In the car, listening to an ad about the Swan's Lake ballet being given in Geneva.

Son: Mom! There's a circus with tamed swans! Can we go?

Same as my little guy... 2.5 years old and has said for a long time "bye bye, tschüss" and pushes you away when you say no or he wants to do something naughty LOL

Our oldest (7) has good a very good grasp of maths, and recently got two test results of 72/73... ETH, here we come.

His sister (6) on the other hand is probably destined for the humanities...

Her: "Ask me some maths!"
Me: "Ok, what's 2+2?"
Her: "4!"
Me: "what's 4+4?"
Her: "8!"
Me: "very good. What about 4+5?"
Her... pause...:"10?"
Me: "no, try again..."
Her: "is it less than 10?"

having a chat wih my South African friend and Mandela comes up,
Min, what's Mandela
me, he was the leader of South Africa, where 'friend' comes from, he was a great man, before he was the leader black people and white people couldn't live together.
min, oh
me, that's not nice is it.
min, uh..... no?
me, do you know what black people are (SA friend is black)
min, black people is....... like a boy, and white people is like a girl.

Not sure to be proud my girl is colour blind or ashamed she is thick.

I went to the hairdresser today.

Son: Oh Mommy, you're too beautiful! You look like a witch!

Looking at the sky.
M, there are white bits and blue bits.
Me, the white is the cloud, isn't it?
M, there is a hole, I think the sun or the moon will be there. The sun has stringy bits that come off.
Me, rays? yes the sun has rays that come out of it. And the moon changes shape doesn't it? Sometimes it's a circle, sometimes it looks like a C.
M, Yes, the flying people, the astonauts (sic), go there and take some off, and then they go and put them back again.
Me, did someone tell you that?
M, no, I worked it out myself.

Think my 4 year old daughter is the same with Maths. Sometimes she accepts 30 comes after 29 and continues to count.. other times, she stops, gets annoyed, and defiantly cries out..

"Noooo! It's twentyten, not 30.. where's 10 gone?!"

Terribly annoyed that numbers don't go the way she wants them to.

Earlier, I asked her whether she would like to do a letter writing worksheet or her sound sheet.

Her reply:

"I dont like that question. Can you ask me another one?"

Mini-mimi: mummy?
Me: yeah?
Mini-mimi: you're my special mummy and you're perfect!
Me: *huge smile and a warm glow inside after a particularly crappy day*

From my 4 years old daughter:

Mama is pretty,
Mini nil is pretty,
Mini baba is boom boom

And baba?

Baba is painabutt*

* pain in the butt.

My 6 year old, driving through Basel with me...

"Dad, all these people who draw on the buildings, why don't they just ask their mums for more paper?"

I would like to say how much I enjoy this thread - some absolute gems here!

An other gem from daughter this morning about her dad who didn't shave since few days.

Trying to kiss her this morning;

- Daddy!!! No!!! Look its all dirty, shave!!!!

Hombre! (Man!)

Clever lad.

Can he drive a tram?

SHE. Sexist pig. Why shouldn't my daughter drive?

I was just sticking up for the male of the species. We're oppressed, don't you know.



sorry

Not mine, a friend, but it made me LOL.
We have the BEST breakfast conversations...
mini: Miss Bainbridge's dad died on Friday
Me: Oh I'm so sorry to hear that, how sad
mini: "I'm going to sing him a song"
Me: "what, even though he's dead?"
mini: "yes (starts singing unintelligibly)
Me: "oh right ok a song for a dead person is called a requiem"
mini: "yes, I'm singing him a requiem..... Except it's in cat!"

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When playing a game she says: OK, lets pretend im the mommy and your the loveen. Now, pretend teddy kicked you on the eye lash!

I think to her Loveen means child/little girl. As its what i call her.
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Me: Sophie, what do you want to be when you grow up?
Sophie: A Mermaid
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Me: Dylan, what to you want to be when you grow up?
Dylan: A Terrorist lol
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Seems my little one has picked up the famous Swiss habit of staring at people

Me: darling stop staring at that man
Mini-mimi: i have to stare to see if he's cute

Mini-me was on Skype with her daddy and his girlfriend who we will call EW. I was trying to convince her that Mummies and Daddies have eyes on the back of their heads (which we know to be true). EW gets upset about being left out.:-

EW - All women have eyes on the back of their heads, when you grow up and are a woman you will have them too.
Mini-me - I don't want to grow up and get old like you, I want to stay young like my mummy.


We are the same age by the way.

miniMimi : I've got a magic carrot.

me : Oh. What's a magic carrot do?

miniMimi : It bites itself.

me : Oh.

miniMimi : and turns into an egg.

me : <looks to see if he's left the LSD lying around again>