Kid Quotes

Our cook thought he was hilarious!

Kid Quotes

The same new boy that was my last post is going to be my new favorite go-to for kid quotes.  He had a hard time leaving mom the first few mornings.  He would cry and hang on her.  The past couple of days have been really good, though.  He comes in smiling and excited to be here.  When mom came to pick him up tonight she told me that she was quizzing him his first day on why he didn't like it here.  He told her "They feed me slime for lunch and buggers for snack".  I wouldn't want to come here either!  I don't know if I dare tell our cook what he said.  She will either die laughing or be insulted.  I think I will tell her, she has a great sense of humor.

Kid Quotes

We have a new little boy in the pre-school class who is just adorable!  He was talking to one of the little girls in class and she told him "Ms. Kami dyed her hair" and he said "It's not dyed, it's already dead".  She dyes her hair often so it's doing to "die" over and over again.

Learning To Be Still

One of the things I learned at the Women's Conference I attended last week was that my life is filled with noise.  As soon as I wake up in the morning I turn on the radio and when I get home at night I turn on the TV.  In between, I work at a day care center so, well I don't have to tell you that my day is filled with noise, too.  One of the speakers challenged us to turn off the noise in our lives so we can hear the Spirit when it whispers to us.  I'm going to do it slowly until I can get used to it and it feels natural to surrounded by quiet.  I'm on the computer and I don't have the TV on in the background.  It's not as bad as I thought it would be.  This morning I got ready for church without the radio on.  It was kind of nice.  I learned so many other things that I want to incorporate into my life and I'll share all of them with you in the next few days.  I think if I commit them in writing I'll be more likely to follow through with them.

Kid Quotes

The mom of one of our adorable 5 yr. old boys came in chuckling this morning.  She said the recycling project his class started on Earth Day has made an impression.  His teacher had them make a recycling box for pop cans and asked them to bring them in instead of throwing them away.  So he goes home and opens 3 sodas and pours them out so he can bring them in to recycle.  She tried to convince him that you need to drink the soda and then take the empties to school but he wasn't buying it.  He had to have the cans to put in the box and it didn't matter if they didn't have any empties on hand, he made some!  You've got to love his enthusiasm.

Lord Of The Rings

I watched the first Lord of the Rings movie Friday night with my son.  He is the ultimate LOTR fan and expert.  It was fun to see his excitement and to be able to ask him questions about what was going on.  We are supposed to watch the 2nd one tonight but it's too late.  I guess it will have to wait until next weekend.

Kid Quotes

One of our most adorable little 3 year old girls told me "I have on Pink-erbelle Panties".  I love it when they change things just a little, like pupcakes and ba-sketti.

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Kid Quotes

One of our employees was talking to her 7 year old son and he asked her "Mom, can I just skip second grade and all that crap and go straight to high school?"  My question is why would you want to?  I guess only a 7 year old would.

Kid Quotes

Ms. Kate put a potato on the table to use as a visual for teaching the letter "V" and vegetables.  One of the little 4 year old boys says "Hey!  There's french fries in there!".  Yum!  Now I'm hungry.

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Kid Quotes

My co-worker told me this story yesterday.  Her children were with her ex-husband for the Easter weekend.  Her 4 yr. old daughter told her that the went to church and the only thing they did was "standed up and sitted down".  Then her 7 yr old son said to her "Did you know Jesus came back from the dead?"  She said "Yes, that's why we have Easter."  He said "I didn't know people could come back from the dead" and she answered "Well, only Jesus has come back to life.  Eventually everyone will but right now Jesus is the only one who has come back from the dead".  He told her "I think that's awfully selfish of Jesus.  Everyone has to wait but he only had to be dead for 3 days."  She was concerned that he was anxious about his grandpa and cousin who have died and she asked if he was thinking of them and he said "No I'm thinking of myself".  I love how he reasons things out in his own little mind.

Kid Quotes

This is from my little nephew Jackson.  This morning he told his mom "You can't get married 'ecause you don't have any princess clothes and I don't see any princess stores around here".


