Ahhh...the joys of parenting a toddler...

[SarahJ]

So we had a snow day today, so that was pretty sweet.

What was not was after lunch when Bean walked up to me and told me he needed to wash his hands. He had been eating a hot dog in his room while he watched a movie and must have thought it would be fun to finger paint in the ketchup.

Well, I come to discover that he finger painted the kitten. Poor Gertie, she had ketchup EVERYWHERE! It was all over the top of her head, which she couldn't clean off by herself, so I had to give her a bath. Good thing she likes water, poor baby though.

And of course I didn't get a picture!

I wonder if this stems from the conversation we had the other day where Bean informed me that he doesn't like Gertie's "white" (she is black and white) and he would like to take her back and get a red kitty instead. He likes red better.

So come on, share your "fun" toddler stories so I don't feel so bad LOL

[RachelS]

oh no!!! poor kitty!!! quite the artsy little bean you've got over there!!

[meems]

oh that is so funny!

poor kitty!

[YvetteSanders]

LOL - that's way too funny!

[sinead]

oh funny!

Let's see...where do I start?
Maggie's teacher asked her to come over so that she (the teacher) could play with her curls. Maggie says, "You know, they aren't really a toy."

We passed a dirt bike track with the guys actually riding the dirt bikes and flying through the air and she says, "Mommy. Bikes are for riding, NOT flying!!"

Have I told you that she asked me one day why boys have "peanuts" and girls don't? lol

ahhh...it just gets better!

Last night she was determined that she was going to give O'neill (our fat cat) a treat. Of course, the "treat" was a tupperware bowl of wooden toothpicks, but she was determined to feed the treat to the kitties. Not so much, Maggie. Then she got all drama queeny because Meg and O'Neill didn't want her treat. Ah, to be three. lol

[hollyrh]

Those stories made me smile!

Here's my best from today:
I was in another room and heard Parker (age 2.5) say "I'm getting some air."
I thought he was standing near the heating vent so I ignored him. When I went in the kitchen I realized he was opening the door to our screened in porch... again saying, "I'm getting some more air."
(I hadn't realized until then that he knows how to unlock the deadbolt and doorknob lock and open the door). Guess we'll be getting some of those doorknob thing-ys to keep him in.

Yesterday, I was making carrotcake cupcakes and was told "No carrot cupcakes. Just cupcakes."

[Valgal]

OMG, too funny. I miss toddlerhood. When Johnny was 3 he drew a picture of a cow and added these stick-like things coming out of her round belly and said they were 'milk gutters'. That's always a fun one to remember ;) And one time a goth kid walked past our house and Johnny said (loud and clear), "Oh. He's a pirate" LOL!

[jennamelia]

So, my little girl is a little past the toddler stage, but, this is a classic.

Yesterday she was doing an art project and making a big mess in the living room.
DH told her it was time to start cleaning up.
She said "But, Dad, I'm not done yet!"
DH said- "I'm sorry, buddy, but it's TIME TO CLEAN UP!"
Her answer- " But, the IMPORTANT THING is... I'm not done."

She is a major handful.

[Valgal]

Ha! That is SO something m Eden would say. She's four and says, "Here's the thing..." or "What I'm SAYING is..."

[Rynonut Mom]

ROFL, Sara!!! That's just too funny! Poor kitty...

So - Matthew didn't say anything, but tonight at the playground (Ry has baseball practice for 2 hours!!! and we were waiting for him), he was playing on the set. A little girl went down the "fast" slide face first and on her tummy. He decides to do this also. Now - I'm not real keen on it, for there's a good lift on the end. The 1st time goes ok, but the 2nd time, he face plants. Comes up with sand in his eyelashes, nose (UP his nose), and a mouthful too. After I saw he was ok, just upset with the sand in his mouth (this from the child who eats it by the handful sometimes), I started laughing! He just looked so funny!!!!
But then I wouldn't let him go down that way again. Mean ol' mom...

[sinead]

Oh...my niece...

