Perfectly Sensible Child Utterances

[Ruthie]

   Oh excellent 

[Cudzoziemiec]

Three is the most sensible number: one piece of cake in each hand and one in the gob!

[Butterfly]

Three is the most sensible number: one piece of cake in each hand and one in the gob!

Also works for chocolate buttons 

[Vince]

Three is the most sensible number: one piece of cake in each hand and one in the gob!

Also works for chocolate buttons 

and Twiglets

[steve Anglesey]

My 12 yr old daughter is just not getting on with one of her teachers. She feels the teacher has it in for her.
She said to me today:-
I can't even stand the sound of her voice dad,it goes right through my brain. Honestly dad her voice goes in one of my ears and straight through the other!!

[hellymedic]

From my Twitter feed:

MY WANT PEDALS!
From a not yet two year old given a balance bike.

[Wowbagger]

This evening we also had this exchange:
me: *moment of exasperation*
her: what are you going to do with seven hake?

OK, that's verging on befuddling, but I might start using "oh for seven hake" in conversation now and then. 

Would that be the Seven Hake forest near Marlborough?

[Mr Larrington]

DKUATB

[CrinklyLion]

"How can you teach about coding, on the field, with jam?"

[a couple of hours later]

"Oh!  Now I see"

[Mr Larrington]

"The coding teacher, on the field, with jam" = winning solution in a game of Cluedo co-scripted by Linus Torvalds and the WI.

[CrinklyLion]

"The coding teacher ICT Technician, who is Supporting Teaching And Learning

[CrinklyLion]

SmallestCub, while getting ready for school this morning, and pondering the presence of a streetmachine in the living room of the Den whilst he sat on the sofa putting his socks on:

It's difficult to tell if barakta is still here or not, because she hasn't brought a bike.

EldestCub, whilst sat in the same spot this afternoon taking off school shoes, pondering the absence of a streetmachine:

What time did Kim and barakta leave?
(upon being told a little after 1)
Hmm. About three hours.  They might be nearly back.
(upon train times being checked and confirming their expected arrival time in Mordor)
Yes, they are probably just about in Silly Oak now

And then about two seconds later my phone bingly-bonged with a "home safe" text, in superlative synchronicity.

[Kim]

I actually got home a fair bit before that, but waited for barakta - who was, as SmallestCub points out, bikeless and therefore reliant on the wumpty buzz for onward transportation - to arrive before sending the text.

[Butterfly]

Little Duck, looking at Rich Forrest and Dawn's recumbent tandem and trailer 'Wow!'. This was only the second time he has said that word, the first being the day before, on observing a recumbent trike at York Rally 

[Torslanda]

The youngest on hearing the latest screaming foul-mouthed tirade from the fruitbat next door.*

"Somebody's got anger management issues!"

Will be 9 in August...**

*When they move out - which may or may not be prompted by several neighbours in white hoods holding pitchforks or flaming torches - I will buy the property from the landlord. That way I get to decide who I live next to, cos the last 3 sets have been pond scum.

**And is a sight more mature than those two fuckwits.

[Wowbagger]

Little Duck, looking at Rich Forrest and Dawn's recumbent tandem and trailer 'Wow!'. This was only the second time he has said that word, the first being the day before, on observing a recumbent trike at York Rally 

Inigo has "Wow" as one of his stock expressions, but mostly refuses to speak. Apparently, when he wakes up at really stupid o'clock (he might easily become an audaxer) one of the ways to get his parents not to be totally pissed off with him is to start counting. "One... nine... four..." but during the day he is mostly silent, other than laughter or whingeing. Oh, he does say "durdlurdlurdlurdlurdle" quite a lot.

[hellymedic]

Methinks that one day, when it suits him, Inigo will spout some well-constructed, complete sentences displaying complex logic.
Some little bright boys do this.

[pcolbeck]

Methinks that one day, when it suits him, Inigo will spout some well-constructed, complete sentences displaying complex logic.
Some little bright boys do this.

I seem to remember Winston Churchill was one of those.

[Wowbagger]

My nephew didn't speak until he was well past his 3rd birthday. Once he started, and he did indeed come out with complete sentences, my brother showed him some photographs of elderly relatives he hadn't seen for quite some months and he could tell him all of their names.

Inigo understands pretty much all of what is said to him. A couple of days ago, whilst watching television, he was occupying a chair that I wanted to sit in. I said "Inigo, would you like to sit on my knee?" and without taking his eyes off the screen he stood up and when I sat down he lifted his arms to be picked up and plonked down again. He also reacts very sensibly to "I'm about to put the food on the table," rushing into the dining room and climbing up into his elevated seat. He tries to fasten the lap belt, but hasn't got the hang of it yet.

[Mr Larrington]

Methinks that one day, when it suits him, Inigo will spout some well-constructed, complete sentences displaying complex logic.

"You killed my father.  Prepare to die!"

?

[T42]

Milkman still healthy?

[L CC]

Methinks that one day, when it suits him, Inigo will spout some well-constructed, complete sentences displaying complex logic.
Some little bright boys do this.

Further Anecdata point: No2Son. Tertius child didn't bother talking till Quarta arrived.

[hellymedic]

Methinks that one day, when it suits him, Inigo will spout some well-constructed, complete sentences displaying complex logic.
Some little bright boys do this.

Further Anecdata point: No2Son. Tertius child didn't bother talking till Quarta arrived.

Presumably, when Quarta arrived, Tertius realised speech was a more precise tool for achieving desires than the blunderbuss WAIL

[L CC]

Methinks that one day, when it suits him, Inigo will spout some well-constructed, complete sentences displaying complex logic.
Some little bright boys do this.

Further Anecdata point: No2Son. Tertius child didn't bother talking till Quarta arrived.

Presumably, when Quarta arrived, Tertius realised speech was a more precise tool for achieving desires than the blunderbuss WAIL

He wasn't much of a wailer, either. Lovely baby No2Son. Lovely young man, too, now, if we're honest.

[hellymedic]

Methinks that one day, when it suits him, Inigo will spout some well-constructed, complete sentences displaying complex logic.
Some little bright boys do this.

Further Anecdata point: No2Son. Tertius child didn't bother talking till Quarta arrived.

Presumably, when Quarta arrived, Tertius realised speech was a more precise tool for achieving desires than the blunderbuss WAIL

He wasn't much of a wailer, either. Lovely baby No2Son. Lovely young man, too, now, if we're honest.

Nice to hear.
IME Primo and Secundo acted as interpreters between Youngest and Adults, reducing frustration.