Out of the mouths of babes...
 

Willow, age 4, is surprised to learn that Grandma is older than 18. She ponders this for a moment or two, looks up from her colouring book and asks, "Grandma, are you almost dead?"

To add insult to injury, the very next day she asks me if I 'lived on the earth' when 'dinosaurs lived on the earth'. NOT rofl.

Thinking of going back to colouring my hair. Sheesh.

What has your offspring's little offsprings said to you lately?

When the Flintstones were new on TV, my dad had me believing they were their next door neighbors when he was a boy.

Unfortunately I don't have any grandchildren yet and my great niece and nephew live 1300 miles away. But they do tell their friends that their Uncle Steve lives at Disneyland and can hardly wait to visit him there.

My grandson and I had a friend who live just down a little ways from us. She lives alone and one day he was in the car with me and our friend was walking crossing the street as we were coming up the street in the car. I said " there is betty" "She is Getting old". He SAID TO me Why don't they put her to sleep? Then i had to explain. No No We don't do that to humans.

One day when my GD was about 4 we were looking at pictures. She pointed at one and said, "That's when you were pretty." The picture was fairly recent so I didn't take it as that much of an insult.

I have 2 nephews who a few years ago were 10 and 4 . I had been shopping and the till assistant asked them if they were helping Granma. Two cheeky grins and a very loud yes .
After that anytime they were asked the question they always said yes. Being 21 years older than my sister in law I suppose I do look like granma, I certainly was doing their job.

Speaking of out of the mouth of babes, well my GGS has been WORKING HA HA with his Papa this week as school is out , he is 6yrs ,my D@GD came home from work he was just standing around doing nothind, my D said to him arn't you supposed to be working his responce " well I don't work shifts YOU KNOW" in other words any thing else is not in HIS job description. he has knocked knocked off.

when my grandson was about 5, we were playing ball. Of course he was the batter and I was pitcher and catcher. After a whole lot of me chasing the ball, I told him we had to quit for a while because grandma was "too old and fat" to chase the ball. He looked at me and said "grandma, you're not old".

I wear a lot of old tye-dyed T-shirts. My favorite one is the one from my oldest brother from Woodstock. My 10 yr old GD wants to know how old she has to be, before she can be a Hippy. She now has quite a collection of tye-dyes of her own. And she loves making them with my SIL and me. She plans on being the first hippy paleontologist.

I had my daughter convinced I was 16. Then I sent her to school and they taught her math. Funny thing, at 45 on her last birthday, and with a 15 year old daughter, she is now 23.

When he was 10 years old, my youngest asked his dad if he had been in a war. Hubby said yes, he had been. Son thought about it for a moment, then asked " revolutionary or civil ?" The same sweet child told me not to dye my hair because he didn't want me to be pretty, he wanted me to be mommy. We let him live.

Kids are so cute. I remember asking my mom about the olden days like she was born in the early 1800's. My grandchildren probably think the same about me now.

When I bought tickets to the movies and asked for one senior ticket my grandson asked if I was in high school.

I recently retired from the National Atmospheric & Oceanic Administration - NOAA. When I complained to my DIL that I wasn't enjoying being 'old,' my DGD (then age 5) whispered to her mother that she knew why I was so old. I had worked for Noah!

my 6yo grandson stood peeking through the binds of my dining room window, he said Mimi, you don't use these windows very much do you? I thought he meant open them and said No, not really, he turned away and said that's what I thought, they're full of spider webs! guess what I did the next day!!

When we visited up north on our first anniversary, Dh and I decided to take his mother and our 2 DGDs out to dinner. Just wanting to spend time with the 3 of them. Everyone else was at work. We had the best time. It was also a way to acquaint the girls and his mother. We ended up taking his mother to his sister's house to babysit her other grands. We informed the girls that she was their step great-grandmother. They looked at us and each other and said "No way! She's still walking! No one is that old and looking that good and still walking!" Their other great grandmother had been in a wheel chair for years and passed away at 70. DH's mother is going to be 80.

I keep a book for each of the 3 grands of their funny quotes. One favorite that comes to mind happened when we took our whole family to Hawaii three years ago. The oldest was 3 at the time. I usually wear jeans and a tshirt everyday. The first day in Hawaii I wore a Hawaiian dress with spaghetti straps. The grandson says, "why are you wearing that dress with all this, all those showing?" as he pointed to my upper chest. My DSIL laughed and said "That's one for the book!"

When I was yet iny 20's, the 8th-graders in my class wanted to know whether I knew Abraham Lincoln. It was 1962.
And five years ago I substituted for a year in the Texas history classroom of a teacher who died before school started. The students often told me that history was easier for me because I had lived through most of it. froggyintexas

When I was student teaching (over 30 years ago) the kids asked me if I lived in Elvis Presley's day! I said " What do you means Elvis Presley's DAY! I'm only 4 years older than you!" Haha! Kids have no concept of age!

Mine asked if I had peanut butter & jelly sandwiches on the stage coaches when we travelled. LOL

While getting our three year old DGD ready for a visit to Sea World my DD kept telling her all she would see. She told her several things about the killer whales. When my DH ask her what she was going to do at Sea World she said I am going to kill whales. DD said well I guess we had better have another talk.

