From the mouths of babes....

Lured In · 03-25-2003, 02:51 PM

I thought this would be fun to lighten things up a bit and provide a reminder of some of the things we love about life (besides fishing.)

So the other day my youngest son, who just turned 6, is in the rig with me while driving around running errands.

Out of nowhere he asks me, "Dad is it possible to get rid of all germs?" (These types of questions always cause my face to wrinkle as I struggle to understand what brought this on. :whazzup: :grin: )

I reply, "Well with a good soap, I suppose you could get most of them off. Why?"

He says, "Well, the new OxyClean, its purple, all you do is spray it on and wipe it off and it kills all the germs. You can also dip a penny in it and it will take off all the 'rot' so its nice and shiney." :shocked: [img]graemlins/hearton.gif[/img]

I soon realized my son was victim of TV adverstising.

It really is amazing how much info kids can take in and 'regurgitate' out at the oddest times.

So let's here some other good kid stories...

fish assassin · 03-27-2003, 06:52 AM

So my oldest grandson is riding in the Pick Up with me the other
day (he is a 6 y.o.) and he says "Grandpa, when are you going to
take me on the boat again?".

I think for a minute and tell him that the ocean should lay down
enough in the next month or two for his mother (my eldest daughter)
to feel comfortable with him being out on the ocean with me again.

He comes back with "A month or two? That's a LONG time grandpa!".

I guess it's all a matter of perspective! :grin: :grin: To my little fishing
buddy, a couple of months seems like a lifetime away! [img]graemlins/hearton.gif[/img]

Jennie@ifish · 03-27-2003, 06:57 AM

So, once upon a time, my son David and I were sitting outside on a summer day. He was three.

A fly landed on his pants, and we had just seen a documentary where it said that when flies land, they both reguritate, and eliminate all at the same time, whenever they land.

David immediately ran into the house.

He came back, wearing new pants. I asked him why and he said, "A fly just pooped and threw up on my pants!"

Another time, I explained to him that when he fell asleep without brushing his teeth that "sugar bugs" would eat his teeth.

This actually happened when I heard noise coming from his bedroom, one night after bed time. I walked in, and he quickly layed something down beside and slightly under his covers.

It was a red life saver! There was a red ring on the carpet where it had been kept.

He said, "But Mom! I only take two licks a night!"

That's when I explained about sugar bugs....

The next night I walked in to check on him after bed. He was sound asleep, and there on the rug was a new blue lifesaver... and right next to it, his toothbrush. :smile: :smile: :smile:

Jen

The Fishing Geek · 03-27-2003, 07:18 AM

From the first moment that I knew that my wife was pregnant with our first, I knew that instead of being called "Dad" or "Daddy" that I wanted to be called "Papa". Kinda different, but I liked it.

One afternoon at a playgroup setting my son (he was about 3 at the time) heard another child talk about their Daddy. My son ran up to my wife, who was talking with some other mothers, and asked her "Mama, do I have a Daddy?"

Gus Orviston · 03-27-2003, 07:53 AM

TFG...too funny.

Just a few weeks ago I put my daughter of 3 1/2 to bed, after checking in on her an hour later and seeing she was still awake she told me, "...Daddy, my bed isn't working, I am not sleeping"

gus

Lured In · 03-27-2003, 12:52 PM

Too funny...keep them coming!

:grin:

sinker · 03-28-2003, 02:21 AM

Oh boy, having a 5 year old gives me plenty of these, now if I could remember them.

The funniest one lately was right after X-mas we're shopping for a birthday present for mommy and she wanted some pajamas. So my daughter and I swing by Fred Meyer to see of they had any flanel jammies. I'm looking at the jammies and the robes and my daughter looks over and spots the lingerie.

"Look daddy, clothes for little people!!!!"

If you could have seen the looks on the 2 women that happened to be walking by right then.

Then there's always the one that I'd heard people laugh about on TV but never thought I'd hear it. We're in the store and a good sized guy go walking by "he was a BIG guy daddy!!!"

Oh and I can't forget the night she tried sneaking out of her room last year. I heard her open her door and noticed that it was awful quiet. So I laid back and listened to see how quiet she'd be. I was surprised how quiet she was. I let her get halfway across the house then sneak out and turn on the living room light on her.
There she is in her cat costume that she'd dug out of the closet from the previous Halloween. I asked her what in the world she had it on for and she said it was so she could be sneaky like a cat. :grin: :grin: I about died laughing. We still laugh about that one.

