Silly Kid stories

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Totally OT, but that would be first cousin once removed. What type of cousin is based on how many generations back to get to siblings, and the removal is how many generations apart you are. Wikipedia has an incredibly useful chart for that.

Also, your 3-year-old cousin has a son?!?

^-.-^

Oh har bar. She's 30. Her son is 3.

Because my family tends to get more distant the further back we go and because we all get along so well and are somewhat closeish in nature, I tend to refer to distant cousins as just cousins and great aunties and uncles just by their first names (with the exception of close relatives. It's quite odd sometimes to hear my cousins going "uncle Julian" (my dads name))

[AnaKhouri]

My friend recently went on a low-sugar, gluten-free diet and put her entire family on it too.

Her 5-year-old son asked my toddler what his favorite food was. He said "Cheerios" (I'm not sure why as he doesn't actually like them all that much).

Her son earnestly explained to him that he couldn't eat Cheerios because they were not on the diet, because they were bad for you because there is wheat in them. He nodded sagely and instructed Khan to refuse any future Cheerios I should offer him. Khan sort of blinked and said, "Okay let's play ninjas!"

The funniest part to me for some reason is that he says 'dee-it' because they are Turkish.

[AnaKhouri]

You can tell Khan has never seen Star Wars because today his Darth Vader toy took the TIE fighter to another planet where he proceeded to rob a jewelry store, then escaped to his secret headquarters.

[fireheart]

So Darth Vader is Bane???

[AnaKhouri]

I was rereading the thing about your 3-year-old cousin () having a son and felt like pointing out that the youngest person ever to give birth was all of 5.

Today at a museum exhibit this volunteer said, "So, are you going to be a farmer when you grow up?"

Khan said, "I'm not going to be a farmer. I am going to be a Power Ranger.'

...such confidence.

[fireheart]

I was rereading the thing about your 3-year-old cousin () having a son and felt like pointing out that the youngest person ever to give birth was all of 5.

Actually, both my distant 3-year-old cousins started preschool the other day. Basically, the intake used to be that you started preschool at age 4 then moved on to "big kid school" at age 5. This could be done at the start of each term. Now they've switched it so that if you're born BEFORE May, you start school when you're 4 and a half (turning 5 during the first two terms), while those who were born AFTER May start school the following year. This is the first year that the intake has been put in place.

(technically it can be called any number of names: preschool, kindy, kindergarten, CPC (Child Parent Centre))


I'm so proud of them.

[fireheart]

Quote from a friend of mine's 5-year-old (I think):

"Why is there an Australia-flag flying up [on the wall of the community centre], doesn't everyone knooooow we're in Australia???"

[FormerCallingCardRep]

This was posted by my Oldest Daughter. We all got a laugh out of this

Want proof that men are born that way?
My son is 90% potty trained. Accidents here and there and still touchy with bedtime. We took him out to dinner at Cracker Barrel and he told me he had to use the potty. Now, I've been working on aim, he decided to pee everywhere... I looked at him and said "Bug, can't you aim!?" "No mom, it's too heavy."

[FormerCallingCardRep]

Another cute story posted by the Oldest.

A little background, her boyfriend drives long haul semi, leaving Monday morning and getting home on Friday evening. Bug calls him Pa.

Caught Bug spraying Pa 's cologne on himself. When I asked him why he said, "I miss Pa wanted to smell him." ... I think my toddler just broke my heart.

[fireheart]

A line from one of my students today while we were eating lunch. I'm with the special needs kidlets who are all autistic. They are insanely adorable though. All of the kids are more or less verbal. One of them had tried to tell the teacher's aide that the room was too cold. So the teacher's aide said the words to him politely ("Excuse me <SSO> this room is too cold") To try and get them to practice using the terms. Shortly afterwards, the teacher had asked him what he was having for lunch. Somehow the poor kid got confused and said:

"Excuse me peanut butter."

Very cute.

[fireheart]

Two gems from my youngest students today (my class is special needs from kids who are in R-2/3. I have six kids). Let's call them girl student and boy student, who are both 5 (more or less). They're both autistic.

Girl student had been participating in a sorting and classifying activity involving blocks. She had sorted them by colour and we were praising her for it. She refused to participate in whatever we were doing BEFORE lunch and had resorted to playing with some farm animal toys. We look over and see that she's actually lined them up by animal (so she's got all the tigers together, lions etc.) SO cute.

Boy student has some toileting issues, but does not need nappies/diapers. He gets taken home by taxi (accompanied by an aide) so he gets Pull-Ups as a CYA measure. Today I got stuck with the duty (no other teachers aide available and I legally can't be left alone with the students) of helping him into his pull-ups.
While he was at the sink he asked me "Fireheart, when I'm big, can I be a man?"
He then asked me if he could be Spiderman.

Luckily these kids are transitioning to having a student teacher in the classroom easily, so teaching in term 2 is going to be SO much easier. (It does also help that the SSO will partially take some lessons to allow the actual teacher to prepare the activity so the kids are used to having other teachers)

[AnaKhouri]

We heard a radio ad for Arby's (a fast food place) located in Westchester, an area of Big City across the river from our little town (about a 40 minute drive).

Khan: "I want to go to Arby's in Westchester!"

Me: "There's an Arby's we can walk to. Westchester is pretty far away."

Khan: "Is it on another planet?"


The great part: this weekend we are going to IKEA, which happens to be in Westchester. I plan to find an Arby's, take Khan for lunch, and tell him we're on another planet.

[fireheart]

We heard a radio ad for Arby's (a fast food place) located in Westchester, an area of Big City across the river from our little town (about a 40 minute drive).

Khan: "I want to go to Arby's in Westchester!"

Me: "There's an Arby's we can walk to. Westchester is pretty far away."

Khan: "Is it on another planet?"


The great part: this weekend we are going to IKEA, which happens to be in Westchester. I plan to find an Arby's, take Khan for lunch, and tell him we're on another planet.

Doesn't IKEA have their food cafe thingy? You could tell Khan that their lingonberry drink is alien blood.

Also, they have a delicious food market. I love their meatballs *drools*

[fireheart]

New one from today. We were visiting a medieval group with several Viking members. One of them has a 3-4 year old kidlet (I lose count). We were following them back from a parade on the main road around the festival and the kidlet proceeds to tell thorgrim (my partner) that she doesn't like him and that she REALLY doesn't like him.

Later on we're at the campsite and as we're about to leave, she asks us if we're going to come back again and say hi. We found it hilarious given that she hated my partner five minutes prior!

[FormerCallingCardRep]

Another story from my oldest about my Grandson Bug:

You know those moments as a parent where you can't laugh buy you're dying to laugh?

I made Bug a corndog with fries and Mac n cheese for dinner. As I'm making his plate I go to split the corndog in half.

Bug: DON'T DO THAT MOM
Me: Do what? (Normally he giggles and runs away just trying to distract me from whatever I'm doing.)
Bug: I don't like my weiner in half I like it big!