http://www.myballard.com/forum/ A forum for the Seattle neighborhood of Ballard en Sat, 25 May 2013 12:55:11 +0000 http://www.myballard.com/forum/topic.php?id=15208#post-205459 Thu, 03 Jan 2013 04:49:02 +0000 Sunset9 205459@http://www.myballard.com/forum/ <p>My daughter age 3 reflecting on a day site seeing in Boston "Too much walking and everyone is Paul Revere. </p> <p>In the toy aisle of Bartells again at about 2 or 3 "Mom can we get a dog catcher?"<br /> I turned to see her holding up a . . . frisbee. I guess figured you threw in the air a caught a dog. </p> http://www.myballard.com/forum/topic.php?id=15208#post-205297 Tue, 01 Jan 2013 09:04:56 +0000 lifeisamazing 205297@http://www.myballard.com/forum/ <p>Haaa </p> http://www.myballard.com/forum/topic.php?id=15208#post-205270 Tue, 01 Jan 2013 03:20:42 +0000 oldguybc 205270@http://www.myballard.com/forum/ <p>My son at age 4 after a long vacation up there...<br /> "Are we finished seeing Attle yet?" </p> http://www.myballard.com/forum/topic.php?id=15208#post-205242 Mon, 31 Dec 2012 20:47:56 +0000 Edog 205242@http://www.myballard.com/forum/ <p>When he was three, my cousin and I were out walking. He farted and said "somebody stepped on a duck!" </p> http://www.myballard.com/forum/topic.php?id=15208#post-205241 Mon, 31 Dec 2012 20:23:17 +0000 lifeisamazing 205241@http://www.myballard.com/forum/ <p>Thanks for clarifying. Oh man, that's something that it might TAKE 20 years to be able to laugh about! Ouch. </p> http://www.myballard.com/forum/topic.php?id=15208#post-205234 Mon, 31 Dec 2012 16:19:43 +0000 lakreitz 205234@http://www.myballard.com/forum/ <p>Shelley - awful and funny at the same time. </p> http://www.myballard.com/forum/topic.php?id=15208#post-205233 Mon, 31 Dec 2012 15:50:15 +0000 shelley 205233@http://www.myballard.com/forum/ <p>Sorry, my words and brain seem to be jumbled these days .... Got too terse, I think.</p> <p>As in Tammy Wynette's song, kids do say the darndest things. My brother's daughter had observed her mother practicing saying "I want a divorce." The daughter then was observed by my brother, hands on hips, in front of the hallway mirror, repeating over and over what mom had said. Quite a shock when a couple of weeks later he heard it (for real) from his ex-to-be. He laughs heartily about it, now, almost 20 years later.</p> <p>That's the first darndest thing that is said in the song by a kid. </p> http://www.myballard.com/forum/topic.php?id=15208#post-205231 Mon, 31 Dec 2012 10:48:26 +0000 lifeisamazing 205231@http://www.myballard.com/forum/ <p>Shelly, sounds interesting but I can't understand yours, can you give me another shot at it. With the first what? the answer to that might clear up what the source is which I also don't get. </p> http://www.myballard.com/forum/topic.php?id=15208#post-205230 Mon, 31 Dec 2012 10:43:41 +0000 lifeisamazing 205230@http://www.myballard.com/forum/ <p>I took my nephew and niece to the Seattle Are Museum when they were about 9 or 10 and two great ones came out of that trip.<br /> 1) my nephew, a bit exasperated "Signs are everywhere but they never explain it. Who IS this Sam guy?"<br /> 2) my niece, tired and pointing to a regular public bench in the modern section "Is that art or can I sit on it?" </p> http://www.myballard.com/forum/topic.php?id=15208#post-205229 Mon, 31 Dec 2012 10:37:52 +0000 lifeisamazing 205229@http://www.myballard.com/forum/ <p>Hahahah these are great. The gap - I can just see it<br /> Boat - scary!<br /> Ballard, Hee. My favorite was always when they would look at me like I was dull when I questioned them on what they meant. </p> http://www.myballard.com/forum/topic.php?id=15208#post-205220 Mon, 31 Dec 2012 06:00:45 +0000 Ballardemician 205220@http://www.myballard.com/forum/ <p>When my kid was two I pointed to a picture of an orca and asked "what kind of whale is that?"</p> <p>"A teefin teefin whale."</p> <p>"Why is it called that?"</p> <p>[looks at me like I'm dull] "Because it has lots of teefins." </p> http://www.myballard.com/forum/topic.php?id=15208#post-205172 Sun, 30 Dec 2012 19:00:35 +0000 boatgeek 205172@http://www.myballard.com/forum/ <p>When my older daughter was about three, she looked at the glass of water my wife had and said wistfully, "And I sighed a great deep sigh. Oh, how I wished it was mine!"