Author Topic: Perfectly Sensible Child Utterances (Read 124177 times)

Butterfly · « **Reply #375 on:** 12 January, 2016, 10:02:38 pm »

Quote from: Kim on 12 January, 2016, 09:58:20 pm

Quote from: nikki on 12 January, 2016, 09:38:32 pm
(I'm still adjusting to the idea of Nye being able to talk, as I think he was mostly pointing and "da!"ing the last time we met.)

Small children get firmware updates between visits.

At the moment he's getting updates between meals I think! Everyday something new.

nikki · « **Reply #376 on:** 12 January, 2016, 10:25:42 pm »

Quote from: Butterfly on 12 January, 2016, 10:02:38 pm

Quote from: Kim on 12 January, 2016, 09:58:20 pm
Quote from: nikki on 12 January, 2016, 09:38:32 pm
(I'm still adjusting to the idea of Nye being able to talk, as I think he was mostly pointing and "da!"ing the last time we met.)

Small children get firmware updates between visits.

At the moment he's getting updates between meals I think! Everyday something new.

Quote from: Butterfly on 12 January, 2016, 09:53:18 pm

We clearly haven't seen you for far too long!

This!

CrinklyLion · « **Reply #377 on:** 12 January, 2016, 10:26:53 pm »

Quote from: Kim on 12 January, 2016, 09:58:20 pm

Quote from: nikki on 12 January, 2016, 09:38:32 pm
(I'm still adjusting to the idea of Nye being able to talk, as I think he was mostly pointing and "da!"ing the last time we met.)

Small children get firmware updates between visits.

Larger ones too! EldestCub has joined a band. And got a fb account, primarily so he can like the band's page. I definitely have a teen...

barakta · « **Reply #378 on:** 12 January, 2016, 10:45:08 pm »

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #379 on:** 13 January, 2016, 09:39:53 am »

Quote from: CrinklyLion on 12 January, 2016, 10:26:53 pm

Quote from: Kim on 12 January, 2016, 09:58:20 pm
Quote from: nikki on 12 January, 2016, 09:38:32 pm
(I'm still adjusting to the idea of Nye being able to talk, as I think he was mostly pointing and "da!"ing the last time we met.)

Small children get firmware updates between visits.

Larger ones too! EldestCub has joined a band. And got a fb account, primarily so he can like the band's page. I definitely have a teen...

Oooh eck! Next thing you know the den will be full of the drummer behaving like he's after a new world record in the "shortest time taken to get an ASBO"

nikki · « **Reply #380 on:** 13 January, 2016, 10:21:06 am »

Quote from: CrinklyLion on 12 January, 2016, 10:26:53 pm

Larger ones too! EldestCub has joined a band. And got a fb account, primarily so he can like the band's page. I definitely have a teen...

Gosh! That's all going to eat into his KSP time!

CrinklyLion · « **Reply #381 on:** 13 January, 2016, 10:58:50 pm »

Quote from: nikki on 13 January, 2016, 10:21:06 am

Quote from: CrinklyLion on 12 January, 2016, 10:26:53 pm
Larger ones too! EldestCub has joined a band. And got a fb account, primarily so he can like the band's page. I definitely have a teen...

Gosh! That's all going to eat into his KSP time!

He's actually been on a bit of a Portal-playing run of late...

(And they apparently have access to drumkits at two other band members' abodes, so it seems that the Den need not be troubled for band rehearsals. Those forumites familiar with its spatial properties and limitations will appreciate my relief at discovering this!)

Wowbagger · « **Reply #382 on:** 14 February, 2016, 06:39:22 pm »

Reporting from my daughter...

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Playing I-spy in the car phonetically between Marf, Mum and Dad as Inigo (aged 2) a) rarely speaks and b) can't spell. Ig silently stares out the window at the cows for what seems like hours.

Marf: 'I-spy with my little eye, something beginning with 'w''.
Inigo: 'Wa Wa. A duck.'

Something IS going on in that little brain...

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #383 on:** 24 February, 2016, 04:52:10 pm »

He's almost too old to fit in this board, but it's very apt: YACF = Your Adventurous Cycling Friend.

clarion · « **Reply #384 on:** 20 March, 2016, 03:08:08 pm »

We stopped at the crossroads near our favourite cafe. Nye hopped off the tandem, and said 'I go to get lollipop!'

jsabine · « **Reply #385 on:** 04 April, 2016, 11:59:35 am »

"Stop singing, Daddy. You just drive."

