Spokane7
51°Quick links: 2012 graduating seniors • Summer camp guide • Jobs: The Road Ahead • Prep sports • News quiz
Still reading old journals. I came across a list of “Alexisms.” Funny mispronunciations my then four-year-old son uttered.
Instead of barefoot he said butterfeet. Who knows why?
He assured me that his new sandals were waterpoop. I’m hoping he meant waterproof.
Cigarettes were dubbed sniggerettes, and one blustery day he yelled, “We better go inside a tomato is coming!”
What funny things do/did your kids say?
999 W. Riverside, Spokane, WA 99201
P.O. Box 2160, Spokane, WA 99210
Main switchboard: (509) 459-5000 • (800) 338-8801
Newsroom: (509) 459-5400 • (800) 789-0029
Customer service: (800) 338-8801
© Copyright 2012, The Spokesman-Review
Terms of use • Privacy policy • Copyright policy
Truthbtold on January 29 at 6:23 a.m.
Just the other day, I was looking through the journal that I keep for my son. It is filled with little things he has done and said over the years that I felt the need to save. My grandmother (god rest her soul) started it when he was just a baby, I have kept it alive.
The two of them were playing up at Manito park on a nice summer day, when my son started running around holding his back with both of his hands.
Grandmother asked, “Dylan, what in the world are you doing?”
She says he looked at her like she was crazy and said, “You can’t see? I am giving an angel a piggy back ride.”
There is nothing else to say but, AMEN!!
je9je9 on January 29 at 8:08 a.m.
That is lovely, Shannon!
My daughter was four and I told her we were having au gratin potatoes for dinner. “I don’t want old rotten potatoes,” she complained, so now that’s what we always call them.
My son, at four, gazed lovingly over the Puget Sound and said, “Ah, the Pubic Waters.” His sister won’t let him live that one down.
The first sign of sibling rivalry was when my daughter was five and my son was two and she came flying down the stairs to tearfully inform us that he had called her an old deck of cards.
JeanieSpokane on January 29 at 11:43 a.m.
Art Linkletter was so right: kids say the darndest thing. Once when my boys were 4 and 5 years old, we had several bouts of gusty winds and little whirlwind touchdowns. I gathered the boys from day care and their eyes were like saucers and they were so excited. “Mom! Mom! We had a TOMATO warning today!!!” I just thought it was hilarious to think of tomatoes falling from the sky.
je9je9 on January 31 at 7:15 a.m.
You don’t need comedians when there are little kids around. Hope you don’t mind one more…When my son was five we were in a convenience store and the two hispanic clerks were speaking Spanish. He stared at them for quite a long time and then shouted to me, “Mom, are all Chinese people black?”
debbieg on February 18 at 12:20 a.m.
I was ‘motivating’ the kids to clean stuff up a few weeks ago and wanted my 10 year old son to put all his video game stuff away in this ottoman/game storage thing that “Santa” brought him.
I got going on a full mom rant and said ‘WILL YOU PUT THIS STUFF AWAY, I DID NOT BUY THIS STORAGE THING SO YOU COULD PUT YOUR STUFF ON THE FLOOR BESIDE IT!!’
His eyes got all big and he smiled and said ‘OOOOH!!!’ and my husband did the same thing and then i realized I had blown Santa’s cover. They both just thought that was hilarious. I figured he already knew but he said ‘NOW I HAVE PROOF!’
And then he wanted to tell his 6 year old sister so I threatened him with big consequences and said I would fine him $100 from his savings account!! I’ll do it!! Don’t test me! (he likes to push things right up to the line)
Later that evenining he was acting suspicious and twitchy so I said ‘REMEMBER…. ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS!!!’
He said ‘How about YOU give me $100 and I’ll forget ALL about it?’