Last month I invited readers to share their favourite memories of the things kids have said.
One of the many proud grandmothers who wrote in said it best about how the words spoken by children can both touch and tickle us.
"I love the way kids get right to the feeling of the moment," she wrote.
Of course that's because of the unencumbered innocence of early childhood.
Here's what I mean:
SO THAT'S WHAT HAPPENED TO THE DINOSAURS... Our first Cute Kid Quip comes courtesy of Janet Hilliard at the Pinawa Co-op Nursery School.
The class was discussing dinosaurs, Janet wrote, when one little boy decided to share his unique knowledge on the subject.
"The dinosaurs are extinct," he announced. "They stinked and they stinked and they stinked so bad that they all died."
WHY EVERY LITTLE BOY NEEDS A BIG SISTER...
A couple of months back, Nicole Woelke's four-year-old Ella was minding her own business playing on the computer when her wee brother Rowen toddled up.
And turned it off.
Ella screamed as Rowen tried to make his getaway.
But he didn't get far.
His wee head collided with the keyboard tray and he burst into tears.
Satisfied that justice had been done, Ella decided to turn her brother's transgression into a teaching moment.
"And THAT, Rowen, is karma."
BUT GRANDMA, WHAT LOUD SOUNDS YOU MAKE... Bev Potter snuggles in with her five-year-old grandson Dallas when he sleeps over.
"I usually lay on the bed until he settles for the night," Bev wrote. "This particular evening, I dozed off before him, only to be nudged awake. Dallas was gently poking my shoulder. "Grams," he said. "Wake up. You need Breathe Right Nasal Strips, YOU SNORE!"
SO MUCH FOR WAIT TILL YOUR DAD GETS HOME... This mother-and-daughter exchange happened last month. Lisa Bishop had just finished asking/telling her five-year-old Justine to put away her colouring supplies from the kitchen table. But Justine wasn't in the mood for listening to her mom.
Or her dad apparently.
"You're not the boss," she announced. "Santa, the Easter Bunny and God are the bosses."
HOW ABOUT INVITING BERT AND ERNIE?... Thomas is only three, but he already seems to have a thing for numbers and letters.
"It is his passion in life," his mom Nicole Ferraro wrote.
For example, Thomas recites the alphabet forwards and backwards and loves to race from one end of the house to the other counting forwards or backwards.
So Nicole shouldn't have been surprised when Thomas told her who he wanted to invite to his birthday party.
"Number 3," Thomas said. "And Letter D."
WHAT YOU SEE IS WHAT YOU GET . . . Christine Sorko was visiting with a friend at Cora's restaurant on Waverley while her two-and-a-half-year old son Matthew played quietly with his Bob The Builder vehicles.
Until the food arrived.
Did I mention that Matthew's toy bulldozer and crane were magnetic?
Anyway, it wasn't long before he had the restaurant's utensils suspended by the crane.
"Hey," the toddler happily exclaimed, "a forklift."
OBVIOUSLY THE LITTLE GUY WATCHED THE GREY CUP . . . Renelle Reid and her husband have a friendly family football rivalry.
They're both Bombers fans, while her Saskatchewan-born father is a Roughrider fan. But three-year-old Everett has already figured out who the bad guys are.
So it was that the other day, mommy and daddy told Everett that they were all going to visit family in Saskatchewan. "Saskatchewan?" Everett said in horror. "Not Saskatchewan. I don't want to go to Saskatchewan. There's Roughriders there."
IT'S THE END, BUT IT DOESN'T HAVE TO BE . . . Kyleigh was only a pound and a half when she was born. Today she's three years old and a typical little girl. "She loves the princess costumes and make believe in general," her grandmother wrote. Which is why going to her first concert was so special. The Wiggles show had a castle on stage, which fit right in with Kyleigh's love of all things princess-like. The high point for her, though, happened when the lights were lowered so the kids could wave their glow sticks and the parents could hold their cell phones like lighters. It was during this magical moment, as the mirror ball twirled and the glow sticks danced, that Kyleigh leaned over to her grandmother. "Can it stay like this?" the little girl asked. "Please," Kyleigh pleaded. "Let it stay like this." In way, I suppose, Kyleigh has been granted her wish because her grandmother wrote it down.
So the rest of us could share it.
And Kyleigh can always have it.
Happy Mother's Day.
Gordon.sinclair@freepress.mb.ca
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