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

The Wordress · 17-07-2020 9:34am

@Kintarō; Hattori

That is one advantage of this lockdown, I have really tried to develop my 3 year old child's language during the last few months. He has a good vocabulary but his pronounciation was holding him back. I really feel his diction has really improved and his speech is clearer. So proud of him and I'll cherish the time I got to spend with him.

bee06 · 18-07-2020 8:08am

My 2.5 year olds language skills have come on so much in the last 3 months as well. It’s amazing to hear some of the things he comes out with (he told me the washing machine was making an awful racket during the week!). It makes life so much easier when they can tell you what’s wrong and what the need as well.

gucci · 18-07-2020 8:32am

A hot dog is a strange food to try and explain to a 2.5 year old (We were at the beach and I got it as a treat?)

"Is it a sausage dog?" No its just a sausage in a bun

"Is it like a hot pig?" (I hadn't explained anything about the contents by the way) what's a hot pig, I ask?

"When we go to the market the man has a hot pig" so the farmers market that I bring him too once a month has a pig on a spit, I have never really pointed it out to him and never spoken about it before, so that's a surprise.

"What's in it?" It's just a sausage in a bun
"Is it a dog?"
"Do sausage dogs eat it?"
"Is there dog poo in it?"

He ate a cheese sandwich instead

unhappys10 · 18-07-2020 8:40am

My one year old daughter, our first child, will give a hug when you ask now. That first one brought tears of joy to my eyes.

Kintarō Hattori · 19-07-2020 6:18pm

bee06 wrote: »

My 2.5 year olds language skills have come on so much in the last 3 months as well. It’s amazing to hear some of the things he comes out with (he told me the washing machine was making an awful racket during the week!). It makes life so much easier when they can tell you what’s wrong and what the need as well.

Absolutely it does. I can see she's a lot happier now that she can communicate much better with us and it makes knowing what she wants a whole heck of a lot easier.

All the little 'baby' things are going away. She used to pant when she wanted water. I said to her when she goes to playschool no-one would know what she wanted and that she'd have to ask for water. Now that's what she does for us. Also she used to 'grunt' when she was saying yes but now she'll actually say 'yeah' to something. Every day brings improvements and it just makes life easier and more fun for both of us.

El Gato De Negocios · 20-07-2020 10:27am

Three year old.

I was working last Friday morning in our bedroom and he was in his own room pottering around with jigsaws and books. We keep them stored in little square wicker baskets. After a little while i hear a "help" from his room so stuck my head out the door for a look.

He had emptied all the books out of one of the boxes and plonked his rear end into it, the only thing is that the boxes are about 18 inches square so he had found himself trapped and without enough room for maneuver to get himself out.

Like all good parents, I grabbed my phone and went into him, conversation went as follows.

"Whats happening buddy?"

"Im stuck in the box"

I start breaking my arse laughing.

"Im stuck in the box like Winnie the Pooh"

More laughter from me.

"You must take me out of it!"

I have the whole thing on video and its one of the funniest things I have ever seen. He has a mad accent, it ranges from being quite posh to being an out an out bogger (Im from the sticks and we have spent alot of time on my parents farm), its one to spring on him for his 21st. He has definitely been here before.

gogo · 24-07-2020 11:30pm

My 7 year old has aspergers, he’s grand but has sensory issues one being smell, or an aversion to smells.
He a great procrastinator when it’s comes to bed and will come down at least once if not twice.

He came down earlier and my husband and I were eating Pringle’s, sour cream and onion...

The pure look of disgust he gave us, pjs up over the nose and ‘well I can’t talk to ye now’ and he flounced out of the room, I called him back for a hug and he came back and said ‘no, no hugs for ye, you both need to look at your attitudes and eating that type of stuff at night’ and off back to bed he went.
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I swear to god, it was like I was caught drinking by my parents when I was a teenager.. we couldn’t stop laughing, little old man in a seven year old body, the fact that he should have been in bed passes him right by.

Btw, I went and brushed my teeth and I got the hug afterwards x

bee06 · 29-07-2020 8:48am

When your toddler starts saying your phrases back to you!

2.5 year old couldn’t find a part of one of his toys. “It will turn up itself” he says to me ... basically what I say when I can’t find something for him and can’t deal with looking anymore.

