Things Kids Do & Say

I remember years ago... We had taken the three kids (yes, there was a time when there was only 3) out to lunch at Applebee's... we were sitting in a corner booth... The waitress came over & was poised, ready to take our order & I asked Morgan if she wanted Chicken Fingers (to eat!). This weird look came over her face & she stared at her own fingers & she said "NO! I want People Fingers!" Too Funny... Yesterday we had two moments like that... As I'm driving around our neighborhood we pass a yellow sign... Morgan, who is completely engrossed in her book (Book 5 of the Warriors Series) looks up breifly & ends up startling me with the gasp she makes. I immediately ask if something is wrong & confused she says, "Why would we have to watch for a Dead Child?" WHAT?! She goes on, "That sign back there said 'Dead Child...' that's kind of mean!" I start racking my brain for where she would have gotten that & before I have to actually turn the car around & retrace my steps I remember the yellow sign... "Honey," I say very calmly "It didn't say Dead Child... it said DEAF child!" She laughed & sighed & said... "Ok... Deaf child I get it... Deaf!"

The other moment was while I was finishing things up around the house & my darling 2 year old was showcasing her coloring for me. We had had waffles for lunch that afternoon & I remembered that the old syrup bottle had a miniscule amount left, so I grabbed down a new bottle & proceeded to open the new one & stand the old one upside down above it to drain the syrup into the new one. A few moments go by & I get busy cleaning another area of the house... a few minutes later I walk back into the kitchen & there are no syrup bottles only the lids. Frantically, not wanting sticky syrup everywhere, I start looking for the syrup bottles. I find one kicked aside by the back door & turn around to see my little "angel" child still coloring with the syrup bottle (no lid mind you!) tucked in close. I come a little closer... not wanting to really startle her, but still get the syrup & I snatch it up when I get there. I put the lid on & she says, "But I want it." I try to explain to her that she can not just have syrup... we use it on pancakes & waffles to which she replies "But its Yummy, I want to drink it!" YEOW!

The things Kids Do & Say