 Then last night they were saying prayers and he told her "Please don't make this a long one, mom".  After two short sentences he whispered "I told you not to make this a long one!".  He must have been tired.

Kid Quote

Here's my little nephew, Jackson again.  For the past few days he's been telling his mom that he wants to eat white weenies.  He takes her to the freezer, the fridge, the pantry and he can't find any and she has no idea what he wants.  Yesterday he came running to her so excited because she had bought "white weenies" and he showed her a box of...................TWINKIES!  I haven't laughed so hard in weeks!  I'll never look at a Twinkie the same way again.

Kid Quote

Ok, so I think I have the cutest grandkids in the world.  And my little Christian is the sweetest little boy.  When they have family prayer together in the mornings, he always prays that he and Caroline won't get any marks (those are given by their teachers when they don't listen, disobey, etc.) and that Kevin will have wisdom.  The other day when his mom picked him up he told her "No marks today.  Just like I prayed for".  And then he turned to Kevin and asked "Did you get your wisdom today?"  She couldn't quit laughing but it was so sweet.  I miss their little faces and can't wait to kiss them this summer.

Kid Quote

In our pre-kindergarten class this morning the teacher called one of the 4 year old boys goofy and he told her "Goofy is the new handsome".  I don't know about you but I don't think Goofy is very handsome.  Maybe for another dog, but not me.  Although I have known some very handsome comedians.  Like Steve Martin.  Maybe it's the hair!

Kid Quotes

One of our darling 4 year old boys was dragging his feet and complaining about going to school today.  He told his mom he wanted to go to work with her.  She said he couldn't because she had a lot of work to do today.  He thought for a minute and then asked her "Do you color at work?"  She said "No, I don't color, I work" and he replied "But coloring IS work".  I've decided I want to be 4 again and "work" at coloring.  Wouldn't that be great?

Happy 50th Birthday Leisa!

Tomorrow is my sister, Leisa's, birthday. A BIG one.  50!  I was planning a surprise party for her and decided to let her 7 year old son, Tyson help me.  He loves planning parties and I knew he would get excited.  After we had everything planned Leisa called me up giggling.  She said Tyson was telling her everything we had talked about and he ended by telling her "Oh, and it's a surprise party, mom".  She said "Well, Tyson, if it's a surprise I don't think I'm supposed to know about it".  He thought for a minute and then shrugged his shoulders and said very matter-of-factly "Well, then I guess it won't be a surprise".  We've laughed about it for 2 weeks.  I'm glad she's such a good sport and is going along with it.  When I invite anyone I tell them it's a surprise party that she knows about.  Her 19 year old son, Derek came to the day care tonight with my son, Connor and Tyson and we blew up 400 helium balloons to fill  her office and decorate the fences in front of the center.  It looks great!  I can't wait for her to see it.

Kid Quotes

In our after school program one of the girls was playing Connect 4 and she exclaimed in a deep, husky voice "Mama's playin' for the gold, baby-playin' for the gold"!  You just know she watched the Olympics-a lot!

Kid Quotes

Last Friday, one of the sweet 3 year old girls woke up from her nap, stood up and stated "I need a hero".  I don't think she was fully awake and out of her dream.  You know, we all need a hero.  And I hope she doesn't settle for less when she grows up.  A lot of people say that there are no good men left but there are.  You just have to look hard and sometimes long.  I love the quote "Never settle for less than happily ever after".  You can have it.  I know I do.

Kid Quotes

From Brittney's Early Learner class of 2 and 3 year olds:

"I've got the niccups"
"I'm going to bring 2 Darbies for show and tell"

And from my 7 year old nephew as he was going through the books his mom bought from the book fair, "I SO need to thank my mom!"

Book Fair

It's only the second day of our book fair and we've already reached our goal of $1500.  That means tomorrow is a bonus day.  Next year I'll have to raise the goal.  We get 50% of our sales in free books for our library.  Very nice!

