At dinner time.

"what are you eating Mommy?"

"A salad"

"A salad?! But salad is for snails!"

and before you ask, yes, we kept pet snails for a few weeks to 'study' them before letting them go free again...

Daughter speaking about a friend at daycare:

"But he can't speak English. He just speaks normal"

Me: Hold onto your horses, boy.
Him: But, mamaaaa. I don't have any horses !
(after a pause)
Mama, can I have one please?

Daughter asked me about shoes I will buy for her.

Me- we are going to receive them next week because I will buy them online, honey.

Her- is there a big line up?

I called my niece during her birthday party.

"Tia Mia, I can't talk to you right now. I'm entertaining. ".....

My fears have been realized much sooner than I had expected...

Me : 4 Y old Kid how about we try staying quiet for a few minutes and concentrate on the coloring we are doing.
Kid : If I stay quiet then my tummy will hurt.
Me : who told you that.
Kid : I tried it for 2 full minutes yesterday and my tummy hurt. You don't know mamma kids tummies are different than adults

Four years old son is learning good manners and tend to forget the please and thank you. So when he asked for a glass of water in a full polite sentence I was impressed.

Me : aww, this is nice and cute. Yes I'll bring you one.

Him: I am adorable.

Kid's Oma, pointing at a hospital - when I was a child, I stayed at this hospital to get my tonsils out.
My kid - Mama, did I also get them out?
Me - no, you did not.
Him - Oma, I am so lucky I did not need any perfection* when I was a baby

* - operation

While I was scrubbing his feet (all hobbit-like, after a day of fun), my son said to me:

"Mama, it must be hard work being a mummy! Thank you!"

I am one lucky mummy

Most people eat doughnuts.

My daughter, she eats Donalds

Hic hic hic hic...
Uppsies...hic...Mama...hic.... I got the hip-hops!

Visiting same family as I wrote about once before, little miss very soon to five, lets call her Clara, greeted me at the door and began a most entertaining near monologue.

" Do you know what a pisspot is? it's a "sheisshafe" (Swiss German for potty) spelling is dubious.
I told her "yes, in fact, I do know what a pisspot is, but you know, it's not really a very nice thing to say and maybe you don't want to say it to people very much"

Clara "Yes it is and yes I do"

Pisspot, PISSPOT! PISSpot, pissPot, pisspot, pisspot, pisspot, PISSSSPOTT!! pisspot,pisspot pisspot,....

I had to conclude, it's actually not a bad word after all, quite expressive, to the point and rolls of the tongue rather nicely.

Her Mum is not too sure if going to Kindergarten after the holidays is going to be a good or bad thing, we shall see.

My youngest is four this week.

So I said, "You're going to be four this week".

And he replied, "Yes, I know. Does that mean when I clear the table I can now take the glasses too?"

My 3 year old is creating his own verbs.

- chalking - writing/ colouring with big chalks), as in "I have finished chalking";
- bubbling - blow bubbles, as in "Can I do some bubbling?"

Here's hoping that one of his creations will make it in the Oxford dictionary

Lol. Bewitching!

I was thinking about this yesterday after my 2 1/2 year old son reacted to a flag.

Last June when he was just 1 1/2, we went across the border into France to visit a store for flooring of our new home the day after Les Bleus pummeled the Suisse at the World Cup...While my wife & I were discussing with the salesman different options & prices, our niece was watching our son who was marching up & down the aisles yelling 'Hopp Suisse, Hopp Suisse'

We had been watching the match with others in our village and clearly the expression stuck - just poor timing & location to continue the mantra the following day...Needless to say, we were a bit embarrassed

Was visiting my brother a while ago.
Met my cute little nieces as well and treat them dinner in their fav. Restaurant.
The 5 yo said: "Now we can buy the most expensive one. Uncle K pay!"

Discussing world religion.
Min 'Some people are Christian like me, some are Jewish like [friend A] some are Muslim like [friend B] and some are normal like you, mummy' (Atheist = normal. love it.

Mom, is the sun boss of the earth? It's so much bigger, it has to be its boss.

Mini Worwoo's comment just reminded of the most outrageous comment our little man could ever make in a church. He was 2.5 at the time, and we were attending the funeral service of a good friend's father. While pointing to Jesus, he exclaimed, rather loudly "look Mama, this man is naked and I can see his nipples!"

I guess that's what you get when raising your kids as atheists