Gus Orviston · 03-28-2003, 04:03 PM

LOL...gus

Big TULE · 03-29-2003, 01:57 PM

About a year ago my son Cody and i were food shopping at Safeway and he starts mooing, And i ask him what he is doing, he said he saw a cow. And i asked him where did he see it, so he said that it was behind me. I turned around and i see a bigger woman with her husband wearing one of those big dog shirts and cody thinks it is a cow and is mooing away... The woman looked at me and asked me to please have my son stop doing that, and the man looks at her and says see honey i am not the only one that thinks you need to lose weight. I was about red as you can get anmd just wanted to crawl under the shopping cart.

Stz ll · 03-29-2003, 02:30 PM

I guess the funniest one I can think of was several years ago we took our 7 or 8 year old nephew to Disneyland. We had only been there for about and hour and a half. He turned to me and my wife and said I want to go home "there is nothing to do here".

Dipnet · 03-30-2003, 09:18 PM

We took our two grandsons camping and fishing to Tenmile Lake last summer. Riley, 5 at the time, and Calvin 6 1/2 wanted to go out trolling with grandpa. He took them out and they caught a couple of trout. When they came back to the cabin, Riley came running up from the dock and said "Grandma, Grandma, we caught some trolls". I about died laughing!!

Dipnet :grin:

wannacatchem · 03-30-2003, 11:08 PM

My youngest daughter at age three heard me mutter under my breath a bad word concerning a guy that cut me off in traffic (on Okinawa, cars thicker than fleas on a junkyard dog) a couple days later in the grocery, on payday (carts thicker than fleas on a junkyard dog) a guy cut me off, and said daughter said, loud, "is that guy a (same bad word), daddy?" About 6 months later she proclaimed that a lady 50 feet away from us in the same store had a "big butt", this being while I was 40 feet away from her

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The Fishing Geek · 03-31-2003, 07:53 AM

I took my family out trout fishing last year and, true to form, wasn't catching a darned thing. After a couple of hours my then-2 year old asks to be picked up, at which time she puts her hands on my cheeks and assures me that "It's okay. I just want to catch a small fish".

Thanks for the reassurance, honey...

Grantspastor · 03-31-2003, 10:37 AM

We used to sing a song in church called "He is exalted". It's an uptempo song and the kids liked it. One little girl came to me one Sunday and asked if I'd sing that song called "He is exhausted"

Rip'N'Lips · 04-01-2003, 07:29 AM

I have a nephew who is famous for asking the hard questions like "why is left the wrong way"... it must be since "Right is right"....

Rip'N'Lips

OceanBlue · 04-01-2003, 12:27 PM

When I was about 8 months pregnant with my daughter, my son was not-quite 3 years old. Not sleeping well and continuing to work (commuting), care for my son and the house along with the impending birth of my next child were all wearing on my patience. My son did something (can't remember what it was) that caused me to snap and I yelled at him. His response?

"Gee mom, you don't have to yell at me, I'm just a kid."

And of course, there's the suggestion my now 15 year old son made last month when we passed by some "art" (that got my dander up) on Burnside: "I know, we can vandalize it! You know we hardly ever spend quality time together anymore!"

Gus Orviston · 04-02-2003, 08:39 AM

Kid number #2 gets his first quotable comment ever. He is 18 months and is enamered with ...what else Balls. It was his first word.

Well, earlier this week , mom(in the second trimester of our 3rd child and is busting out about now) takes our 3 year old daughter and the 18 month boy into the shower for a good cleansing. My boy looks up at mom's chest and says....BALL, BALL. :shocked:

Ah,,that's my boy!

:grin: gus

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id. painter · 04-02-2003, 10:01 AM

My 10 year old son. He herd that he can get a youth hunting lisc., and start hunting next fall. He sat down by himself and wrote a letter to Santa for X-mas. "Dear Santa, i would like a Remmington , 12 ga, auto loader, 26inch barrel, 3 inch mag. for christmas. And , if you dont give guns for X-mas (cause i told him i wasnt sure if santa gave out guns) ill take 350 $ . Thanks Santa. I stuck it on the fridge for a week and then mailed it(hi, ho).
I later worked a deal that he will get it for his birthday, but he has to help paysome of the cost. id. p.