</p> <p>My younger daughter had her 3-year-old moment of wisdom at Value Village. She and my wife were looking through shirts for me. She pulls one out and says, "Gween is a good color for Dad. &lt;pause&gt; Is that silk?" It was on both counts. </p> http://www.myballard.com/forum/topic.php?id=15208#post-205170 Sun, 30 Dec 2012 18:43:11 +0000 ballardo 205170@http://www.myballard.com/forum/ <p>Oh, I've got many of these, but this is one of my favorites. Some years ago I was shopping for pants with my daughter in a nationally known clothing chain. She was going through one of those growth spurts where if the pants were long enough, they were miles too big in the waist and if the waist fit, they were floods. I was lamenting this fact in the dressing room. DD did not miss a beat as she said "Well maybe that's why they call it The Gap, Mom." </p> http://www.myballard.com/forum/topic.php?id=15208#post-205167 Sun, 30 Dec 2012 15:57:00 +0000 shelley 205167@http://www.myballard.com/forum/ <p>Not particularly funny, but my brother heard his 4 year old daughter with the first one from Tammy Wynette's <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uY7LF10llX4">Kids say the darndest things</a>.</p> <p>A few weeks later he heard it from the "source". Now almost 20 years on, he plays this song and laughs. </p> http://www.myballard.com/forum/topic.php?id=15208#post-205164 Sun, 30 Dec 2012 06:21:53 +0000 lifeisamazing 205164@http://www.myballard.com/forum/ <p>Salad, I'm sorry you miss your son. I hope he moved and that is why. </p> http://www.myballard.com/forum/topic.php?id=15208#post-205163 Sun, 30 Dec 2012 06:20:56 +0000 lifeisamazing 205163@http://www.myballard.com/forum/ <p>Hee, that's a good one.</p> <p>I overheard this on the school grounds while picking up my boys:</p> <p>Little boy explaining to another that the play field behind the school is big. </p> <p>"The field is like 20 pounds! Like this wide!" with his arms stretched out. </p> http://www.myballard.com/forum/topic.php?id=15208#post-205158 Sun, 30 Dec 2012 04:58:32 +0000 SmartsyArtsy 205158@http://www.myballard.com/forum/ <p>AS. What a wonderful treasure that book must be. A very creative idea you had all those years ago! </p> <p>Here is my favorite from a little girl I mentored:</p> <p>Can I stay with you when my family goes to Germany?<br /> Germany? Are you sure that's where they are going?<br /> Yeeeees Germany<br /> Germantown maybe?<br /> Noooooo Germany<br /> Are they going on a plane?<br /> Noooo they will drive<br /> I don't understand why everyone but you is going.<br /> Cause I am too little but the baby will sleep.<br /> Why are they going?<br /> It's a music thing and they all love the music, even my sisters<br /> This went on and on with her whining annoyance with my questions until her sister came to get her. When I asked her to clarify, she threw herself on the ground cackling away and screamed,<br /> "We're going to see Journey!" </p> http://www.myballard.com/forum/topic.php?id=15208#post-205155 Sun, 30 Dec 2012 03:43:50 +0000 Aunt Salad 205155@http://www.myballard.com/forum/ <p>Thanks for starting this life- I miss my son! </p> http://www.myballard.com/forum/topic.php?id=15208#post-205154 Sun, 30 Dec 2012 03:39:48 +0000 lifeisamazing 205154@http://www.myballard.com/forum/ <p>HA you cracked me up, </p> <p>and the last one is interesting </p> http://www.myballard.com/forum/topic.php?id=15208#post-205153 Sun, 30 Dec 2012 03:30:37 +0000 Aunt Salad 205153@http://www.myballard.com/forum/ <p>I have kept a small notebook in the kitchen for years and was so glad to have recorded some of my son's comments.</p> <p>" Brian what are you doing with the water?"<br /> "I'm watering a slug to see how big it grows when I water him- He's growing!!!"</p> <p>On the way to the movies one day:<br /> "Mommy, when I was in your tummy, was I a sperm or an egg?"</p> <p>Live performance of the PNB Nutcracker when Clara gets kissed:<br /> "Oh Yuck!!!"<br /> Very loud<br /> Thank goodness it was a matinee.</p> <p>While eating a root beer float he prepared:<br /> "I wish the ocean was rootbeer and boats were ice cream"</p> <p>" Mom, you work harder than a Mexican"</p> <p>And this year:<br /> " it's not about what you can or cannot do- i's about what you should or should not do" </p> http://www.myballard.com/forum/topic.php?id=15208#post-205152 Sun, 30 Dec 2012 02:39:53 +0000 lifeisamazing 205152@http://www.myballard.com/forum/ <p>OK here's your chance parents, aunts, uncles, grandparents. Free reign to tell as many stories about cute things your kids have said as you want. </p> <p>I'll start.<br /> Was driving along in the rain with my foster boys and went through a puddle. The 4 year old's head popped up and he said with great concern and excitement "Auntie! Did you hear? The car stepped in something!" </p>