Silly Kid stories

[muppet101]

Good thread, I read the whole of it while lying in bed this morning and being lazy, it gave me a good excuse to not get out

When my cousin was about 2.5 years old we went to a local swimming pool and he got very upset and started crying and wouldn't come in the water because of the 'lions'- aka the 'lines' in tiles on the bottom of the pool.

And a few years ago, when my sister was in kindergarten and taking the school bus home, she pulled the emergency cord /signal at the back of the bus 'to see what would happen'. The bus driver stopped the bus and went to investigate and was cross and angry, when he saw this 5 year old white-blonde haired, blue eyed girl and she gave him that explanation she couldn't wait to find out what would happen so she did it. Then she started to cry and the bus driver stopped being mad with her. She's a clever one my sister. I love that she's curious and is an advanced reader, and is also devious and can get herself out of trouble

[AnaKhouri]

Playing ninjas.

Me: "What's your ninja army fighting for? If you're going to fight, you need a good cause."

Khan: "We fight for SCIENCE!"

So proud.

[Tanasi]

When I went home for lunch today my grandsons were in their high chairs eating Cherios. The floor was also covered with Cherio's. I then asked them "Who threw all the Cherio's on the floor?" Both of the them at the same time just looked up an away like "Wha, you talking to us???"
Our min-pin WarDog is getting fat from eating all that they throw on the floor. When I'm around them they don't do this only when Grand-Mommy is watching them, I'll smack a hand and say "NO", Grand-Mommy just giggles. Maybe Grand-Mommy needs smacking too!!!

[fireheart]

One of the kids at work today had me giggling. She's recently started school and she's a tiny, skinny thing. However she makes up for it by having a mouth and energy to rival our resident ADHD kid.

Because we divide our kids by age into two separate rooms for afternoon tea (due to having up to 90 kids at one time!), the little ones will come in when we're doing toilet runs.
Today the kid in question comes in, walks up to ME and loudly announces "HERE I AM! HERE I AM!"

She can cut through big kid yelling too I swear

[fireheart]

Two new ones from today.

-One of the older girls had come to school with a Furby in her bag. said Furby was in its box and otherwise sleeping. She had reindeer ears on her head as well and was getting annoyed by them. I suggested that she could take off the reindeer ears and put them in her bag. She then looked at me with a expression on her face.
"I can't do that!" she cried, "It'll wake up THE HORROR!!!!" (The horror was the Furby)

-One of the younger boys was inside with the rest of the staff, when all of a sudden he runs over to me and proudly shows off his fingernails while going "LOOK FIREHEART, I'M A GIRL NOW!" He'd coloured them in.

[fireheart]

Two from me when I was a kid.

Basically at my second primary school, we'd perform a musical one year and do something like a "Christmas concert" in the alternating year. So I ended up doing performances in years 5 and 7.
Usually these "musicals" consisted of the entire school (junior primary did their own performance, as did the primary kids) standing like a choir and singing a bunch of songs, while kids from various classes would act out routines on stage.

For the first one I did, it was this montage of songs from the 50's-80's with kids dancing around in costumes for each of the songs. (For instance, the song jailhouse rock had five of my classmates dancing around in old prisoner garb). We were given a cassette tape (yes, it's THAT old) to listen to the songs during class. One day, a bunch of my classmates (most of whom were grade six) decide to sing alternate lyrics to "material girl" at lunchtime. Loudly.
The alternate lyrics? http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=paXEoL2n-9Q
Cue my class and the teacher breaking into fits of laughter.

At the rehearsals, we had the "play" group sitting there patiently. At one point in the play, they're meant to mention ad jingles. Cue the ENTIRE play cast breaking out into the "decore hair commercial" jingle. My music teacher:

[Ree]

Posted this on my Facebook today:

Fiillng out Christmas cards with my granddaughter:
Me: So, who do you want to send cards to?
Her: Everybody in the whole wide world.
Me: Well, that's a nice thought, but we don't have enough cards. Give me some names.
Her: I want to send one to Poppa (my late husband) We can dig a hole and see if we can put the card in so it will get to heaven.