(My wife's niece, not yet four but already realising that my wife and her siblings are not the most musical of people.)

perpetual dan · « **Reply #386 on:** 17 April, 2016, 07:08:01 pm »

<doorbell goes>
Miss Dan the Elder answers it.
Person at the door: Are your parents in?
Miss Dan the Elder: no.
<door closes, Miss Dan the Elder comes to lounge>
Me: who was it?
Miss Dan the Elder: Someone selling something. I said you weren't in.

menthel · « **Reply #387 on:** 18 April, 2016, 10:58:52 am »

On hearing that a friend wanted to quit her current job but didn't know what she wanted to do the boy asked, in his most serious tone, "Well, what skills does she have?".

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #388 on:** 27 April, 2016, 03:10:58 pm »

Remembered from 20 years ago. The children involved were about 3:
Child 1: I've got a jumper on.
Child 2: I've got two jumperons.

Learnt recently from a much older child:
Forget epic, boss, beast and even awesome, the hottest word to say something's cool is "decent".

T42 · « **Reply #389 on:** 27 April, 2016, 03:30:28 pm »

Similarly from when our son was about 3:

- Will you please behave?
- I am being have.

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #390 on:** 24 May, 2016, 06:50:54 pm »

"Finn and Elliot had a diss off."

A much better phrase than the old 'slanging match'.
(It wasn't Elliot but I've forgotten who it was, and you don't know anyway!)

Legs · « **Reply #391 on:** 02 June, 2016, 02:54:24 pm »

Andrew (2 11/12): "Daddy, you like trees. I like hedges."
Me: "What about Mummy?"
Andrew: "Mummy likes grass!"

Feanor · « **Reply #392 on:** 20 June, 2016, 10:47:10 pm »

Junior has never had to suffer On-Line training courses before.
( I, as a cynical old employee, have done enough of them to know the score. )

We are off on our holliberries soon, which will involve the kids doing a PADI scuba course.
( Us grown-ups already have all the necessary courses and dive logs. )

These days, you can elect to do the dull classroom stuffs on-line in advance, thus freeing up your time in-resort to do actual in-water stuffs.
My god is it turgid!

He opined that he was half-way to the half-way point of section 1 of 5, and was loosing the will to live.

CrinklyLion · « **Reply #393 on:** 21 June, 2016, 06:34:09 am »

Two from the SmallestCub at the weekend....

1) Upon walking in to CrinklyAuntie and CrinklyUncle's hotel suite when we went to fetch her alternative wedding shoes before the post-ceremony pre-dinner wedding dog walk: "It's like a proper house!"

2) Of Donald Trump, during a lengthy conversation about wealth, nationalism, privilege and American politics: "He sounds a bit dumb..."

Butterfly · « **Reply #394 on:** 23 July, 2016, 05:10:24 pm »

At the seaside last weekend, I took him in the sea. He was unimpressed. When I asked what he didn't like he said 'It's too... watery'.

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #395 on:** 25 July, 2016, 08:48:11 am »

"Feeling sleepy is a normal part of being human."

hellymedic · « **Reply #396 on:** 25 July, 2016, 02:35:29 pm »

Quote from: Cudzoziemiec on 25 July, 2016, 08:48:11 am

"Feeling sleepy is a normal part of being human."

That is T-Shirt worthy!

Wowbagger · « **Reply #397 on:** 25 July, 2016, 04:29:49 pm »

Quote from: Butterfly on 23 July, 2016, 05:10:24 pm

At the seaside last weekend, I took him in the sea. He was unimpressed. When I asked what he didn't like he said 'It's too... watery'.

E took I & M to Whitstable a few days ago. M was very confident in the water, to the extent that E decided that she needed to go in with her. I would go in with his mum, but not with his dad.

Kim · « **Reply #398 on:** 20 August, 2016, 01:23:13 pm »

Child in adjacent train seat: "Why would you want cold tea?"

And now: "Why isn't the train moving? They probably need to press a button."

woollypigs · « **Reply #399 on:** 20 August, 2016, 03:59:56 pm »

Yup horrid stuff.

You should have explained that it just look like it is not moving since he is inside it. But to the alien invasion force, and our soon to be lizard over lords, it looks like it is moving.

Both are equally stuff of nightmares.