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DoodlebearsWhat funny things have the kids in your life done? Below is just one story out of hundreds that I could tell.
One time when I baby sat my sister's kids it was around ten p.m. and I thought I would check in on them in their bedroom to make sure everything was ok. My sister and I had spent all day redecorating the childrens bedroom. We had papered over a huge picture, which I had painted on one of the the walls two years earlier, of the Magic rounderbout characters. My nephew had cried when I put him to bed and he kept saying 'Dougal' which is one of the characters of the Magic rounderbout. The little tyke had stripped the wallpaper from the wall to find Dougal, loads of the paper was on top of my niece Joanne, who was still fast asleep. My nephew had also fallen asleep with paper all in his bed too. I couldn't help but laugh. I just wish I had a camera ready. The next day we cleared the room and repapered again. I spent the evening drawing a big Dougal picture for the children, which was hung on the wall. The next day my niece started crying and said that her ear was hurting, when my sister and I looked into het ear we could see, but not reach, whatever was inside her ear. Later at the emergency room at the hospital (17 miles away) the doctor retrieved a piece of rolled up wall paper. My little nephew had pushed it into my niece's ear whilst she slept. He was always pushing things up his own nose or in his ears. Over a few months the doctor retrieved a bit of wax crayon, a few times... rolled up paper, a tick tack (sweet) two buttons and various other items. This all before he reached two years old. What a lad!
Hugs Jane. 
Jellybelly BearsHow cute Jane, glad you made him another Dougal. Oh your poor niece and also you nephews ears! oh I go all queezy thinking about that. 
I have so many stories...okay ya want naughty or nice stories....lol...
Firstly a nice story....at a fair my nephew who was 8 was at a side show throwing balls...i said to him "oh look there is a big fish that looks like Nemo try and get him" he didn't get him and ended up with 2 smaller toys...so that being over with....I went and took my niece Emily on the merry go round, Ryan and my sister disappeared while we were on there...when I get off the round a bout, Ryan hands me the Nemo! i don't want to take it but he insists and my sister gives me the "look" to take it. Anyway, on this ball game that he likes to play you can exchange toys....so three smaller toys can get you a bigger toy...so he went back to the game while i was on the ride, won another small toy, handed in all his wins so far so he could get me the big Nemo fish!!!! I still have this big fish displayed proudly in my room 
But, can you imagine how I felt...total guilt and oh my gosh Ryan you shouldn't do that, but how sweet and thoughtful...giving up all his toys to get me something. I love him so much...always be my little boy 
and Emily, at 3 I asked her to pick up something for me coz my hip was sore (arthritis) she said to me "no" and I said "please! my hip hurts" she said to me with some attitude..."well....can't you use you other hip!!" lol. Oh what a crack up. Shes the most cuddly loveable thing, even named her cabbage patch doll after me, but some of the things she comes up with! lol
great topic Jane :hug: :hug: :hug: kids...always make me smile.
MerBear OriginalsMy favourite recent kid story is my niece, Rachel, who is 6. She brought home a library book about apes and monkeys and it mentioned how people were descended from the apes. She asked her Mom about this and was told that some people believed in evolution (they are evangelistic Christians). Rachel told her that that was just silly and that maybe they should pray for those misguided people.
Marion
Pumpkin & Pickle BearsOh, I could on forever talking about the things that James says! The most memorable ones are the things that he's obviously picked up from Stu and I.....about 6 months ago the 2 boys and i were in the car and were waiting at a roundabout. About 5 or 6 cars had come from the right so I was sitting there waiting until it was clear to go. James was looking at a car on the right with an elderly lady driving it who couldn't decided whether or not she was brave enough to cross the roundabout. James then tutted and sighed then said 'Oh, come on love!!'... :crackup: ....he's heard me get impatient with other drivers a bit too often i think!!
A few weeks ago James was sitting on the toilet when William (who's 20 months) walked into the bathroom to show him a toy when James said 'Oh William, can't you leave me to have a poo in peace?!' :crackup: . He's picked that up from walking in on his daddy I think!
