Category Archives: kids

Things you don’t want to hear on arriving home (#1)

“My ‘jamas have gone in the wee-wee.”

Instruction #3

The third in a series of sentences you never thought you’d hear yourself saying. “Don’t touch the cat’s bottom.”

Instruction #2

The second in a series of sentences you never thought you’d hear yourself saying. “Don’t draw on your toast.”

Instruction #1

The first in a series of sentences you never thought you’d hear yourself saying. “Don’t wipe your nose on the sieve.”

Misheard

Daddy [making the fatal mistake of trying to involve Mummy in current affairs again]: “The Irish have voted ‘Yes’ this time.” Mummy: “‘Yes’ to what?” Daddy: “The Lisbon treaty” Mummy: “The lesbian treaty???”

Treadmill

Child #1 likes videos of cats on treadmills – http://blogtotheoldskool.com/?p=800 ***UPDATE. we didn’t stop to think that this was Child #2’s only ever exposure to treadmills until she went along to pick up Child #1 from the gym and said excitedly  “That lady doing exercise like the cats!”

Odd

Child #1: “Mummy, how old were you when daddy was a girl?”

Make your mind up

Child #1 [is helping in the kitchen]: “Can you pass me some clingfoil?”

Proof

Child #1: “I can’t prove anything and I didn’t do it.”

Throwing shapes

Child #2 during her “shapes” period, March this year. Reserve £1