


    When I was putting my eight year old son to bed last night, he got a fit of the giggles, he was in the stitches laughing, I don't know what over! Sure that started me off and the two of us were in a heap on the bed in the fits of laughter over nothing!!


  • Registered Users Posts: 17 Pressurised Container


    In tears at some of the stories!!

    I hurt my back a few days ago so hobbling around. This morning my 2.5yr old was getting outta her carseat and goes don't worry mam I've got this and shimmied outta the car! She patted me on the bum and said thanks and toddled into creche!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,937 ✭✭✭implausible


    Putting the buck down to bed every night, I give him a kiss, say "night, night" and sometimes "love you". Tonight I got "love you mammy" back for the first time :D

    He plays harder to get than his daddy did ;)


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,100 ✭✭✭ectoraige


    I'm not sure if 'smile' is appropriate to describe my reaction but ever since some unscrupulous visitor nicked my wife's umbrella from outside our apartment a couple of months back my three year old has been plotting his revenge in a series of ever more gruesome ways. It started out with a simple arse-kicking, graduating quickly to a stabbing in the stomach with a bread knife before becoming more intricate. Yesterday she imagined putting out another umbrella, this time with a bomb glued to it so he'd blow his hand off as soon as he opened it and today she explained how she was going to find out where he lived, break in, take all his food and replace it with poisoned bread and watch him slowly die...

    I hope our three-year-old doesn't meet yours, she might get a few ideas. Every few days when we've told her she can't do something, she'll respond with "When you and Mammy and my brother are dead I'll be able to watch cartoons whenever I want."


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 758 ✭✭✭bubbaloo


    We've had a rough ole year and god knows our 3 year old boy has put a smile on our faces on many a dark day, but I thought this was clever and funny.... He had a packet of wine gums and I had a twix, but of course he wanted the twix. I gave him one bite and said he'd had enough. He ate a few wine gums and said to me "let's pretend our mouths are hands, and your chocolate is a Christmas cracker!" Within a second he'd put his mouth around my twix and taken a big chunk out of it. I laughed my heart out! :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,192 ✭✭✭Lola92


    I caught my little girl (25 months ) with her hands covered in face paint when I got out of the shower this morning.

    Me: What is on your hands?

    E: *innocent face* I don't know. *Looks down* OH JESUS, it's GREEN! I have to go wash it.

    :D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,724 ✭✭✭tallaghtmick


    My 3 year old has just started playing bowling,he's growing up so fast :(


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,098 ✭✭✭NamelessPhil


    My daughter decided to bring a snowball in her pocket into montessori "To show the other kids!".


  • Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 35,576 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    ectoraige wrote: »
    I hope our three-year-old doesn't meet yours, she might get a few ideas. Every few days when we've told her she can't do something, she'll respond with "When you and Mammy and my brother are dead I'll be able to watch cartoons whenever I want."

    It got even worse the last few days. I can't even bring myself to type what she said. :(


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,695 ✭✭✭Lisha



    It got even worse the last few days. I can't even bring myself to type what she said. :(


    The mind boggles . . Just think of the funny story you ll have to tell her when she older


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,390 ✭✭✭The Big Red Button


    It got even worse the last few days. I can't even bring myself to type what she said. :(

    You have to now, though, because you've said that much. :P


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,585 ✭✭✭✭Lady Chatterton


    I was collecting my six year old from school this afternoon and her teacher told me the following:

    A boy in my daughter's class won a medal over the weekend in a dancing competition and when any child in the school wins something in a competition it is customary for the child to go on a class by class tour of the school to show everyone what they have achieved and get a *bualadh bos.

    Anyway, the class teacher asked my daughter to go with him so he wouldn't get lost :D Ruby decided that if he was going to be showing off his medal she was going to use the opportunity to show everyone her new shoes:o:D


    *bualadh bos - round of applause


  • Registered Users Posts: 9,349 ✭✭✭nozzferrahhtoo


    Shared bath time, and only bath number 8 since I took over the duty on our 2.5 year old daughter, when I was asked "Daddy..... is that your tail?"


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,585 ✭✭✭lynski


    The young fella (2 1/2) was eating his pasta and homemade sauce today and I heard him saying "pook, pook". Thinking he'd got sick, I came running, but realised he was pointing at the (admittedly not very attractive looking) sauce and saying "pook nice".

    Apparently, "puke" refers to any gloopy-looking substance in his world...
    my ds2 is not quite 2 and makes words up for things too wawa for some reason is buzz lightyear, ammma is cat, oo-oooa is octonauts, bagu is his brother, baba his sister. so at 5:30am he was up for his morning feed, nursed away and then said i wan nana (food), i wan oo-oooa, No, wawa no bagu i wan bagu. mama i wan bagu'


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,138 ✭✭✭foxy06


    me: Aidan whats that?
    Aidan : Its a twee
    Me: No its a tree
    Aidan: Its a twee
    Me: Say TREE
    Aidan: Dylan (other son) tell Mammy its a ****ing TWEE!


  • Registered Users Posts: 9,349 ✭✭✭nozzferrahhtoo


    "Dont eat me daddy.... if you do I think I might be gone"


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,362 ✭✭✭Trotter


    2 Year old little lady...

    Highness: Daddy what time it is?

    Me: What time is it....

    Highness: I DUNNO!!!


  • Registered Users Posts: 437 ✭✭The Rook


    Mrs Rook was just putting Baby Rook (2 years and 2 months old) down to bed tonight: Baby rook was singing "Old McDonald had nothing, he was very sad. He had no cows, he had no sheep eee eye ee eye ohhhh"


  • Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 35,576 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    Little one was composing songs on request last night.
    "Tu veux une chanson sur l'esprit ou sur l'espoir?" (do you want a song about spriit or hope?)
    Pleasantly surprised by both the alliteration and the soft, philosophical nature of the options, I went with the former.

    "There was a load of spirits and they opened their mouths and they had bombs in their mouths and their bums were full of fireworks and if you put your hand in there it would get blown off and you'd probably be dead for the rest of your life."

    It scanned/rhymed a little better in the original, mind.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,426 ✭✭✭positron


    Two year olds are great aren't they? There must be a 'growth spurt' or something because our 2 year old (turned two early this month) who is just recovering from tonsillitis is now coming up with all sorts of new stuff.

    I woke up this morning to hear her singing 'Twinkle Twinkle Little Star..' - overnight her brain has put together the entire song in there, and she is now able to sing the whole song without any help or prompting. And then looking out the window and watching the refuse being collected, she notices the bin men hanging off the back of the truck - and she goes "Careful Man.....". And as I get my motorcycle gear on, she does the usual "ave a dood day daddy" followed by a thoughtful pause, turns around again with a serious look, raises a finger and goes "careful daddy, careful.".

    I am already starting to the miss having a tiny baby around the house who does baby things... Sure, we have another one on the way, so that will help...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 984 ✭✭✭NextSteps


    My toddler pointed at a whale in one of his books and said 'Mama'. I know I'm pregnant, but gee thanks, kid.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,192 ✭✭✭Lola92


    Feeling mad broody these last few weeks and I asked E if I should get another baby. 'Sure Mamma, here you share my baby' and handed me her doll! :)


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  • Hosted Moderators Posts: 23,184 ✭✭✭✭beertons


    First time in here!

    *waves

    My 16 month old climbed the stairs for the first time today. Only his second attempt. I almost fell down to the bottom from melting.


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