Inappropriate or Absolutely Adorable – Quotable
This month we’re excited to introduce our new “Quotable Book”, the latest in our documenting series. Quotable is exactly what it sounds like: a creative space to capture those precious things someone said and you want to remember.
Maybe we could title this the “kids say the darndest things we don’t ever want to forget” book. We know kids say things that are priceless, but how many of us have a record of those comments? When you try to remember what it was that your child said at two that had you in stitches or seriously pondering where kids get that kind of insight, do you remember what it was that they said?
Now you’ll have a book that will help you capture those unique perspectives. Call it a conversational journal. A record of quotes that make you smile, leave you speechless, may be entirely inappropriate and absolutely adorable, wise, silly and insightful. A memoir of children’s wisdom and funny comments.
So pick up a Quotable Book today and start recording the Erma Bombeck or Mitch Albom living in your own home. You may have a best seller on your hand. If nothing else, you have a gem of a keepsake written in the voices of your beloved. The gift of seeing the world through a child’s eyes. Write it down and saver it.
Share your favorite quote with us and we’ll send you Quotable as our free gift to try. If you absolutely love it, share it with a friend.
We can’t wait to hear the favorite things your loved ones have had to say! Thanks for sharing,
the Paper Coterie
What a great idea! I have been writing things down on scraps of paper and was trying to decide how I should put all of them together!
My two year old recently said to my 4 month old (who was having a crying fit in her cat seat) “awww, what’s the matter baby? Awww dont worry baby sister, I fix it!”
One of the best moments so far in my life!
“G-R-E-E-N that spells green….just like Hermick the Lizard!!” (talking about Kermit the Frog)
I have multiple quotations I enjoy. The favorite from my own household would be my daughter (3) to her brother (1) – “Come on, Emmett, let’s save the world!” That’s determination for you!
“Kolt (2 years old), what do you want for dinner?” asked mommy.
“Not sure,” said Kolt
“What’s your favorite color?”
“Not sure… ”
“What do you want to do?”
“Not sure…”
This boy loves to say “not sure!”
One of my favorites that I heard on a daily basis when I taught preschool, “Miss. Ashli, I have an idea! Why don’t we ___________?” Which was generally one of three things, “go get lots of candy.” “sneak out and you take me home.” or “sneak to the gym and ride the bikes!”
Our shy 3 year old son who never says much put grandpa in his place one night at dinner. Grandpa asked him all kinds of questions and when my son got upset he said “No Talk! Eat!!” We still laugh about that 8 years later!
My mom was putting on makeup and my 4 year old asked her why she wears makeup. After explaining that it helps cover her wrinkles my daughter said, “yeah, you definitely need more makeup.” Thankfully my mom thought it was hilarious and after a long talk with Mommy my daughter knows not to say that again!
Smile and make your own sunshine! Anonymous!
My 2.5 year old son was pretending to sell snow cones. “They cost forty dowwars.” I asked him what flavors he had for sale, “Craisin, lettuce, banana and orange.” Yum.
Oh, Love this! I have so many…..maybe the time I laughed out loud after my son saw my hair upon waking and told me, “Uh, Mom. Your hair is crazy!”
Or the time when my 3 year old told my white-haired aunt, “Hi. You are old.”
Or maybe the time when my 18 month old was playing outside and suddenly started walking in circles around the dog while saying “duck duck dooooo” (he was playing Duck Duck Goose with her).
p.s. I LOVE that you guys made a book for this. I’ve been journaling my boys’ cuteness for the last two years and just printed my first book, the 2011 ‘musings of our 3 boys’. On the site I used, I spent a ton of time make-shifting my own version of my book…they didn’t have any pages created for so much text and one photo for each month so I had to alter every page to fit! I have a ton of ideas for making this type of book so let me know if you’re looking for feedback from users!
Just created a post to share this with my readers on Wednesday with a link-back to this page! The cover photo on my post shows off the Oh Baby book that I made in your collection. Again, love your stuff!
Here’s the tip and images using your books as previously noted:
http://busybagcentral.blogspot.com/2012/08/journaling-cutenessabsolutely-worth.html
Thanks, Paper Coterie, for all the giveaways you do! You have such great stuff that helps us, sleep-deprived-parents, keep these memories of our babies!!
my 4 year old was recently sweeping the kitchen.