She was playing happily with her new teaset and my sister was busy with my nephew (15 months younger than his big sister--she's got her hands full!). Fiona (my sister) notices that her daughter heads down the hall but thinks nothing of it until kiddo comes back down the hall happily drinking out of her tea cup. Where'd she get the water? You guessed it! The TOILET!!! LOL! Guess they'll learn to keep the bathroom door closed now, huh? lol

[nesser1981]

LOL that's too funny!

[Charla]

These stories are great!
Jasmine's still on the young end of toddlerhood, but she's really starting to crack us up.

Yesterday at lunch, DH and I decided to see how much of our ballroom dancing we still remembered. We had a blast, remembering more than we thought. When we stopped, she came over and brought me back until I was standing right in front of him again, and picked up my hand so I'd hold his hands. This happened twice! She's definitely got her own mind, and makes sure we do things her way.
(she also likes to make sure we all kiss each other. She'll say "daddy? kiss?" and then "kiss mommy" and "kiss Bekah" until everyone has gotten a kiss from everyone :)

and one I posted to my blog yesterday:
She colored a picture this morning (actually, most of the time was spent munching on the crayons, but that's beside the point). It's two mice from Cinderella and two birds. She showed me the picture and said: "Mickeys! Two, three, four, six, birds, FOUR!" :) She can count from 2 to 9, skipping 5 for some reason, and yesterday she added 12 to the end. The amazing thing is that the numbers are in order (though she usually goes back to 4 for the grand total) :)

[sinead]

lol I love counting fun. Maggie counted like this...one, two, three, four, five, six, nine, ten, eleventeen... hehehe love made up number!

[shepp99]

Lol! These are great!! My son just turned 2.....but his newest funny is that when he and his Daddy play w/ play-doh and make shapes, anything that is cylindrical he brings down to crotch level and says 'Pee-Pee'! It's hilarious...just hope he's not doing this away from home!

[Nathalie]

Sinead, when Sophia started counting in english, she said eleventeen as well! I loved it very much ;-)

[Nathalie]

Liam, our DS, turning 2 in april doesn't talk yet, well, he's making animal sounds and he has got a special way to say thank you, which is neither german, nor english, but anyhow: I assume, you all know Dora the Explorer and how Swiper says "ooooh maaan"? Liam was playing with his Lego and something wasn't working and then I heard this oooh maaan! I couldn't believe my ears. Everytime he says it (and he does say it a lot), I can't stop laughing, think it sounds hilarious :-D

[rocalisa]

What wonderful stories. I do feel very sorry for the poor kitty in the original post, but if red is a better colour that white, I can see why it happened. :)

My DS is three and very talkative (if not always understandable) so every time we come to traffic lights he announces "red for stop" and "green for go". Just the other day he suddenly announced "yellow for fast". I just about died. DH has admitted that he is the one that said that to him, although he insists it was only once. Since DS told us the same thing again today, either his memory is spectacular or his daddy can't count.

(A nice topic for my first post I think.)

[TraceyLee]

evan has filled his water gun from the toilet before. this happened at my mom's and i told her that this was just one reason why no three year old needs a water gun.

he's thrown butter onto my kitchen ceiling (butter is next to impossible to get off a popcorn ceiling).

and he likes to carry our cat, butt up in the air, around the house. monkey doesn't like this- so he hides from evan, lol!

and my personal favorite quirk of his- he will not speak to you if he's mad at you. a few weeks ago, i took dylan to school (cody was already there), and came home to find that evan was not speaking to me. no clue why- he just wouldn't talk to me. i asked mike about it, and mike tried to get evan to tell, but apparently- evan was mad at him, as well. he sat in a chair and glared at us- and we still don't know what we did to make him mad, lol!