El Gato De Negocios · 29-07-2020 4:12pm

3 year old swore for the first time yesterday evening.:rolleyes:

Mrs had whacked her foot over the weekend and shouted FFS!! within ear shot of him.

His sister has recently developed a penchant for drawing on anything and everything that will take ink, walls, tables, fridge etc.

Yesterday evening she was sitting in her chair and Mrs went into the sitting room and noticed she had drawn with crayon on the coffee table. She came into the kitchen and chastised her.

The boyo chimes in, "you cant draw on the table Ellie".

Pauses for 4 or 5 seconds.

For fcukin sake.

Neither of us laughed thankfully as we were more shocked than anything. Mrs is absolutely mortified. Im just impressed with his use of context but hoping that he doesn't break it out when he is creche, I dont want to become known as one of those parents. :pac::pac::pac:

Bacchus · 03-08-2020 9:30pm

Same boat here

3.5 year old has started saying "feck it" and thinks it's hilarious.

It is. But we can't let her know that or she'll never stop. It takes every ounce of will power not to burst out laughing.

05-08-2020 2:23pm

Statutory Ape wrote: »

The boyo chimes in, "you cant draw on the table Ellie".

Pauses for 4 or 5 seconds.

For fcukin sake.

Bacchus wrote: »

Same boat here 3.5 year old has started saying "feck it" and thinks it's hilarious.

It is. But we can't let her know that or she'll never stop. It takes every ounce of will power not to burst out laughing.

We had a variation on that for a time too...

When he was annoyed with us: "I'm fcuk's sake with you!"

Thankfully, he grew out of the potty mouth phase.

josip · 05-08-2020 11:36pm

"United won 7-1 on agriculture"

Kintarō Hattori · 06-08-2020 8:47am

Playing with her Peppa figures this morning and one of them fell over. She came out with 'Oh My God'. I thought it was so cute.

gucci · 06-08-2020 2:50pm

josip wrote: »

"United won 7-1 on agriculture"

Ha on a similar theme, i remember a neighbours child asking for "slurry" chips in a takeaway when we were on our way back from a football match many moons ago.

El Gato De Negocios · 17-08-2020 7:42pm

The boy has a love/hate relationship with my sister. Sometimes he is all about her, sometimes he doesnt want to know her.

We were down in my folks house last week on our holidays and she came down on Saturday so I went and picked her up from the train.

When we got back to their house, himself was out the back "doing the jobs" with granddad. He is utterly obsessed with fire fighters in general and particularly Fireman Sam.

As she started walking towards him with arms outstretched and a big hello he just pointed at her and shouted "There'll be no smoke training for you Cridlington"!!!

I nearly keeled over laughing, he has placed her in the same bracket as Elvis the buffoon from Fireman Sam.

I could post pretty much everyday with all the random things he comes out with.

bee06 · 26-08-2020 7:18pm

My 2.5 year old has been picky with dinners recently but tonight he said this looks yummy. Mommy did a good job with the dinner. What a charmer!

Cunning Stunt · 26-08-2020 8:01pm

Livin in Denmark last 12 yrs or so. Apparantly I still have work to do on my language skills...! Got through half of the first line in a danish story book tonite before being told to stop by my 4 yr old
" mammy your danish voice is not good". :pac:

dubstarr · 27-08-2020 9:11am

Ask me on Monday:D

zanador · 28-08-2020 4:42am

This thread pops up with new posts on my followed threads and tonight it opened on page 1 and I realised that it was started 11 years ago and it has been making me smile for 11 years.

Where would we be without children? Mine is 15 and makes me smile every day - and yours make me smile too

angeldelight · 28-08-2020 7:33am

My 5yo started school yesterday finally after much anticipation, and since she came home she is referring to herself in the third person as “the schoolgirl” - let’s hope this enthusiasm keeps up for a while

Foweva Awone · 20-09-2020 7:20am

6yo: Did you play Minecraft when you were a kid?
Me: No, Minecraft wasn't invented yet back then.
6yo: So then what did you play on your tablet?
Me: Tablets weren't invented yet then either.
6yo: I'm so glad I wasn't a kid back in the olden days.