“mama can you please quit talking? You are distracting me. I cannot sweep when you talk sweetie”
#favoritequote
I used one of your templates to make something like this for my daughter earlier this year! Just a few days ago my 3-year-old asked me to play cards. I told her to wait and with a very sad face she asked, “but who’s going to lose when I win?”
My daughter just learned to say, “Love you!” She just turned 18 months old…it’s pretty sweet
My son is only 18 months old so we don’t have a lot, but he recently has become very vocal with expressions such as ‘ooooh,’ ‘ohh,’ it’s so funny! He also says ‘uh oh’ inappropriately or out of context and I always reply ‘uh oh, what?’ so now he’ll often say ‘uh oh what’ or just ‘what’ and it’s so cute!
oh man! my two year old little guy says the funniest stuff! This product is perfect for me
One of the funniest things lately is that he pretends to talk on the phone…here’s the latest conversation. He’s a little obsessed with the recent olympics:
“Hello, Michael Phelps? How you doing? What are you doing? Are you swimming? Are you gonna jump off the diving board?”
Ha! It cracked me up when I over heard him!
My husband speaking to my daughter who was 4 at the time:
“Katherine, are you going to be a doctor when you grow up?” ” You are so smart.”
Katherine: “NO!” “I want to be a teenager!!!!!!!!!!!”
My husband speaking to my daughter who was 4 at the time:
“Katherine, are you going to be a doctor when you grow up?” ” You are so smart.”
Katherine: “NO!” “I want to be a teenager!!!!!!!!!!!” #favoritequote
When my son was 3 years old, he was outside working in the yard with Daddy. A beetle crawled by and he jumped back and said, “Daddy, watch out! It will beetle you up!”
Mama, you are getting on my nerd! (from the 4 year old who knew everything). Love him.
One day my 2 yr. old was in the shopping cart at Target, and sat in the back, while her brother was in the front of the cart. I couldn’t get her to sit down, and she unbuckles the straps, which is really frustrating. So, I let her sit in the back, and she actually sat for the first couple of minutes. After about 10 minutes, she stood up, and when I told her to sit back down, she looked at me with a stern face, and said “Mommy, I am full of surprises!” I just laughed so hard!
When I wouldn’t buy my 4 year old a tiara at the grocery store she screamed down the aisle: I quit you. You need to leave this country.
My daughter is almost 19 months and loves to talk. She recently started telling the dogs “No bark!”
I think this is a wonderful idea to coinside with her baby book/ and to have as she grows up for lots of other fun things she says!
Right now we’re potty training so every time we go to the bathroom, at home or away, my 2 year old says “mommy poop”… even if we’re there for him or just to wash our hands… lol
earlier this year we bought 6 calves and as we stood there watching them graze my 4 year old said “I want to kill them one at a time.” I was shocked and said “WHY?” he replied (like a was an idiot), “for dinners!” Duh! Then I realized he didn’t want to kill them personally, just wanted them to stick around for as long as possible. It was so funny. <3
“Mom, wouldn’t it be cool if when we adopt next time we just got a package in the mail and we opened it and out pops a kid?!” from our 6year old who apparently remembers it was a long trip last time
I have been scribbling funny sayings on a calendar. Everyone says I need to put it all in a book. Looks like I will thanks to you!!!
Conversation between my husband and my 3 year old:
Dad: Time to take a bath.
Kid: No take a bath.
Dad: Too bad. T-O-O-B-A-D.
Kid: No. N-O.
My 5 year-old daughter was talking about how tan she was and how pale I am. I said she gets the tan skin from her father’s side and not from me. She looked at me real funny and said. “I don’t think kids come from their father’s sides. I think they come from their mommy’s belly.”
Our two favorites, one from each kid:
Our 2 yr old daughter couldn’t say “I love you, daddy” properly and instead said “I you, daddy”. Our 20 month old son is fiercely independent and wants to do EVERYTHING by himself. He says to everything: “I got this!” in his sweet baby voice.
my oldest to her baby sister “This is for ppl in the castle, not baby commoners sissy” when role playing
because she was the princess
My 5 year old trying to trick his brother into giving back his Avengers lunch bag,
“Do you want cute, or do you want Hulk”?
The other bag was a cute dinosaur. It was funnier when it was said.
Awesome!
