Silly Kid stories

[fireheart]

Husband had to buy a new washer as ours died at a very inopportune time. Khan called me afterwards and said, "Daddy spent a TON of money on a washer! Like $5000!"

It was only $500, but that seems like more than enough to me. And that was only a middle-grade washer, not even one of the fancy ones.
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I've found that kids around khans age will just spout off some big number for some random reason. For instance, I'll say to the kids "we are going out in 5 minutes." The response I get is "no, we should go out in 50 hundred minutes." Or something like that. Its hilarious.

[Kittish]

Niece does the random number thing too. It makes me a bit crazy but I try not to let it show, she'll get over it quick enough. I hope.

Nephew got to try pizza for the first time ever tonight, at the ripe old age of 1 year. Soft, hand tossed crust is great for teething, and the toppings were small and soft enough for him to gum into submission. Gave him the first few pieces of crust, figured they'd keep him occupied for long enough for me to eat a piece of pizza. Right, no. He snarfed them down and demanded more before I was halfway done. Surprisingly little of any of it wound up on him.

[fireheart]

This morning at work, we had a uniform display set up for the new parents since we're starting the kindy intake process (goodie! )

One of the kids is due to have a brother coming in next year. She saw the uniform display and asked her mum, we explained what was happening. Her mother said that the brother was going to get some of older sister's uniform to cut down on costs.
Kid: So he'll be wearing my dresses to school?
Me/Mum/Bosslady:

She then proceeded to tell every parent for the next 5 minutes or so that her brother was coming in and wearing a dress next year. One of the parents took it in his stride, stating that Australia is known for it!

[Kittish]

Hey, if she sells her little brother on the idea and her parents are open-minded, he just might show up in a dress.

[fireheart]

For some reason, over the last two days the kids have been obsessed with "jailing" the educators. It's hilarious.

[AnaKhouri]

Mal had a rough day. As I finally sit down to eat dinner, he starts howling. Again.

Khan: "We need a handheld Device of Quieting."

I know, right? What he doesn't know is that sometimes I would use that device on him too.

[Kittish]

But there IS a handheld Device of Quieting. There are lots of them. Mallets, hammers, skillets..... (you all know I'm joking, right?)

Last night niece began to discover just how hard writing a story can be. She got as far as "Once upon a time, there were princesses."

And apparently other sister's kids (older niece and nephew) have been hearing about all the stuff niece is getting to do at Aunt Kit's house and are positively green with envy.

I've also taught niece how to play solitaire. Takes her almost as long to deal out the game as it does for her to play it, but she CAN play it with only bit of help from me.

And her mom has laid down the law. No snacks unless she tries a new food. One the plus side, new foods are going to be easy to come by for a while (that, and once she starts trying stuff, I'll ease up and let her have a snack if she just eats a few bites of whatever I've cooked but not planning to tell niece that until we reach that point). Heavily on the minus side, no more cookies or ice cream or popsicles from Aunt Kit unless she eats a bite of something new. Also going to be on the minus side for her, Aunt Kit is going to define just what exactly is 'one bite', and anything smaller won't count. Otherwise I foresee her eating a single grain of rice (or equivalent bit) and trying to claim that she's 'tried it'.

[fireheart]

Mal had a rough day. As I finally sit down to eat dinner, he starts howling. Again.

Khan: "We need a handheld Device of Quieting."

I know, right? What he doesn't know is that sometimes I would use that device on him too.

I would use it on some of MY kids!

From the sounds of it, Mal's definitely making his place in the world

[NorthernZel]

Overheard from Lil' Zel's room when a friend called him on Skype:

"Yeah, sure I'll come over and play... just gotta finish this level on Skylanders Trap Team first... it might take a while, I've set the game on highest difficulty settings..."

Fun fact 1: The game was released 6 days ago
Fun fact 2: He's already on level 18 (where it's getting pretty tough already, I saw the Boss Battle on YouTube and I was impressed)
Fun fact 3: HE'S 8 YEARS OLD!

[fireheart]

A couple from work the last two days:

-We had some high winds the other day which blew a bunch of leaves into the school hall area. (Our play space is on the other half of the hall) I walked in after picking up the little ones and one of my second grade kids walks up to me, points to the leaves and announces deadpan: "The tree pooped itself!"

-One of my kids was picked up late tonight. He has this tendency to go and hide in the locker cubbyhouses (which can easily fit the kids). His little sister and bigger sister wandered in and found him. His little sister (who's around 2-3) proceeded to climb in the cubbyhouse above him and fell asleep

[AnaKhouri]

Khan: "You know why people wear underwear? So if a shark tears off their clothes they won't be naked."

[Kittish]

Niece is adamant that she does. not. like. cheese. Refuses to even consider trying any sort of just cheese (with crackers, in mac n cheese, anything with recognizable cheese in or on it). Tonight we made homemade goldfish crackers. She said, when I mentioned the idea that she LOVED goldfish! You know they have cheese in them, right? Yes, but she can't taste it. Her words. I grated the cheese (extra sharp cheddar), and she helped with mixing and rolling out and cutting and got all excited over them puffing up in the oven. Then ate darn near half the batch!! These things taste like crunchy cheddar, they're awesome. But she 'can't taste the cheese'.

[fireheart]

Today we had after-school sport (a coach comes in 2x a week and works with the kids on different sports (different coaches for each sport). This term it's martial arts and soccer). We split the group into two so we could focus on individual skills.

At the end, the coach was leading them through cooldown stretches and then having them support each other by lifting their legs up. All went fine and dandy...until I realised that our tiniest kindergartener was paired up with a larger first-grader. Guess who had to lift the first-graders legs?

ETA: one from vacation care I forgot about.

So one of the kids I was taking care of was incredibly quiet and enjoyed reading. We bonded a bit over the Mortal instruments series which I was working my way through (his reading level must be fairly high to be able to read it). One day we went out to a local park for lunch and some games. He decided that he would try something new. So he set up a hula hoop, got it going, then proceeded to pick up the book he was reading and read while he was hula hooping! He actually managed to get it going for quite a few pages as well. Needless to say, there were a number of photos!

[fireheart]

One from a friend of mine. She has a 3yo son who's on the spectrum (not sure to what degree) and is currently being toilet-trained.

She was writing an email one afternoon with her son wandering in and out of the room. Few minutes pass and it gets very quiet. Then the door opens, her son is standing there pantsless and proceeds to proudly show her his "artwork" on the wall...done with "brown crayon."

Thankfully he hadn't done it anywhere else and she just simply cleaned it up and flushed it down the toilet...which he liked. Plus side I guess?

[fireheart]

New one from this morning. We'd run out of cows milk, so we gave the kids a chance to try rice milk. Because some of them hadn't tried it before, I gave it to them in cups first so if they liked it, they could add it to their cereal. If they didn't like it, then it'd just get tipped down the sink. One of my kindergarteners takes a few sips, then yells out "it tastes medium sized!"