Things your children say that make you smile

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I know, it's bloody hard work most of the time but sometimes you can't help laughing:

DD1 to MIL "Nanny, why have you got a hairy lip?"

DD1 (4yo) "I don't like sheepdogs"

DH: "Why not darling?"

DD1 "Well I get confused - are they sheep or are they dogs?"

DD (3) has always referred to her knees as her 'babies' and her feet as her 'mice'. I have no idea where it came from, but I find it v amusingly random.

DS1 (21 months) shouting "OH MY GOD! OH MY GOD!" at the top of his voice in the queue at M&S this morning...

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ds2 (6) came home from school not long ago and said
"mummy I'm not much good at silence"

he meant science!

MrsPhas3 - DS (now 4) only recently stopped saying 'Willy the Pooh' instead of 'Winnie the Pooh'.

"I'm really tired mummy, can I go to bed" usually works for me. Or it would do if I ever heard it

"But I wanted to put the fairies on" wailed at top of her voice after I'd put fairy cakes in the oven - clearly hoping for something more exciting than a cupcake!

3 year old DD, eating yoghurt 'Mummy, I'm licking the lid of life' (too much TV alert!)

Mummy, I need to do my homework/buy my school uniform/do my piano practice because my teacher is coming ..(all to be like her 11 year old brother)

'I learned to read today so daddy bought me a comic'.

dd is 2 this week. lots of her friends have been turning 2 this month and last.

she knows all the words to happy birthday to you..

dd: 'appy partyyyyy BALLLOOOOOOOOON'

standing with DH in DD2 bedroom one night

Me: "look at the draught coming from under that blind"

DD2 sitting bolt upright in bed "Let me see the giraffe coming under my blind!"

DD3 "when I grow up I want to get married and be a mermaid... mummy, do you know where I'd buy a mermaid's wedding dress from?"

Ds always says - I willn't - he means I won't but it is sooo cute I can't help but smile at him!

Oh and Bloody Dog - about the adopted Essex Mumsnet Dog!

We only had him for a day mind!!

"What did you have for lunch today at nursery?"

DS2: "Supermarket"

Strange. Checked his book. Soup.

We have a new buggy, which dd loves. Except that she can't say buggy, she says bugger.

Very embarrasing in car park, I go to get buggy out of the boot and she yells ' bugger bugger bugger' at top of her voice across car park.

Is Egypt near the heater?
The what?
You know, the radiator.
Do you mean the equator?
Yes, I keep forgetting that word. Is that why it's hot there?
Well, the equator isn't like a radiator, it is an imaginary line that goes round the middle of the Earth.
Don't be silly, Mummy, that's impossible.
No, really, darling, that is what the Equator is, just an imaginary line.
Oh, a line, I thought you said a lion

DD2 (just 6 in Year 1) told me today that she had done a duvet with the headteacher. She told me that a duvet is where you answer questions yes or no. I guess it was a survey.

Just wanted to say thanks everyone for this thread - has had me giggling out loud! My dd is only 14months, but I am off tomorrow to get a book to record the funny things she'll hopefully say one day!

Great idea, Kookykid, I really wish I had done that. You think you will remember all the funny things they say, but you forget so quickly.

After repeatedly dropping her Dorothy bag outside the church the flower girls mother held it for her whilst the procession of 7 bridesmades, bride, father of bride, page boy and flower girl progressed up the isle. The music stopped. Flower girl exclaimed loadly can I have a Johny bag!

I think i'll buy a nice notebook tomorrow !

DS (just about to turn 2) at teatime today:
Daddy home?

Me, no darling sorry, daddy will be home later. Daddy has to stay at work a bit longer. Daddy's busy at work today.

DS (thinks for a bit and then announces):
Naughty work! naughty work!

"Mummy, when you were alive......"! ( I think DD was referring to when I was young - clearly not ageing well!)