My 5 year old told me the other day that she understand that I am not as smart as her and she will help teach me when I don’t know the answers. ( We home school )
My favorite child quote of all time came from a family friend who was tucking in her young granddaughter one night…
Grandmother: I love you sweetie, there is no one like you in the world…
Granddaughter: Well no one likes you either grandma!
While out to dinner with my parents, my 2 1/2 year old daughter looked up at the waitress and said, “You have boobs. I don’t have boobs. I have to grow them” I was both mortified and cracking up at the same time.
Mom, I love you bigger than space…
“Why is the sky crying?”
Right now it’s “I wuv you”,,,melts my heart every single time. He also learned “all aboard” from Choo Choo Soul and even says it with the intonation perfectly….this kid cracks me up!
LOVE this book idea!!
My favorite one from my son was after we were playing Just Dance on the Wii…he asked what “Jack” was in reference to Ke$ha’s intro to her song about brushing her teeth with a bottle of Jack. So I explained it was a grown up drink, etc. etc. He responded with “I sure do like her song but I hate what my favorite singer is doing to her teeth!”.
My five year old is a born salesperson. She was trying to convince me that even though she didn’t fulfill her end of the bargain during our night time bath /dress/ that she should still get a treat. A fit. A tantrum. A meltdown occurred. Upon her screaming at me for said prize, I told her “I know you want it, but that’s TOO BAD!” She replied with, “NO, IT IS NOT TOO BAD. IT IS ONE BAD.” I had to leave the room and giggle.
“Well, what an obulesk!”
I LOVE this new book and am wanting to make one. One of my favorite quotes (posted also on your facebook wall) was when my 4 year old boy (who has 3 sisters and was really hoping for a brother when his youngest sister was born), told me, “Its ok if you have another girl, b/c she is SO cute”. and then was so intently studying her while holding her that he comments…”Mommy, I can see my face in her eyes…it is like a mirror. I want to hold her a little bit longer”. I looked and you could see his reflection in her eyes!
I don’t know why you’re always trying to cook dinner, we like candy better anyway. – Griffin, my darling 6yo son
My 1 year old is just learning to talk and she says moo for every animal sound. lol
Tucker (newborn): sneezes
Treston (3 years): Bless you, Tucker.
Treston: Mommy, Tucker didn’t say “thank you”
Mommy: Honey, Tucker can’t talk
Treston: Well, parrots can talk!
He apparently thought he had got a dud of a brother and would prefer to trade him up for a parrot!
My 22mo son came into the kitchen yesterday with a basket stuck around his neck. “hailp pweeeze”. Not the brightest idea to pull a basket over your head, but at least he had good manners!
Oh this is perfect! My 3 year old daughter said something last week that was so funny – I tried to record it on my iphone but missed it. A journal is perfect.
My favorite quote:
{after coughing}
her: “mommy, what do you say when someone coughs?”
me: “um, I don’t know, cover your mouth?”
her: “no, mommy, you say bless you.”
me: “oh, sorry. bless you sweetie.”
her: “thank you mommy. now don’t forget to say you’re welcome!”
LOVE this product! I was just telling my husband that I needed to do a dedicated journal for all of our sons quotes. Here’s a recent favorite from my 2 1/2 year old:
We were outside hitting golf balls and he launched one about 70 feet into our neighbors yard and I said “Wow bud, you hit that far!” to which he replied “Yeah, It’s because I eat my breakfast and take my vitamins. I can hit it all the way to Nashville!”
Upon meeting her far away cousins, one of which had to use the bathroom, my two year old asked: yes, but where did the other Pablo go? Poor Miguel is now called “the other Pablo!”
My niece was outside playing with her brother…
“Ty I’m the princess come rescue me..
Ty… you have to come rescue me your the prince.
gives up on her brother raises her hand in the air with a plastic sword and says
Never mind I’ll just rescue my self.”
My 2 year old son came up to me, wrapped his chubby little arms around my legs, looked up at me and said, “My tissue.”
“My tissue?” I said. “What? You need a tissue?”
“My tissue,” he repeated.
It took me a moment, but then I realized that he was asking for a kiss. He was saying “I kiss you” (“My tiss you).”
I bent down and gave him a kiss. Then he hopped in his Little Tikes Cozy Coupe car, said “Bye bye mama,” and “drove” away. Such a sweet moment for mommy!
We went on a trip back to the States and my son had the chance to ride in a tractor and then drive my grandfather’s tractor. He said that his favorite was my grandpa’s and that it went, “Put, put, put put.”
