JFF: I Have the Cutest Kid

My 15 year old refusing to get out of bed because he thought, come look at the lunar eclipse, was a trick to get him out of bed early.

Last night I got went to pick up DS from my parents who hold onto him afterschool until I get back from work. DS, who was busy coloring wanted some space. He said, "Mommy go away." My father said, hey kid, that isn't the right thing to day, try again. DS thought for a second and said. "Mommy, go away PLEASE."

Cute. Not kind, but cute.
Best,
F. B.

My 2 year old daughter says "apperton" for elephant. She says it with such certainty even though it sounds nothing like "elephant," I find it really cute.

She's not in preschool/daycare right now, so she's not used classroom settings. When I left her in Sunday school last week for a short period and came back, she said, "Ellie happy." I think it was the first time she actually expressed how she was feeling.

I also find it real cute when she gets really possessive of me. She could be busy playing something far away from me, but when she sees another kid coming to me for play/attention, she immediately runs towards me and grabs me.

We keep a book for each of our three kids and write their funny little stories inside. We also write personal letters to them inside as well. They looove reading through these books as the years pass by..and so do my husband and I.

I will share a short one that our youngest said about a year ago when he was 7.

I was standing in our kitchen writing on our calendar and I hear his little voice directly behind me saying, "Wow mom! Your butt is HUGE!!!" Knowing he was just an honest little kid who was living at butt height and all adult butts look ginormous in his eyes, I didn't even turn around. I kept writing on the calendar and just said, "Sweetie...mommy is working on that. That is why I go to ZUMBA a lot."

He didn't move so I turned around. There he stood with a big magnifying glass aimed directly at my butt and his little arm was zooming in and out. I looked down at him, he looked up at me and we had a good laugh over butt size.

What more could be funnier to a little kid than examining butts :) And, I got a good chuckle out of it too. Also, I learned a lesson in "perspective".

my now 14 year old son would see a ball and yell GA-DICK-DEE!! With excitement and glee - we were shopping with my now deceased mother in law when he was maybe 2 years old - saw a basket of balls and flipped a nut with GA-DICK-DEE!! My MIL picked up several of the balls and handed them to him - he was ecstatic - the cashier called over the store manager - and laughed until they cried...

now...he's a teenager....

My five-year-old can't help but dance when she hears music too. Her school plays music at the beginning of the day over the loudspeaker before announcements, and they are supposed to be quiet with "listening ears" to get a "point" for their table. Almost every day she loses the point for her table by getting up and dancing, lol.

The cutest thing my kids do is make each other laugh, usually with potty talk. My 2 year old was scared witless at the doctor (he remembered his well check shot) and was crying uncontrollably when my daughter leaned over and started whispering in his ear. He stopped crying, starting smiling, then laughing. She was whispering the song "Chicken, Monkey, Duck" but had changed the words to "Chicken, Potty, Poo."

When our son was about 2 he decided to 'help' with the newspaper recycling.
He pulled out ALL the paper of a fairly large stack and spread it over the living room floor one sheet at a time - and then rolled in it!
I have pictures!
When he was about 3, we had a large box shipped to our house.
I took out what ever it was and what was left in the box was packing peanuts - LOTS of packing peanuts!.
Yep!
Our son launched himself right into the middle of it!
I have pictures!

He was about 3 1/3 when he pushed over an indoor climbing toy to the door to the garage (from the house) so he could climb it and examine the chain lock we put in way up high on the door.
We watched him from the stair well and he was so intent on figuring it out he didn't noticed us taking pictures for 15 min.
Finally he sees us and gives us this huge grin!

And then there was the time he knocked the coin jar (it was plastic) off my dresser and the coins went everywhere!
I have a good picture of him showing me the coins one at a time.

He use to come up to me and hug me tight and make up a song 'You are mine! This is right!' - I don't know where he got that from.
Sheesh! 3 was a very busy age!

He's a teen now (16 end of this month) and still a wonderful cute kid!

I miss the "gummy face". I adore my 8 year old, she's wicked smart, funny, silly, stubborn and so beautiful. I'm terrified that she'll "change" when she hits the teen years. My 2 year old is the sweetest little dude. Just finally walking and it's so funny how excited he gets when we get excited, he just falls over and giggles and comes right back for more.

My oldest, now 20, used to just make up words for things he didn't know the word for. The remote for my MIL's ceiling fan was a "fan channel". And I love the way little kids say things wrong, instead of "disappeared" it was "misappeared". My daughter couldn't say her second oldest brother's name, so she just called him "Brother" until she was about 4.

My eight year old just asked me how do babies get into the mom's tummy? Do you just wish for one and it comes? As I was gathering my thoughts she started to answer her own question," Moms and dads go to the hospital and they say to God they want a baby and then God sucks the dad's genes through his skin into the mom's belly and it mixes with her genes and then a baby has both genes."

My 12 year old plays her flute all the time even in a car with the windows up.

My daughter gets so tickled with herself that she can't stop grinning and has to cover her mouth to try to hide that she's just said some whitty comeback (she's 7) or she's trying to trick me and thinks I won't know.

My son has the cutest dimples, even now at almost 23, and if you comment he can't help but smile which shows them off even more.

When my son was 3 he went on the Gravitron and came over to excitedly to me (rode with his dad) and said "mommy I was stuck on the wall like a piece of gum!".
He used to call elephants "EEs". My daughter used to say "it disrepeared" instead of disappeared.

we surprised them with a trip to Disney World for Christmas when my kids were 10 and 8. My daughter (8 yo) told me that if she has kids when they're eight she's going to surprise them with a Christmas Disney trip. No gift or surprise has surpassed that moment in the last eight years since.

My son (now 18) and I were chatting and had the TV on last week. There was some fast food burger commercial about a mile high club. He told me he wants to join the mile high club. I asked if he knew what it was and he had no idea so I informed him. Now he really wants to join the club. I told him there are some things mom really doesn't need to know.

it's been fun over the years to hear words that my son confused or applied his own meaning to such as (Mountaineers who climb ice) he thought they were "chilly climbers" and then places he would mispronounce such as Quebec, QUEEBEE and Munich "MUNITCH" and Tijuana " TIJEWAN" ....
and a mohawk for which he wanted he thought was a MOHOP..... the list goes on.. I smile when I think of all those funny names..