Kid Quote

Jackson was trying to get out of nap time so he was gabbing with Tina in the kitchen.  He was telling her all about his skin.
"My skin has blood in it"
"My skin has bones in it"
"My skin is named ME!"
"And that keeps me alive."

The other night his brother Tyson, who is 7 yrs old was holding his head in his hands.  His mom, my sister Leisa, asked him what was wrong.  He said "I'm just trying to fight off the ghosts."

Standards Night

Just got home from our Stake Standards Night.  Bro. Butterfield was the speaker and then we had a Q&A panel on anything the youth wanted to ask that was media related.  Excellent speaker and wonderful youth=an uplifting experience.  I really learned a lot.  I also set up the book fair at the day care center tonight-one of my favorite things about my job.  I love, love, love books and I get to play with them for 3 days.  Heaven!

On a sad note, tonight I learned that my favorite author died a couple of weeks ago.  I own every book that Dick Francis wrote and I'm sad that I won't have any more to look forward to.  I hope his son, Felix will carry on.  He co-authored the last few books with his dad and I enjoyed them a lot.

Kid Quote

One of our precious little 4 year old girls asked her mom, "Isn't it amazing how great I am?"  Her mom thinks she is pretty great and so do I.

Kid Quotes

My little nephew Jackson is the best source of my kid quotes.  Today he was in the gym with his class and the teacher had the giant parachute out playing with them.  When it was time to put it away Jackson started crying because he didn't want the fun to end.  He kept saying " But I'll behave!"  His teacher tried telling him they weren't putting it away because they were in trouble but he kept insisting "I want to be good.  I want to keep playing.  I want to behave."  It's funny how their little minds work.

We also had one of our older school age girls telling us her life goals.  This is her top three:
1-Be a famous rock star
2-Go to school to learn how to do hair and nails
3-Work at the day care with her friends.

I don't know about the first two but I would hire her for sure when she gets old enough.

Then there were the two kids who had everyone convinced they were in a rock band and had a gig tonight.  One of the mom's overheard us laughing about it so we told her what they said.  As they were leaving her daughter asked if she could go to the concert tonight.  We had to convince both of them that there really wasn't a concert going on.

A First

Tonight I did something that I've done before but it turned into a first.  I had a free movie ticket that expired tonight so I went to see "Blind Side".  Brad didn't want to go because he had to get up at 5:00 am for work and mom has seen the movie so I went by myself.  I've done that before and I actually quite enjoy it.  When I walked into the theater I was hoping to get my favorite seat, right in the center behind the railing so I can put my feet up. What I wasn't expecting was to be the only one in the entire theater.  That was a first.  And I've just got to say that I loved the movie.  I cried and had a headache when it was over.  Sandra Bullock was great, Tim McGraw was very good and the little boy who played SJ stole my heart.  I highly recommend the movie.

Kid Quotes

I've been slacking lately so here's two cute quotes:

M: My doggy likes me.
B:  He likes you?
M: No, he likes my face.
B: Oh, he licks your face.
M: That's what I said, he likes my face.
M is only 2 years old and completely adorable.

Today after nap time one of the 3 year olds was walking around without his shoes and socks on.  His teacher told him to put them on and he said "But my feet need to be naked".  I like my feet naked, too.

Kid Quote

Ok, so technically this isn't a kid quote but it's pretty funny.  One of our employees hurt her back playing dodge ball the other night.  I think she pulled a muscle.  She was whining yesterday morning and said she needed to go to the "choir-practor".  She's from "kin-tucky" and has the strongest "ax-sent".  It sounds hilarious when she talks and we end up sounding just like her.  She laughs at us when we try to immitate her.  It's very entertaining.

Kid Quotes

Two little boys were fighting today and one said "I'm going to hit you!"  The teacher heard and went over to him and explained how we don't threaten to hit anyone.  How would you like it if he said he was going to hit you?  He decided he wouldn't like it so he went over and said "I'm sorry."  The first boy said "That's all right, bro. No hard feelings."  And he's 3 years old! Adorable!