I love hearing the funny things kids say, but have to share one from my cousin who was teaching kindergarten at the time. Her last name is Rasmussen and she was introducing herself to the class.
After about a week into school, one of her students had blurted out, “Miss Ass Muffin I have a question for you!) My cousin Ashley, who has a wonderful sense of humor couldn’t help but smile and laugh a bit and said quickly, “Why don’t you all just call me Ms. Ashley?”
crying.
My 3 1/2 year old son and I were talking and I mentioned I was a little cold. He looked up at me with his big beautiful eyes and said “Mommy, you can have some of my hotness!” I melted!!!!
While saying his prayers at night my, then 3 year old, son gratefully said, “and thank you for wall decorations”
So many to choose from, kids say the darndest things. I keep up a blog for our family and try to keep up a category of ‘great quotations’ – these are among my favorite memories.
On our walk one morning, we saw quite a few cows, many with their very young calves. Nicholas named several of them – Blaze, Midnight, and Daisy – and had this to say:
“I know everything about everything, but I don’t know so much about cows.”
After looking at our wedding photos: “Mom, were you a princess before you married Daddy?”
My 2 1/2 year old daughter, Piper, is so comical. Her favorite things are “talking” on the phone and her daddy’s mustang. If you ask her what the mustang says, she’ll say: The buttang says Wa-pow! Wa-pow!. Or she’ll talk on the phone, and if her sister get’s to fussing, she’ll say, “Argh, Nana buggy crying. I call you back!”
I definitely need this book! She says so many things and I wish I had a place to write them all down!
My 3 year old, Lillian, became obsessed with the smell good hand sanitizer from Bath and Body Works, which she calls “hannitizer”. One day our family was riding in the car and my husband farted to which Lillian quickly said, “Ewww, daddy needs some hannitizer for his butt!” I laughed so hard!!!
My 3 year old recently kept asking about “The Condition?” “What does the condtion do?” After talking with her about it for a bit I realized she was trying to say: The Magician. She also calls canon balls, “candy balls!” Makes me smile!
My 3 year old son was looking at our eye doctor, who happens to be very bald yesterday and asked me…
I had to keep myself from laughing out loud!
“Mom, what happened to all his hair? Is that his brain?”
My sweet 8 year old was looking at the sky the other night and the sun was shining through a bunch of gray clouds and had gorgeous rays coming out and she said,
“Mom, is that heaven?” I took a picture on Instagram and can keep it now forever. Love it!
My kids say things all the time, and I forget to write them down! A few things my 4 year old says a lot though are:
I ah-choo’d (this is said after sneezing)
He also calls the crust on bread the ‘skin’ as in “Can you cut the skin off of my bread?”
He also has a tendancy to continue to say ‘excuse me’ after he’s passed gas until someone acknowledges he said it. This is quite embarrassing in public places.
My daughter had just had dental work done and she was still a little loopy from the medication they gave her. She was really funny! She just giggled non-stop and then she said, “Mom, there are ants having a picnic on my teeth!” It was pretty funny. Everyone in the room got a kick out of it.
M 9 year old informed me the other day that he never wanted to go to Canada because that’s where Justin Bieber is from.
Send him over.
Eva, age 5…
Eva (to nice man at church): You know, I sang a song for Jesus in the car before.
Man: Oh! Really? Can you sing it for me?
Eva: No, silly! It’s not a song for you! It’s a song for the car!
My oldest son will often say “Mama, thank you for giving me a baby brother.” So sweet!
When my son was younger he use to say “I’m too hungry”. He would say it as though he was so famished, it really tickled the grandparents when he would say it to them.
Shortly after my son was born, my daughter (age 7) and I went to the mall. We had to leave in a hurry. As we are rushing to the car my daughter asked why we were leaving and I told her “my milk was coming in” . Looking up at the growing wet spots on my shirt, she replied with her eyes open wide, “oh no momma, your milk is coming out!”
my 5 year old son came running into my room screaming about his 3 year old sister..he said “Mooooooommmmm!!!!!! Chloe crushed my nuts!!!” Then handed me 3 almonds. #awkward
My son isn’t talking quite yet, so I have a funny quote from my little sister. One day our cat, Cookie, sat on a sucker stick and it ended up stuck in her fur. When dad got home, my little sister ran up to him and exclaimed, “Daddy! Cookie has a d*ck stuck on her butt.” Needless-to-say, we all died laughing.
