not x-posted, but posted in more than 1 group A tiny bit of background. I am the oldest of 5, so my brothers and sister have always called me Bubba. So my 4 year old niece (who lives with us) calls me "Unka Bubba". Today, Kris walked up to me and said "Bubba, when I get bigger, you and...

A couple of cute ones from my preschool kids this week, and one from my own. 1. The kids were reading an ABC book. It was a rather clever one, with pictures, on each page (for each letter), done at silhuettes (photos, but like they were made on photosensitive paper, or with an x-ray.) Two of...

Cute, yes -- but we're working on piracy issues ;-) Henry: "I wouldn't say my Titanic project was copied from Ashton. It's more 'loosely based' on her project." -Dawn Trying hard not to crack up while I explain the importance of doing one's own work...

This isn't x-posted, but I posted it to more than 1 NG. We all know that my mother (I'll update about the visit when I get another chance) raised my niece for most of her life. She is almost 4 now. Well, Jarrod and I took her to the mall the other day and we started talking about "Santa...

so i was driving Pooh Bear home from preschool and playing the opposites game with her. me: what's the opposite of red light? pb: green light!! me: what's the opposite of up? pb: down! me: what's the opposite of on? pb: umm, i don't know! me: well, let's think about this. if the light isn't on,...

I told my 6yo son that I wanted to teach him to play the card game "Go Fish". He said, "Is that for the XBox?" Either the same day or the day before, there was a Bizarro cartoon in which a young boy is opening a gift and it's a football. His father answers his implied question with, "No, it's...

DH was reciting the rhyme to DS: ...slugs and snails and puppy-dogs' tails-- DS: No-oo! DH: No? DS: Blood and food and skin! He has been asking me questions about digestion recently (where does food go, what is poo, etc etc). -- Chookie -- Sydney, Australia

I came to pick DS up and he was surprised to see me. He said, "You come back, Mommy? Mommy, you come back?" He couldn't believe I came back to pick him up. (I did tell him I was coming back. He must have not heard that part.)

i went to the zoo with my kids and had this conversation with my 3yr old daughter: we look into the elephant area and she says with authority: "Elephants can't hurt me." I don't want to scare her but I want her to be careful, so i say something like "well you know, they are very big, and they...

I was videotaping the kids having breakfast today because they were being especially cute. 38 month old Jacob says to me "mommy, why are you in the family room?" and I said "because I want to get a better camera angle than I can in the kitchen." He said "you're taking a picture of my ankle?" and I...

I'm playing with ds and he starts doing this strange droning thing, like humming off-key with his mouth open. He usually can follow a tune fairly well, so I wondered what kind of singing this was. I looked at him and asked what that was, and he smiled and pointed at the stereo - he was singing...

We have been potty training Bonnie.. well we have been letting her potty train herself for the most part with the goal that she will use the potty to make her happy not me.. Anyway now and then when she tells us she used the potty we say "Yeah good girl you used the potty... Anyway today I used...

Today I overheard a conversation between my DD1 (who will be four next month) and DD2 (2.5) DD2 is very scared of washing her hair. DD1: Mummy is washing her own hair today. So she is going to wash our hair too. DD2: Noooo, I scared. DD1: There's no need to be scared. It's just water and...

I've been teaching Aurora to sight read and spell simple, common words and recently pulled a few flashcards out of a set for this purpose. One of these cards had the word "what" on one side with another word that I wanted to teach her (or that she already knows) on the other. Well, she found...

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I've got in mind to get one of the solid plastic ones for DDnearly3 this Christmas. I've seen Little Tikes in ToysRus. Any other brands people like / can recommend? Web links would be brilliant. Would you get one of the flimsier/cheaper ones? I am in Australia but we do get most of the...

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Man, I'm really struggling with that right now when I read the driving thread.. I'm in germany. I do not own a car. I do not even own a drivers license. (Yeah, I know... I'm a rare thing, even here.) I do own a bike with a trailor (chariot, totally the coolest thing I've bought in a long...

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