What do you say to things like that? LOL

[mathnerd]

Driving down to Key West:

Youngest son (ys): What are we going to see in Key West
Me: Fort Zachary Taylor, the old cemetery, and maybe Hemingway house. Your brother really wants to go there.
YS: Oh, okay. Are we going to visit Jester?
Me: Maybe. We're going to at least pop into where he works to say hi and maybe have dinner before we leave if he gets off early enough. Why?
YS: Well, I just wanted to know. But I did wash my hair REALLY good last night just in case, so he wouldn't be able to find any more cards in my hair*.
Me: Oh, I see. Well, if he's not busy, he'll just have to check if you did a good enough job.

For the record, Jester did, in fact, find quite a few cards behind the child's ear.

[AnaKhouri]

Her: I want to send one to Poppa (my late husband) We can dig a hole and see if we can put the card in so it will get to heaven.

That's so sweet! You should let her bury the card and tell her he received it.


Yesterday:


Me: "What are you doing?"

Khan: "I'm planning how to catch you in a trap, Mommy."

[Kogarashi]

A few more from my girls (Monkey, age almost-7, Bear, age 4, and Bird, age 2).

(While setting the table for dinner)
Hubby: Who wants to sit next to Mommy?
Monkey and Bear: Me!!
Hubby: Okay, who wants to sit next to Daddy?
- silence for several seconds -
Me: Well don't you feel loved?

Hubby was taking out his contacts after we got the girls in bed one night. Bird kept asking over and over again for a drink of water.
Hubby: I'll get you one. Just be patient.
Bird: I don't want be patient.
Hubby: I know you don't want to be patient, but you're going to have to.
Bird: I don't like be patient!

And finally, all three girls love watching me play Sonic the Hedgehog games (of which I have a fair number). I was playing Sonic Adventure 2, and a Sonic stage came up. Bird immediately chirps, "Is that Sonic? Yay, Sonic! I love Sonic!"

[fireheart]

So I had this kid today at my service. She's only started school this year, but she's a hoot.

Today she asks me if I was going to dress up for Halloween. I gently informed her that Halloween was over a month ago. She then started planning Christmas and Halloween together....and then I lost it when she starts announcing to a table of very patient older children "If we get the Christmas songs and put them to Halloween tunes...."

[wolfie]

She then started planning Christmas and Halloween together

Somehow I think this child has a future as a programmer.

[fireheart]

Somehow I think this child has a future as a programmer.

So do I. She's only Kindergarten/Grade 1 (can't remember which) but she's a hoot.

Speaking of silly kids, one of the kids at work (who's Year 5 from memory) bought in a book from home. Not so bad right? Turns out the book was Fifty Shades of Grey .

One of my other children at work has ADHD (I've mentioned him before) but has been very well behaved of late. (His mum is, thankfully, an actual parent and we have her support on everything we do with him.) Turns out that he was told that Santa wouldn't bring him gifts this year if he kept acting up at school!

[fireheart]

Today I worked a "holiday" shift (meaning 5+ hours minimum) at a school that lets their kids out a week early.

We were in the middle of having lunch, when one of the preschool girls announces that her food was a bit too hot (we'd whacked it in the microwave). So the manager tells her to wait for her food to cool down. So the girl decides to start singing "Jingle Bells" while she's waiting for her food to cool down.

(she's 3.5-4 and INSANELY adorable )

Then we had about half a dozen of our kids (ages 4-7) find a dead bird on the playground. Their response was to bury it. We did in the playground.

[fireheart]

One of the kids today wanted to write a letter to santa and ask if he was real.

On that note, I also found out where he'd picked up the term "monkeybutt" from: he'd been watching Home Alone 3...