My 3 yo was slightly constipated and yelled from the bathroom, “Dad, will you pull my finger???”
My son said “So, girls are just like boys except they have a butt in their front, right?”
Laughed too hard to tell him really how girls are different from boys- Later, son, Later!!!
i love the idea of this book. so many times my kids say something so darn funny and i always think i will remember it and i never do. really sad that i won’t have all those things written down. love this!
my kids are always asking me questions and half the time it seems i don’t know the answer so this one time when asked a question i just said i don’t know. my son said “mom, you have an old brain.” i laughed cause it’s true, and it’s mostly because of having kids, i swear i keep losing brain cells!
Just a couple weeks ago, my 4 year old son told me “I need a hooker for my room!” “A what?!” I replied. “a hooker for my room!… So I can hang my hats on it!” I’m still laughing!;)
My husband asked our son what he wanted for breakfast last Saturday, to which my son replied “If it’s not donuts, I’ll have to say no. Have you ever had that feeling Daddy?”
“I like PE the most. We don’t play games, we just work out and stuff.” Spoken like a true boy.
When my oldest daughter was two she came to me and asked for a band aid for her finger. When I asked what happened she replied, “A bird… No a deer bit me. I walked down street myself and a deer bit me and I yelled helped me momma!” I looked at her finger and it was clearly fine, but she got that bandaid anyway. How could I squelch that imigination? One week later the penguins in the cage across the street bit her.
My daughter loves pirates and was in the back seat saying “hey ladies!” through an empty paper towel roll. She thought the pirates on tv were saying hi to ladies.
whilst tucking in my eldest son, at about age 3, I said “Good night sweet pea.”
He sat up in bed and said, “Mom, I’m your sweet pea?”
“Yes,” I replied.
“Well then you’re my broccoli!”
we worked on some new terms of endearment
I use to teach third grade. Once on a field trip to a farm, one of my students looked really confused. When I asked him what was wrong, he replied, “Mrs. T, where’s the chocolate cow?? I only see the regular milk one.”
It was my birthday last week. The night before, my 8yo came out of her room to say, “Mom, I forgot to get my last 27 year old hugs.” I love that child and the lack of math cells in her brain… it didn’t even occur to her she might be off by an entire decade!
My son was really studying my nose, with a concerned look on his face. I asked him what he was looking at. He whispered “Mommy, you have a spider in your nose” It was my nose hair…
We took a weekend to move the BIG sister into her new for her Senior Year at college. We stayed at a hotel, and stopped at a few rest stops while traveling. When we started to get close to our house our teen daugher with sheer excitement blurted out, “I san’t wait to get home so I can use two ply toilet paper” We laughed so hard, and proceeded with a long drug out talk about toilet paper. I’ve been known toteach my kids to be thankful for the small things in life. I suppose that includes comfy toilet paper!
Love, love this idea! I started off writing out all those funny and adorable things my little ones would say… But that fell to the wayside!
One little thing that immediately comes to mind is how my oldest daughter always mixes up her words and says: “I dare double you!” instead of double dare! Too cute!
My favorite, from my then 3 year old: “Shadows come from inside us… like poop.”
He has dozens of good quotes but that is my favorite (he is now 4.5).
Our classic, slightly inappropriate quote, from a conversation with our almost-potty-trained 3 year old:
Me: Oh sweetie, you pooped your pants. I can smell it.
Daughter: No, I didn’t.
Me: Well, I can tell there’s something in your pants.
Daughter: Maybe it’s a granola bar.
A sweet kid quote from my 4 year old, who was having trouble keeping up with her big sister:
“But Megan, I’m littler than you so my feet get out of breath!”
And the quote that seems to sum up all the frustrations I have as a parent:
“Mommy, I heard you. I just didn’t listen.”
My toddler loves to flush the toilet, so we have to limit him. He hears, “One time.” a lot! One evening my husband was fixing the toilet and flushed several times in a row to check his progress. Our son leaned over to him and said very seriously, “One time, daddy!”
While in Hobby Lobby my four year old said, “Mom, I feel like I belong here because there is cool stuff her and I am cool.”
T is my daughter who had just turned 4 & R is my husband…her dad:
T: “You want some beer?”
R: Where did you get that? What do you mean?