My grandchildren and I were talking about my up-coming Gastric Bypass surgery. I told them I would lose a lot of weight and not be so overweight. My 6 year old grandson, "yeah, but you'll still be old".

This same grandangel also wrote me a note that said "I love you Nana, and I will even love you when you're dead"

I could fill a book with this kid...But this one is soo cute: He was trying to come up with an arts and craft thing we could do. he said "We could paint your sewing circle...I said what sewing circle?" He pointed to my wooden embroidery hoop hanging on my design wall. Yep...that's what we did that day! Red, blue, purple, green and yellow...vey pretty! I just don't use it doe embroidery anymore! But I wouldn't trade this day for anything in the world!

My 8 yo grandson saw a picture of me when I was in high school. He told me I "used to be real pretty. So, what happened?"

I was already a widow when I have a cerebral hemhorage. My daughters were 9 and 14 at the time. At school one day I over heard someone ask the older one how her mom was doing. (She had no idea I was behind her.) Her reply was "She went from super mom, to where's mom?". ouch!

My daughter was talking to her friend around the time of her birthday. Not sure what they were actually talking about but my DGS said" my Mom's half old but I still love her"
He told me I had old arms - i think it was because of my kimono arms.lol

:) Just gotta love those little ones :)

My four year old nephew had just watched The wizzard of Oz. He then told his mom he knew what he wanted to be when he grew up. He wanted to work with animals. She thought he wanted to be a vet but he wants to be a scarecrow. LOL.

I love all the great things all these kids come up with! My 7 yo DGS can't grasp the concept of age. He knows that his dad is my son, but can't figure out how I could have had a baby, because I'm so old, and old ladies can't have babies...and his dad is way bigger than me, so...even though I have a "fat belly...there's NO way he grew in there!" My son is 32, and stands 6'7"!!

When my husband had cancer and chemotherapy was doing a number on his head of hair, my grandchildren asked their mother if they "could come over and watch Grandpa's hair fall out." It is the innocence of children that make something serious just a little lighter.

Then when my husband's hair started coming back in, thicker and curlier than I had ever seen it, grandson says to his dad (our son) - "Dad, Grandpa has more hair than you do." It is the innocence of children that makes something good even better. My husband was CURED of Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma back in 2006. We never forgot what Josh said!!!!!! My husband is in Heaven now and these memories regardless of how the situation was at the time made life so worth everything. More than yesterday, less than tomorrow, Rog. Edie

Those are soooo sweet!! Truly, truly out of the mouths of such innocence!! Thanks for sharing. Altho I have 7 DGD I can't really think of any ? but do remember my 2nd DGS called commode "comoddie" & youngest DGD called cupcakes "cupcakes"...

I too could write a book with the things my five little cherubs come out with.

Three year old Everett wants to be a garlic when he grows up. "You know Grandma, a garlic, and I will save people."

Turns out he is going to be a lifeguard. :thumbup:

When my son and daughter were about 8 and 10 there was a story on TV about roughnecks. I asked them if they knew what a roughneck was (I knew my son would know because we are from Texas and Grandpa worked in the oilfield). My daughter piped up and said "it is a man who needs to shave". We had the biggest laugh over that.

Once during an ice storm we lost electricity. My daughter asked if she could watch television, and I reminded her that the power was out. She replied, "That's okay, we don't need lights, we can watch by candlelight!"

This is the same child who came home from school one day and informed us that Abraham Lincoln was born in a cabin he built with his own hands. :)

So many cute stories...I love this thread! Here's another one from my Billy...He gave me a hug one day and said I love you Nana and I'll even love you when your dead! He was 5yrs old.

Today from one of my clients (I am a community support worker)..."Your hair is really white....but your face isn't too wrinkley...Not like my Nana...How old are you?"

lol, my dgd asked me the same dinosaur question about me and her granny. I am her nana on mommy's side.
Older sister said it came from a cartoon, but when it came
out of her mouth it was still too funny :D

When my grandson was little, he thought I lived in the sky -- because every time I came to visit him, they'd be at the airport looking for my plane to come down. And every time they came to see me, they'd get in a plane and go up in the sky.

lol, that is cuuute...do you live in the sky.
When my oldest was 11 we got full custody of her from her birth mother.
Our youngest was just a baby.
Somehow over the years she got a funny perspective on things.
When she was about five, one day she said something to big sister about "when we adopted you"...
I guess if you weren't born here, your adopted! :D

Our oldest, 22yrs old, wanted to know if when I was younger "King of the Road" was playing on the radio. This happened yesterday!

A couple of years ago when our 16 yr old dd was taking a narcotic pain medication, she was reading a get well card that started "Be all you can be..." She piped in with "I wanna be a bird!"

Fun to read all the things kids say. When my grandson was about 6, and afraid of thunder and lightening, my daughter had told him that was grandpa playing the drums. When they were visiting me and we were driving, it began to storm. He quickly said "Grandma, why does grandpa have to play the drums? I replied, "that is the job God gave him" He replied, "Great, jobs in heaven too. I want the job of petting the kittens."