William is starting to pick up on things too....on Monday he was in the kitchen so I called him. He answered with 'okie dokie'...something which I say. He's also been listening to James and I singing nursery rymes because yesterday I sang 'Old MacDonald had a farm' then stopped for James to sing the next bit but all of a sudden William shouted out 'e i e i oh'....it was one of those heart melting moments!
Swan Valley BearsWarning, this may offend some people . . . (it offended me)
When Paige was about 20 months (she's 22 now, she'd be mortified if she knew I was telling this, or proud, who knows) she had giardia (a parasite she got from the drinking water in Tahoe). It was easily cured, but one of the symptoms was wretched smelling gastric disturbances (you know what I mean).
We were at the grocery store one afternoon and it was exceptionally crowded that day. Suddenly, I smelled one. A bad one. I'm sure everyone within 4 ailses could smell it too. Paige looked up at me and in her loudest voice, shouted, "YOU FARTED".
I booked out of that store as fast as I could. Only later did I laugh about it.
Pumpkin & Pickle BearsOMG, Patty I've got tears streaming down my face from laughing so much! Stories like that are just my sort of humour!! :crackup: :crackup: :crackup: :crackup: :crackup:
"a bear by kim"my eldest is nearly four and iv just been told to "get to bed mummy youre naughty" because im trying to get her to eat her dinner.
i have lots of embarrsing cringy public moments but some people may find them offensive!
A few weeks ago my son took a pair of scissors and cut his sheets in half, top to bottom, while I was on the phone for less than 5 minutes. Thank GAWD he didn't cut the mattress.
At his bithday a couple years ago he bounced his new Hulk ball. It ironcally bounced onto the kitchen table, hit my husbands (new) $1500 camera sending it crashing to the floor, resulting in $400 in repairs.
Last week he asked me to name all the planets. When I was all done he says (totally serious) "There's a planet named Penis?"
BrisbaneOh dear I have so many of these stories that I don't know where to start!!!! 
One time when I was heavily pregnant and we were at a party my daughter (5) asked me very loudly "Mum How is the baby going to get out???" All of a sudden I had an audience of about 20 people all waiting to see how I was going to respond to that one... :redface:
And just yesterday our 3 year old told his father that he was a 'google eyed fish head' ....we have no idea where that one came from!!!
Having two teenage boys and a three year old with a mind like a steel trap leads to lots of these embarrassing moments!!!...I haven't yet worked out why 3 year olds always repeat things when you are out in public...instead of in the privacy of your own home!!
LutonOh My - I just can't stop laughing at your stories!!!
When my friends little boy was 2, my friend was pregnant again. So I asked Daniel whether he would like a Brother or a Sister.
He said that he would like a sister.
I said " OOoo what shall we call her ?"
He responded with much thought and said,
"DAVE"
I couldn't help but laugh!!!
Claire
Posts: 8,574What have you heard???
Posts: 8,574OK,
while in grammar school Matt bought candy at the store with his allowance $5.00 and came home from school with $17.00.....I thought it was American Capitalism at its best, but the principle wasn't amused.
We used to live on Wass road Mariposa, California- in Jr. Hi He painted out the W on the street sign and no one noticed for months.......When I noticed, i started to laugh and asked how long ago he'd done it he laughed and said about 4 months ago.....i don't know, it could still be that way. And yes, i did automatically assume he had a hand in it. I was automatically correct in that assumption!
When he was 2 we lived in Germany. He was quite angry with me one morning-(i wouldn't let him Nutella for breakfast- i thought it was too good for breakfast and said he could have it for desert after dinner.) i digress-
He left the house with my change purse to walk to town in the snow in his jammies to call the polizie......
There wasn't a public telephone in town......
I don't know where he went-but wherever it was he was warm and they had cows.....
ok enough-
Oh he had a real problem with a donald duck comic book-Donald told the nephews to wash behind their ears-being literal he was upset, because they didn't have ears.....