T: “You drink beer”
R: You mean root beer?
T: “Yes! You want some coffee?”
R: Who drinks coffee?
T: “Other families. All families are different. Once I saw a family that had a brown boy and a peach mom.” ***
R: You’re crazy!
T: “You made me that way.”
R: I didn’t make you crazy. Your mom made you crazy.
T: “uh uh. You’re crazy.”
R: What do I do that’s crazy.
T: “You go to work and it’s really long.”
R: Well if I didn’t work, we wouldn’t have this house and we’d live in a tent.
T: “Can we go camping?”
R: Yes
T: “Can we stay in a tent?”
R: Sure.
T: “Can we come back to our house?”
R: Yes.
T: “Good. Cause I don’t want to get lost in the woods.”
***note here that we had just had a conversation about diversity…And how sad would I be if I hadn’t documented this fantastic conversation?!
My 4 year old daughter got very upset the other day because I hadn’t followed her very specific instructions for drawing her a picture. I said “Don’t you want to see my picture?” and she responded, through very dramatic tears “That’s wonderful Mommy, but I’m very upset right now!”
My 3 year old son went into Victoria Secret with me and the whole time he kept saying, “pink is for girls…. I’m not allowed in her!” Over and Over again.
After a little while he took a lingerie top off the rack and asked me if it went on my boobies. The VS employee laughed so hard.
A few minutes after being told not to eat any more Halloween candy, my 3 year old daughter innocently said, ” Mommy, can you smell Skittles on someone’s breath?”
Thank you for such creative inspirations, PaperCoterie!
“Nana, I pooped in the potty and I got Woody!”
My son called his Nana to celebrate a step in potty training and also told her about the present he received, a Woody doll from Toy Story.
I love this idea. We recently surprised our children with a trip to Disneyland. The morning we told them they’d be going on a plane to California (it happened to be a Sunday) and that we’d be leaving in a half hour, the first thing my oldest said was “Does that
mean we don’t have to go to church?”
This was an overheard interaction between two 4 year old girls at daycare. The first little girl sneezes, the second little girls says, ‘Don’t God bless you all over me!’ Too, too funny!
“That’s my hurt..” My 5 year old’s response to his sister and I when we asked him what the small cut on his finger was… It was the most adorable thing ever..
My daughter Olivia is always saying the funniest things. Like the other day, I told her it was her bedtime soon. Her response was, “bedtime gross, bedtime not for me!” I couldn’t help but laugh.
After telling my daughter that she couldn’t have any ice cream one night, she informed me that when she grows big and I grow small that she’ll be able to tell me that I “get no ice cream.”
My other favorite was when I saw her roll up a newspaper and focus intensely on a fly in the kitchen. She told us, “I have wack the bee.”
We live in Texas ( Super Hot this summer) It’s time for my 2 year old bath.. I fill the tub, and she climbs in reclines back and kicks up her feet and says… ” a very hot hot summer, so so hot the summer”… cracked me up.
Our daughter Megan once found a feather sticking out of our down comforter and shouted, “Oh no, we’ve got to get this little guy back to his duck!”
My daughter was reading a book and asked what snaked meant, but pronounced it naked with an s. She was just as confused as the rest of us until I looked at the book!
Me: What did you just throw on the floor?
Jack: Don’t worry mommy it was just my giant booger.
This is exactly why we need to write things down!! I was thinking about this story and realized what I quoted above was totally wrong! I had to brainstorm and remember the right story:
My daughter was reading a book and asked what the word naked meant, but she pronounced it as if you were saying faked. I was fixing dinner and asked her to spell it for me, so she did. I was puzzled as to why she would be reading a book with that word and found out the teacher could see if with his naked eye. My 2nd grader was amazed that the eye could be naked!
I recently gave birth to our 3rd child. I was nursing the baby and he fell asleep. My daughter walks over, lets out a big sigh and yells, ‘Oh no, baby! Sleeping on the job, again!’
My almost 3 year old daugther was reading from a photo book of her as a baby. When asked what the words said she said her name, on further inquiry of what her full name was she read fron the front cover, in all seriouness: “Lillia Isabelle Regenold Don’t Hit Your Baby Brother”
Driving to work one day Jack and I are listening to a Sugarland song. A snippet of the song lyrics are “…baby drive me crazy…”
Jack pipes up from the backseat and says: “Babies can’t drive you crazy.”