Coopaloop · 20-09-2020 12:41pm

My two sons were out the back with daddy and the laughs out of them was great, so I popped out to have a look.

Me: wow its sounds like you're all having great fun guys.

5 year old: get to the kitchen mommy and start cooking.

Me: .....

That's put me firmly in my place, ha!!

gucci · 23-09-2020 8:27am

My boy (3 next week) met his baby brother for first time today when mum and him came home from hospital....I don't particularly remember anything that he said, but he was very gentle, caring and happy.
I probably won't stop smiling for a long time thinking about that and realising how lucky I am.

SixtaWalthers · 04-10-2020 8:18pm

My 15 years sister who is just like a daughter for me said "haven't I do everything for you"

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El Gato De Negocios · 07-10-2020 2:34pm

Was standing drying myself off after my shower this morning and the 26 month old came into the bathroom, looks at me and asks "daddy, whats on your bagina?". First time she has noticed the anatomical difference between boys and girls. :pac:

sbsquarepants · 07-10-2020 2:37pm

My youngest is almost 2 and a half. He asked his mother the other night to bring him to the shop. It's too late for sweets she says - "I don't want sweets, i need to get a chain saw and a leaf blower":D

gucci · 09-10-2020 8:57am

Driving through town yesterday morning

"oh look Daddy there is a bakery"

"No, that's actually a coffee shop, it's called Costa Coffee"

"Custard Coffee......? Can we go there next time, do they have ginger bread mans?"

JimboJones99 · 09-10-2020 4:56pm

4 year old Son started school in September. After a couple of weeks he started getting the bus. After the first day, I asked him "well, how did you get on on the bus?

His deadpan response was "I went up the steps and in the door" and walked off.

He wasn't wrong I suppose

Kintarō Hattori · 19-11-2020 12:23pm

When she wants me to do something with her she says 'C'mon Tata' and beckons to me with her fingers, much like the below:

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She's 3 and 6 months..... it cracks me up.

Rock77 · 19-11-2020 4:35pm

Kintarō Hattori wrote: »

When she wants me to do something with her she says 'C'mon Tata' and beckons to me with her fingers, much like the below:

She's 3 and 6 months..... it cracks me up.

Not everyone will get this but I suspect you will...

Watching Tv with my 5 year old son and the Angelus comes on....

He shouts ‘Yes!!! It’s The Undertaker!’

Kintarō Hattori · 19-11-2020 5:36pm

Rock77 wrote: »

Not everyone will get this but I suspect you will...

Watching Tv with my 5 year old son and the Angelus comes on....

He shouts ‘Yes!!! It’s The Undertaker!’

*Snigger*

23-11-2020 3:57pm

Rock77 wrote: »

Not everyone will get this but I suspect you will...

Watching Tv with my 5 year old son and the Angelus comes on....

He shouts ‘Yes!!! It’s The Undertaker!’

Way off topic, but here you go:

https://twitter.com/WWE/status/1330714447141330949?s=20

pwurple · 27-11-2020 8:52pm

My 6 year old giving me a warning today...
"If you're not good, Santa will bring you Covid"

gucci · 02-12-2020 10:22pm

3 year old, while brushing his teeth "look daddy green lines in my hands"
"They are your veins! Do you know what's flowing through those?"
Slight pause......."Peas?"

Best laugh I have had in ages.......

bee06 · 02-12-2020 10:28pm

My almost 3 year old woke in the middle of the night. He cuddled into me and said mommy, I love you and went back to sleep. Was worth being woken up for.

sbsquarepants · 03-12-2020 9:52am

bee06 wrote: »

My almost 3 year old woke in the middle of the night. He cuddled into me and said mommy, I love you and went back to sleep. Was worth being woken up for.

My young lad is a few months younger than 3, he sleeps with his favourite teddy every night "pussycat". He fell asleep on the sofa last night and i put him up to bed, i had to search the house for pussy cat and put him in beside him, still fast asleep.

I was awoken this morning about half 5 by him screaming from his bedroom "Daddy, i found pussycat" It cheered me up no end for some reason, he was delighted with himself!

Pawwed Rig · 08-12-2020 12:10pm

I was talking to my 6 year old this morning about names. That O means from and Mac means son of etc. We got onto Fitz and I told him that it also means son of. So on the way to school he saw a sign saying Fitzgerald which he pointed out. Then he said
'There's another one Dad!!'.

Fitzone :pac:

dubstarr · 08-12-2020 2:42pm

My kids dont believe anymore,which is just as well.Got my 9 year old the biggest Kevin the Carrot,put it in the car and collected him from school.

Its the same size as him but he tries to carry it everywhere&#55357;&#56834;.

He tells me he needs a double bed now cause Kevin pushes him out.

Kintarō Hattori · 09-12-2020 6:46pm

Our little one had low muscle tone when she was born and the missus constantly tried to tell me she might not be able to speak when she's older. I never really believed it but I was told so often I used to tell our neighbours the same thing. Sitting upstairs working from home, she's downstairs (3.5 now) and singing jingle bells non-stop. I love it.

El Gato De Negocios · 15-12-2020 1:15pm

The boy was doing his little pee dance and holding himself the other day so I said to him hop on the pot and do his business, his response "I dont have to, theres no sign of any wee in my penis!"

gucci · 18-02-2021 11:30pm

Reading a bedtime story with 3.5 year old, tiddler by julia Donaldson.

"Is a Tiddler a fish?"
"Yeah its a small fish..... sorta like a toddler is a small person, a tiddler is a small fish or a baby fish"

Cue massive strop over "a toddler is a big boy, I'm not a baby" etc etc

Think I'll stick with the Gruffalo tomorrow night

appledrop · 19-02-2021 7:51pm

Was at the park yesterday evening and ice cream van was there so we had to buy one.

Sitting down eating it on bench and the four year old pipes up 'Ah this is the life'

kerryjack · 25-02-2021 10:49pm

Did ye ever get the feeling that your child was about before. my youngest 4 year old girl is coming out with some weird stuff. I know she watches utube and stuff but somethings she comes out with scares the life out of me. Just talking about family members that has passed on and never met. Just weird stuff she comes out with.

josip · 25-02-2021 11:41pm

kerryjack wrote: »

Did ye ever get the feeling that your child was about before. my youngest 4 year old girl is coming out with some weird stuff. I know she watches utube and stuff but somethings she comes out with scares the life out of me. Just talking about family members that has passed on and never met. Just weird stuff she comes out with.

This is the 'that made you smile' thread Jack. The 'made you shiver' thread is that way

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Kintarō Hattori · 26-02-2021 12:26pm

Putting my almost 4 year old to bed the other night, tucked her in and sat at the side of the bed continuing the story we've been reading. About 30 seconds or so in and she pipes up:

'We didn't get a hug or a kiss'. Cue a hug and seven kisses.
She asks 'How many kisses was that?'
I say seven and she says 'seven'.
I say 'it was lovely' and she says 'you're very welcome tata'.

I'm loving the manners at the moment. Lots of please and thank you, which just seems to have started from nowhere.

beertons · 07-03-2021 3:17pm

This is in 2 parts, as I don't know how to upload more than 1 photo per post.

Kids sent a post card to the Aras, coloured a picture on it.

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beertons · 07-03-2021 3:19pm

A reply from them arrived on Friday.

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gucci · 07-04-2021 12:11pm

Our boy is going through a bit of a fussy stage with eating his dinner. Oddly breakfast and lunch no problems, dinner is just a bit dragged out. I guess he is a bit tired and distracted, and just cant really sit still long enough!

Anyway we watched "Waffles and Mochi" on Netflix over the last few weeks and suddenly he's all super inquisitive about food and has been open to trying some more things. My wife found a kid set of chopsticks online, where the top is joined together and he loves them!! Hilarious to see him clear his plate with this new game

Foweva Awone · 11-04-2021 1:13pm

Me to son (7): I love you soooooo much!

Son: Thanks

He cracks me up

shesty · 11-04-2021 9:20pm

Toilet training the youngest (2 and 11 months, the only boy).He has just discovered that he farts.His reaction to it is hysterical laughter.How he knows to do that already, at age 2, is beyond me.The girls never paid any attention to themselves when they did them!I don't know whether to laugh at him or roll my eyes :-)

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

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