Newcastle, OntarioWhen my son Neal, was about 5 years old and just developing a sense of humour, he put salt in the sugar bowl on April fools day. When I took a bite of my cereal, I was almost ill! He laughed for days, and still has a warped sense of humour (gets that from his dad! LOL!)
Later, at about age 15, Neal and a few friends made a still in the ceiling above the boys locker room near the gym, and brewed their own beer - no frigging kidding. It was there all year and was only discovered during some maintenance the following spring. That's the downside of having smart kids with smart friends. Just a tad embarassing when the principal called to let us know!
On the upside, both of our kids knew enough to hire the football team to chaparone their parties, when they planned one. They just took donations from friends to buy beer for the team. Never had any damage at our house parties when we were away!
hugs,
Brenda
Dale my son and myself are both allergic to penicilin and when he was little I would remind him to wear his bracelet and I would say" Dale if we are in a car accident its tickets for us if we are given penicilin", I overheard him telling a friend- "If my mom and I are in a car accident the trafic office is going to give us a ticket.
He also asked me if a calf was a baby cow, was a half then a baby horse.
There were of course many more but these two have always stayed in my mind.
Lynette
Tami Eveslage Original Teddy BearsI just love the things kids say. They have such a fresh way of seeing things. Here is one of my favorite stories.
One night when Alex was just two, I was tucking him into bed, and he said, "Hear that, Mommy?"
I listened for a moment and heard crickets chirping outside his window, and he added, "Hear the stars twinkle?"
I loved it! He had never seen or heard of crickets, so he thought the stars made that noise when they twinkled.
BrisbaneTami you are so right about the way kids see things...it is so different from what we see as adults
I will always remember a couple of years ago we walked into our back yard from the car when our yard was badly in need of mowing and my 5 year old son stopped dead and looked at the yard an awestruck wonder...he turned to me and said Oh mummy isn't it beautiful!!........Where I looked around I saw a run down messy horrible yard and he saw a sea of grass full of dandelions and seeds and to him it was like an adventure playground!!!
I have never looked at the yard in quite the same way again
Brandon BearsWhen my granddaughter was 3 yrs. old cut her hair. Most ALL children do some time
or other.
My daughter arrives at work very early, the wonderful babysitter didn't mind and instructed her to drop off Brianna in her jammies and she'd feed her breakfast and
dress her. Brianna's hair is very natural shoulder length curly. It has to be very wet to get a comb through it. The babysitter had a special touch, and would find new bows & bobbles. It always looked really cute.
One particular cold morning with only the night light on Mommy went into Brianna's room. noticing tufts of what SHE thought were cat hair on the floor. Darn CAT. No time. I'll have to clean it up later. SHe scooped up the sleeping child wrapped her in a blanket and buckled her into the car seat. The still sleeping child was delivered
to the babysitter. About 3 hrs Later Mommy got a phone call from the Babysitter.
When Brianna woke up she noticed her hair was stiff and all stuck together. Thinking Brianna had probably gotten into some of Mommies hair products she proceeded to
shampoo her hair. It started to fall out. Handfuls. Curls and more Curls. Brianna told the babysitter PROUDLY that she'd cut her hair - Brianna was not fond of having her tangled hair combed each day. She wanted short hair. BUT changed her mind. So she "glued" it back on with gobs and gobs of hair gel.
Brianna is 11 years old now and she is NOT at all embarrassed when we tell this story.
She says " most kids I know have cut their own hair, who thinks to glue it back on ?"
Donna A.
dusty attic bearsThese story's are great, Only yesterday I was having a little proud moment and said to my 3 1/2 year old daughter "Mummy is so clever, I made you to be so beautiful" She looked at me with a very thoughtful face and said "You did mummy ,But I did'nt like being sewed up very much" Ohhh dear I think she has seen me making to many bears!!
Laurie Lou BearsI don't know about your own children but my poor mum used to have a lot to contend with when me and my sister were little as years ago we were bought a new pair of sandals each(and money was lacking in those days).We hid behind the settee and cut the back straps off the sandals as didn't want those we wanted a pair of flip flops instead. 
Laurie :hug:
