To ask how long children remain little for

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I am forever being told, cherish the time spend with our darling children as they aren't little for long. How long do you think we've got them for ss lovely little innocents?

I just love the innocence of believing in Father Christmas etc. I will feel sad when this stage ends

The santa stage never ends. We still cast the santa magic and my kids are almost adults.

Dunno about bathroom humour making them grow up too fast...I was a pretty unsophisticated child, but I still found fart jokes hilarious

It is sophisticated to find bathroom humor funny? How so?

Bathroom humour is perfectly childish IMO. I dislike it too but it seems universally hilarious to (apparently, almost :) ) all children and not so many adults.

Love this thread. DS is nearly 4, so still very little, but already starting to lose the adorable little mispronounciations and made up words/phrases. I miss them and keep meaning to write them down. Though I will never forget 'up towers' (high heels!).

Bakingbunty I wish someone would start one of those threads of kids' funny names for stuff again. Mine are just 3 and in the prime phase of odd phrases. This week from DD2 we got "cooking hands" (oven gloves) and "beany weenies" (wotsits - no idea where she got that one from).

And Uranus is the very funniest planet, according to all children ever.

And of course my babies will always be babies to me.

DS was very little today :) We walked back a different way from Kindergarten and passed several drinking fountains (typical where we are). DS wanted to fill up his water bottle at every one, which I was happy about. When we got to the last one, which is quite elaborate and I've always assumed is some kind of fertility symbol, as it has several brass animals around the edge in various stages of shagging and a nude, embracing human couple in the middle and a man came up to us and explained to DS "This is the fountain of love".

So he went around with his bottle and "fed" every one of the animals a drink. I don't know what it was about that but it was so sweet and innocent, and something I hadn't pictured him doing for quite a while that I thought it was quite moving.

Too long to be honest. I've got 2.5 year old twins and frankly can't wait for them to grow up a little bit. Small kids are a real drag!

My nephews by contrast (ages varying from 8-15) are absolutely fecking brilliant fun!