kids say the darndest things: No. 10

Spent this weekend at various soccer games and in between games, heading out for a bite to eat, one of the parents on the team says, "Hey guys, look at this cute thing from my husband's Christmas party last night!" and she pulls out a child-size cardboard cutout of her husband. (One of those adorable props for parties where you blow up the photo and they make a life-size standing cutout (except this one was child size since the photo was of her husband as a child))

Everyone goes how cute, how adorable, look at him....however my daughter looks at it inquisitively and finally says, "Ah, wait, I don't get it - did you shrink him???"

kids say the darndest things: No 9

Scene: Driving in car, oldest in front with me, two youngest in back sucking down some candy found earlier that day

Conversation:
Oldest daughter to middle child: Hey, can I have some candy?
Middle Child: Nope.
Oldest Child: Please, I'll let you be a parent to one of my Webkinzs
Middle Child: Nah.
Oldest Child: Ok, I'll let you be a parent to one of my Webkinzs for a month!
Middle Child: No, because you don't share your candy with me.
Oldest Child: Mom.....
Mom: This is between the two of you - figure it out.
Middle Child: What can I say, I'm a tough negotiator
Oldest Child: Ok, so then what do you want
Middle Child: (silence for an extended period of time, like 20 seconds)
Oldest Child: Well, you can't be a good negotiator if you don't know what you want!

kids say the darndest things: No. 8

we spent Thanksgiving weekend up in Accord, NY (just outside of New Paltz) hanging out. One the long drive up, the kids kept asking, "Where are we going?" and I would reply, "The boonies!". Several minutes passed, and as we go through the mountains of walla walla land (I have a very poor sense of direction) I got this reply, "Is this the boonies?????" To which I replied, "Yea, I think so....." after a long, dramatic veil of silence as my three children gazed out at the nothingness around us, my son pipes up, "Geez, I LOVE New York!"

Kid after my own heart.