This causes me to think (but not say out loud) “Kid, you have NO idea…” then he follows it up with “Babies can’t drive…they have to be in their carseats!”
Jack is 3-1/2
I came home from my pottery class with clay all over my pants and my 3 year old son said: “mom! You have poop on your pants! You need to use toilet paper.”
My two youngest boys spent the evening collecting acorns. My 6 year old is into collecting things for collections. So my three year old wanted put his acorns in a collection. He proudly carries his bag of acorns around showin others his “acorn erection”. When he lost two of the acorns he said “aw man, I just lost my nuts”.
My kids are always saying the cutest things. Most recently my son came into our room in the middle of the night and said “mama jesus talks back to me when i pray to him.” wow. touched me right in my core.
i love the idea of this quote book, i’m used to just writing my kid’s cute things down in a plain lined journal :/
Favorite quote is from is a cousin, who exclaimed “YES!” in answer to a question… the funny thing was, someone else had asked her a question (which she didn’t hear) that was : so, are you bored of us (being aunts/uncles) yet?
Let’s see so many it is hard to remember all of them. This book would come in handy to capture those moments. But my best memory would be my 6 yr. old son saying Santa must have lots of money he can buy any toys he wants.
I was trying to encourage my 5 year old to help pick up toys off the floor and wasn’t getting much help, when I asked him why he wasn’t helping he said, “Mileya is just so beautiful, I just can’t take my eyes off of her!” (talking about his baby sister) Well, that’s one way to get out of helping!!!
Love this idea. I need to be better about writing down the things that my daughter says … especially when she uses phrases that we say to her all the time. My favorite right now is she will hold up her index finger and say “I will be right back” (usually when she is procrastinating going to for a nap) in reflection of what her father and I tell her.
My son: “Mommy there’s a goat outside”
Me: “No sweetie, that is a possum. Big difference.”
i have several quotes but my favorite so far is from one of my twins. ” Mommy, do you have makeup on today. Me. . “yes”. “dosent look like it” says my daughter
This is a wonderful idea but did anyone else get a link for the free book yet???
Me: Did you go poop in your pants?
Son: No Mama
Me: Are you sure
Son: Yes
Me: Did you toot?
Son: I poop in the vent!
I was working with my son on letter recognition and we started with “B” since it is the first letter of our last name. I used the B from our foam tub letters (you know, the ones that stick on the wall when they’re wet) to introduce the letter & let him carry it around all day while we pointed out things that started with B. That night when we were getting in the bath & I emptied all the foam letters into the water he said “Mommy! Look at all the B’s!!”
“Mommy, I’m your wittle wizard (little lizard).” My 2.5 year old tells me this 10 times a day! Where he got it from, I have no idea but I definitely want to remember it!!
isaac age 2: stands up from sandbox and looks at the the western sky…”oh, wook! the sun is rising down!”
This is such a great idea! My husband and I are always talking about the things our kids have said. Then we say,”we need to write that down somewhere!”
Our oldest called her bathing suit a “suit baby” for the longest time, and when she wanted me to paint her nails, she would ask for “poll nailish”. You can’t make this stuff up! How great to have a cute book to put all the quotes in and give the kids when they are older!
My son saw a spider on our doorstep and said “Look mom….It’s a black window”. Love those moments!!
Hi! I have my book saved but can’t open the “my projects” section of your website
pls help! The website gives me an error and I wanted to order it with the coupon code that expires tomorrow. Thanks!
THANK YOU!!!
I’ve been using my phone to document what my almost 5 year old has said throughout the year and I was wondering recently how I would put these all together. I came across Paper Coterie and was thrilled to see that someone had the creativity to think of something so awesome!
We asked him:
-Do you see mommy and daddy giving eachother hugs and kisses?
-NOOOOOO! You guys didn’t give eachother any kisses in August or September! (He said this on Sept. 1st!)
My one-year old is just learning to talk. One of the sounds he makes is a growl. He does it when he meets people; his way of saying hello. Last month, he had surgery, and he had a general anesthetic. When he woke up, he growled at the nurses. They thought it was the cutest thing ever! And it is!
My 4 year old son says the funniest things sometimes. The other day he looked at me with the most serious expression and said “Mama, I have something important to tell you… It’s about skunks.” I wanted to laugh so hard, but he was so serious that I knew I had to be serious, too!