Things your kids say that make you smile

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DS is almost 4 and has ASD and a speech delay. He went out in the garden and said "mama, lovely, lovely day". It really made me smile. Anyone else want to share?

And pins and needles were 'pencil noodles' which has stuck!

My 4 year old calls cucumbers 'cupiters' and the remote 'me-rote'. I love how she randomly tells me she loves me, that I'm beautiful and no need to worry.

My youngest (10) is occasionally just very spontaneously grateful to me.

I will put a plaster on and I can see he feels so happy to be looked after and he says "thank you for looking after me mum!" and squeezes my hand, he is just so natural about it.

My eldest (13) can also be grateful, but its rarer and perhaps less fulsome - think she finds it a bit harder and sometimes it is qualified by a reference to some shortcoming of mine or other 😅Still I settle for any kind of expression of gratitude from a teen girl, tbh.

My 7 year old had a happy meal as a treat on a Friday after her sports club. She always orders a cheeseburger with no cheese. Always makes me smile.

'Dop [stop] mama, dop' with her little hand held out to say halt...said in a very serious tone when we...try to help put her shoes on/start reading the wrong book/try to get her to put a bib on at mealtimes/insert perfectly reasonable thing here (she's 20mo, try really hard not to PMSL, usually fail)

My 4 year old DD thought she was cheekily rubbing my boob the other day and I said, laughing, "that's not my boob, that's my tummy!" to which she replied "but Mummy, that's where your boob usually is". 😂

Our 2yo calls blueberries 'blu-blies' and nipples 'mipples' 😄.

Mum we have a stinky situation up here - when he's had a poo 😂

I asked my two year old if she would like an apple this morning and her reply was 'yes please, darling'

"I fix something for DS he says 'thanks mummy that's very much lots better'"

Awwww 😍

Love "First at the back". What a great attitude, she'll go far! It would be a good mumsnet user name too.

My nephew was just over 9m when the pandemic started so has spent most on his very early time with just adults as he was the first grandchild for both sides and both sets of grandparents and I were CEV so our contact with him was mostly video chats until the start of this year with the odd in person visit (they live quite some distance too)

As a result of this, he has quite an old and adult head on his shoulders at 3 and speaks in a very adult way which is adorable and hilarious in equal measures. "well I never.....!" from a tiny mini me version of my brother, complete with full on hard done by sigh is hilarious 😂

He also speaks in third person so "this is first name's toy.""this is first names daddy "" pweeease can first name have .... ? "

I managed to wangle my two into bed the other night while DH, who had been dealing with their high octane inanities and relentless questions, observations and fights all day to the point of a splitting headache, finally got some paperwork done alone in the kitchen. #1 fell asleep quite quickly, #2, who has just turned 3 was still awake.
"Where's my daaaaddy?"
"Working. Go to sleep"
Pause.
"I expect he's tired"
"Very probably. Go to sleep".
"I expect he misses me".
She said it so confidently that I had to agree poor daddy all alone in the quiet kitchen was missing his little darling who had been bull roaring at him all day.

Mind you it's in character for her. Sometimes she gallops into the room and announces herself "It's ME" with a huge smile and a flourish of outspread "Ta-dah!" style arms like she is the grand finale moment we've all been waiting for.

When my sons asked for trees with his dinner (Broccoli ) lol. X

My 2 year old dd washes her hair with shampoo and washes her body with showerpoo 😂

My Ds is nearly three but these have stuck around: snotties, for biggies, electri fruit ed and hairbella (umbrella). He also speaks like an old man a lot, asking me how work was, announcing his plans to strangers by saying 'so! All we need to do...'.

My eldest DD (6) says crumbles! So she'll say 'I better have a plate mummy, in case I make crumbles from the biscuit'.

My youngest is 21 months, so exploring language right now which I love! She calls her big sister 'Sissy' as it's easier to say than 'Jessica' and sometimes she'll say to daddy when he gets home from work 'hi sissy!!!!!'.

@FASDE1517 salad meatballs is brilliant

2yr old says “ that was horriddible” while holding her hands to the side of her face and making a shocked face. Love it

Also when she pretends to cry she holds one hand over her mouth while “sobbing” into it. Very melodramatic

My son, aged 2 at the time, got really frustrated with me because I said he couldn't do something (can't remember what it was), so he said to me 'mummy, you silly old coach'. I couldn't help but laugh and then realised it was something he probably heard from Thomas the Tank Engine.

Another today was "im a bit tired mummy" he was defo more than a bit tired 😉

Ds when he was 3 - mummy I love your big fat arms. And mummy your bottom is very, very, fat.

Thanks, mate.

My 20 month old

'Bit busy, sorry' and
'Ok, ok, fine then!'
Can't take this level of sas at her age

When I asked DC3 today what she wanted me to write in the card to her nursery teachers, ‘I love you, thank you for giving me dinner’.

And that if she gets sweets she goes up to her room to hide some in her ‘secret moustache’

My DD sometimes forgets certain words so comes up with amazing descriptions instead and then I have to figure it out. So she was telling me about 'the little bus for just some people'. Took me ages to realise she meant a taxi! Another one is she was talking about 'the haunted people' film she wanted to see and I finally clicked it was the Addams family. She has a way with words! Still not figured out what 'the forwards and backwards fish is'