Silly things kids do and say

My nephew, when he was 4 (he's 5 now), was asked if he knew what emeralds were. He said, "Yeah! They make you real powerful!" I'm sure you can guess where that came from.

My niece, who's 1, laid down on one of the stairs. Then climbed to the lower stair, and laid down on that. Then climbed to the lower stair, and laid down on it. And so on and so on. I tell you, babies and toddlers are random.

My 7-year old sister has had quite a few hilarious lines come out of her mouth lately,

"If meat was a vegetable, then turkey would be my favorite vegetable."

And another time:

Me: "You're a very nice little girl."

Her: "So are you."

My youngest nephew (of 3) asked his mom, "What does God do?" to which she answered, "Well, God created everything." He thought a while and asked, "Then what does Godzilla do?"

I remember once meeting a fourth grader who thought eggs came from cows. Dumb, but in an oddly adorable way.

the kid I'm baby sitting insisted we play a variety of games that were all him chasing me around the house. They included: T-Rex and stegosaurus, Shark and fish, Dog and kitten, Butterfly and flower and Ghost and Mario.

My favorite knock knock joke of all time is something I overheard a little kid tell his babysitter (or maybe it was his sister or something) at a pizza parlor:

Knock Knock!
Who's there?
Flower
Flower who?
The flower has an eyeball!

I'd sort of figured out how It Makes Sense in Context: They were seated next to some fake daisies, and I guess the centers of these flowers looked like eyes to him

I have a blind cousin who used to visit my family often, and the first time he did so, he wanted a tour of the house and was always asking whose room each room we entered was. We got to an unfinished room that was now largely used for storage, and when he asked whose room it was, the answer was "nobody"... so he started consistently calling the place "Nobody's Room". Even though now he hasn't been over here in years, we still occasionally call that part of the house "Nobody's Room". And there was the time when he picked up some bad language, discovered how to leave a message on his family's answering machine, and was miffed about not being able to come with the rest of his family on a ferry. My aunt and uncle came home and checked their messages, and one was simply "Bullshit, bullshit, bullshit, I can't go on the boat!".

I've had a Brick Joke-ish experience with a boy and his mom shopping at the thrift store I work at, though maybe you had to be there: They came in one day and the kid comes up to the mom all excited upon finding a pair of bright red, probably-intended-for-girls cowboy boots and wants to try them on. Months and months later, I have to try not to laugh when I'm walking from work to the train station and pass by the mom and her kid, most likely heading to the store again - he's still got the cowboy boots on.

edited 18th Oct '13 10:47:35 PM by MikeK

A little girl I used to go to church with once asked me if I'd ever been dead before.

Butterfly and flower?? The others make sense!

My nephew got into LEGO Star Wars. He was disappointed that I own the game at my house also, and that the game came out on PS 3 in 2007. He told me he wished his copy of the game was newer than mine.

edited 19th Oct '13 6:55:44 AM by BonsaiForest