[sinead]

A friend's little boy used to say that "Green is for go, red is for stop, and yellow is for GUN IT!" lol

If Maggie is in one of her pretend modes, she will only respond if you call her by the name of whoever she is (Ariel, Cinderella, Snow White, puppy...you get the picture). She will also launch into dialogue from movies or shows (and she could have only seen the particular thing once, which amazes me), sometimes mixing shows. I can't tell you how many times I've been confused about what she was saying only to realize she was looping a movie. One example: "Stop talking about my father that way! He's a genius!" (And I'm thinking, I didn't say anything about Daddy. Yes, he's smart, but genius? Hmm...don't think so.) :tongwink:

[shepp99]

So yesterday in the car my husband asks my son if he can say this - my son just turned 2 and a lot of what he says isn't clear to anyone but me and my husband, but this was clear as glass - so my son repeats what his Dad taught him....."I have big pee pee." NOT what Mommy wants to hear coming out of her little boy's mouth!!!!

[StaceyD]

One day I noticed black dots on our dog. I asked the kids who colored Co-Co and they both denied it. I noticed that my 3 1/2 yr old DD had black ink on her hands. I asked her if her marker touched Co-Co and she said yes. I asked her why she colored on Co-Co and she said she didn't want to color on paper anymore she wanted to color on a people or a doggie! Here is a pic of some of Co-Co's dots.

http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f157/Staceyd923/IMG_5604.jpg

[SarahJ]

oh my gosh, you guys are cracking me up!

[TraceyLee]

So yesterday in the car my husband asks my son if he can say this - my son just turned 2 and a lot of what he says isn't clear to anyone but me and my husband, but this was clear as glass - so my son repeats what his Dad taught him....."I have big pee pee." NOT what Mommy wants to hear coming out of her little boy's mouth!!!!

lol! this reminded me of something that dylan said about a year ago.

you have to understand dylan's frame of mind at the time. he had only been potty trained for two weeks. to him- using the potty was no longer a big deal. he didn't need to be praised or to have people talking about it. he hadn't really seen my parents during those two weeks, so to them- him being potty trained was still a very big deal.

one afternoon, we're at my parents' house. mom and i were talking in the kitchen, and dylan was sitting at the table with us. dad walked into the kitchen, and told dylan to tell my mom that he's a big boy and he pees standing up. dylan giggles, and says that he can't say that, and i told him to go ahead- that i would let him say something like that this one time. dylan gets up, walks over to my mom, and says:

grandpa says i'm a big boy and he's a dumb a$$.

the funniest part was that my parents didn't catch what he said. my mom said something like 'really? that's great!' and my dad said 'that's my grandson!' i'm cracking up laughing, dylan's grinning, and mom and dad are looking at me funny. i had to tell them what he said- after i stopped laughing so hard. then i had to tell dylan that we don't call people names (although i'm pretty sure that little lesson had no impact on him- it's hard to take your mother seriously when she's having kittens, as my mother says).

[ajoyfulheart]

LOL That is too cute, Sarah!!! :D

Ah man...the main toddler stories I have are what happened to my hubby when I went away for a ladies' retreat at church...BOTH times that I went, he was left with the kids, and they "painted" the tv, windows, living room walls, toys, etc....with POOP!!! It was SO disgusting...yet, hilarious...especially since I wasn't there to witness it...only part of the clean-up :P

My favorite little "saying" from the toddler years was when I was trying to potty train both of the kids at the same time. Joshua was almost 3 1/2, and Abigail was 2 1/2. I actually started out just trying to potty train Josh, but being a girl, Abby decided she was ready too, which was cool ;) Anyhoo! We had taught Josh what his "private" area was called, using the "p" word...I don't think the forum will let me type it out...not sure, anyway... So, one day, Abby was sitting on the potty chair and looked down between her legs, and then looked up at me with a big smile on her face and said "Josh-a has a peanut...I don't have a peanut"..heehee!! It was just so adorable...I miss those days...*sigh* :(

[shepp99]

Out of the mouths of babes:


grandpa says i'm a big boy and he's a dumb a$$.

Too funny!!
This is one from when I was a kid: my brother used to sing the 'kibbles n bits' dog food jingle except when we'd go to my grandma's he'd sing 'kibbles n bit****' ! Needless to say, when we'd get home, my mom would help him wash his mouth out w/ soap!!